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Macworld Conference & Expo - Boston 2004: User Group Lounge
Macworld Expo and The Apple User Group Advisory Board present the User Group Lounge (UGL), the place to get up close and personal with the people who make the Macintosh community exciting and dynamic. A diverse roster of well-known columnists, authors, magazine publishers, community leaders and Macintosh personalities meet with Mac enthusiasts in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. This is your chance to get to know the decision makers on a first-name basis. While there, locate your local Macintosh user group and find out why you should be involved.
The UGL will be located in Room 160, will be open during show floor hours, and will feature a wide variety of events and speakers. Please check the schedule below on a regular basis.
Thanks to IDG/World Expo for donating the space for the User Group Lounge!
The room will be hosted by volunteers from the user group community. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
Tuesday, July 13
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Andy Ihnatko
Columnist for
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Chicago Sun-Times tech columnist
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(Andy will also be participating in the Mac Braniac Challenge, and presenting the MACQUARIUM LIVE! session on the Geeks & Gadgets Stage.)
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Adam Engst
Publisher
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Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to hundreds of thousands of readers. He has written and co-authored numerous Internet books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series and, most recently, iPhoto 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide and The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, Second Edition. He has also written for many magazines, including Macworld, where he is currently a Contributing Editor. Most recently, he and co-publisher Tonya Engst have launched the innovative Take Control electronic book series, with a number of Panther-related titles already available from leading authors.
Adam's indefatigable support of the Macintosh community has resulted in numerous awards and recognition. In the annual MDJ Power 25 survey of industry insiders, he regularly ranks as the most influential person in the Macintosh industry outside of Apple, and he was named one of MacDirectory's top ten visionaries. And how many industry figures can boast of being turned into an action figure?
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Warren Williams
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Cathy Merritt
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With more than 15,000 members in the United States and 51 other countries, the AppleWorks Users Group (AWUG) is the world's largest computer user organization. AWUG publishes the AppleWorks Journal and provides other support services for AppleWorks.
Warren Williams, the President of the AppleWorks Users Group, is a Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Williams has written more than 500 articles published in psychological journals and technology magazines and newsletters.
Cathleen Merritt, the Director of the AppleWorks Users Group, holds Masters degrees in Education and Educational Technology. Ms. Merritt, who manages AWUG's daily operations, has published more than 350 articles in educational technology magazines and newsletters.
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"Dr. Mac"
Bob LeVitus
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Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the Macintosh and its operating systems. A prolific author, he has written 45 popular computer books, selling millions worldwide. His most recent offerings include Mac OS X For Dummies: Panther Edition, Dr. Mac: The OS X Files: Panther Edition (or, How to Become a Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Power User,) The Little iTunes Book: 3d Edition, and The Little iDVD Book: 2nd Edition.
He’s known for his expertise, trademark humorous style, and ability to translate “techie” jargon into usable and fun advice for regular folks.
Always a popular speaker at computer user groups and trade shows, Bob won the Macworld Expo MacJeopardy World Championship three times before retiring his crown.
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Game Guru
Peter Cohen
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Peter is senior editor for MacCentral, the popular online Macintosh news site, where he writes, edits and posts a lot of the info that hordes of Mac users around the world depend on to get their daily Mac news fix. Cohen writes the Game Room column for Macworld magazine, and he's also a weekly guest on Your Mac Life, the Internet radio show, where talks about the latest news from the Macintosh gaming front. When he's not otherwise indisposed, Cohen's can usually be found online, blasting the heck out of unsuspecting PC gamers -- especially the stupid ones who think Macs aren't good for games.
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Jason Snell
Editor
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Wednesday, July 14
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Open Networking
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Christopher Breen
Contributing Editor
for
magazine
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Join Chris as he talks about his "911" column in Macworld and how user groups can take advantage of it for their newsletters, his "Breen's Bungalow," User Group Edition, offers more tips and tricks than anywhere else, and more.
(Chris may be the busiest man at Macworld Conference & Expo. His appearances include 10 Essential Tips from the MacBible, Acquiring Assets: Lights, Camera, Action!, Advanced GarageBand Techniques: Moving Beyond "Louie Louie", Directing to Disc: iDVD 4, GarageBand Power Trio: Loops, Digital Audio, and MIDI, Getting in Gear: Essential and Additional Equipment, Going to the Third-Party: Other Useful Musical Tools, iMovie 4 Basics: Importing and Organizing and the Rudiments of Editing, iMovie 4: Export Business, iMovie 4: Transitions, Effects, Titles, and Soundtracks, iPhoto 4: You Ought to be in Pictures, participating in the MacBrainiac Challenge and Opening Remarks, delivering Planning Your Projects: Your Journey Needs a Good Roadmap, Putting iLife to Work: Creating Practical Projects with Apple's Creative Suite of Tools, The iPod Supersession, and Tuning into iTunes: More Than a Music Player.)
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Jim Dalrymple
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Jim Dalrymple is Editor Online at MacCentral and Macworld.com, and manages the daily content of the site and acts as a liaison between MacCentral and the global Macintosh industry including Apple, Microsoft and many others. Jim resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Students and The Mac
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Are you a little bit younger than most attendees... or younger at heart?! Join members of the Apple Campus Group Advisory Board to discuss the excitement surrounding Apple technology that's building at schools around the world. Find out what resources are available to students to help create amazing events and activities. All community members are welcome at the session as we discover how these student groups can strengthen the entire user group community.
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Dennis Sellers is currently an editor for MacMinute following an eight-year stint at MacCentral. Prior to his online affiliations, he was a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). During his varied communications career, he's had over 3,000 magazine and newspaper articles published. I've written about comics (for Comic Book Heroes), fitness (Muscular Development), photography (Rangefinder, Digital Camera Magazine), education (for Journal Communications in Brentwood, TN), and a wide range of other subjects.
For two years he wrote character development material for children in grades K-4 as part of the Project Solution collaboration between The Tennessean newspaper and the Nashville school system. His degrees include a B.S. in communications (with an English minor), a M.Ed in special education, as well as a Tennessee teaching certificate. s include a B.S. in communications (with an English minor) and a M.Ed in special education, as well as a Tennessee teaching certificate.
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David Pogue
Personal-Technology Columnist
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The New York Times
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David Pogue, Yale '85, became the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times in November 2000, after having written ten years' worth of the triple award-winning Desktop Critic column for Macworld magazine.
With over 2.5 million books in print, Pogue is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, having written or co-written six books in the "for Dummies" series (Macs, iMacs, iBooks, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), along with the Computer Press Association award-winning "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide," several computer-humor books, and a technothriller, "Hard Drive" (a New York Times "notable book of the year").
In 2000, Pogue joined forces with O'Reilly & Associates to launch the Missing Manual series, whose subjects so far include Dreamweaver 4, Mac OS 9, iMovie, AppleWorks 6, Windows Me, Windows 2000,Office 2001, and iMovie 2. He and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their young son and daughter.
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Open Networking
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Thursday, July 15
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Members of
The Apple User Group Advisory Board
(Chuck Joiner will be presenting two user group-related sessions, Cool Resources Created By Macintosh User Groups and Become an Internet Radio Broadcaster with your Mac, both on the Geeks & Gadgets stage, and participating in the Town Hall session.)
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Mac OS X Inside Out: An Informal Q&A To Help MUG Members Upgrade
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Ted Landau
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Ted Landau is the author of the newly-released Mac OS X Help Line as well as Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. He is the founder and original editor of the MacFixIt Web site and is currently writing a monthly column (mac.column.ted) for MacFixIt. He is also a contributing editor for Macworld magazine. Ted's books and MacFixIt have received numerous awards and nearly universal critical acclaim from sources as varied as U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, Yahoo! Internet Life, and Computer Shopper -- and of course virtually all Mac media.
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Meet Show Management!
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Sarah Hindmarsh, Audience Development Manager
Warwick Davies, Group Vice President
Beth Wickenhiser, Public Relations Specialist
Members of the Macworld Conference & Expo Management Team invite you to join them for a feedback session on all aspects of the week's events. Your opinions, suggestions and constructive feedback can be discussed directly with the people who make it all happen. This is a rare opportunity to provide the feedback and ideas that will help shape future Macworld events. Don't miss it!
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