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SharePoint.apcug.net
by Jay Ferron, President APCUG

We are proud to announce a new benefit to you our members Sharepoint.apcug.net. This site is a result of many months of work by Guy Hermann, Clive Hermann, and James Scharoun. Their hundreds of hours working in the background to bring this site to life, is an example of just asking people to help. We want to thank them personally for all the work they done in support of APCUG.

This site accomplishes some major advances for us and you the user group members

  1. You now have a location when you can post where you can post your meetings online, and the rest of the world can see it. There's a good possibility that you will get new members this way.

  2. You now have a location for sharing presentations that you and other user groups have created.

  3. No more what should we do next meeting, come to the SharePoint site and see different ideas for presentations.

  4. If you have a meeting speaker cancel, now go to SharePoint and get a topic with a starter presentation or maybe even a presentation in a box.

  5. The goal here is if you will upload your Presentations then in a short time we will have a library of many topics with examples that other user groups can share and use. Think of this as a Lending Library with one major difference you can add to the library.

  6. This site allows validated users to upload presentations and add "what's happening in your group" to our Events Calendar.

  7. The Links page creates a location where you can add your web site link so others can find your group.

  8. The Shared Documents section is where you can find informaion on how to run a user group, tips on fundraising, get some "idea starters" for meetings, and post product reviews.

  9. Our Announcements section will be a place where you can see news from APCUG

  10. In the General Discussion area, there is space for you and your regional advisors to discuss topics that impact your region.

  • Some pages will require special permission to access, to reduce who can add update to areas like the Events Calendar.

    The goal of this site is to become a resource for current APCUG user groups; people looking to join user groups; and vendors. We need your help to grow the site -- and grow it will if you use it. The sidebar to the right tells you how to get started.