Join us the weekend of March 13, 14 & 15 - 2009 for the APCUG/FACUG Spring Conference in Zephyrhills, Florida. Check the FACUG Website website for more details. Registration is open here.

The Phoenix Regional, originaly planned for February 7th and 8th, 2009 has been postponed. Registration fees, for people already registered, will be refunded.

APCUG Reports Q1 is online and available here

APCUG's Newsletter, Web and Digital Photo contests start January 1, 2009 and you will have until January 31, 2009 to submit your website URL, newsletters and digital photos in these competitive events. Submitting your entries will be done differently this year. Contestants will use the new APCUG SharePoint Site where special folders have been set up for each contest. The complete contest rules, criteria and instructions for using the SharePoint site are also posted and instructions on using SharePoint are here.

Judging of the contests will take place in February, 2009 and the results will be announced in March, 2009. Winning newsletters and websites will also receive appropriate APCUG 1st, 2nd or 3rd place logos for use on your groups newsletter and website. The results will be posted on the APCUG WebSite and sent out via NOOZ and Reports.

APCUG Reports Q4 is online and available here

APCUG Reports Q3 is online and available here

Effectively immediately, the APCUG mailing address is P O Box 671294, Dallas, Tx 75367-1294.

"What is shadyville.com and why is there a $1000 charge on my credit card!?" It is both frightening and frustrating when you see charges on a credit card for purchases that you never made.

Click here to download a free E-Book called "SCARED SAFE: Life's Little Identity Theft Prevention Handbook".

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The Microsoft Mindshare program's new website http://www.mindshare.codezone.com/ is now online. Check it out.

APCUG Reports Q2 is online and available here

Join us the weekend of May 16th, 17th and 18th, 2008 for the Membership & Leadership Development Conference in West Nyack NY, 30 miles north of New York City. Check the http://ldc.apcug.org/ website and the flyer for more details.

APCUG Board Members, and anyone else with an APCUG Email Address: instructions for using APCUG Email have changed. Read this PDF file. You may get a Unable to verify message when you first connect to the secure server. Just tell it to accept the certificate permanently. Email for both apcug.org and apcug.net will be handled the same, but currently we list apcug.net addresses, so you may not want to publicize the apcug.org address until we can explain things to the membership.

The APCUG.NET Site is now on a new server. If you experience any problems, please email dsingleton@apcug.net, and identify the URL of the page with the error.

APCUG Reports Q1 is online and available here

Here is contact information on the vendors from the 2008 Annual Convention.

Click here for the Presentation Files from the Educational Sessions at the APCUG 2008 Annual Convention. More will be added when we get them.

• Jerry Award for Community Service Projects
• Newsletter Contest
• Photo Contest
• Website Contest

The 2008 APCUG Convention closes today. APCUG wants to thank all of the vendor sponsors that made the event the success it was:

• Gold Sponsors
  • AMD Corporation
  • Corel Corporation
  • Microsoft Corporation
• Vendor Fair
  • Acoustica Software, Inc.
  • Ai Squared, Inc.
  • Andy Marken Communications
  • Pinnacle Systems
  • Raxco Software, Inc.
  • Reallusion
  • Roxio
  • Smart Computing, Inc.
  • TechSmith, Inc.
  • Trend Micro
  • User Group Relations
• Welcome Bag, Tech Session, Other
  • Alpha Software, Inc.
  • Culminis, Inc.
  • D-Link Corporation
  • Firetrust Limited
  • Laplink Software Inc.
  • O'Reilly Publishing
  • PeachPit Press
  • Sugar Games, Inc.
  • Verbatim Americas, LLC

Check back after January 15, and we expect to have the power point slide shows available from the Educational Sessions.

Be sure and check the schedule of Round Table & Tech Sessions because there are a lot of excellent technical presentations. In addition, there are a number of round table discussions on user group management.

This year's Welcome Bag is going to be full of lots and lots of goodies to the tune of $373 per attendee (or $74,600 total for the Welcome Bag) and more items are being added every day. Some of the goodies are full-version copies of Alpha 5 database, Mailwasher Pro, Rainbow Mystery game, plus a copy Smart Computing, a book from O'Reilly, and Dwight Silverman's book on Vista from PeachPit. BTW, Mailwasher Pro is the only software package where you purchase it once and get free updates for life.

This year there is an absolute bonanza of raffle prizes, thanks to APCUG many generous sponsors. If you or your friends have not registered yet, then now is the time. This is going to be one of the best APCUG conventions ever and an event NOT to be missed. Come join the fun.

You will want to see Dan Goldstein's presentation from Acoustica at the 2008 Annual Convention

So far, 2008 Annual Convention sponsors have donated a total of $12,800 for either full version software or books, which will be included in the Welcome Bag. That is the equivalent of $64 in goodies for every convention attendee.

So, if you have not registered to attend the convention, now is the time to join the fun.

Click here for information on the Companion Program, a.k.a. the Spouses Program, for the 2008 Annual Convention.

An email starting this year's election process was sent to the President and APCUG Rep of each User Group. A group may only vote once, and they have until midnight November 30 to complete the balloting.

APCUG Convention Standard Registration pricing ends November 30, 2007.

The APCUG 2008 Convention Registration Packet was emailed and snail-mailed to User Groups. Click here for a preview.

Five days till 11/1 when Early Bird Registration ends.

The Websites, Newsletters, Digital Photos and Jerry Award entry period closed midnight PST, October 15th. I hope you got your entries in on time. Note that you only have two weeks to register for the Annual Convention at the Early Bird rate.

So far we have received 37 entries for the 2007 Website Contest, 17 entries for the 2007 Newsletter Contest, 18 entries for the 2007 Photo Contest, and 4 entries for the 2007 Jerry Award Competition. All will accept entries until October 15.

As this article in Reports indicated, if you want to run for the APCUG BoD or BoA, you need to email election07@apcug.net by October 15 to let us know you would like to run.

Amador Computer User Group won 3rd place and $500 for their project refurbushing computers to donate to the public in need of a working computer system, who don't have the ability to pay for a new system.

Click here for all the Jerry Awards Winners 2006

NVPCUG was founded in 1982 by a small group of people who wanted to share their experiences using personal computers. Some of the founding members are still active in the group. The NVPCUG incorporated as a publicly funded non-profit community benefit and educational corporation in 2002. NVPCUG's primary goal is to share information and experience in using personal computers in an effort to help others to understand and get the best use of a personal computer.

So far we have received 37 entries for the 2007 Website Contest, 13 entries for the 2007 Newsletter Contest, 13 entries for the 2007 Photo Contest, and 3 entries for the 2007 Jerry Award Competition. All will accept entries until October 15.

APCUG Reports issue Q4 has been sent to the printer, and it is now available online here.

Click here to see the 2008 APCUG Event Schedule. Click here to register for the Convention.

So far we have received 9 entries for the 2007 Website Contest, 6 entries for the 2007 Newsletter Contest, ? entries for the 2007 Photo Contest, and 0 entries for the 2007 Jerry Award Competition. All will accept entries until October 15.

Click here to register for the 2008 Annual Convention.

Click here for info on the FACUG Fall Conference, Orlando, Florida on October 6, 2007

Click here for info on the Chicago Computer Society"s Sixth Annual Mini-Expo Technology For Fun. Saturday, September 15, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The 2007 Website Contest, 2007 Newsletter Contest, 2007 Photo Contest, and 2007 Jerry Award Competition are open. They will accept entries until October 15.

Capital PC User Group won 2nd place and $1000 for their project DCRobotics, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of CPCUG, helps inner city youth by starting and supporting Robotics Clubs, and helps them enter robotics competitions such as the FIRST Robotics Competitions. (FRC) Students can be motivated to learn about computers, math, and science through their interest in robotics and competitions. The robotics competitions use math, computing, engineering, and science skills, but are run like sports events and are exciting entertainment.

Click here for all the Jerry Awards Winners 2006

Founded in 1984, the Atlanta Macintosh Users Group is made up of many members, AMUG consists of Macintosh enthusiasts from a variety of backgrounds: artists, technicians, programmers, designers, consultants, publishers, accountants--users of a variety of Macintosh types and software! This diverse gathering provides a unique resource for Macintosh information, creativity and education.

A special e-mail was sent to the President, Vice President, Director, APCUG Representative, Newsletter Editor, Webmaster, Membership and Program Chairs of each APCUG-member User Group regarding the launch 2007 APCUG Newsletter, Web, Digital Photo Contests and Jerry Awards competition beginning September 1, 2007.

APCUG Reports issue Q3 has been sent to the printer, and it is now available online here. It contains articles on How to Publicize Your Group & Recruit for New Members, good Community Service Ideas, information on contests that will be run later this year, and the first information on plans for the APCUG 2008 Convention at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The issue contains regional reports from seven regions. See what is happening in other User Groups around the world.

The User Group spotlight is shining on Orange County IBM PC Users' Group Among the handy links you will find when you visit their award-winning Website are links to Fantastic Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom, and Photography sites as well as over 30 links to sites for computer users.

The North Texas PC Users Group, Inc. (NTPCUG) won 1st Place in the Ongoing Community Service Project category of the 2 006 Jerry Award contest. refurbishes computers for the blind and visually impaired. This project is publicized on NTPCUG’s website, www.ntpcug.org, and periodically, there are also newspaper articles.

Click here for all the Jerry Awards Winners 2006

APCUG Reports issue Q2 has been sent to the printer, and it is now available online here. It contains a number of very good articles on how to publicize your user group. People need to know you exist and how to find you, before they will be able to join you. And we wish a very happy 25th birthday to a number of groups. The issue contains regional reports from five regions. See what is happening in other User Groups around the world.

APCUG Reports issue Q1 has been sent to the printer, and it is now available online here. APCUGs Annual Conference is over, and we have the winners of the Digital Photo Contest, the winners of the Jerry Award Competition, and information on next years competition, together with some of the winning groups' writeups on. We also have some reports on the conference.