Announcing AtlantaUserGroups.com

A resource for Atlantans to find and promote quality educational events that occur in the metro atlanta area.

Serving my second term now as president for the Atlanta Cold Fusion User Group I have recognized that it was not just my group but other Adobe groups and actually just other groups in Atlanta that tend to struggle with some of the same key obstacles.

With the help of other user group organizers, we are building a social community resource at Atlanta User Groups to help solve some if not more of the common issues listed here.

• promoting the meetings, especially to newer and younger audiences
• finding speakers and topics of interest in Atlanta
• getting sponsors and prizes
• knowing what other groups are presenting upon
• securing venues sometimes in other areas of town

To address some of thes points the site was created for members to

• Post Events
• Create Groups
• Start Discussions
• Share Blogs
• Add Photos
  

Those are just a few of the options currently available, with more to come as the network matures and gains the support of more user groups around Atlanta. Currently we already have leaders from the Flex, Microsoft, Perl, SQL, Agile, ColdFusion, InDesign and PHP groups starting to form our core while we keep registration closed currently.

Here are two examples of top quality events by Microsoft being offered for free, that you may not have known about without having known to visit their sites, or by checking the Atlanta User Group Calendar, which, through crowdsourcing, will include a great number of Atlantas quality educational events happening every month.

June 1 – The MSDN Sourthern Fried Roadshow

Join Microsoft Evangelists Chad Brooks, Glen Gordon and Brian Hitney as they present a half day event packed full of great information for developers and architects. Spend the afternoon learning about Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure.

http://www.atlantausergroups.com/events/msdn-southern-fried-roadshow

June 11 – Windows 7 LoadFest

A great way to get a head start on the training you need RIGHT now with this FREE seminar, so you can be prepared when users call you about Windows 7.  This session will enable you to hit the road running on the latest version of Windows, or at the very least, help you find out if this is really as good as you have heard!

http://www.atlantausergroups.com/events/windows-7-load-fest

Look for future articles either here or on the site explaining:

Who can benefit by joining AtlantaUserGroups.com?

• Group Organizers
• Entrepreneurs
• Knowledge Workers
• Freelancers
• Sponsors
• Hiring Managers
• Bloggers
• Venue Managers
• Catering Companies
• Small Business Owners