 Number 195 - August 1999 |
| What About PC User Groups on the Web? | ||
| by Roy Moglia, April 1999 Suncoast Beeper from Westchester PC News, June 1998 | ||
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Are you curious about the
activities of other PC User Groups? Want to know more about your fellow
User groups around the world? Here is a web site that can lead the way.
User Groups on the Web http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ash/ ugsonweb.htm/ links you to the web pages of hundreds of User Groups across the globe. (Not
anymore. Use address at bottom of this column. BTW the /ash/ in the
above address refers to Ash Nallawalla in Australia who apparently is
the driving force of ugotw. - TOGGLE Ed.)
User Groups on the Web list more than 30 nations brimming with User Groups. Browsing to the page for the USA brings up links to User Groups in each state. Scrolling down to New York State presents a list of 25 User Groups, from the professional Macintosh Users Group in Amherst, NY to Westchester PC Users Group. Clicking on any link brings you to that group's home page. Other nations represented include Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Canada. Some countries, such as France and Mexico, offer only one or two User Group links. But many countries, such as Sweden and Australia, have links to several User Groups. User Groups on the Web has undergone a few changes recently, with a new URL that may be in effect by the time you read this, namely. (http://easyrsvp.com/ugotw). This site now provides basic search capabilities. You can locate User groups by key words or by specialty. |
For example, if you want a list of groups
that focus on IBM PCs or Unix or the Internet, the site will track those
down. You can now more easily access User Groups newsletters. A
separate area of the site brings up pages from dozens of User Group
newsletters, some in HTML format, others in Adobe Acrobat format.
The individual home pages paint interesting portraits of User Groups around the world. Often you will find information on the group's meetings, membership and general computing topics. Viewing the home pages of fellow User groups, especially those in other countries, makes you appreciate the strong interest in computers worldwide. Of course, many foreign User Group pages are written in that country's language, making them tough to read unless you know the native tongue. Alta Vista Translations available at the Alta Vista home page (www.altavista.digital.com) can translate many foreign-language web pages into English. To help you learn more about your fellow User Groups both in the US and abroad, it's worth taking a trip to User Groups on the Web.
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