Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Disc of the Month (DotM) contents
- From: SMUG <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:32:17 -0500
I'm a new ambassador and new to the list, so I'm not familiar with
Breen's Bungalow.
We are the Stateline Macintosh User's Group (SMUG) out of Rockford,
IL USA about ten miles south of the middle of the Illinois/Wisconsin
Border. We've been doing a DOM (as we call it) since they were floppy.
We've been using it as a fundraiser and membership inducement for
some time. It's $5.00 for members and $10.00 for non-members.
Admission to our meetings is free and our basic membership is only
$24.00 per year.
Our club librarian is in charge of content which includes much of
what you mentioned. Some of our members are on dial-up, so this is
how they get their updates. This year we have tried to match the
meeting theme.
We are considering pre-recording some of our demos in Snapz Pro X,
and putting them on our DOMs. We think this would be great for
getting our newbies up to speed. They could replay it at home as many
times as necessary. Has anyone tried this? Are the files
prohibitively large?
For the holidays we have occasionally given our DOMs to attending
members for free. We filled them with holiday related items and
member created photoshop brushes, templates, a filemaker holiday card
database including the card, a photo dodecahedron, an iMovie with a
holiday greeting, and a 3-D ornament template.
Our DOMs are created almost on the fly so they are not labeled, but I
would like to include a jewelcase insert with the contents on the
back. It could be created in discus and/or photoshop (converted to
pdf) and be a file on the disk. That way the end user could find what
they are looking for when they get a collection together.
The tricky part is having something to appeal and/or be useable to
everyone. OS X items won't open in Classic and vise-versa. Even the
version of the program that created the file can be a problem. We
usually place things in folders marked by OS version.
Like the meetings themselves, preplanning makes for a more
professional presentation.
I have a copy of the font disk created by The Rest of Us. It's
awesome. Very professional.
Janus Rose
President and Ambassador
Stateline Macintosh Users Group
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