MUG News: Apple reps appearing at MUG meetings, more
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 27, 2005 at 8:39am
Apple is out in force around the globe with three different appearances at Mac User Group meetings. You can read the details here at The MUG Center, an online resource for user groups.
° The editors of Macsimum News, The Mac Observer and MacCentral have joined the User Group Report for the first “Mac News Braintrust” roundtable discussion. They’re, respectively, Dennis Sellers, Bryan Chaffin and Jim Dalrymple and they discuss the Apple-Intel announcement, the trend of podcasting and more.The User Group Report is available for online listening, as a podcast and as a downloadable MP3 file here.
° The approaching end of the month means that there are user group offers expiring next week. MUG members only have a few days left to save money on user group-only offers from. Details can be found here.
° There are times when you’re on the road that having more than one Mac would be a great benefit. Cost and weight make that impractical in most cases. But you can do the next best thing: multiply your mobile Mac. Here’s how.
° User group leaders do what they do for a variety of reasons. Fun, friendship and the desire to help others and the opportunity to educate top the list. One way some groups reward their leaders is with free dues, while others believe that the leadership should share in the funding of the group. Do your officers or leaders pay dues to your group? Fill out the latest MUG Center survey.
° Nicholas Pyers, an avid Mac user, generates a Mac-focused puzzle or crossword each month for Mac fans. You can find the latest ones here.
° The recently circulated Apple User Group Bulletin announced six new offers exclusively for Mac user group members.
MUGs are good places for making new friends in the Mac community, improving your computing skills, finding solutions to technical problems, and perhaps locating a good deal on used hardware. For more info on MUGs, and to find the location of the one nearest you, go to Apple’s MUG page.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
