Re: What's a User Group?
Re: What's a User Group?
- Subject: Re: What's a User Group?
- From: Alex <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:15:40 -0700
Chris,
Hats off to you; you have a great looking web site.
Someone has to ask, so it might as well be me. How do you manage to host the
site, pay postage and printing costs for your published newsletters, afford
all that new hardware and software, etc. all without charging any dues? Do
you have an endowment, donors, stores sponsoring you?
Alex Podressoff
Arizona Macintosh Users Group
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From: MacUsers User Group <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:04:03 -0400
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: What's a User Group?
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My group, MacUsers, has reviews, discounts, tips and tricks, online
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newsletters, online chats and forums, etc... but we also hold monthly
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meetings, get people to come to our meetings like Adobe and Alias, and
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we have published newsletters. We have raffles, and a huge collection
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of books available for checkout. We do special labs like Soundtrack and
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Final Cut Express where we have 5 or more computers available and you
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can follow along with us. The training is always a great success. We
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always have the newest Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Etc software and
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hardware to shoe off. The only difference I can see between my group
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and many other is that I do not charge a fee. All our services are free
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of charge, but i may change to have a minor fee next year. Check out my
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group website at www.macusersonline.com
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_______________________________
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Chris Wronski
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President and Apple Ambassador
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MacUsers User Group
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Peachtree City, GA
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www.macusersonline.com
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On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 08:35 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> I want to follow up on the earlier posts that described how the
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> definition of
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> a user group member has changed over the years.
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> It seems that the definition of a "user group" has also changed. At
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> one time,
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> user groups always had meetings. Most also had a printed newsletter
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> and some
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> means to distribute discs of software to its members. Some even
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> published the
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> telephone numbers of members willing to help other members with their
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> computer
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> problems.
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> With the advent of the Internet, groups seem to come in all
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> persuasions. Many
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> still hold meetings. Many publish a printed newsletters. Some run a
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> disk
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> library. And some still publish the contact information of members
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> willing to help
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> their colleagues.
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> But some don't hold meetings. Some don't publish a newsletter. And
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> many don't
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> maintain a disk library.
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> Some groups now do *everything* electronically. They "meet"
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> electronically
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> via discussion forums on line. They don't publish a newsletter,
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> maintain a disk
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> library or a members volunteer program. And they don't charge dues.
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> I'm having difficulty deciding what defines a "user group" these days.
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> Does a
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> user group have to hold meetings? Have a printed newsletter? Maintain
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> a Web
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> site? Offer a member helping member support system? Charge dues?
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> Warren Williams
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> AWUG
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