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Track 1 | Track 2 |
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| 1:00pm - 1:50pm | 12 noon - 12:50pm | 11:00am - 11:50am | 10:00am - 10:50am |
Sun Feb 26 5:00am - 5:50am |
Francis Chao Using Virtualization of Hardware to Save Money, Time, and Space |
Hank Feinberg VoIP (Voice over IP via the Internet) |
| 2:00pm - 2:50pm | 1:00pm - 1:50pm | 12 noon - 12:50pm | 11:00am - 11:50am |
Sun Feb 26 6:00am - 6:50am |
Brainstorming Session Presidents, Program Chairmen, etc. |
Nothing |
| 3:00pm - 3:50pm | 2:00pm - 2:50pm | 1:00pm - 1:50pm | 12 noon - 12:50pm |
Sun Feb 26 7:00am - 7:50am |
Jere Minich How to save money on INK |
Gene Barlow Backup and Synchronization |
| 4:00pm - 4:50pm | 3:00pm - 3:50pm | 2:00pm - 2:50pm | 1:00pm - 1:50pm |
Sun Feb 26 8:00am - 8:50am |
Brainstorming Session Editors, WebMasters, etc. |
Nothing |
| 5:00pm - 5:50pm | 4:00pm - 4:50pm | 3:00pm - 3:50pm | 2:00pm - 2:50pm |
Sun Feb 26 9:00am - 9:50am |
Jim Evans Are You Over-Exposed on Facebook? |
Abby Stokes Navigate the Ever Changing Landscape of Technology |
| You are free to attend any session you want, and some sessions may have some beginner, intermediate, and even advanced material, but these colors represent what we think the main focus of the presentations will be | For Everyone | For Beginners | ||||
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Attendees will be able to join the webinar rooms up to 20 minutes before the session starts.
If you are to be a presenter we will need any PowerPoint presentations, polls, etc that you need uploaded, and even presenters are asked to register as Attendees, and one of the APCUG Board Members will "Give You the Floor" during your presentation. Last time we tried registering presenters as assistants, but we had problems because there is a limitation on the number of assistants that can be logged on at any one time. If you need to practice we can set you up as an assistant prior to the day of the event, but we will need to remove that designation on the day of the event to avoid the problems we had with the First Virtual Conference.
At a virtual conference you don't have the face-to-face networking experience you have at a physical conference but in the virtual conference we are going to have the same type of presentations you would attend at a physical conference, and you don't have the travel, hotel, and eating out expenses. You sleep in your own bed, and eat food you cook in your own kitchen.
We held our first Virtual Conference on November 12, and circulated a survey among the attendees to see when to hold the next one. The results of that survey are available at http://apcug.net/virtual/feb25/when.pdf.
Virtual Conference 2 will be on Saturday, February 25, 2012, and will run from 1:00pm-6:00pm Eastern time, 12:00pm-5:00pm Central time, 11:00am-4:00pm Mountain time, and 10:00am-3:00pm Pacific time.
The Virtual Conference will have two "Tracks," or two "Conference Rooms," so you will have a choice of two presentations you can attend at any time. You can pick one of those presentations and "go to that room" and watch and listen to a 45- to 50-minute presentation and ask questions of the speaker by typing your questions into a "public chat area." The presenter may respond to questions during his/her presentation or he/she may choose to wait until the end of the presentation. At the end of the presentation you will have 10 or 15 minutes before the next event starts. You can take a bathroom break, get a cold drink or cup of coffee from your own kitchen, and then return to your computer to watch the next presentation in that track. If a presentation in the other track interests you more, you can close your current connection and click on the link for the other "Conference Room" and reconnect to iLinc in that webinar session.
The Virtual Conference will also have Brainstorming sessions, which are always in Track 1. They will involve a short presentation on something of interest to User Group officers, and then we will invite each attendee to unmute their microphones and participate in the discussion.
Ideally every attendee should use a headset with attached microphone, but iLinc has the capability to check a box to indicate your microphone and speakers are separate, and you keep your mike muted except when you want to speak, unmute to speak, and then mute again to listen. Regardless of which you use, it is a good idea to test it with iLinc ahead of time, so we will have a test webinar the previous week, on Saturday, February 18, from 3:00pm-5:00pm Eastern time, 2:00pm-4:00pm Central time, 1:00pm-3:00pm Mountain time, and 12:00pm-2:00pm Pacific time.
Cyberspace is growing more important in the world of technology and we hope you join us in this innovative adventure.