Welcome to the TechNexxus Extranet for the Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM-MD).  This site was built by David Baumann in just a few hours using the free DNN Open Source Web 2.0 software framework.  This site is not only useful for helping me to organize my thoughts and resources for my presentation to the NAPM - MD on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (joined by Marco Sies, 7-time Kickboxing World Champion and renowned motivational speaker), it also demonstrates how NAPM-MD members can quickly create a secure Extranet to optimize their sourcing efforts.

Features of this site include:

• Robust security models with roles, groups and 128-bit encryption (secure SSL socket)
• Web 2.0 Community with Blogs and Forums
• RSS Newsfeeds and RSS newsfeed readers
• Built-in editors that allows users to edit all pages using nothing more than a web-browser
• Complete XML and XHTML - Standards Support
• Document management complete with versioning and document check-in/out, and
• Much, much more (did I mention that it was built using a free Open Source framework?)

Come to David and Marco's presentation on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 to learn how you can build an extranet just like this to support your sourcing efforts.