Apple User Group Bulletin - November 17, 2006
Apple User Group Bulletin - November 17, 2006
- Subject: Apple User Group Bulletin - November 17, 2006
- From: Apple User Group Relations <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:43:47 -0800
Apple User Group Bulletin - November 17, 2006
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Dear User Group Leader,
We're excited to tell you about a star-studded User Group University
lineup coming in January. You don't want to miss this one! This issue
also brings news of an ambassador opportunity and the start up of a
new resource for groups.
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] - Reminder: Update your Group's Locator Records
2] - MacKiev: Looking For a Few Great Goodwill Ambassadors
3] - News to Use: Presentation Resource Repository for User Groups
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members
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Community News - Members
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1] - User Group University: A Star Filled Lineup
2] - Expo News: Show Floor Volunteers
3] - HAAUG in Pictures: Houston Digital Photo Extravaganza
4] - AUSOM: Helping Australian Groups Raise Club Funds
5] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: LAFCPUG at DV Expo West
6] - Digibarn Remembers: Computer History on Display
7] - New Hampshire Seacoast: Dave Hamilton Presents
8] - Milestones
Community News - Special Offers
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1] - MacAddict Reborn: 40 Percent Off New Mac|Life
2] - Audio Hijack Pro: Special Offer
3] - USGLOBALSAT: Mac GPS Users 25 Percent Discount
4] - That's Easy: Apple User Group Market & Apple User Group Offers
5] - O'Reilly: New Discounts for User Group Members
6] - The MUG Store: Redesigned for Even Greater Savings
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COMMUNITY NEWS - LEADERS
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1] - Reminder: Update your Group's Locator Records
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Has it been a long time since your group's ambassador updated your
group's records in the Apple User Group Locator database? Make
November your month to correct outdated information.
Not sure what your password is or how to make changes? Contact your
area's Apple User Group Regional Liaison for expert advice and
information requests.
Update your group's records.
http://apple-user.wwwa.com/locator/group/login.html
Contact your User Group Regional Liaison.
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/contact/liaisons/
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2] - MacKiev: Looking For a Few Great Goodwill Ambassadors
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MacKiev is not looking for sales staff or inventory workers, just
goodwill
ambassadors who can visit local stores once a month or so to see
that demos are running and software is on the shelves. Compensation is
MacKiev software.
Former Apple User Group Advisory Board member Lorene Romero is
organizing the ambassador team
If you are interested, contact Lorene at
email@hidden
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3] - News to Use: Presentation Resource Repository for User Groups
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Have you recently given a great presentation to your group? Do you
have a nice resource that other groups might benefit from? The Apple
User Group Advisory Board is working on a repository where you can
post or find presentations for use by Apple user groups and they'd
like your help. Send presentations or resources you'd like to share
by submitting the following information:
- A short description
- The link to the presentation file
- Your User Group's website address
Send email to:
email@hidden
(Big thanks to the Apple User Group Discussion List for this idea.)
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Apple User Group Bulletin - Members, November 17, 2006
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COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS
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1] - User Group University: A Star Filled Line Up
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You don't want to miss User Group University 2007 (January 8 in San
Francisco). With speakers like Christopher Breen, Adam Engst, Bob
LeVitus, Terry White and a keynote by Steve Wozniak (Woz), 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 2007 in San Francisco
http://acteva.com/go/macworld
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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] - HAAUG in Pictures: Houston Digital Photo Extravaganza
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On Saturday, November 18, the Houston Area Apple Users Group (HAAUG)
will be hosting their Digital Photography Extravaganza, featuring
Reagon Atkinson, special presentations from Canon and the 2006 HAAUG
Photo Contest winners. Join the group at Rice University for an all-
day event.
Be there.
http://haaug.org
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4] - AUSOM: Helping Australian Groups Raise Club Funds
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Nicholas Pyers and members of the Apple Users' Society of Melbourne
(AUSOM) are helping Australian groups with fundraising in a novel way.
The group is selling raffle tickets for a black MacBook and any
Australian group can participate, with 50 percent of each ticket sold
staying with the group that sells the ticket. In the first week of
December some lucky group member will win a MacBook; in the meantime,
groups across the region win by working together.
See who wins.
http://www.ausom.net.au/raffle.html
Find out how your group can participate.
email@hidden
(Thanks to AUSOM Publicity Chair Nicholas Pyers for this tip).
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5] - Have Final Cut Pro, Will Travel: LAFCPUG at DV Expo West
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Once again, the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (LAFCPUG) will be
hosting an event at DV Expo West in December at the Los Angeles
Convention Center. Join LAFCPUG for two hours of fun, learning and
their famous raffle. Join them to see why these events are so
popular.
Professional skills, networking and good times in Los Angeles
http://www.lafcpug.org
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6] - Digibarn Remembers: Computer History on Display
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In 1975, a group of friends met in Gordon French's garage and called
themselves the Homebrew Computer Club. In 2006, members and interested
others got together again at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain
View, California for an event called 1976: Apple in the Garage.
Original hardware, original members and even a cake with Apple's
original logo were part of the event.
Check out Bruce Damer's slide show and event photos.
http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/index.html
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7] - New Hampshire Seacoast: Dave Hamilton Presents
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Dave Hamilton, CEO of The Mac Observer (and host of The Mac Observer's
Geek Gab) will be presenting to the New Hampshire Seacoast Mac Users
Group in November. Join the group this Tuesday to hear Dave's insights
on successful Podcasting.
Visit and learn.
http://www.seacoastmac.org/
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8] - Milestones
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This month's column includes a group who first met in 1978.
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/
1999 Oregon MacPioneers User Group (Omug)
http://homepage.mac.com/ydkm/
2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison Macintosh Users Group
http://wiscmug.org
(Warm regards to Apple Campus Group User Groups Advisory Board member
and WiscMUG President Evan Ziolkowski.)
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SPECIAL OFFERS - APPLE USER GROUP BULLETIN - November 17, 2006
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You must be a current Apple user group member to qualify for these
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2] - Audio Hijack Pro: Special Offer
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Download Audio Hijack Pro and try it out, then purchase it online!
Regularly $32 (US), user group members receive a discounted rate of
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This worldwide offer is valid through February 28, 2007.
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3] - USGLOBALSAT: Mac GPS Users 25 Percent Discount
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Globalsat Technology Corp, the first GPS producer to support the
Macintosh, is dedicated to providing the highest quality GPS,
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USGlobalSat, Inc. carries that torch for the North American Market,
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USGlobalSat proudly supports Macintosh User Group members with this
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Learn about GPS, Bluetooth and more.
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This worldwide offer is valid through February 28, 2007.
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4] - That's Easy: Apple User Group Market & Apple User Group Offers
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Looking for information on a past offer? Tom Piper, Apple User Group
Advisory Board vendor coordinator, publishes a single page with all
current offers, expiration dates and codes.
Password
offer
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offers/vendorcodes.htm
Also, be sure to subscribe to the Apple User Group Market Report
podcast, a great source for information about Apple user groups,
vendor discounts, special events and more from the Apple User Group
Advisory Board.
Recent Episodes
- Craig Schlossbert, PumpOne iPod software vendor (11/06/06)
- Elsa Travisano, Apple User Group Advisory Board (10/20/06)
- Doug Troxell, co-founder of Intriguing Development (10/03/06)
- Lorene Romero, former Apple User Group Advisory Board member
(09/21/06)
- Warren Williams, Apple User Group Advisory Board member (08/26/06)
- George Kopp, Apple User Group Regional Liaison and Victor Marks of
Miglia Technology (08/05/06)
- Sandy Foderick, Apple User Group Advisory Board, and Jack
Herrington, noted author on podcasting and other topics with
O'Reilly Books (07/15/06)
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5] - O'Reilly: New Discounts for User Group Members
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O'Reilly Publishing is offering new and better discounts for groups.
User group members can get a discount of 30 percent off a single book
or 35 percent off all books and PDFs from O'Reilly, No Starch,
Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint or Syngress
books that are purchased directly from O'Reilly by phone or online.
Add in free shipping for orders over $29.95 (US) and the offer gets
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Order from the O'Reilly Store online or by phone at 1-800-998-9938
(extra shipping cost outside the U.S.).
Online Code: DSUG
See what the buzz is about.
http://www.oreilly.com/store/
This worldwide offer is ongoing.
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6] - The MUG Store: Redesigned for Even Greater Savings
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The Apple MUG Store has been redesigned to offer you even more great
deals. If you haven't looked in a while, check out the Apple MUG
Store. You'll find great prices, lots of special offers, blowouts on
Apple products and more!
Be sure to remind your membership to give applemugstore.com a peek
every so often: When your members buy from the MUG store, the store
sets aside 1 percent of your group members' purchases, which your
group can use to buy anything from the store!
User ID: ipod
Password: nano
http://www.applemugstore.com
This US-only offer is valid through January 31, 2007.
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For information about vendor offers and more visit
http://homepage.mac.com/ugab/offers.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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