Client Forum 2005 - Presentations now available

23 March 2005

CECC hosted its Second Annual Client Networking Forum on 26 April 2005 and the day was well received by all attendees. This year's program focussed on presentations with six clients asked to present recent projects. The diverse mix of clients that CECC regularly deals with provided a broad and fascinating discussion of projects. Many clients discovered new features or functionality applicable to their own activities and this is really what the day is all about. Workshopping activities in the afternoon session had a focus on future developments and provided a chance for further discussion and exchanging of ideas.

CECC would again like to thank all attendees for actively participating and making it a great day for everyone.

Presentations:

Richard Coverdale - Rural Law Online
Unfortunately, Richard was unable to attend so Andrew Macleod from CECC presented for Richard. Andrew briefly spoke about the origins of the Rural Law Online project and then went into detail, explaining the features of the site and how the new CECC Docbook Manager was used to input and manage the bulk of the sites content.

Larissa Patton - Birchip Cropping Group Virtual Agronomy
Larissa Patton, who presented the BCG website at last year's forum, spoke this year about the development of the BCG's Virtual Agronomy initiative and how it has assisted the BCG to distribute their current crop trial information in real-time.

Lencia Evans - Service Skills Victoria and Tourism Portal
Lencia started with a brief overview of the organisation and its background. Lencia then spoke about SSV's initial online strategy and how it has evolved using the CECC Product suite. Lencia went on to speak about the range of online strategies that SSV are currently developing to effectively service their client base from the service and tourism industry.

Mary Hollick - Building Better Business Online
Mary presented for the Building Better Business Online initiative, which was launched during the course of 2004. Mary re-iterated Lenica's comments about the difficulties of reaching the tourism audience due to the fragmentation and diversities within its member base. During Mary's presentation she also outlined bbbonline's plans for 2005.

Daina MacLeod and Brooke Smith - Matthew Tol + Associates and Barrington Strategic
Brooke introduced Matthew Tol + Associates as a new age accounting firm and spoke to the group about how they had tried to reflect this attitude via their web presence. Daina spoke about some of the issues confronted in trying to convert some of their clients to adopt new technologies.

Tim Sanders - Hunter Newns Group and Southern Finance Group
Tim spoke to the group about his recent work with CECC and shared information about the decision processes and the timeline that surrounded the development of both organisational websites. He then went on to explain how the website are being managed.

Product Preview - What's new at CECC?
The product preview was presented by Andrew Macleod from CECC. Andrew spoke about the latest products to be released by CECC and also outlined some of the upgrades to current products that are soon to be released. These included: the CECC Site Builder, the CECC Menu Manager, the CECC Docbook Manager and the availability of the phpESP (Easy Survey Package) facility. Andrew also discussed recent and up-and-coming upgrades to the CECC User Polls, the CECC Events Calendar and the CECC Content Builder.

Emily Simatos - Multimedia Victoria and Megan Vassarotti - Small Business Victoria
After the group workshops, Emily Simatos from Multimedia Victoria and Megan Vassarotti from Small Business Victoria spoke to the group about the programs that are delivered by their respective Departments.