Re: AUGD: Too geeky?
Re: AUGD: Too geeky?
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Too geeky?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 06:30:58 EDT
The answer is SIGs (Special Interest Groups).
With apologies to A. Lincolnl, "You can please all of the people some of the time. And you can please some of the time. But SIGs can please all of the people all of the time."
People join an Apple User Group for their own reasons. Some to get basic knowledge... like "How do I turn it on," or ""What is this email stuff?" Some are more adventurous and want to know about creating their own website.
Regardless the reason, there isn't enough time at any meeting to do justice to any one topic (unless you do mega meetings that lasts from noon to night).
The answer is smaller subsections on members grouped by interest.
If you know how to do a simple website (.Mac can help - see http://www.apple.com/dotmac/publish.html), and want to share that info, announce a "special" meeting for this at another time. Send out invites to all your members but REQUIRE an R.S.V.P.
Contact these respondees and ask them to help you. Find out what they know and work them into this group-help.
At the SIG meeting, be focused to one-step-at-a-time AND make sure to get as many people as you can in sharing the load. If you don't it'll just be a 'class' with you as the teacher. A SIG can be members helping members if you work at it.
A SIG can break down the big computer - and ALL it can do, into little appatizing bites.
Once the members have a taste of one thing their Mac can do, they may ask, "So, what else can it do?" Or, "How do I do ...?
If you build it, they will come.
Gary E. Kampel
Apple User Group Regional Liaison
Southeast Region
In a message dated 4/28/06 2:31:14 PM, email@hidden writes:
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