The job of User Group Ambassador is one that entails a lot of responsibilities. If your group has questions, your region’s Apple User Group Regional Liaison has the information you need.
Expert advice is just an email away.
https://www.appleusergroupresources.com/?page_id=290
The Santa Fe Macintosh User Group (SFMUG) is sponsoring “Synapse to Screen 1.0” (S2S1.0) in cooperation with the Tenth Annual Santa Fe Film Festival. S2S1.0 will provide a full day of panels, demos and speakers dealing with the use and workings of pre-production software and tools–from brain-storming and mind-mapping, to outlining, scripting, story boarding, production reports and scheduling. SFMUG hopes to offer live streaming of the event as well.
Be part of a great event.
http://www.santafemug.org/ FilmFestival.html
Apple Sales Training Online (ASTO) is now even easier to use, with courses arranged into three core subjects: Mac, music and phone. The Product Knowledge area has courses on specific products, posted the day the products are announced. ASTO is your go-to training source and can be an excellent resource to help you make great presentations to your
group.
Earn points today. Apple Sales Training Online
http://salestraining.apple.com/
In conjunction with September’s Second Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet, the Final Cut Pro User Group Network (FCPUG Network) has released issue three of “SuperMag,” a free download consisting of over 170 pages of tutorials, tips, techniques and feature articles for today’s digital filmmakers.
Download and learn.
http://fcpugnetwork.org/supermag/2009/index.html
Magnus Nystadt from the EmiratesMac User Group will be sharing technology news with host James Piecowye on the Nightline radio show, broadcast by Dubai Eye 103.8 on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 8 p.m. Missed the September 1 broadcast? EmiratesMac offers a podcast of each radio hour.
Subscribe.
http://shuffle.to/podcast
Learn more.
http://www.emiratesmac.com/index.php?page=usergroup
O’Reilly, always a strong supporter of user groups, has recently announced webcasts that provide the community with opportunities for audience information and participation. These webcasts typically attract a global audience–it’s not unusual to see participants from thirty countries or more. Past webcast subjects have included the Best iPhone Apps, Snow Leopard and more. The September 24 edition covers security in cloud computing.
Download the archived Best iPhone Apps webcast.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804275/
Sign up for free sessions.
http://oreilly.com/webcasts/
This month’s column includes three groups who first met in 1979. Happy anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest groups. Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to
ugbeditor@mac.com.
1979 Houston Area Apple Users Group
http://www.haaug.org/
1979 AppleCore of Memphis, Inc.
http://www.memphisapplecore.com
1979 South Australian Apple Users’ Club Inc.
http://www.saauc.org.au
(Congrats to President Grant Ward and members of SAAUC.)
1984 Sierra Nevada Apple User Group
http://www.SNAG.org
(Greetings to SNAG Ambassador and former Apple User Group Advisory Board member Del Missier.)
1985 Mountain View Computer Users Group
http://www.mvcug.org
(Thanks to MVCUG President and Macworld pro John Buono for this tip.)
1986 SaskMUG (of Saskatchewan, Canada–formerly SAUCE)
http://www.saskmug.org/
1989 Prescott Mac User Group (Arizona)
http://www.pmug.us
1992 History and Macintosh Society
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mac/
(Greetings to Board member Marc Bizer.)
1995 MacApple Users of San Antonio
http://homepage.mac.com/macappleusers/
1999 Rome Owners of Apple Macintosh
http://www.roam.it
For more than thirty years, few groups have been as vibrant and
accomplished as the Washington Apple Pi (WAP). One of the reasons that
they have stayed involved and active is their commitment to public
service. Their newest service is Clubhouse Saturdays, where people can
meet, chat, learn what is going on with the club and ask questions of
hardware and software gurus.
Check it out.
http://www.wap.org/
Founded by Nicholas Pyers and made up of more than 30 groups in
Australia, AppleUsers.org is a central gathering spot for the leaders of
Australian Apple User Groups. On July 25 they displayed their newest
project: a new digital format (PDF) magazine for all Australian Apple
User Groups to distribute free to their members.
They work together to grow together.
http://www.appleusers.org
Are you the Apple Ambassador for your group? Be sure to download the
User Group Regional Liaison team’s Apple User Group Ambassador Guide.
It’s a terrific resource that will introduce you to some of the great
resources available to you as your group’s Ambassador.
Download the Ambassador Guide.
http://web.me.com/ugab/ambassadorguide.pdf
