UGN news UGN news
The Mid-Atlantic Apple & Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs) will become The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam).
The Mid-Atlantic Apple & Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs) will become The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam). The mission continues to be offering support to even more of those organizations that both want and need the assistance; however, the organization now includes developers, vendors, manufacturers, resellers and Apple retailers as well to help build more of the types of relationships that continue to be the foundation of the organization.
Randy Decker, Vice-President of The Mid-Atlantic Apple & Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs) stated today,
"As I'm sure you are aware, we had an outstanding year in 2004 with huge growth in membership." Growth that includes MUGs (Apple and Macintosh User Groups) throughout the U.S.A., the UK and The Philippines, the addition of Dennis Sellers (Macsimum News) to our board of directors, larger and expanded coverage from the Mac-media, new presentations, expanded remote iChat and LiveChannel video presentations and great support from "Preferred Provider" vendor programs. That being said, we are also listening to user group leaders and vendors about what they'd like from us and, without question, the focus of those comments thus far is on having more vendor support, technical support and group promotions. We are very happy to be able to respond to those wishes now."
Effective on March 1, 2005, and after more than a year of planning, The Mid-Atlantic Apple and Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs) will become The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam).
The mission continues to be offering support to even more of those organizations that both want and need the assistance; however, the organization now includes developers, vendors, manufacturers, resellers and Apple retailers as well to help build more of the types of relationships that continue to be the foundation of the organization.
The Apple Groups Team will focus on the things that so many of our members told us were the priorities for their user groups. Not group management or methods - there are some excellent resources already available for those needs - but they've asked for the product information, presentations and promotions that many companies simply cannot afford to provide. We are so proud of our successful relationships with some of the best developers, vendors, manufacturers and resellers that we want them to be more a part of our efforts than ever- especially since so many of them either started out in a user group or are actively involved with them already.
Our programs and offerings are in addition to those offered for MUGs by Apple and other fine user group organizations and, as mentioned, eventually may be considered as part of those offered through the User Groups Program at their discretion only, of course. TAGteam is not affiliated with Apple Computer, but we love Apple!
Like most user group members and leaders, everyone at The Apple Groups Team volunteers their time and energy to support user groups. As it has always been, all of our efforts, programs and, of course, memberships are 100% free of charge to everyone involved - including the user groups, the vendors, resellers, manufacturers, developers, etc.. We will continue to support and assist those groups with coordination of larger events, collective group meetings and conferences with our planning team and assistance as YOU feel it is appropriate.
For more information, contact: Jim Anderson, PR Officer
The Apple Groups Team
applegroups.org
Return to: the top of this page, or the INDEX for this department
Exit to: The User Group Network front page
Contact: The Editor, Webmaster or Membership Director