|
User Group Network
/ UG Network
/ UG Help Files
/ UG Leaders most frequent topics
 User Group Help Files
UGNN talks to User Group leaders:
|
We asked user group leaders:
|
"What are the
most important topics UG officers want to talk about?" |
Management
- Building the ideal UG, what benefits to offer, getting members involved.
- Do we need Non-profit status?
- Incorporation and tax exempt status... is it worth it?
- How to get Tax Free Status with a minimum of hassle
- Accounting for 501(c)3s. Programs ratios
- Insurance, what does a UG need, and where to get it.
Membership
- What the membership does or doesn't want to hear at meetings..
- How to build membership using special deals
- The Membership Card... Pros/Cons
- Working with Multi-platform Groups!
- Perks for Volunteers for Pennys
Fundraising
- User group's role with respect to hardware Mfgs
- Getting advertisersfor newsletters
- Getting corporate sponsors for newsletters
- How to keep manufacturers interested in supporting UGs
- How to secure grants and donations....
- User group support from companies
- Advertising methods - Selling ads in newsletter
- Yard Sales, auctions and swap-meets
Marketing & Community Outreach
- Marketing your UG
- Promoting UG effectively; on a budget, with volunteers only.
- Special UG Promotions
- Public Service Ideas for Non-Profit Mac Groups
- Newsletter Topics & Formats
- Electronic Newsletters
- How to make holiday cards pay off.
- Mentoring Programs in the group and community
- Training, and Education programs
- Community "Tech" support programs
- Working with Dealers as promotion vehicles
Meetings
- SIGS - starting and running, tips.
- Building an effective User Group meeting"
- Alternative Meetings
- Organizing Field Trips for Meetings
- Bringing In Experts for Demos
- Getting & Coordinating speaker visits
- Sharing meetings between multiple groups
- Public meetings
- How to run a really good swap meet.
- Good presentations (getting equipment. buy vs rent?)
- How to get a projector
- LCD displays and overhead projection equipment
- Internal presentations
- Hosting multi-platform topics ("Claris", etc.)
Instruction and Education
- Education & Training: what are groups doing?
- Helping members who are not on campus access to internet via Mac?
- Organized Classes - What training material available and such.
- How to do training classes for members and the public/teachers/dealers.
Hardware/Software
- PD/Shareware Library
- Which hardware to get for Large meetings
- Developing productive relationships with vendors
- Vendors who are willing to supply review copies of software
- Software: How and where to get it..(appropriate, ethical, etc.)
- Beta testing- What's involved- How to get into it- Who should try.
- Lightning and power protection
- The future of CD-Rom.
- How to install and use system 8
- The new operating systems: BE and others
- Digital Video, Quicktime 2.0, MPEG
- QuickDraw GX
BBS Internet WEB
- Getting your group on the web
- Member Pages? Do we support them?
- Easy management of the web site
- Perks for Sysops and webmasters
- Setting up a BBS on peanuts
- BBS systems - hardware, software considerations
- Connecting Club BBS to Internet.
- Networking State Wide
- FirstClass and other BBS alternatives!
All of those surveyed said growing membership and raising funds are the key issues
facing user groups.
You are invited to join in and contribute your UG management help ideas. Remember:
The help you get is equal to the help you give.
<- User Group Help Files
<- Post a LINK to
your current online Newsletter
<- Post information about your user
group events
-
* UGNN
NEWS _ *
InfoManager _
* Shareware
_ * Resources
* SUBSCRIBE
to UG TALK List _ *
UG Newsletter
The User Group Network
.
copyright 1994 - 2002, User Group Network: http://www.user-groups.net/
|