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Macworld Conference & Expo - San Francisco 2005: User Group Lounge
Room 252-256, West Mezzanine, South Hall
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 252-256, West Mezzanine in the South Hall, one level above the show floor. The Lounge 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.
The room will be hosted by volunteers from the user group community. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
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Jennifer Berger
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Deals and New Products
Dan de Grandpre
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Looking for news on all the product announcements at Macworld Expo? Looking for the best deals? Looking for both? This is the session for you. Come see what catches the eye of the people who run one of the hottest sites on the Mac web.
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Shelly Brisbin
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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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Welcoming Windows Users
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Dave Marra
Apple Senior Systems Engineer
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In addition to his many Macintosh User Group shows, Dave Marra is also very active presenting to some of the largest Windows/PC user groups in the USA and Canada. Discover some of the unique strategies and methods he uses when working with these diverse and often anti-Mac audiences. With solutions like Mac OS X, QuickTime and iTunes, it has never been easier to attract Windows users to the Mac platform. By welcoming Windows users and showing them how easy it is to switch to the Mac, your Macintosh User Group can open its doors to a broader audience, gaining new members in the process.
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The Apple User Group Teams
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Adam Engst
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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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Members of
The MUG Center Team
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Chuck Joiner
Editor-in-Chief
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Lesa Snider
Contributing
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The MUG Center is the resource web site for Macintosh User Groups. Featuring daily updates, news, forums, vendor specials, a wide variety of resources, and The User Group Report, the only user group-focused radio show on the Web, Come and meet some of the people who make it happen and find out about all of the assets that your user group can benefit from.
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Members of
The Macworld Conference & Expo Team from IDG
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Sarah Hindmarsh, Audience Development Manager
Warwick Davies, Group Vice President
Paul Kent, Conference Chair
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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Tom Negrino is a bestselling book author and contributing editor for Macworld magazine. His latest books are Macromedia Contribute 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide2 (Peachpit Press); Microsoft Office v. X Inside Out (Microsoft Press) and Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly, with Dori Smith). Tom is a frequent speaker at Macworld Expo and other computer trade shows. He currently lives in Northern California's wine country with his wife and son.
Dori Smith is co-author of JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 5th Edition, author of Java 2 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, she is on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project, as well as Publisher and ListMom for the Wise-Women's Web organization.
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Scott Knaster
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Scott Knaster has been writing about Macs for as long as there have been Macs. Scott's book How To Write Macintosh Software was required reading for Mac programmers for more than a decade, and his Macintosh Programming Secrets remains a cult classic. Scott's experience ranges from writing developer books for General Magic to working on award-winning Mac software for Microsoft. Scott's books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Pascal. Scott's latest book is Hacking iPod + iTunes. Scott has every issue of Mad magazine, which explains a lot about him.
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Jim Dalrymple
Editor-in-Chief
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Jim 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.
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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"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 GarageBand for Dummies and Dr. Mac: The OS X Files, Panther 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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Dennis Sellers
Chief Macsimizer
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Dennis Sellers is founder and Chief Macsimizer at Macsimum News, a "virtual newspaper about all things Mac. "Sellers has been a newspaper/editor reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 3,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. Sellers has written about comic books (Amazing Heroes), fitness (Muscular Development), photography (Rangefinder, Digital Camera Magazine), caving (Tennessee Conservationist), education (EdTech News, Teachers in Focus, ParentGuide News), parenting issues (Nashville Parent, Vermont Parent & Child) and many other topics. He's had eight short stories published. Sellers has also covered the Mac and tech industries for a decade for such online publications as MacCentral and MacMinute.
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Author
Ted Landau
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Ted Landau is the author of MacOS X Help Line, Panther Editiion. 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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Jason Snell
Editorial Director
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Jason Snell is the editorial director of Mac Publishing, including Macworld magazine, Macworld.com, Playlist magazine, and Playlistmag.com. He's been covering the Mac for more than a decade.
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Derrick Story
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Derrick Story is the managing editor for O'Reilly Network and the Mac DevCenter, which he created in Dec. 2000 for O'Reilly & Associates. His focus is Mac OS X, digital media, and mobile computing.
Derrick's professional experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, former managing editor of Web Review, and a speaker for O'Reilly, CMP, and IDG conferences. His "Mastering Digital Photography" tutorial will be a part of this year's Macworld SF conference. Derrick authored the Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition and the Digital Video Pocket Guide (O'Reilly), and coauthored iPhoto 2: the Missing Manual (O'Reilly/Pogue Press).
He also manages his online photo business, Story Photography, which specializes in digital journalism and special events.
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Deborah is the author of a variety of books and magazine articles related to all things Macintosh. Join her in this session to see what she's up to, learn her impressions of the show, and get some invaluable Mac tips.
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Scott Sheppard
Executive Producer & Host
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Scott Sheppard is the founder and editor of the VERY popular Macintosh Web Site, OSXFAQ. He is the Executive Producer/Host of the nationally syndicated broadcast radio show "Inside Mac" and a Contributing Editor for Macworld UK. Scott has been using Apple computers for more than 25 years, as well as spending many years as a Wintel user, giving him the unique perspective of having spent a lot of time on both sides of the computer fence.
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