Re: Working with other groups?
Re: Working with other groups?
- Subject: Re: Working with other groups?
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:39:18 -0400
On 13-Sep-04, at 6:03 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Any ideas or novel ways to work with others?
Our MUG has some experience in this area.
1) The local PC Club and our MUG met in separate locations for many
years, yet once we established a rapport between the Presidents of the
two groups we came to understand that we both had very similar needs
and wants in a meeting facility and that neither of us were entirely
happy with what we had. In the end, both the PC group and our Mac group
moved our meetings to the same new location where we both now have (i)
broadband internet access, (ii) use of the facility's built-in audio
and video equipment, (iii) use of a storage room where we can leave
many items which we had traditionally been carting in and out of the
meeting room each month, and (iv) use of additional "break out" rooms
as needed. Each club believes that working in concert with each other
allowed us to get the best possible rental deal on this new meeting
location.
2) The PC Club and our MUG keep each other advised about our regular
monthly meetings through our respective email lists, and each
encourages the other club to keep its members abreast of what is
happening at each club. In this way, people who see a particular
presentation coming up at the other club can feel free to stop by and
participate.
3) The PC Club and our MUG each run a no charge advertisement in our
respective monthly newsletters setting forth the other club's regular
meeting dates/times and providing contact info for the other club.
4) From time to time, special efforts are made to either publicize a
particular club's regular meeting as being something that could be of
broad interest to all computer users on both platforms, or a "special"
meeting is arranged and promoted to both clubs as well as the public.
Examples of these kinds of meetings include:
- Digital Photography, with a speaker from a local photographic
equipment retailer;
- Adobe products, with a speaker from Adobe Canada
- Macromedia products, with a speaker familiar with using their
products on both platforms
- Community Interest presentations, such as a guest speaker from the
local Nuclear Power Plant, talking about how their internal IT
operations are organized.
Overall, I think our relationship with the local PC Users Club can be
summed up as just being something that we have developed by feeling
free to talk to each other. Working on joint meetings such as the Adobe
events have allowed our respective Executives to get to know each
other. Today, it just becomes second nature to think of the other group
when certain opportunities or issues crop up. This of course depends a
lot on having people in both groups who are inclined to think this way
in the first place, so I can't guarantee that it would also work in
other areas.
Hope this helps.
Jim Foster
President
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
http://www.mause.ca
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