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The MUG Center Survey: What Benefits Does Your Group Offer to Members?
Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2005
Mac user groups offer a wide variety of benefits to their members. The mix of benefits varies, depending on the type of group, interests of the membership and resources available.

What benefits does your group offer to members
Response Percent
Response Total
In-person meetings
100%
103
Access to user group-only vendor offers
96%
99
Regularly published newsletter
94%
97
Email discussion list
57%
59
Regularly published resource CD or DVD
52%
54
Special interest groups (SIGs)
50%
51
Free raffle tickets
42%
43
Private section of web site or message board
41%
42
Lending library of books, videos or training materials
37%
38
Telephone help
27%
28
Total Respondents:
103

Comments:

  • Private section message board is operated via a FirstClass Server. Some of our SIGs offer free raffle tickets and last month to help celebrate our 25th birthday we had a prize draw of a 1GB iPod shuffle. We have on sale at least 5 different CDs and/or DVDs each month, with new titles been released every couple of months.

  • classroom with over 12 networked iMacs, overhead projection, and classes two evenings a week and some special classes on Sat.

  • Fundraising auction where members can bid on new and used software and hardware (donated by vendors and/or members) for personal purchase at discounts sometimes as steep as 80% off MSR. Monies raised support our scholarship program.

  • We do on-demand CD's. We dropped the regularly published version a couple years ago as so many members have DSL or broadband that it became a white elephant. We also are an ISP for members. Also, members are allowed limited access to an on-line membership database to make payments, change their password or update their address or phone number.

  • Members & guests get pizza and a drink each month.

  • we're wanting to get SIGs rolling

  • club has hardware to assist a new Mac owner in moving files from an older, non-Ethernet Mac, to their new machine and we loan this plus technical advice to members - club runs one-hour MacHelp session just prior to each of our monthly public meetings. MacHelp sessions are for members only.

  • classes for beginners every wensday a series of 8 rotating classes store that has cables mice DSL connection members can use in the office

  • Meetings at school, during lunchtime.




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