Apple User Group Bulletin - November 15, 2005
Apple User Group Bulletin - November 15, 2005
- Subject: Apple User Group Bulletin - November 15, 2005
- From: Apple User Group Relations <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:07:58 -0800
Apple User Group Bulletin - November 15, 2005
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Dear User Group Leader,
We're excited to tell you about a star-filled User Group University
lineup coming in January. You don't want to miss this one! We've
also provided you with a refresher on the proper use of the Apple User
Group signature images and an easier way to access user group offers.
As always, be sure to let us know about anything you'd like to see
covered in future bulletins.
Best wishes,
The Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB)
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CONTENTS
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Community News - Leaders
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1] - User Group University: A Star Filled Lineup
2] - User Group Discounts: A New Way to Keep Track of Offers
3] - We Get Asked: Logo Usage
4] - Apple Sales Web Presentations: A Quick Reminder
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members
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Community News - Members
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1] - Expo News: Inside Mac Radio's Macworld 2006 Launch Party
2] - Expo News: Show Floor Volunteers
3] - Main Line Macintosh: User Groups Make an Event to Remember
4] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: SF Cutters at NAB Post+ Show
5] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: LAFCPUG at DV Expo West
6] - Homebrew@30 - Now That's a Reunion!
7] - QLogic Presentations for Pro Groups
8] - Milestones
Special Offers
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1] - onOne Software: 20 Percent Discount on Photoshop Plug-Ins
2] - Other World Computing: Selected Discounts
3] - DeltaGraph: Up to 25 Percent Discount
4] - iWork User Group: 40 Percent Off Business Stationery Design Kit
5] - The MUG Store: Discounts and User Group Offers
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COMMUNITY NEWS - LEADERS
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1] - User Group University: A Star Filled Lineup
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You don't want to miss User Group University 2006 (January 9 in San
Francisco). With speakers like David Pogue, Christopher Breen, Adam
Engst, Bob LeVitus, Terry White and Guy Kawasaki, it's sure to be
exciting, informative and entertaining. Add in a top-of-the-line
vendor reception and this UGU is going to be one of the best ever.
Join leaders from around the world for this premier user group
leadership event.
Register for UGU 2006 in San Francisco
http://acteva.com/go/macworld
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2] - User Group Discounts: A New Way to Keep Track of Offers
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Is it hard to keep track of offers and get them out to your members?
Now there's an easier way. UGAB Vendor Coordinator Tom Piper has
created a password-protected web page of all current offers for user
group members. Give the password to your group's members in a
non-public form (mailing list, print newsletter, password-protected
web page and/or members-only bulletin board) and the codes will be
ready when your members are.
Password
ugvendor
Vendor offers for user group members
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offers/vendorcodes.htm
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3] - We Get Asked: Logo Usage
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Ambassadors, want to know how to find the Apple User Group signature
file? Curious about the rules for using the signature for your group?
Apple Sales Web (ASW) has the answers. The basics: make sure that your
group is using a logo from the current signature file, allow the
proper amount of space around the logo that you choose (several
variations are available) and remember to use the logo without
modification.
Part number:
L27741A-US
Check it out.
https://asw.apple.com
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4] - Apple Sales Web Presentations: A Quick Reminder
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User group ambassadors are free to use the demos and/or images from
Apple Sales Web for newsletters and demos. Please take care, however,
to make sure you do not forward these materials to others for any
other uses.
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members, November 15, 2005
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COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS
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1] - Expo News: Inside Mac Radio's Macworld 2006 Launch Party
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The Inside Mac Radio Macworld 2006 Launch Party (hosted by
Sharp Tongued Consulting) is set for January 9 at the Parc 55
hotel. Enjoy a free, fun and relaxing time snacking and
networking on the night before Macworld Expo starts. The party
runs from 9-11 p.m. at the Parc 55 and is open to all.
Contact Lorene Romero of Sharp Tongued Consulting for more info.
email@hidden
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2] - Expo News: Show Floor Volunteers
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One of the best ways to experience Macworld Expo is from the inside.
If you are headed for San Francisco in January and want to spend a few
hours as a Macworld user group volunteer, let the Macworld User Group
Planning Team know.
Reserve your spot today.
email@hidden
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3] - Main Line Macintosh: User Groups Make an Event to Remember
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Want to know what groups can do when they work together with one hard
working organizer? On a drizzly Saturday the atmosphere at Gloucester
Community College was bright as the Main Line Macintosh User Group,
Macintosh Users Group of Southern New Jersey and ten other groups
combined to host David Pogue. Check out the photos of David Pogue's
visit, with ambassador Moe Comeau's captions.
http://homepage.mac.com/mlmug1/PhotoAlbum63.html
(Thanks to event organizer, MLMUG President and Apple User Groups
Regional Liaison Maria Arguello for this link.)
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4] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: SF Cutters at NAB Post+ Show
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The San Francisco Cutters User Group bills itself as the first Final
Cut Pro User Group, and they surely one of the busiest. President and
founder Kevin Monahan was at the NAB Post+ Show and BAMUG last week,
just in time for the East Coast's regional meeting of Final Cut Pro
User Groups. What's next? A speaking tour for his new book.
http://www.sfcutters.org
(Greetings to hard-working Ambassador Claudia Crask who makes sure the
word gets out.)
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5] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: LAFCPUG at DV Expo West
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On the other coast, the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (LAFCPUG)
will be at DV Expo West on December 7 - 9 at the Los Angeles
Convention Center. Both of these active groups will be at Macworld in
January.
http://www.lafcpug.org
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6] - Homebrew@30 - Now That's a Reunion!
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In 1975, a group of friends met in Gordon French's garage and called
themselves the Homebrew Computer Club. Thirty years later, members got
together again at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View,
California for a panel discussion. Bruce Damer, curator of the
Digibarn Computer Museum, was the moderator.
Relive the memories.
http://www.digibarn.com/history/05-VCF8-HomeBrew30/index.html
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7] - QLogic Presentations for Pro Groups
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QLogic is a leader in pre and post video workflow management,
reliability, and performance in many real world Final Cut Pro
environments. (NBC TV, Scrubs and Saturday Night Live are just a few
examples.) They are willing to present solution details to interested
user groups.
Contact Bruce Bruno for details.
email@hidden
(408) 573-6105
Case Studies
http://www.qlogic.com/knowledgecenter/case_studies.asp#sfcw
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8] - Milestones
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This month's column includes a group who first met in 1978. (Read this
month's issue for news of a famous group that first met in early
1975.)
Happy anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest
groups. Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and
year to email@hidden.
1978 Apple Macintosh Users' Group (Sydney)
http://homepage.mac.com/sydamug
1981 Hartford User Group Exchange
http://www.huge.org
(Greetings to George Carbonell and members of HUGE.)
1984 Delmarva Apple User's Group
http://www.daugbytes.com/
1984 appleJAC Macintosh Users Group
http://www.applejac.org
(Congratulations to Apple User Group Regional Liaison George Kopp,
Apple User Group Advisory Board member Tom Piper and the members of
appleJAC.)
1991 AppleWorks Users Group International
http://www.awug.org
(Congratulations to Apple User Group Advisory Board member and
AppleWorks Editor Warren Williams, Ambassador Cathy Merritt and the
many thousands of members of AppleWorks International.)
1991 Rheintaler Macintosh User Group
http://www.rheintalweb.ch/vereine/remug/
1997 MacSverige
http://www.macsverige.org/
1998 MacFreak
http://www.macfreak.nl
1998 PowerBook Owners Club
http://www.poc.it
2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison Macintosh Users Group
http://wiscmug.org
(Warm regards to Apple Campus User Groups Advisory Board member and
WiscMUG President Evan Ziolkowski.)
A special hello to AppleMSU, the new group at Michigan State
University, and to President A.J. Rice and Ambassador Jonathan Morrow.
http://www.applemsu.com
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SPECIAL OFFERS - APPLE USER GROUP BULLETIN - November 15, 2005
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These User Group discounts are brought to you by the Apple User Group
Advisory Board and Tom Piper, vendor relations.
You must be a current Apple user group member to qualify for these
savings. Not a member? Join an Apple user group today to take
advantage of these special offers.
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1] - onOne Software: 20 Percent Discount on Photoshop Plug-Ins
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onOne Software provides solutions for digital photographers using
Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Solutions include Genuine
Fractals 4.1 for high-quality image scaling and large format printing,
PhotoFrame 2.5 for creating unique, high-quality image borders and
effects, Mask Pro 3 for masking images for composites and Intellihance
Pro for enhancing digital photographs.
This special user group offer will take 20 percent off your entire
purchase.
Coupon code
MUG
Order today.
http://www.ononesoftware.com
This worldwide offer is valid through February 28, 2006.
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2] - Other World Computing: Selected Discounts
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Other World Computing (OWC) has sold and supported quality Apple
hardware products at competitive prices since 1998. OWC has partnered
with Newer Technology, Inc., to provide high-capacity batteries for
iPods and PowerBooks and launched http://www.FasterMac.net to get Mac
users surfing faster.
With this offer, user group members can take 5 percent off any
NewerTech miniStack FireWire kit/solution, and 10 percent off any
NewerTech Battery (iBook, PowerBook or iPod). This offer carries a
limit of one coupon per item and one discount per customer per order.
Stack coupon code
NEWMINI
Battery coupon code
NEWBAT
See these great products.
http://www.macsales.com
This worldwide offer is valid through February 28, 2006.
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3] - DeltaGraph: Up to 25 Percent Discount
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Red Rock DeltaGraph 5.x (Mac/Win) helps researchers, analysts,
managers and desktop publishers who work with complex sets of data to
collect, analyze and present their findings in a visually compelling
and memorable manner. DeltaGraph enables users to develop a broad
spectrum of 2D and 3D graphs and charts (84 Graph/Chart types). It was
awarded Best of Show at Macworld Expo NYC 2003. Reviews are available
at http://www.macworld.com (Four Mice - 2004) and
http://www.macaddict.com (Four Gum Drops - 2005).
With a MSRP of $299 (US) and an academic price of $199 (US),
DeltaGraph is offering a user group price of $249 (US) and an academic
price of $149 (US).
Register at the Red Rock website to receive an emailed coupon code.
http://www.redrocksw.com/deltagraph/UserGroups/index.htm
This worldwide offer is valid through January 31, 2006.
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4] - iWork User Group: 40 Percent Off Business Stationery Design Kit
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Have you admired the matching letterheads, envelopes, business cards
and memo pads used by large corporations? Now you can create your own
with the iWork Users Group's (iWUG) new "Business Stationery Design
Kit" for Pages.
iWUG's kit contains more than 400 Pages templates. Just replace the
placeholder text with the name and address of your business to print
professional quality, thematically matched letterheads, envelopes,
business cards and memo pads for your office. Requires Pages.
Regularly $49.95 (US), you can receive the members' price of $29.95
(US) by selecting the MUG Member option. iWUG can be contacted by
email at email@hidden, by fax (in the U.S.) at 734-454-1965
and by phone at 888-781-2984.
Coupon code
MUGMember
Order by web, email or telephone.
http://www.iWorkUsers.org/shop/merchant4.html
This worldwide offer is valid through January 31, 2006.
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5] - The MUG Store: Discounts and User Group Offers
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The MUG Store has free freight to members, RAM rebates and aggressive
pricing on new and reconditioned Macs. they also have one of the
largest selections of pre-owned Macs on the planet.
User ID: ipod
Password: nano
http://www.applemugstore.com
This US-only offer is valid through January 31, 2006.
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For information about vendor offers and more visit
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offerss.html
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Sandy Foderick,
Editor
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Tom Piper,
Vendor Relations
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Elsa Travisano,
Text and Archival Editor
Apple User Group Advisory Board
email@hidden
Jeff Mosqueda,
Publisher
Apple
email@hidden
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