Apple World User Group University is a monthly online gathering of Apple User Groups (AUG) leaders. Sessions cover such topics as “Marketing Your User Group” and “How to Get Young People in Your Group”, which are important discussions today. Participants can make new friends, bone up technical expertise, find solutions to related problems, and exchange information on how to improve AUG services.
Our third Apple World User Group University online gathering of Apple user group leaders was held at 8:00pm CST, on June 15, 2020, via Zoom. We had 28 participants who joined for the topic of “Vendor Offers and Presentations”. The 93-minute video can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/4Xmq9fEO24o (unlisted YouTube).
This session opened with my welcome, Zoom instructions, and a 10-minute presentation about “Vendor Offers” where I presented the most recent Apple User Group Bulletin and website illustrations about current and ongoing offers (https://www.appleusergroupresources.com). There were several questions about how to find and improve vendor response to discount requests.
Many groups have moved to online meetings. Still, it can be hard to find a meeting topic when members and presenters are doing their part to flatten the curve. The good news is that each Today at Apple – At Home session offers unique and helpful ideas so your members can get more from the software and hardware they already own and enjoy.
Current Today at Apple – At Home titles include:
Each session is short – lasting only 3-5 minutes – and the tutorials are fun, clever, and easy.
Help your members learn a new skill today.
Over the years, some of the best ideas for user group leadership have come from the worldwide community of user group officers, the hard working leaders and experts who ensure that their groups survive and thrive.
This month’s How To features one of the most popular presentations ever presented at a User Group University session. In this session, Dr. Scott Pelok talked about the various sorts of difficult people we encounter in our groups and in everyday life. The Board still gets letters asking about the presentation and we have heard from folk who say his tips helped resolve challenging situations in their groups. Use the link below to download his presentation.
Thanks Dr. Scott!
For more than 20 years Michael Horton, founder of the LA Creative Pro User Group (LACPUG), has brought storytellers together. In fact, over the last twenty years, Michael, leading LAPCUG, produced 220 events (WOW!). He started the LA Final Cut Pro group in 2000, was instrumental in groups moving from a single tool to a focus on the greater creative pro community, and was a co-founder of the CPUG Network and their SuperMeets. Over the past few years, there have been wildly popular SuperMeets in London, Austin, Amsterdam, San Jose, Boston and San Francisco, each with its World Famous Raffle and each offering another opportunity to enhance the lives and expand the networks of creatives across the world.
Congrats to Michael – The creative community are glad you are planning to stay on for at least one more year!
Michael Horton Lifetime Achievement Award at NAB 2019 (more…)
Looking for a meeting topic? Apple recently released a major update to Logic Pro X, with a professional version of Live Loops, a completely redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools.
Check it out: Logic Pro X – First Look (L574602A-en_US)
https://asw.apple.com/Salesresource/L574602A-en_US
Apple Ambassadors, June is a great month to check out ASW.
With so much misinformation and partial information regarding COVID 19, Apple has two new offerings that you can trust. Apple, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House-led coronavirus task force, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, developed a useful and trustworthy COVID-19 app and website that can help you identify best practices and personally-tailored next steps during this difficult time.
The app and website provides a series of questions around risk factors, recent exposure, and symptoms for the user or their loved ones. Once the questions are completed, the user will receive clear and practical CDC recommendations, including guidance on social distancing and self-isolating, how to closely monitor symptoms, whether or not a test is recommended at this time, and when to contact a medical provider. This is not a COVID 19 test – it is a pair of wonderful resources that can help users access trustworthy information, decrease anxiety, increase safety, and identify next steps, all personally tailored to each user’s answers and experience.
Check these resources out today:
Apple’s COVID-19 website, available on any platform via your preferred browser.
https://www.apple.com/covid19/
Apple’s Apple COVID-19 App – currently #1 in Health and Fitness on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1504132184
Information about Apple Store Openings:
https://www.apple.com/store-opening-letter/
Thanks to Apple Engineer Dave Marra and OMUG President Steve Welsh for this great tip!
