The MUG Event Calendar re-activates after the long U.S. holiday weekend.

Holiday parties begin to dominate MUG agendas, but there’s plenty of substance too. A California group will focus on Adobe Elements 8, Google will be the topic in Kansas, getting started with genealogy is at the top of the list in Alaska, and digigal video in different flavors will take center stage in New Mexico and Australia.

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A slow week and Thanksgiving in the United States closes out November on The MUG Event Calendar.

Many group rescheduled their meetings away from the coming week due to the busy holiday week, so things have largely gone quiet, but there are still some interesting meeting topics on the agenda. They include desktop management in California, desktop management in Pennsylvania, and Snow Leopard’s screen recording capabilities in Canada.

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One of the busiest slates of Apple presenters on the MUG Event Calendar in some time is coming up this week.

Apple will make appearances at three different MUGs this week; Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will cover New Jersey, Product Manager Cameron Rogers will be in California, and Systems Engineer Aaron Davis is on the agenda for a Maryland group. Terry White of Adobe will present ot a Michigan group, and Mac author Jim Gordon will be signing books in New York.

Other topics scheduled for this week include Avery Design Pro, the Mac in home entertainment systems, the iPhone, ScreenCastsOnline, Dashboard and Widgets, holiday gift and gadget meetings and more.

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The list of presenters and topics filled up quick in this week’s MUG Event Calendar.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra is back on the user group trail, spreading the word about Snow Leopard at two Pennsylvania groups this week. Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac is scheduled to visit a group in Texas, Jon Parshall of Codeweavers will show off CrossOver Mac to a North Carolina Group, and JVC will show off their cameras to a Final Cut Pro user group in California.

Among the many other topics on this week’s list are social networking, Keynote, genealogy, Macdictate, iMovie, holiday parties and more.

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The first week of November on The MUG Event Calendar starts off strong, with plenty of informative presentations.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will make his annual trek to Chicago this week, to present to the user group there and to partake of his favorite pizza. Rashantha De Silva will present the controversial Quo Computer to a group in California, and a Virginia group will discuss electronic finances. Social networking will figure in more than one MUG presentation this week, as will Apple’s new Magic Mouse.

Other topics on this week’s calendar include the first of the always-popular holiday gift presentations, a presentation on Facebook, green-screening iMovie, a Motion mini seminar and a discussion of education in the 21st Century with Apple at the core.

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The last MUG Event Calendar for October may be small, but it is mighty, serving up only treats during Halloween week.

Apple Senior Systems Engineer Dave Marra will show off Snow Leopard to a Pennsylvania group, while a California Final Cut Pro Users Group will host presentations on FCP workflows, a tapeles video recording device, and an iPhone app for filmmakers.

Other topics on this week’s list include Pages, more Snow Leopard, digital photography and more.

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The October O’Reilly User Group Program newsletter is out. This month, Marsee Henon provides a variety of updates on O’Reilly activities, including:

• Marsee’s attendance at the Southeast User Group Leader Summit
• O’Reilly’s presence at Microsoft PDC 2009, RailsConf
• Expansion plans for some of O’Reilly’s publishing initiatives
• New releases (and boy, are there lots of ‘em!)

For details on all this as well as information on a user group discount to the O’Reilly School of Technology courses and more, you’ll need to visit The MUG Center’s Vendor Programs page for more information on the O’Reilly User Group Program, or subscribe to the newsletter on their web site.

This week’s MUG Events Calendar boasts lots of topics, a trans-Atlantic speaker appearance and a focus on digital photography.

Digital photography expert Derrick Story will deliver some tips to a California group, while Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline and MacVoices’ Chuck Joiner will be taping a virtual appearance at a Alabama user group for release on MacVoicesTV. On the vendor front, SlingMedia will be showing off what their hardware can do to another California group.

Other notable entries include an iMovie series in Canada, networking in New York, sophisticated Final Cut Pro topics in California, the Mac in home entertainment also in California, Wikipedia in Virginia, and Snow Leopard all over.

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