Welcome

Chuck Joiner	Sandy Foderick	Lesa Snider	Elsa Travisano

Terry White, User Group President of MacGroup Detroit, Technical Resources Manager and demo guru for Adobe Systems, will share with UGLC attendees tips and tricks on how to make their websites standout from the rest and help drive new membership.

Gather years of expertise on growing lasting professional relationships from Gary Adcock, founder of the Chicago Final Cut Pro User Group. Learn the basics of getting along with people and discover how small tokens of appreciation go a long, long way toward solidifying these mutually beneficial ties. Plus, learn valuable tips and tricks on how to promote your group through other business organizations.

Every user group leader should be training successors to currently-held positions. This session will explore various facets of group administration including how to determine how many board members are needed, how to prevent volunteer burnout, how to prevent tensions among board members, how to maintain good communication among board members, and where to find needed training. Pat will share her recent successes in revitalizing the Washington Apple Pi Board of Directors by discussing information gleaned from user group discussion lists, and she will invite attendees to talk about their successes and failures.

Producing a CD for your group can be both a useful marketing tool, a money maker for your group and a terrific member benefit. Lesa will show you how easy it can be, what kind of content should be included, how to get vendors involved and more.

Just as no one can whistle a symphony for a whole orchestra, User Groups can have a "greater sound" when they work together. Hear how a pair of MUGs in upstate New York, one a young campus group and the other an experienced community group, have joined forces to help each other. One benefited with a broader audience and increased fundraising potential, while the other has access to young, talented members. Here is an opportunity to learn how highly motivated members forged this new relationship and to hear their continued plans for the future. By forming ties with another group, even if they aren't just like yours, you too can add new energy and ideas to your local groups.

Whether it is buying a new PowerBook for demonstrations, a new projector to show off those demonstrations, securing a quality meeting place or any one of a thousand other reasons, user groups need funding. In this session, two experienced MUG leaders will tell you about how groups, large and small, can raise money, have fun, and benefit their memberships, all at the same time.

In addition to his many MUG shows, Dave Marra is also very active presenting to some of the largest Windows/PC user groups in the U.S. and Canada. Discover some of the unique strategies and methods he uses when working with these diverse and often anti-Mac audiences. With solutions like Mac OS X, QuickTime 6 and Virtual PC, it has never been easier to attract Windows users. By welcoming Windows users and showing them how easy it is to "switch" to the Mac, Macintosh User Groups can make new friends and, most importantly, gain new members.

Apple User Group Leaders face a variety of challenges during their career. Finding and motivating volunteers, generating funding, publicity, managing personality conflicts, finding meeting spaces, creating and maintaining strategic relationships, and many more are common experiences of UG leadership. In this workshop, everyone gets involved in answering the question that will inevitably get asked at your next group meeting or Board meeting: