Re:AppleScript Demo
Re:AppleScript Demo
- Subject: Re:AppleScript Demo
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:36:09 EST
In a message dated 12/26/02 10:53:53 PM, Matt Johnston <email@hidden>
writes:
Now Matt - it does sound like you want it handed to you... This has been the
norm for years and that's why this list exists - to help out. I am sure that
someone may have a presentation that they have done that they would be
willing to share with you. I would if we had one.
HOWEVER you are overlooking the obvious - other sources. Peachpit Press has a
wonderful "make you an expert in a few hours series" called the Visual
QuickStart Guides (which has an EXCELLENT book on AppleScript). There are the
"For Dummies" books from Hungry Minds and O'Reilly Press has several imprints
as well (including David Pogue's Missing Manual series). Any of these books
(and most of them would be available for review copies if you write them up
in your newsletter - and might possibly be available for donations to your
MUG library if you are on the level with the companies and explain nicely
exactly what the problem is and what you wish to do) can give your group
members a decent overview. You could hand some of them out to various members
and have them do the presos at your meetings over several months.
We have one member who uses Quicken for his banking and credit cards not only
for his accounts here in the U.S. but also for his accounts in the U.K. and
in the Bahamas. He is totally self-taught on this (with some help from the
banks and Intuit's Customer Support) and, although it has taken me several
months to convince him to do this, at our March meeting he is going to do a
full program on Quicken. He will start with a "Getting Started" and move on
to more advanced stuff at our April meeting.
Most of our presos are member-taught. Why? Because we speak the users lingo
and not the marketing dept.'s lingo. A member who uses a program has probably
run into the issues that one will run into and won't fertilize the field with
the "it's not a bug it's a feature" whitewash. It also keeps the membership
more involved. So puh-leeze - don't blame the companies. To paraphrase John
F. Kennedy..."Ask not what the vendors can do for your user group; ask what
your user group members can do for themselves."
Peter
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"...refused to help us with an AppleScript
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demo. ... Their excuse is
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that they just don't have anything that they could send me to get me up
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to speed so I could run the demo myself."
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Peter A. Weissenstein
Vice--President/Industry Liaison - AppleCore Berkshire County
Apple Product Professional 2000, 2001, 2002
Apple Sales Representative as Employee of MarketSource
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