| APCUG 2008 MLDC Preliminary Schedule | |||||||
| Conference Dates May 16-18, 2008 | |||||||
| Eastern Regional Conference | |||||||
| Time | Time | Activity | Sess - | Topic | Speaker - | ||
| Start | End | ion | Workshop Leader | ||||
| Friday, May 16, 2008 | |||||||
| 4:00 PM | 8:00 PM | Registration | |||||
| 5:00 PM | 9:00 PM | Cash Bar and snacks | Informal ESPN Bar 4th floor Mall/Entertainment | ||||
| Saturday, May 17, 2008 | |||||||
| 7:00AM | Registration | ||||||
| 7:30 AM | 8:15 AM | Cont. Breakfast | Buffet Breakfast With Vendor Presentations | Reallusion | |||
| 8:15 AM | 8:55 AM | Ai Squared | Scott Moore | ||||
| 8:55 AM | 9:05 AM | Opening Welcome | Hank Feinberg - Ken Herbig | ||||
| 9:05 AM | 9:15 AM | Speaker | County Govt Official - Welcome | Chris St. Lawrence | |||
| Alex Gromack | |||||||
| 9:15 AM | 10:00 AM | Speaker | Increasing Membership - What Actually Worked | Sam Wexler & Tom Thiel | |||
| 10:00 AM | 10:10 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:15 AM | 11:00 AM | Session 1 | A | How to Promote Your Group for Free. | Dick Kranz | ||
| B | Run Your Group Like a Business. | Jerry Goldstein | |||||
| Legal Issues in Running Your club | |||||||
| 11:15 | Noon | Speaker | VOIP and Skype or IRS | Nick Kraus - Philips NA | |||
| Noon | 1:00 PM | Lunch | WhatYou Need to Know About Not for Profit Tax Status | Laura Seamon - IRS | |||
| 1:00 PM | 1:45 PM | Speaker | DACS Focus Group Findings on Membership | Robert Limbaugh | |||
| 1:45 PM | 2:00 PM | Break | |||||
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Session 2 | A | Community Service Projects Build Membership | Hank Feinberg | ||
| B | Using Mac and Other Technologies to Increase Membership | Sam Wexler | |||||
| C | Put on Your Own PC Radio Show and TV Show | Len Ginsburg | |||||
| 3:10 PM | 4:10 PM | Session 3 | A | How to Webinar with Vendors | Live Webinar | ||
| B | Tech Soup, MAR and National Cristina Foundation | Yvette Marin and Hank Feinberg | |||||
| (Free computers, Inexpensive Software and Windows Licenses etc.) | |||||||
| 4:20 PM | 4:50 PM | ReCap | Brainstorming 101- Recap | Dick Kranz | |||
| 5:15: PM | 6:30 PM | Vendor Fair | Vendor Fair Raffles, etc | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Raffle | ||||||
| Sunday, May 18, 2008 | |||||||
| 7:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Registration | |||||
| 7:30 AM | 8:30 AM | Cont. Breakfast | Pinnacle Presentation | Heather Little | |||
| 8:30 AM | 8:45 AM | Speaker | Opening Welcome | Jack Marsella | |||
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Speaker | On Line Predators Protect Your Family and More! | Mark Hoops | |||
| (New York State Assistant Attorney General) | |||||||
| 9:45 AM | 10:05 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:15 AM | 11:00 AM | Session 4 | A | Home Server and Wireless | Matthew Mallory | ||
| B | Digital Photography 101 Brings in Members | Martin Jaffee | |||||
| C | Fund Raising Ideas for Your Group | Panel - Bill James | |||||
| 11:15 AM | 12:00 AM | Session 5 | A | Pinnacle Products | Heather Little | ||
| B | The Special Needs of the Disabled | Deborah Zeitlin, Dir. CRT | |||||
| C | The Internet Telephony and VOIP | Jay Ferron | |||||
| 12:00 AM | 1:00 PM | Lunch | Powerful Demo Showcasing the Windows Experience | Microsoft | |||
| Break | |||||||
| 1:15 AM | 2:00:PM | Speaker | What APCUG Can Do For Your Group | Jay Ferron | |||
| 2:15:PM | 3:15 PM | Session 6 | A | Presidents and Advisors Roundtable | Bill James | ||
| B | Newsletter and Webmaster Roundtable | panel | |||||
| C | Meeting Programs Roundtable | TBA | |||||
| 3:30 PM | 4:00: PM | ReCap | Dick Kranz | ||||
| 4:00: PM | 4:20 PM | Speaker | Closing comments | Sam Wexler | |||
| Revised 05-06-2008 | |||||||