Survey: APCUG Member Survey

2) What is the email address of the person submitting this survey?

3) What is the name of the person submitting this survey?

4) Name your state or province (if in US, Canada, Australia). State your country for other locations.

5) What is your primary position in your user group

6) For how many years has your group been in operation in its current identity?

7) What is the size of your group today? (number of members)

8) What was the size of your group one year ago?

9) Approximately, how many people attend your main meeting?

10) Approximately, how many people attended your main meeting one year ago?

11) What was the highest attendance figure at your monthly meeting in the last 12 months?

12) What was the lowest attendance figure at your monthly meeting in the last 12 months?

13) Over the past 12 months, has the NUMBER of Special Interest Groups

14) Over the past 12 months, has ATTENDANCE at Special Interest Groups

15) Name one major reason for the change in activity or size.

16) What is the scope of your user group (Check all that apply)

17) Does your group have its own premises (rented or owned)?

18) What kind of PAID staff does your group employ? (Check all that apply)

19) Does your group offer training courses?

20) In addition to dues, list the ways your group raises funds to operate. (Check all that apply)

21) Does your group run a conventional bulletin board system (BBS) (Not a Web page with a messaging script)?

22) Over the past 12 months, has BBS usage among your members

23) Does your group offer an Internet Service?

24) Who runs your Internet service?

25) Does your group have a Web site? If yes, please supply its address in the Comments field.

26) Does your group publish its newsletter on the Web? If yes, please supply the newsletter's address in the Comments field.

27) How valuable did your officials find regional user group meetings? Amplify in the Comments field.

28) If a regional meeting were held in or near your home town, would anyone from your leadership attend?

29) Describe your group's community service program. (Check all that apply) Amplify in Comments field.

30) Number of years an APCUG member? (Enter zero if not a member)

31) How would you describe the result of your group's participation in APCUG?

32) The mission of the APCUG Board of User Group Advisors (BoDA) is to act as a communication channel between the member group and APCUG. How would you describe the communications between your group and the BoDA?

33) APCUG Reports

34) Vendor labels

35) User group locator

36) UG Common Database

37) Vendor database

38) APCUGbbs messaging

39) APCUGbbs newsletter files

40) UG Mailing Lists

41) Usenet UG newsgroups

42) APCUG web site

43) Spring Event roundtables

44) Spring Event vendor events

45) Comdex Fall roundtables

46) Comdex Fall vendor events

47) Free web space at the APCUG Tulsa server

48) APCUG Reports

49) Vendor labels

50) User group locator

51) UG Common Database

52) Vendor database

53) APCUGbbs messaging

54) APCUGbbs newsletter files

55) UG Mailing Lists

56) Usenet UG newsgroups

57) APCUG web site

58) Spring Event roundtables

59) Spring Event vendor events

60) Comdex Fall roundtables

61) Comdex Fall vendor events

62) Free web space at the APCUG Tulsa server

63) How can we improve APCUG's existing services to user groups?

64) Is there some new activity or service that APCUG can offer user groups?

65) APCUG Reports is published quarterly in January, April, July and October. This is

66) How would you prefer Reports to be delivered? (Check all that apply)

67) What kinds of information do you want to see in Reports? (Check all that apply)

68) What are your comments about the APCUG web site at www.apcug.org?

69) What are your comments about the APCUG BBS at bbs.apcug.org?

70) Which venues do you prefer to attend user group roundtables? (Check all that apply)

71) Check all the reasons why you attend the Spring or Fall APCUG events (Skip question if you do not attend)?