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Our Next Meeting is
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
This month's meeting
will be held at the headquarters of WHRO in Norfolk
Please meet at the
facility at 6:30. We'll have pizza available at a nominal cost. The
program and tour will start at 7:00.
Directions: WHRO is
located directly across from ODU. The exact address is 5200 Hampton
Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia 23508-1507.
For Reservations: Call Digital Applications Inc., at 827-1250 no later
than noon on the Friday preceding the meeting.
OFFICERS
George Koscho, President
382-8909
Jim Pollan, Vice President 865-1400 ext 210
Bill Shumate, Treasurer 827-1250
Jim Moore, Secretary
Alan Sutton, Association Liaison 486-1700
DIRECTORS
Clara Fox, Awards 826-0519
Ed Miller, Newsletter / Website 553-0128
Bill Oshel, Program 249-2846
Steve Tyler, Corporate Sponsorships
Charles Anderson, Student Chapters Liaison
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Region 18 Spring Technology Conference |
Mark your calendars for May 4-6 for
the Region 18 Technology Conference in Greensboro. The Tarheel
Chapter will be our host for the event. For complete details and
information please click on the following link:
www.aitp-region18.org
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WHRO
Tour |
| May 2 |
Dinner
Meeting, Tyron Ward, Configuresoft |
| May 4-6 |
Region
18 Conference, Greensboro |
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Visit
the Chapter Store |
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Buy
Hampton Roads AITP Merchandise!
Books,
T-shirts, Hats, Coffee Mugs and MORE! Support the Hampton
Roads AITP Chapter Store today!
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Contact Us
AITP
The Association of
Information Technology Professionals
c/o Digital Applications Inc
2714 W Mercury Blvd, Hampton, VA 23666
Phone: (757) 827-1250
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April
Meeting Preview |
 Our
April meeting is a speech and tour that has been specially
arranged for us at WHRO! Our speaker will be Chris Gunnufsen,
who is WHRO's Director of Engineering. We'll have pizza
available and are extending a special invite to the AITP student
chapters at ODU and TCC.
Their
presentation promises to be informative and engaging.
Please plan on
joining us and please bring a friend.
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March Meeting Highlights |
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Our
March 7th. meeting featued a presentation by
Paul Derr. Paul is Co-Chair of the Red Cross Disaster
Management Team. Paul and his Disaster Action Team
co-chair, Kathy Murrow, made the presentation.
Paul and Kathy have been active with the Red Cross Disaster Team
since Hurricane Isabel. He is consider the Red Cross disaster
assessment "guru" and both he and Kathy were deployed this past
summer and fall to work on the Red Cross response to Hurricane’s
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Help the Red Cross |
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 The
Hampton
Roads Chapter of the Red Cross is seeking a volunteer or
volunteers to help upgrade its website and web server. If
you have experience in either of these areas or maybe if you
seek to gain experience in these areas, please consider
volunteering your time and service. See firsthand how a server
can help your whole business run better. If you have
an interest, please contact Heather Livingston at the Red Cross
(
hlivingston@hrredcross.org )
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Google Earth
by Ed Miller |
If you've tried MapQuest and Yahoo
Maps and a few other internet based mapping tools, you've already
discovered how quick and easy it is to get a map, directions or even
a satellite view of some locations. Now get ready for MapQuest
on Steroids or in other other words "Google Earth".
Google Earth (earth.google.com)
is the newest power tool from the search engine giant. You have
to see to appreciate and best of all, the personal version of it
is FREE!
Google Earth adds 2D and even 3D
views of the earth. You can zoom into any place, any address,
any thing that is in Google's huge database. The colors
and animation and detail that you will see is just amazing.
However, Google Earth is not just
about the gee-whiz factor. Commercial applications are
available to integrate Google Earth with GPS and radio frequency
identification systems (RFID) making it possible to track
inventory or shipping or car navigation. Google Earth can
even be customized to the user to provide automatic updates on
restaurants, gas stations, hotels and other points of interest.
This thing may have potential that we haven't even thought of
yet.
Definitely try it. Its' free, but
you do need a fairly new computer with either Windows 2000 or XP
in order to use it.
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