The Cat has scratched around and found paw print notes from some of her favorite meetings. Here they are. . .

Love on the Web
June 23, 2004 SofTECH presented a panel discussion of Love on the Web, with Julie Paiva, CEO and Founder of TableforSix.com, David Liu, Creator of theknot.com (all the way from New York), and Nancy Bombace, Founder of HoneyLuna.com, moderated by Dana Welch, SofTECH President, at the Autodesk Atrium in San Rafael, CA.

Business Process Management / Modeling
August 27, 2003 Softech presented a panel discussion of BPM - Business Process Management, by Brett Benthron of Microsoft, Tom Barclay of Intalio, Dr. M.A. Ketabchi of Savvion, Doug Kaye - Author and Consultant, Jeffrey Kilbreth of Fair Isaac Corp., moderated by Bob Suess of Neopost Inc. at the Autodesk Atrium in San Rafael, CA.

DVD Production - A Soup-to-Nuts Guide
November 21, 2002 Panel members Jon Leland of ComBridges, Gabriel Murano of DVant Digital, Chris Armbrust of Marin Digital, Luong Tam and Michael Wanger, award-winning video producers to the North Bay Multimedia Association.

Adventures in Interactive Sound Design: A Case Study Review
February 21, 2002. Sound design and audio production for multimedia involve more than composing great music and delivering sound effects under tight deadlines. They require a combination of skills and talent unique to the multimedia industry. One must be an artist, engineer, technician, and hacker (or have the resources to hire someone who is).

Macromedia May 2001 Review
May 17, 2001. Review of Dreamweaver Ultradev 4 version 4, Freehand version 10, Director 8.5 presented by Macromedia to NBMA. Learn about linking databases to web pages on the fly, and all the latest from their very own Dreamweaver Platform Evangelist, Keith Cody.

Douglas Rushkoff
September 16, 1999. Author of Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. His presentation was enlightened, eloquent and entertaining. Like E.F. Hutton, everyone certainly listened to what he had to say, and were most impressed.

INTERVU
October 26, 1999. Ken Colby gave the inside scoop on streaming media and live concerts in a special report for the Developer SIG.

An Evening of Predictions with C-Net's Dan Shafer
May 20, 1999. Find out about eyeballs and E-Commerce and all that's hot on the Web.

The Art of ILM's Commercial Productions, by Marcus Stokes
October 15, 1998. You'll be swept away by his energy and the impressive stock of graphics that Lucas has produced through the years. Star Wars fans, don't miss this one.

An Evening with Ted Nelson
August 20, 1998. The man who put the "H" in HTML tells all about three-dimensional databases and other visionary concepts.

Building Successful Web Communities
April 16, 1998. Interested in developing sites with beauty, intelligence and purpose? Listen to a woman who has it all, and wrote the definitive book on the subject. One of the fabulous presenters from Avatars97 gave us an evening to remember.

Bandwidth Heaven
February 11, 1998. The heavy-hitters of the telecommunications industry, talk about the technical side of bringing a faster, clearer picture of the future.

A Little Web Music, Maestro
November 20, 1997. Hear what's going on with sound on the Web by the experts!

Total Entertainment Network
September 18,1997. The makers of Ultima Online and other great games gave us a fun evening.

Glenn Davis and Teresa Martin, creators of Project Cool
August 21, 1997. If you create Web pages, read this review. Don't be caught without a style sheet, and these folks have the best developer site on the Web. Catwoman gives it two paws up!

Headland Digital Media
May 15, 1997. From grass roots to star Web designers, a success story to warm the heart.

Excellence in Multimedia Audio, with Dr. Ron Pellegrino
June 20, 1996. Our own illustrious NBMA member Dr. Pellegrino brings 25 years experience with electronic sound and light, enlightens us and provides great links for Omnimedia enthusiasts!

Here's a list of other NBMA guest speakers, with direct links to their Web sites. Stay tuned for recaps of upcoming meetings.

Special Industry Events

New Minds Forum
This 1998 event was entitled, "Can Technology Have Soul?"
Read Catwoman's recap of the panel discussion, "Growing Up Digital."

Ancient Rituals for a New Medium
What IS an Avatar? If you attended the second annual conference, Avatars '97, sponsored by the Contact Consortium, you already know that the presence of Avatars on the Web, while representing way-out-on-the-edge-technology, was launched by some of the brightest, coolest, and most deeply humanistic and soulful people on the planet. Read Catwoman's recap of this event.

Catwoman has been a loyal supporter and reporter for NBMA since 1995. Meet Catwoman at a desktop near you.