Want spectacular glitz? Come to the general meeting on Friday August 15th in room MAS 100 at Brookdale Community College.  There you'll see a different kind of presentation.  Our speaker this month is  Frank Fiorentino, a past president of BCUG.  

Several years ago, Frank moved to Maui, Hawaii where he started his business of developing web sites and now has a sizeable clientele. Frank’s presentation will demonstrate how to develop your own web site. He’ll cover all you wanted to know about web site development and optimization, and he’ll do it live, right from his office, half way across the Pacific in Maui, Hawaii.

This will be a first ever Webinar for BCUG, coming to you directly from Maui Hawaii.  

A webinar is a web-based seminar by which we will see, hear, and be able to ask questions as if we were right there.

During the presentation, Frank will be sharing his desktop using LogMeIn, a remote access program. We will be able to see exactly what is on Frank’s computer some 5500 miles away.  Typically, such products are used by technical support people while speaking to a client on a phone or by opening up a chat window to type in questions and answers. Companies use the same concept to conduct webcasts, conference calls, training, and the like, in real time at a scheduled time or on demand at any time.

What makes our webinar unique is that we have coupled it with Skype, the popular open source VOIP program, so we will be able to hear and see Frank.  Skype itself has a couple of add-ons that also share desktops, but LogMeIn was chosen because of its ease of use and we know it works.  Tests with LogMeIn and Skype showed no noticeable degradation of video at max screen dimensions plus the voice quality was excellent.  

This presentation is long in the making, and Frank, Sandy and Fred have spent a good part of the last three months ironing out the kinks so everything will happen seamlessly to develop one of the most impressive and exciting presentations we have ever had at our general meeting.  Come, learn, and be dazzled!