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63) How can we improve APCUG's existing services to user groups?
I think you do the best you can and provide a good service to the participating user groups.
Have an ongoing program to train APCUG Representatives. Immediatly add Reps to a listserv and keep in close contact.
no ideas
Offer more assistance to beginning user groups. When you are first starting out you know nothing. When a group joins APCUG it would be helpful to have someone contact the president or rep and offer a helping hand if needed. For three years we have belonged to APCUG and no one really understood that there were advisors who were supposed to be helpful to us. This year for the very first time, I received an email from a newly elected board of advisor member. At the time, I didn't have any questions, but it sure would have been nice to have heard from someone about a year ago. It would be helpful to know just exactly what APCUG offers. And better yet, how one goes about getting that help. I have attempted to find a guide for new user groups but there has always been some problem. Currently the link to the Microsoft site is very disappointing. The guide is being revised so there is nothing available. Sorry to be so wordy, but I feel the reason for declining membership in user groups is that the group doesn't offer the help that the user needs. This also holds true for user group membership in APCUG.
Keep the vendor database current
Would like to find out more about insurance for our users group
Support more reginal events
Gewt more word out about your services to the membership
Develop regional activties those of us in smaller groups cannot afford to travel to New York or Las Vegas to attend PC Expo or Fall Comdex.
Start holding events designed so that overworked (read - almost no free time)
UG leaders may attended without using up vacation time or large amounts of money
(most of us don;t have an employer who reimburses us for non-work
activities ... getting time off is sometimes impossible, usually just difficult).
Punt Comdex and other big shows ... Las Vegas, New York, Atlanta ...
the UG events may as well be on the moon for all the good they'll do me.
I can't say how valuable the above would be when I don't know anything about them. However, I am interested in learning more about APCUG. The club belongs but it has come up at the board meetings whether we should continue belonging. Since I am VP and will be President next year I would appreciate becoming more knowledgeable about APCUG.
The majority of our members are retirees and are not interested in money making projects, or getting too involved. They like to just sit back and listen to the speakers that we have, or find out an answer to their personal computer problems at our Q & A sessions, or attend a SIG meeting. We
have an editor for our monthly magazine that is doing an excellent job, and many join to receive the magazine. Our board members are a very excellent and caring group and because of them and the time they spend on the club we have a large membership. I have guessed at some of the questions above and after hearing and learning more about you would like to take this report again.
Barbara Reardon, 202 James St. E. Flat Rock, NC 28726 I'm enclosing my address in case you want to send anything via mail.
Bring in expertise outside the community of user groups. Don't expect user group newsletter editors to know everything about magazine layout; instead, bring in professionals who'll share their wisdom. I've been involved in APCUG for so long that I've extracted most of the wisdom that the active members have to share; despite my fondness for the people, not many have information I find useful anymore.
More vendor mailouts direct to editors! I never see a lot of the
stuff that arrives at our UG address.
sign-up online
Put our group in the UG Locator
Better coordination between user groups in our area
The best thing that has been started recently is the idea of presenting articles for publication in the club newsletter. This has helped the editor very much. Keep this up, Please.
Make them more aware of our services
Make sure that User Groups can offer their members discounts through vendors and other special programs. give the members extra reasons to join.
As a national organization I feel that APCUG shuld do things that the local club can't i.e.:the national ad campaign.
Support pop access
Use our membership base from all the groups that belong to Apcug as a tool or clout to receive special considerations and discounts from national chains such as CompUSA and others
Keep me abreast of anything going on. We are always looking for good speakers
Have a quick list of services that are available and method of access.
When there is a known discount from
vendors to the user groups on their soft
ware or services it should be published
someware on APCUG, & easy to find.
Programs like group Insurance, and instructional information on topics like filling for 501 status etc.
It would be really great to be able to distribute copies of APCUG Reports in PDF format to all officers! (If I give 'em my hard copy, I don't get it back!!!)
Support Macintosh at lower level
Sorry I have no ideas to mention here
Better Roundtables at Fall Comdex
Have a session at the fall APCUG to provide information on all of APCUG's services. Officers change and a regular updating is essential.
More distribution of information. Such as details of round tables to the people that can use it.
I've never heard of the"Vendor labels".
I think some national advertising on the advantages of user groups would assist us all!
Questions 33-47 above concern APCUG services. I would like to know more about any service that I checked "not at all" for, and I believe that other people who completed this survey would also like to know about those services that they indicated they do not know about.
Have more regionals.
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