April 29, 2014

Adopt Me! Presentation to PAAS Volunteers

In Attendance:

Assistant Chief Bob Beacom, Palo Alto Police Department

Connie Urbanski, Superintendent, Palo Alto Animal Services

Cynthia Typaldos, Ruthellen Dickinson, Nancy Cook, Jill Thompson – PAHP Team Members

Elizabeth Feilner (Jake), Kathy – Advisor and Videographer respectively for PAHP, new team members

Kathy Xie and Samantha Snyder– PAAS Volunteers

Laura Steinzer, volunteer for the shelter in Santa Barbara

Cynthia narrated the power point presentation and demoed the app. The response was positive with a collection of questions and ideas.

Can a photo and a Tweet be uploaded independently of each other?

Can the story url be pushed back into the PetHarbor Data Base?

Will there be a QR code at the shelter?

Can anyone log on to the app outside of the volunteers?

Will there be a reward system and/or recognition for the volunteer actively engaged in the app?

Will there be a back button?

Will the volunteers be able to upload videos and will there be a time limitation on them? Cody, Animal Control Officer, currently takes videos, uploads them to Chameleon which links it to PetHarbor.

Will there be an interface to upload a picture from another phone or camera?

Laura Steinzer will manage our Facebook page!!!

We had a great meeting. Asst. Chief Beacom was to stay a short while, but ending up staying the length of the meeting. We were so pleased to get all of the feedback. A wonderful start to the first demo of the app!

 

-- Nancy Cook