Announcing our next BGAMUG meeting: March 23 2010

Our next BGAMUG meeting is on Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

Who: All members and guests, plus visitors!
What: A fun meeting complete with door prizes, news, and information about computing.
When: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Where: The Bowling Green Technical College, Building F, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
How: Get there by car, carpool, bicycle, horse-drawn carriage, Star Trek-like transporter beam, foot, motorcycle, skateboard, mobi, or whatever floats your boat. (But hopefully a boat won't be needed..)

Just go to our website, BGAMUG.com, to find out more about our group, the Bowling Green Area Microcomputer User's Group.

We plan to have a presentation about Facebook, presented by Betsy (that's me) and Kathy Jill. I hope to see everyone there, plus loads of visitors.

Later!
-Betsyanne

Find out more:

The BGAMUG website
The BGAMUG Facebook page (for fans and members)

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!

BGAMUG meeting is tonight

Everyone in the BG area is invited to this January meeting of the BGAMUG Computer Club, also known as the Bowling Green Microcomputer User's Group.

We will have a special "Bringing up the Rear" award presentation, plus a presentation on Printing Better by Jerry Gillette.

Other highlights will include a Door Dollars drawing and a Smart Computing magazine door prize too.

Come one, come all! Visitors are very welcome.

Betsy Sheppard
Moderator
The BGAMUG Computer Club Blog

Other BGAMUG sites:

The BGAMUG website
BGAMUG on Facebook
The BGAMUG Members Only site