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If you find value in what The MUG Center delivers, please consider making a donation so we can continue to deliver it.
Thank you!
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Macworld Expo San Francisco 2004: User Group Lounge
Macworld Expo and The Apple User Group Advisory Board present the User Group Lounge (UGL), the place to get up close and personal with the people who make the Macintosh community exciting and dynamic. A diverse roster of well-known columnists, authors, magazine publishers, community leaders and Macintosh personalities meet with Mac enthusiasts in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. This is your chance to get to know the decision makers on a first-name basis. While there, locate your local Macintosh user group and find out why you should be involved.
The UGL will be located in Room 250/262, West Mezzanine in the South Hall, one level above the show floor. The Lounge will be open during show floor hours, and will feature a wide variety of events and speakers. Please check the schedule below on a regular basis.
Thanks to IDG/World Expo for donating the space for the User Group Lounge!
Thanks to The North Coast Macintosh Users Group for acting as the host group for the User Group Lounge!
The room will be hosted by volunteers from the user group community. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
Tuesday, January 6
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Warren Williams
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Cathy Merritt
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With more than 15,000 members in the United States and 51 other countries, the AppleWorks Users Group (AWUG) is the world's largest computer user organization. AWUG publishes the AppleWorks Journal and provides other support services for AppleWorks.
Warren Williams, the President of the AppleWorks Users Group, is a Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Williams has written more than 500 articles published in psychological journals and technology magazines and newsletters.
Cathleen Merritt, the Director of the AppleWorks Users Group, holds Masters degrees in Education and Educational Technology. Ms. Merritt, who manages AWUG's daily operations, has published more than 350 articles in educational technology magazines and newsletters.
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Christopher Breen
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Join Chris as he talks about his "911" column in Macworld and how user groups can take advantage of it for their newsletters, his "Breen's Bungalow," User Group Edition, offers more tips and tricks than anywhere else, and more.
(Chris is also presenting Secrets of iPod Revealed and The iPod Supersession on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Maintaining Your Group's Web Site With Little Or No Help
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Sure, everybody in your MUG wants to be involved in the website -- until it's time to do the actual work. Join RandomMaccess Publisher Chuck La Tournous in a lively discussion on creating and maintaining your group's website even when your entire web team consists of...well, you.
Chuck La Tournous is the publisher of RandomMaccess.com, a popular Mac-oriented news and opinion site, and has been using and writing about Macs since the late Jurassic period. He's the former webmaster for the New Jersey MUG site, and plays bass with the Macworld All-Star Band.
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Wednesday, January 7
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Game Guru
Peter Cohen
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Peter is senior editor for MacCentral, the popular online Macintosh news site, where he writes, edits and posts a lot of the info that hordes of Mac users around the world depend on to get their daily Mac news fix. Cohen writes the Game Room column for Macworld magazine, and he's also a weekly guest on Your Mac Life, the Internet radio show, where talks about the latest news from the Macintosh gaming front. When he's not otherwise indisposed, Cohen's can usually be found online, blasting the heck out of unsuspecting PC gamers -- especially the stupid ones who think Macs aren't good for games.
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Youth/Campus Group Session
hosted by
A younger generation of Apple enthusiasts are now joining the user group community and creating campus groups. This session will provide a forum to outline the basics of campus MUGs – the who/why/where/when and how. Although campus groups are becoming much more popular, the need to attract a younger membership pool in local community MUGs is important. This session will also outline some tips about how to attract a younger crowd to User Groups, and how to keep them involved and active. Take this opportunity to discover what younger members mean to the future of user groups worldwide, and how it can affect your local MUG.
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Jim Dalrymple
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Jim Dalrymple is Editor Online at MacCentral and Macworld.com, and manages the daily content of the site and acts as a liaison between MacCentral and the global Macintosh industry including Apple, Microsoft and many others. Jim resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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David Pogue
Personal-Technology Columnist
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David Pogue, Yale '85, became the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times in November 2000, after having written ten years' worth of the triple award-winning Desktop Critic column for Macworld magazine.
With over 2.5 million books in print, Pogue is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, having written or co-written six books in the "for Dummies" series (Macs, iMacs, iBooks, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), along with the Computer Press Association award-winning "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide," several computer-humor books, and a technothriller, "Hard Drive" (a New York Times "notable book of the year").
In 2000, Pogue joined forces with O'Reilly & Associates to launch the Missing Manual series, whose subjects so far include Dreamweaver 4, Mac OS 9, iMovie, AppleWorks 6, Windows Me, Windows 2000,Office 2001, and iMovie 2. He and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their young son and daughter.
(David is also presenting Making iMovies with David Pogue, Panther Secrets, and Macworld Conference and Expo 2004 Wrap Up Session on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is currently an editor for MacMinute following an eight-year stint at MacCentral. Prior to his online affiliations, he was a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). During his varied communications career, he's had over 3,000 magazine and newspaper articles published. I've written about comics (for Comic Book Heroes), fitness (Muscular Development), photography (Rangefinder, Digital Camera Magazine), education (for Journal Communications in Brentwood, TN), and a wide range of other subjects.
For two years he wrote character development material for children in grades K-4 as part of the Project Solution collaboration between The Tennessean newspaper and the Nashville school system. His degrees include a B.S. in communications (with an English minor), a M.Ed in special education, as well as a Tennessee teaching certificate. s include a B.S. in communications (with an English minor) and a M.Ed in special education, as well as a Tennessee teaching certificate.
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Thursday, January 8
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Adam Engst
Publisher
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Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to hundreds of thousands of readers. He has written and co-authored numerous Internet books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series and, most recently, iPhoto 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide and The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, Second Edition. He has also written for many magazines, including Macworld, where he is currently a Contributing Editor. Most recently, he and co-publisher Tonya Engst have launched the innovative Take Control electronic book series, with a number of Panther-related titles already available from leading authors.
Adam's indefatigable support of the Macintosh community has resulted in numerous awards and recognition. In the annual MDJ Power 25 survey of industry insiders, he regularly ranks as the most influential person in the Macintosh industry outside of Apple, and he was named one of MacDirectory's top ten visionaries. And how many industry figures can boast of being turned into an action figure?
(Adam is also presenting Getting Started with iPhoto on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Jason Snell
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Presenting Panther: Cool Demo Tips and Tricks
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Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" contains over 150 amazing new features such as Exposé, Fast User Switching, iChat AV, Font Book, FileVault, Preview and Mail. Discover some of the cool, behind-the-scenes tips and tricks to setting up and presenting effective, eye-catching Panther demonstrations to your Macintosh User Group, while avoiding some of the common pitfalls that can occur. Be prepared for an exciting show!
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Derrick Story
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Derrick Story is the managing editor for O'Reilly Network and the Mac DevCenter, which he created in Dec. 2000 for O'Reilly & Associates. His focus is Mac OS X, digital media, and mobile computing.
Derrick's professional experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, former managing editor of Web Review, and a speaker for O'Reilly, CMP, and IDG conferences. His "Mastering Digital Photography" tutorial will be a part of this year's Macworld SF conference. Derrick authored the Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition and the Digit al Video Pocket Guide (O'Reilly), and coauthored iPhoto 2: the Missing Manual (O'Reilly/Pogue Press).
He also manages his online photo business, Story Photography, which specializes in digital journalism and special events.
(Derrick is also presenting Mastering Ditigal Photography and Movie Making with the Apple iSight on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Deals and New Products
Dan de Grandpre
Editor-In-Chief
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Looking for news on all the product announcements at Macworld Expo? Looking for the best deals? Looking for both? This is the session for you. Come see what catches the eye of the people who run one of the hottest sites on the Mac web.
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Friday, January 9
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"Dr. Mac"
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Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the Macintosh and its operating systems. A prolific author, he has written 45 popular computer books, selling millions worldwide. His most recent offerings include Mac OS X For Dummies: Panther Edition, Dr. Mac: The OS X Files: Panther Edition (or, How to Become a Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Power User,) The Little iTunes Book: 3d Edition, and The Little iDVD Book: 2nd Edition.
He’s known for his expertise, trademark humorous style, and ability to translate ?techie? jargon into usable and fun advice for regular folks.
Always a popular speaker at computer user groups and trade shows, Bob won the Macworld Expo MacJeopardy World Championship three times before retiring his crown.
(Bob is also presenting Getting Comfortable with Mac OS X Panther and How to Become an OS X 10.3 Panther Power User Without Really Trying on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Tom Negrino is a bestselling book author and contributing editor for Macworld magazine. His latest books are Macromedia Contribute 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide2 (Peachpit Press); Microsoft Office v. X Inside Out (Microsoft Press) and Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly, with Dori Smith). Tom is a frequent speaker at Macworld Expo and other computer trade shows. He currently lives in Northern California's wine country with his wife and son.
Dori Smith is co-author of JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th Edition, author of Java 2 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, she is on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project, as well as Publisher and ListMom for the Wise-Women's Web organization.
(Dori is also presenting Web Design and Delivery - Day 1 and Web Design and Delivery - Day 2 on the Macworld Conference track.)
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Columnist for
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