Dear Barbara and all,
This is an important topic, and one that the Apple User Group Advisory Board has addressed several times since the Apple Retail Stores first started opening five years ago. The issue is well worth a fresh look – thanks for the suggestion.
One thing that we as a Board can do is to collect and pass along user group/local store "success stories" for working with Apple Stores and store managers. We can also pass along suggestions and concerns.
If your group has a success story or an approach that has worked for you and might work for other groups, please post it to this list, and send it to the UGAB at email@hidden.
We need to bear in mind that only a handful of the largest Apple Stores have full-fledged theaters with theater seating (as opposed to wooden benches), so one size will certainly not fit all. But groups may find ideas that can be adapted to their particular situations.
Thanks in advance for your contributions, and your suggestions.
Elsa
Elsa Travisano --- President, MUG ONE - Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, NY
On May 21, 12:12 AM, at 12:12 AM, barbpassman wrote: Have the Apple User Group Council coordinators ever addressed,with Apple, the relationship of the Apple stores with their local user groups? What might be mutually beneficial to both parties? Is this something MUGs might ask that council to address?
Just wondering.
Sincerely Barbara Passman Chicago
At 10:41 PM -0700 5/14/07, Alex wrote:
Your observation about the managers is spot on. One would be very welcoming and cooperative and the next didn't know what a user group was.
Regards, Alex Podressoff President, Arizona Macintosh Users Group
On May 14, 2007, at 8:55 PM, barbpassman wrote:
I just noticed this thread on meeting locations. What kind of reception have you found from local Apple Store's (presuming there is an Apple Store in your community)? We meet in the downtown Chicago Apple Store.We can use the theater so we have wonderful AV facilities plus the comfort and beauty which is a given in an Apple Store. Our only issue is that the general managers change fairly often and we feel sometimes what we have to renegotiate some things with each successive manager.
Sincerely Barbara Passman Director The Rest of Us, Chicago's Macintosh User Group
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