Welcome slides for Aug 2012 BayCHI Monthly Meeting.

1. Welcomes You
August 14, 2012

2. Tonight’s Program…
Building a Design Team: A Practical Guide for
Startups
Braden Kowitz, Google Ventures

3. Tonight’s Speaker…
Braden Kowitz, Design Partner, Google
Ventures, is passionate about creating
great user experiences on the Web. He’s
equal parts interaction designer,
storyteller, guerrilla researcher, consensus
builder, and scrappy prototyper.

4. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

5. Join BayCHI…
• Visit the BayCHI web site at
www.baychi.org and click Join BayCHI
• Membership is just $20 for the first year
and $15 to renew

6. BayCHI Member Benefits
• Job Bank
• Consultants Directory
• Library
• BayCHI LinkedIn Group membership
• Tutorial discounts
• Monthly newsletter
• Membership Directory
• Supporting the organization that brings you
outstanding programs, BOFs, and tutorials

7. Sign up for monthly meeting
announcements or the BayCHI
discussion lists…
Visit the BayCHI web site at
www.baychi.org/subscribe/

8. Become part of the
BayCHI LinkedIn community…
• You must be a current member of BayCHI
• Go to www.linkedin.com/
• Also visit www.baychi.org/linkedin/ for more
details
News Flash: We have over 1000 BayCHI
members enrolled in the BayCHI LinkedIn
group!

9. BayCHI needs you…
• Volunteers make things happen!
• Most Urgent Volunteer Needs:
• Volunteer Co-Chairs
• Membership Chair
• Postmaster -- with Mail Chimp experience
• Tutorials Co-Chairs
• Interested? Contact BayCHI Chair or
Stacie at volunteer@baychi.org

10. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

11. Tonight’s Program…
Building a Design Team: A Practical Guide for
Startups
Braden Kowitz, Google Ventures

12. Tonight’s Speaker…
Braden Kowitz, Design Partner, Google
Ventures, is passionate about creating
great user experiences on the Web. He’s
equal parts interaction designer,
storyteller, guerrilla researcher, consensus
builder, and scrappy prototyper.

13. Want to suggest a topic for a
BayCHI program meeting?
Contact the Program Planning Committee at
monthly-programs@baychi.org

14. Do you know an industry
leader or have a topic to
present for a BOF meeting?
Contact a BOF leader at www.baychi.org/bof

15. Upcoming BayCHI Events
BayCHI Kid’s Media & Usability Engineering BOFs Event
Please Don’t Face-Plant Into the TV:
Researching Games with Kids
Speaker: Sarah Walter
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Citrix, Santa Clara
Visit www.baychi.org/calendar

16. BayCHI Tutorials
• BayCHI is looking for new Tutorial Co-
Chairs to organize tutorials!
• Interested? contact:
• BayCHI officers: officers@baychi.org
• BayCHI volunteer coordinators:
volunteer@baychi.org
Visit http://www.baychi.org/tutorial/

17. BayCHI Podcasts and
Conversations Network
• BayCHI podcasts are now available via
Conversations Network
• For more details, see:
• http://www.baychi.org/podcast/
• http://chi.conversationsnetwork.org/
• We need additional volunteers to help
with this exciting effort:
• Podcast Curator
• Podcast Copywriter

18. BayCHI Recording Policy
• Recording of this program meeting by
audience members is not permitted
• The new policy is on the program page at
www.baychi.org/program/

19. BayCHI Dinner
• Join us before the BayCHI meeting
• For information visit our web site at
www.baychi.org and click Dinner Info

20. Follow BayCHI
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• On Facebook:
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21. September BayCHI Meeting
Tuesday, Sept 11th, 7:30 – 9:30PM @ PARC
Topic and speaker TBA
For more details, see:
http://www.baychi.org/