AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- Subject: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- From: Nicholas Pyers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:43:25 +1000
Now that the User Group edition of Breen;s Bungalow has once again
been made available to User Groups, I thought it appropriate to ask
what sort of content do groups put on their Discs of the Month.
Breen's Bungalow seems to be approx 100MB each month, so that leaves
at least 600MB left to be filled... but with what?
I suspect some groups have a PDF newsletter they place on the CD.
There is always popular shareware apps like GraphicConverter that can
be included when updated
"Large" updates to popular applications like the recent Microsoft
Office Updates could also be included.
But what else can be included that will interest members to buy each
month?
Another idea is to have, when appropriate, the software been
discussed at your meeting made available on CD.
I recently gave a presentation about "Essential, Useful & Interesting
Free Software for Mac OS X" to the Bellarine Macintosh User Group and
their committee took the initiative to download the 500MB+ worth of
30 installers that I was going to discuss and compiled a CD of them
all to save their members downloading and also earn the club some
extra money... and this was quite successful for them.
They were in the fortunate position they new what I was going to talk
about as I had also given that presentation to the Central Victorian
Macintosh Users a few weeks before, so the slides and links were
already available on my site, and they informed me that they were
doing this, so I gladly incorporated a slide into the presentation
promoting the CD for them.
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060622-freesoftware/>
<http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/20060712-freesoftware/>
If the topic under discussion at your group is a commercial
application like Microsoft Office or any of the Adobe/Macromedia
applications, then there are often trial, or demo, versions available
for downloading... and these can often be large (I think the Office
Demo is 400MB) and if the license agreement allowed it, these could
be candidates for inclusion on a DotM.
AUSOM, Australia's Leading Apple Macintosh User Group, also compiles
a CD of PDFs of all the back issues of their printed magazine, AUSOM
News. This archive includes every issue of AUSOM News since February
2000 (they don't produce a magazine in Januarys)
Any other thoughts for content for Discs of the Month to be sold to
members?
--
Nicholas Pyers, Macintosh User Group Resources
email: email@hidden
web: http://www.nicholaspyers.com/usergroups
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