WPRA annual conference in Green Bay

[kbrabandParticipant]

Tomorrow (Nov. 4, 2004) I’m presenting one of the sessions at the Annual Conference and Trade show of the Wisconsin Parks and Recreation Association at the Regency Suites Hotel in Green Bay. Representing the WGA, my talk on geocaching is essentially going to be an expanded version of an article I wrote for the WPRA magazine two years ago. I have put together a PowerPoint presentation and am making it available online in case any WGA members would like to see what I’m presenting. (You may recognize yourself or family members in the photos.) After the presentation tomorrow, we also plan to make a version of this PowerPoint available online at the WGA website as an online tutorial for Wisconsin park managers, and as a resource for you if you wish to give a presentations to park managers in your area. FYI, The file is over 4MB. Download it here.

[This message has been edited by kbraband (edited 11-06-2004).]

[EnergySaverMember]

Excellent PowerPoint!
Well done!

[CathunterMember]

Thank you Ken, for all the effort you have obviously put into this. The powerpoint looks great!
Have a good trip and don’t forget to pick up a find or two on the way.

[Todd BloomingdaleParticipant]

I too think this was a great presentation.! I hope this will ease on the DNR land managers for making permission alot easier now they have some education on geocaching.

smokey

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“Be safe and Keep on Searchin”

[RayParticipant]

Very well done Ken. Big Kudos.

[kbrabandParticipant]

Thanks for the words of encouragement about the PowerPoint file.

The session was held at the WPRA convention this afternoon. It went well. I think we did a lot of good for geocaching in Wisconsin. There were about 40 to 50 WPRA members in attendance including the WGA’s own Auntienae, who is a WPRA member. A couple of people asked me for a copy of my PowerPoint or handouts, so I am going to ask our webmasters to make it available online here at the WGA website. In the meantime, it will continue to be available at the link I posted in the first message of this forum topic.

One of those I spoke with after the session was Kathy Gruentzel, superintendent of Gov. Dodge State Park. She said she knew there were geocaches in her park but she wished the cache owners would have contacted her to inform her about the caches and ask permission. Since I am one of those who has a cache in Gov. Dodge, I apologized and said I would contact the other cache owners and ask them to email Kathy about their caches.

All in all, it was a good opportunity for the WGA to explain our activity and open up more communication with park managers.

[MiataParticipant]

Very good presentation Ken!

[kbrabandParticipant]

The PowerPoint is now on the WGA website. We’ll get it listed on the Links page soon. Meanwhile, it’s here: http://www.wi-geocaching.com/info/WPRAGeocaching.ppt

[kbrabandParticipant]

I just discovered a geocaching blog that has kudos for my WPRA geocaching PowerPoint presentation: http://adventuresingeocaching.blogspot.com/2006/05/good-presentations.html

[JeremyParticipant]

Congratulations Ken…

Actually the PowerPoint file was not brought over to the new site, so the link above and in the blog was broken. This problem has been corrected. 🙄

I know the Board has considered creating some sort of file archive where people could share information, presentations, slides, handouts, etc. that they used when giving geocaching presentations and classes. With this sharing, others would not have to start from scratch and develop all their own material when giving these presentations or classes… and it would help ensure that a clear and consistent message gets conveyed to the general public by Wisconsin geocachers.

[M-T-PMember]

@kbraband wrote:

I just discovered a geocaching blog that has kudos for my WPRA geocaching PowerPoint presentation: http://adventuresingeocaching.blogspot.com/2006/05/good-presentations.html

It was a great presentation, you deserved it!
M-T-P

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