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Next Meetings
(all on 3rd Saturdays)
- April 20, 2019
- May 18, 2019
- June 15, 2019
- July 20, 2019
- August 17, 2019
- September 21, 2019
- October 19, 2019
- November 16, 2019
- December 21, 2019
Here’s what we did at our March 16th meeting:
(Special Interest Groups)
- HTPC/Home Automation – 8:00 am
Home Theater (or Media) PCs and Home Automation come in an endless range of capability, complexity and price. Come join us as we cover this new & exciting area. Home Automation covers everything from setting your thermostat to having your refrigerator order milk. Join us!
- Microsoft PowerShell – 8:00 – 10:00 am
The first hour starting at 8:00 am, we cover topics and demonstrations that come up in informal discussion.
At 9am, we will continue with additional general Q&A to answer all your questions.
- Windows Tips & Tricks – 9:00 – 11:00 am.
- 5G and Huawei – And Why You Should Care
- Bulk File Renaming Utility Demo
- And the usual Open Q & A ….
- Making Money Online – 9:00 am
For the March meeting of the MMO SIG, Howard Harkness will demo the current state of the first MVP (minimum viable product) for the upcoming membership site. It is a Twitter tool that will do auto-posting.Howard Harkness will give a progress report (and demo) on the auto-tweet utility.
- Microsoft Office Suite – 9:00 am – Noon
In January, we reverted back to individual Microsoft Office applications:
- [9:00 am] Excel – topic TBD.
- [10:30 am or so] MS Word & MS PowerPoint– Sharon Dorsey will give one of her oldie but goodie presentations on a specific topic. Or provide answers to specific questions. Whoever attends gets to decide. Maybe we’ll do both!
- MS Access – is going on hiatus at present, but the SIG Leader, Sue Clark, will still be around to help answer your MS Access questions
- AppDev – 10:00 am – Noon
Functional Programming in JavaScript
… presented by Larry Weiss and Chris Morgan
- The Internet – 11:00 am
- Social media guide, podcasting, RSS, news the way you want it.
- How to use Social Media for Good
- DHS Social Media Guide (PDF)
- Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social
- Take Charge of Your Online Reputation
- 10 Steps to Building Your Personal Brand on Social Media
- Windows Inside/Out – 12:30 pm
- What’s new in the April Windows 10 Update (19H1/1903)
- USB-C gadgets
- Discount Cable and Charger Brands You Can Trust
- Wireless Communication – 12:30 pm
TBD.