BGAMUG - The Bowling Green Area Microcomputer User's Group is the Bowling Green Computer Club

Hi all! And welcome to the BGAMUG Computer Club Blog.

I am making a quick posting today to catch everyone up on events and upcoming meetings of the BGAMUG Computer Club here in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

We welcome new members and visitors to our next meeting, which is June 28th at 6:30. We meet at Bowling Green Technical College, which is located at 1845 Loop Street, Building F.

The BGAMUG Computer Club is based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and has members from all over.

The club has informative talks, plans fun events, and has door prizes at the meeting too. (That is one of my favorite parts of the meeting!)

I have learned a lot by being in the BGAMUG Computer Club. I have also made some great friends there. The BGAMUG club is open to computer users of all ages.

BGAMUG also helps needy people obtain computers and help with other computer-related service projects.

Do you want to learn more about your computer or how to run programs, and keep up to date? You can be a computer beginner or an expert, it doesn't matter. Join us! We would love to have you in our group.

To find out more, visit:

The BGAMUG website, and
BGAMUG on Facebook

E. Sheppard
Webmaster
The BGAMUG Computer Club

Have a book, disk, or computer something to share?

We are starting to bring things from home to share with other BGAMUG club members. If you have something you are willing to share with another member, bring it to the meeting next time.

You can also bring a card to go with it so the person borrowing it can jot down their name and info.

This is a good way to still have a library in the club, and not burden somebody with lugging it in and out every meeting.

Questions? Just ask about this at the meeting. Our next meeting is on April 27th, which is the fourth Tuesday of next month. Come one, come all! Guests are very welcome.

The APCUG site and some neat things it offers for our group!

I found the APCUG site today and definitely think it could be useful for BGAMUG. I bet some of the members are already using it for ideas and articles.

Here is the site and a short description of what I found today. I am sure there are other neat resources here, too:

APCUG - http://www.apcug.net/ We belong to this group. It is the Association of Personal Computer Groups. They are mostly talking about the Phoenix Regional meeting they had in February. They feature their latest  Jerry Awards here. Plus they have help for their Member User Groups here, like articles, computer tips, articles about communications, and a link to a site called Dave's Bytes, which is not being updated right now. Maybe he is too busy with his radio show, which scrolls around the top of the page.

(from the site) Here are the articles they offer about Communication:

A Journey Into the World of Logo Designing

Guenter Schott

Newsletter Submission Guidelines

Guenter Schott

Design and Layout of a Newsletter

Linda Gonse

Design and Layout of a Newsletter

Guenter Schott

Editor's Job Description

Fallbrook PC User's Group

How to Fill Your Newsletter

John Weersing

The Ethical Art of Editing

Alan Zeichick

The Fine Art of Editing

Esther Schindler

How to Write a Press Release

Ken Fermoyle

Anatomy of a Press Release

Ken Fermoyle

What Graphic File Extension to Use

Clarke Bird

Are Legal and Ethical Questions Being Ignored?

Ken Fermoyle

8 Things to Know About Building a Website

Linda Gonse

PR Tips

Ken Fermoyle

Inside Secrets of Free Publicity

Ken Fermoyle"

They also have ideas for fundraising and How to Grow Your Membership, among other things.

It is definitely a great resource. Please leave a comment on things you find here, or other things to post here on the BGAMUG Club Blog.

Also, if you want to write an occasional article here, please email me or leave a comment. The more editors and writers, the better!

Get Connected: BGAMUG members can now join the BGAMUG forum, more

Get Connected!

BGAMUG members, you can now join the BGAMUG forum here:

The BGAMUG Forum Group

Just sign up, and I will OK your membership asap.

The site will be updated and made better in the next few weeks. After your OK, you will be able to post photos, email to other group members, make a profile, and more. This will be a private group (members only).

Also, please join the Facebook group here: BGAMUG Facebook group. This is a public group.

Scroll down here on the blog and click the "Follow with Google Friend Connect" area. It is on the right.  That way, you will get all the notices from the blog.

The BGAMUG blog can be used by all members. If you are not already on the blog as a poster, I can add you.

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The meeting went great

The meeting went great with Greg Ericksen at the International Center today. We talked about donating computers to the group and even possibly making a nice computer lab for the refugees there.

I didn't take pictures, but will upload some here soon. For now I will put a generic picture on the posting. Something nice.

We took a look around and saw the tentative choices for the computer room(s) and storage room(s).

Up next: a visit to Abel Court to see how they are set up. I will keep you posted about this.

Where did this photo come from? I downloaded it from Morguefile.com. You can use any of these pictures you want there without worrying about copyright. They have a Creative Commons license that says

morgueFile free photo

You are allowed to copy, distribute, transmit the work and to adapt the work. Attribution is not required. You are prohibited from using this work in a stand alone manner. 

About the photographer

Other BGAMUG links:

Go to the BGAMUG website

Join BGAMUG on Facebook

(to come) the BGAMUG Members Only area

Trip to the International Center is tomorrow

Two club members (Joe Easterling and I) are going to the International Center tomorrow to talk to the Educational Director, Greg Ericksen, about possibly furnishing computers for the refugees there. We will see what their needs are.

We will check out what rooms are available and also go outside and see what kind of storage they might have.

I will post some pictures here after we go.

B. Sheppard