'Tis the season to start your holiday shopping.  Most of us are familiar with trudging out in the cold and fighting the crowds at the local mall.  Why not avoid all that and benefit CPCUG.org at the same time?

Every year CPCUG.org hosts the Internet Cafe at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair and this year will be no exception.  I will be volunteering for multiple shifts at the Fair and I hope you will too. 

For the past couple of months I have been forcing myself to get into the habit of logging on to this website and adding something to the conversation.  I suggest that I'm building a habit of accessing the website because that is our vision for how CPCUGers should use this website.  We want this website to be the central point for CPCUG.org related communications and information.  But it can only be that if we all participate.

For those of you who are trying out this website, you already know that CPCUG.org is upgrading our web presence.  Our plans call for the new website to be the center for communications for all things related to CPCUG.  Between the blogs, the SIG websites, the RSS feeds the plan is to present visitors and members with lots of fresh information on the things we care about.

We are about to embark on the next step towards making our new website real and available to some early testers.  The live test is now online and I'm updating this blog post as my first entry on the new site.  Mark has been working hard with our consultants to put this thing together and everything looks to be right on target.  The consultants did a walk-thru earlier this week with Mark and I to show off the functionality of the site.  After going through all of the features, I am left wondering if we will be able to utilize half of the capabilities that have been put before us.