Events


Bake Sale

Title: Bake Sale
Location: Speakman 1st Floor
Description: Daijessa Hinton and Brandon Warrington are the Fundraising Officers, will be having a bake sale selling cupcakes, brownies and pretzels for AMIS.
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2008-11-12
End Time: 02:00

Speaker Series - IT Governance, CIO Campbell Soup

Joseph Spagnoletti, the CIO of Campbell Soup Company, will be speaking with AMIS on the topic of IT Governance. This presentation will focus on Innovation, Agility, and Sustainability.

Adobe Flash Workshop

Uchenna Oguekwe, one of our AMIS Marketing Officers, will be discussing how to effectively utilize flash to enhance web sites. No prior experience is necessary.

Train Ride

Come join AMIS on a train ride, corn maze and pumpkin picking extravaganza.  The train is run by the New York Susquehanna & Western Technical & Historical Society and our own Dr. Paul Weinberg will be the engineer!

When:
Saturday, October 11
Noon - 3pm

Where:
100 Elizabeth Street
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865

Costs:
$14 for AMIS members
$18 for non-AMIS members
$6 for children

Tickets are available for purchase on Tuesday and Thursday (1:10 - 2:30pm) in the BizTech lab or contact Taahir to make alternative payment arrangements.

AMIS will be rearranging a car pool and wil be meeting outside of Speakman Hall between 9:45 and 10:45 am.  Please contact Taahir if you need a lift.  If you wish to meet us there, please come early - the town fills up quickly!  Please give yourself about 1.5 hours to get to Phillipsburg from Temple and directions through Google Maps can be found here.

Wordpress Workshop

Wordpress WorkshopWant to put on your resume that you can build blog and content management sites?

Come join AMIS and AMA for a special hands-on workshop presented by Anthony Bubel, Happiness Engineer, at Automattic. Anthony is an alumnus of the MIS and Marketing Departments and prior Vice President of AMIS.

Where: Speakman 27

When: Saturday, October 25th 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

No prior experience or technical expertise required!  The session will include both beginner and advanced material including:

  • Getting Started
    • The WordPress dashboard
    • Creating/managing posts, pages, and everything else
    • Themes and Plugins
    • Setting up your own web server for WordPress (XAMPP)
  • Advanced Topics
    • Custom Queries
    • Interfacing with the database
    • Writing your first plugin
  • Special:  Sneak peak at WordPress 2.7

Plus…..Get some WordPress schwag courtesy of Automattic!