[SGVLUG] Fwd: Web Spinners April 7th Meeting: Drupal CMS -and- Domain Name SEO

[matti]

fyi -

this should be interesing to many here,
so if you have no plans, hope to see
you there.

matti

--- Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:30:38 -0700
> To: "Web Spinners 2007/04/07":;
> From: Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com>
> Subject: Web Spinners April 7th Meeting: Drupal CMS -and- Domain Name
>   SEO
> 
> 
> 
> Web Spinners Meeting Announcement
> 
>    April 7, 2007 Meeting:
> 
> In The Morning:
>     Topic:  Introduction to Drupal 
>   Speaker:  Richard Schave 
> 
> In The Afternoon
>     Topic:  What's in a Name? A lot when it is a Domain Name. 
>   Speaker:  Bruce Murray 
> 
> 
> Date: Saturday, April 7th 
> Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM 
> 
> Location:
>       Westside Pavilion Mall, Community Room A
>       3rd Floor (top) behind Food Court at East End of Mall
>       10800 West Pico Blvd., Corner of Overland Avenue 
> 
> Donation: $3 (for Room Rental) 
> 
> Contacts:
>       Daniel Culbertson 310.450.4013 - theman at compuserve.com
>       Peter Benjamin 310.319.9215 - pete-ws at peterbenjamin.com 
> 
> 
> Overview 
> 
> Content Management Systems are becoming more and more versatile in
> quickly building complete Websites with a minimum of coding. Drupal
> is one of the most popular and best established. Drupal.org Come hear
> about Richard Schave's quest for social context engines, knowledge
> management, semantically interchangeable metadata and a user-based
> paradigm as tracked through the development of the last three
> releases of Drupal. 
> 
> Richard holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from calstatela
> (class of '05), and is deeply concerned with building communities
> that matter as a function of the improved dissemination of
> information between niche groups. He regularly attends the sisters of
> jazz sunday night jam at the world stage, and has recently built his
> first bio filter for his japanese goldfish pond. (They're just being
> Koi.) 
> 
> 
> Afternoon Topic: What's in a Name? A lot when it is a Domain Name. 
> 
> Bruce Murray will discuss domain names and their relationship to
> search engine ranking. If time allows he will also describe how he
> has made money selling domain names. 
> 
> 
> Agenda 
> 
> 10:00 - Intro 
> 10:15 - Introduction to Drupal 
> 12:00 - Lunch 
> 12:45 - News by Daniel Culbertson 
> 1:10 - What's in a Name? 
> 2:00 - Fini 
> 
> 
> ******************************************************
> 
> Location:
> 
> Westside Pavilion Mall
> Community Room A
> 3rd Floor (top) behind Food Court at East End of Mall
> 10800 West Pico Blvd., Corner of Overland Avenue
> Los Angeles, CA  90064
> (310) 474-6255  Management Office (closed on Saturdays)
> 
> Free Parking - Parking Lot structure at East end of Mall.
>       Enter from Overland, just south of the mall.
> 
> 
> Directions:
> 
> http://www.westsidepavilion.com/directions.asp
> 
> The parking you are directed to is at the south east corner of
> the mall three levels up.  Enter from Overland just south of
> the mall.
> 
> >From 405 Freeway North or South, go 10 East - see 'From 10" below.
> >From 10 East or West, exit at Overland, turn into the parking
>   structure just before the mall onto the "Express Ramp".  Exit
>   the second driveway (not the roof, but the top of the south
>   parking structure) and park near the doors to the food court.
> 
> Community Room A is behind the main food court along the main
> corridor to the south and then east of the rest rooms.
> 
> FROM the Mall's West End - Community Room C (the old location):
> Walk east the entire length of mall, through Nordstorms if it is
> open (at 10am), otherwise go down and cross Westwood Blvd in
> the crosswalk, then go to the third floor and the food court.
> 
> Pete
> 
> Pete
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
> 



 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Finding fabulous fares is fun.  
Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.
http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097