AUGD: Tucson Macintosh Users Group
AUGD: Tucson Macintosh Users Group
Tucson Macintosh Users Group
(TMUG) is alive and well. We have just under 200 members with about 60
attending each of our monthly meetings. We celebrated our 26th
birthday this year. Membership is $30 per year with reductions for students,
families and snowbirds. We meet at the University Medical Center, a large
teaching hospital associated with the University of Arizona, for a reasonable
fee. Our meetings are held in one of the lecture halls that has good
audio-visual equipment. We have an elected five-member board - about 10 members attend the monthly
board meetings.
One of the ways we keep membership
up is the way we structure our meetings. We split the first hour into two
separate sessions – one is Mac 101 for beginners and the other is Ask the
Experts which is usually a more technical Q&A session for those with
specific Mac issues. The Mac 101 session is headed by a member who is a Mac
tutor as part of his day job. After the split first hour, everyone gathers in
the lecture hall for the main meeting where we conduct our business, have demos
by knowledgeable members and, sometimes, by outside vendors. At the conclusion,
we have a two raffles, a $1.00 per ticket raffle for a monthly collection of
Mac gadgets, software and books and a larger $2.50-$3.00 per ticket raffle for
a larger item such as an external hard drive or printer. These raffles just
about break even when comparing the revenue from the tickets sold vs. the cost
of the items. Once per year we have a Super Raffle for a new iMac – members
receive a free ticket each month they attend so if they make all twelve
meetings and keep their membership current, they have twelve tickets in the
drum. Good incentive! We think these raffles are really helping to maintain our
attendance levels.
We have a well patronized,
secure website (www.tmug.com) that requires registration and is available to
paid-up members only. It is interactive so that when a question is posted,
answers flow quite quickly from other members. There is also a smaller part of
the site that is open to the public. The site is frequented by all, but it is
especially useful for snowbirds who are only here in the winter.
Our way of operating may not
fit all user groups, but it works well for us!
--Curt Blanchard, TMUG
Secretary
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