Hi SW2008 attendees, here’s information about some of SW’s vendors.
SAVE THE DATE – May 29, 30 & 31, 2009
The contract has been signed and I am already receiving registrations. We’ll be at the Town and Country again with the same room rate - $119. Please check out the website for up-to-date information.
Computer Outlook Radio Show
One of John Iasiuolo’s co-hosts, Dave Ciccone of Mobility Today (www.MobilityToday.com) has started a petition to gather signatures in support of John’s show. He thinks that the show should be broadcast on one of the satellite stations and made available to those listeners. Many of us frequent listeners certainly agree with him.
With that in mind I ask for your help in making this happen…please sign the petition and maybe pass it on to your friends – business associates – club members and family – this would really be great for John and the computer community.
Here is the link: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/computeroutlook/signatures.html
John’s Roboform discount expires September 26 – hopefully you let your members know about the discount.
AiSquared
I talked at length at SW with the Ai Squared rep and their involvement with user groups. They weren’t sure that UGs was the way to go with their product. The presenter put me in contact with another person at AiS and during the summer we exchanged e-mails on AiS providing a discount for ZoomWare, review copies and a PIAB. Bayle from PC Community in Hayward and Jim from the Glendora Seniors Computer Club were kind enough to help with the PIAB by providing information they thought their groups would like to know about the product (they both attended the workshop and loved it) and some Q&As that could be included on the CD. A few weeks ago, AiS sent some SW attendees (don’t know why they didn’t send it to all) the discount offer as a trial run and I sent it out to the APCUG-member groups last week. AiS followed that up with a discount offer to all SW attendees with a different coupon code. Please let me know if you did not receive the offer. And, if you did, please forward it to your members. Bayle has scheduled the PIAB for her November meeting (hope it’s finished by then J. The review copy e-mail will be going to APCUG editors this week. Whenever SW gets a discount, etc., I always share it with the APCUG-member groups.
www.aisquared.com
LapWorks
Jose has almost completed his PIAB on laptop ergonomics. As soon as it’s available, I’ll let you know so you can schedule it for your group. I’ve seen a preview and it’s really going to be first class and quite informative. He’ll send along a script, product for raffle, brochures, and discount information. I’m telling my students that I think it’s OK for them to buy a laptop as long as they also buy a wireless keyboard and mouse plus a laptop desk and give them a handout I put together from Jose’s script – he’s offered them the discount, too. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the only way using a laptop as a primary computer is ergonomically correct. www.lapworks.net
Seniors Service America
Reminder! Help is available for PC refurbishing projects
Gabe Goldberg / ssa@gabegold.com
As most SWCC attendees heard at the conference, I'm helping a DC-area
organization that helps "civic engagement and employment opportunities
for adults over the age of 55 who wish to re-enter the workforce".
One initiative we're pursuing is helping these folks get and use computers. Money is available -- as seed funding for new projects, as grants to help existing projects ramp up, as awards for successful and valuable projects, etc. We're looking beyond simply providing computers, considering also supporting delivering and installing computers, providing training and ongoing support, helping with connectivity, etc., perhaps structuring a "computers on wheels" program modeled after Meals on Wheels, a successful and widespread support service for seniors.
At the conference, I collected contact information for many groups/projects/individuals and have followed up with these.
But several people took my card to contact me and haven't yet done so. If you have a refurbishing project or would like to start one and we didn't talk at the conference, please contact me. If we talked at the conference and you promised to get in touch after event, PLEASE do so.
Komputers4rKids
Do you want to involve your members in a win-win situation? Have Komputers4rKids come to your meeting with a truck to pick up your members’ and families & friends electronic equipment (advertise in your local newspaper). You benefit the organization and it can be a fund raiser for your group. Get in touch and let them know you attended SW. They picked up two trucks full of electronics from TUGNET and sent them a check. I just about cleaned out one side of my garage last Friday and took all the computer equipment to them in Long Beach (I didn’t get any $$ but sure like the looks of my garage). Marian Radcliffe and I attended Terry Currier’s meeting in Orange County, drove up to Long Beach and dropped off the stuff – the GrammyMobile was completely full!!
www.komputers4rkids.org
Symantec
Over 130 computer club members in the LA area will attend Norton Night tomorrow at Symantec’s Culver City building. We’ll be having dinner, presentations, a tour of one of their labs that hasn’t even had a press review yet, door prizes, raffles, etc. At SW, both Jerry Clarke and I talked (separately) with the Symantec rep. They realize their anti-virus reputation is not the best and think that computer clubs might be the way to get the word out about their new 2009 anti-virus product. Hopefully they will come up with a PIAB that we can show to our members. When I talked with the rep at SW, she thought they also might be putting on presentations – more about that later if it they want to go that route. Instead of that, they offered Norton Night, open to LA, Orange & Ventura county groups – within a reasonable driving distance of Culver City.
See you in San Diego next May,
Judy
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