Re: What's a User Group?
Re: What's a User Group?
- Subject: Re: What's a User Group?
- From: MacUsers User Group <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:20:31 -0400
For the new Apple hardware and software, we have a store near us that
lets us borrow new computers and show them off which is great, Apple
sometimes also sends us copies of their software and sometimes we are
just lucky, I bought my Power Mac G5 at the Apple Store and it should
arrive on Tuesday, so I will have that to show off at the next meeting.
If you are in the Adobe user group program then you can get Adobe to
send new software and for all our computer books, those are just review
copies and donations from O'Reilly, and Peachpit Press. For the site,
we use Itsamac www.itsamac.com, they offer really great hosting and
they have a user group program and host us free of charge. For the
newsletters, I design those in InDesign and print those myself at
school.
__________________________
Chris Wronski
President and Ambassador
MacUsers User Group
Peachtree City, GA
www.macusersonline.com
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Alex wrote:
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
From: MacUsers User Group <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:04:03 -0400
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: What's a User Group?
My group, MacUsers, has reviews, discounts, tips and tricks, online
newsletters, online chats and forums, etc... but we also hold monthly
meetings, get people to come to our meetings like Adobe and Alias, and
we have published newsletters. We have raffles, and a huge collection
of books available for checkout. We do special labs like Soundtrack
and
Final Cut Express where we have 5 or more computers available and you
can follow along with us. The training is always a great success. We
always have the newest Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Etc software and
hardware to shoe off. The only difference I can see between my group
and many other is that I do not charge a fee. All our services are
free
of charge, but i may change to have a minor fee next year. Check out
my
group website at www.macusersonline.com
_______________________________
Chris Wronski
President and Apple Ambassador
MacUsers User Group
Peachtree City, GA
www.macusersonline.com
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 08:35 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I want to follow up on the earlier posts that described how the
definition of
a user group member has changed over the years.
It seems that the definition of a "user group" has also changed. At
one time,
user groups always had meetings. Most also had a printed newsletter
and some
means to distribute discs of software to its members. Some even
published the
telephone numbers of members willing to help other members with their
computer
problems.
With the advent of the Internet, groups seem to come in all
persuasions. Many
still hold meetings. Many publish a printed newsletters. Some run a
disk
library. And some still publish the contact information of members
willing to help
their colleagues.
But some don't hold meetings. Some don't publish a newsletter. And
many don't
maintain a disk library.
Some groups now do *everything* electronically. They "meet"
electronically
via discussion forums on line. They don't publish a newsletter,
maintain a disk
library or a members volunteer program. And they don't charge dues.
I'm having difficulty deciding what defines a "user group" these
days.
Does a
user group have to hold meetings? Have a printed newsletter? Maintain
a Web
site? Offer a member helping member support system? Charge dues?
Warren Williams
AWUG
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