Info for General Meeting Presenters

Here is some of the information that speakers like to receive prior to a meeting:

Contact information (email and phone number for program chair, president, other responsible persons);
SPAUG URL (www.pa-spaug.org)
address where product, brochures, etc. can be sent;
day-of-meeting contact information and cell phone numbers;
meeting agenda, start and end time, how long they have for their presentation;
directions to the meeting location;
equipment available for the speaker to use;
average number of attendees;
is it OK to sell their product;
is it OK to record them an post a podcast of their presentation? Would they like to be notified when it's ready?
hotels/motels/restaurants near meeting location (address/phone/directions). www.paloaltoonline.com is a good reference.

And, of course, don't forget to send that very important thank you e-mail after the meeting (and copy the presenter's supervisor, if possible).

Previous General Meeting Presenters

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(Apr 08) - Hany Farid, Dartmouth College, on Digital Image Forensics biography
(Mar 08) - Bob Mitchell on video editing
(Feb 08) - Diane Jennings, Director of the Palo Alto Library librarydirector@cityofpaloalto.org 650.329.2436 Palo Alto Library
(Jan 08) - Vicky Powell 408-354-8904. Standard & Poors and Morningstar data base searches using a public library
(Dec 07) - no meeting this month
(Nov 07) - Larry Templeton of SPAUG; Jan Altman demo of a music program
(Oct 07) - Gene Barlow barlow@ugr.com
(Sep 07) - Hank Skawinski
(Aug 07) - Jerry Cellilo [cellilojerry@foothill.edu] of Foothill College
(Jul 07) - Red Calub of Micro Center
(Jun 07) - Fred Pfost
(May 07) - Smart Computing Magazine Brynn Burtwistle Marketing Representative Smart Computing User Group Program brynn-burtwistle@smartcomputing.com [phone] 1-800-334-7458 x 4702 [fax] 402-479-2193
(Apr 07) - Andy Marken of Marken Communications
(Mar 07) - Jim Porter, President of DiskTrend
(Feb 07) - Stoney & Jan Edwards, wildlife photographers www.stoneyandjanphotos.com
(Jan 07) - Nancy Blachman www.GoogleGuide.com
(Dec 06) - Brad Templeton Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Freedom Foundation
(Nov 06) - Gene Barlow of User Group Relations
(Oct 06) - David B. Whittle, www.whats4me.com
(Sep 06) - Hank Skawinski
(Aug 06) - Andy Marken of Marken Communications
(Jul 06) - Paul F. Kunz, of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(Jun 06) - Forrest Lee of InterVideo and ULEAD
(May 06) - Maury Green
(Apr 06) - Gary Sasaki www.digdia.com
(Mar 06) - Red Calub, General Manager, Micro Center, Santa Clara and Markham Bennett of SmugMug (www.smugmug.com), Director, Business Development,
(Feb 06) - George Sidman of WebLOQ
(Jan 06) - Gene Barlow of User Group Relations
(Dec 05) - Paula Simpson, Palo Alto Library Director
(Nov 05) - Seth Shostak of SETI
(Oct 05) - Les Laky, former principal in ISP Channel internet provider and current principal and founder of DomainKeep and Co-founder, Fiber Internet Center. www.domainkeep.com
(Sep 05) - , President of Datawise
(Aug 05) - on Excel
(Jul 05) - Tom Tuttle www.tomtuttle.com on photography and digital print editing with PhotoShop, Dave Iuppa Caboodle cartridge recyling
(Jun 05) - on Googleguide.com
(May 05) - , website www.digdia.com consumer electronics world
(Apr 05) - Jen Clausen of Smart Computing magazine
(Mar 05) - Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO of Jotspot
(Feb 05) - Asaf Degani
(Jan 05) - Thomas N. Tworek Photographer and Teacher http://goldcoastgalleries.com. His website bio
(Dec 04) - on Google
(Nov 04) - Microsoft
(Oct 04) - Hank Skawinski, President of Datawise
(Sep 04) - Linda & Gene Barlow, President of User Group Relations (www.ugr.com)
(Aug 04) - of K&S Photography
(July 04) - Bebo White of SLAC
(May 04) - George Sidman of Monterey Net www.montereynet.net/fsMNCTeam.html
(April 04) - Gary Sasaki Digital Living 2010 www.digdia.com
(March 04) - Corey Bridges and of Zone Labs
(Feb 04) - Menlo Park Police Dept. Web Services. Identity theft and how to avoid it.
(Jan 04) - Ray Long of the Santa Clara MicroCenter
(Dec 03) Hank Skawinski, President of Datawise
(Nov 03) - Bob Shipley of NASA Ames (Robert.K.ShipleyATnasaDOTgov) spoke on the history of computers with flight simulators.
(Oct 03) - Mr. Bernard Krevet on Computer Voice Recognition and IBM's Via Voice. Also, a representative from AuctionDrop talked about how they provide an easy and convenient way for you to sell your stuff on eBay. The Los Altos store is on the corner of Main and Third in the heart of downtown at 200 Main Street, phone 650-941-4365.
(Sep 03) - Rick Altman presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint and John Toole of the Computer History Museum
(Aug 03) - Alan Broad of Crossbow presentation on TinyOS and Smart-Dust program. Crossbow website
(Jul 03) - docent tour of the Computer History Museum
(Jun 03) - Les Laky DomainKeep and Fiber Internet Center. www.domainkeep.com
(May 03) - Jan Altman presented Excel 97
(Apr 03) - Larry Magid, author of Larry's site and Stacey Wagner, External Affairs Director, SBC
(Mar 03) Mr. Jeff Hyman, Vice-President of V-Communications
(Feb 03) Hank Skawinski, President of Datawise
(Jan 03) Mr. Neil Scott, Chief Engineer for the Archimedes Project at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language "Computer Innovations for the Handicapped".
(Nov 02) Maury Green of SPAUG talked about Networking.
[Oct 02] Robert Reavis on the BART TransLink project
[Sep 02] Matt Berg, Lecturer for Microsoft. email the Microsoft Group Program; website www.microsoft.com/mindshare.
(Aug 02) Kurt Schmucker of Connectix division of Microsoft Virtual PC for Windows Version 5 [N.B.] Connectix has since been acquired by Microsoft and Kurt has relocated to Redmond.
(Jul 02) Jason Stephens and Tanya Miller (tanyaDOTmillerATamdDOTcom) of AMD
(May 02) Craig Neill-Manning, Senior Researcher at Google, 2400 Bayshore Parkway, Mt. View, CA 94043.
(April 02) Jan Altman gave a presentation on Word 97
(March 02) Eric Johnston of Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/mindshare
(February 02) Michael Milley of Storactive Inc.. Storactive develops a real-time data protection product called LiveBackup. LiveBackup is the first centralized real-time system for protecting data on laptops and desktops.
(November '01) Nancy DeBiccari - General Manager - Micro Center
(October '01) Gene Barlow of PowerQuest. Discounts are at the User Group site www.ugr.com
(September '01) Hank Skawinski, President of Datawise
(August '01) Gilman Louie of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital offshoot of the CIA
(July '01) Jason Turk, National Sales Manager for Promise Technology enhanced ATA RAID (Advanced Technology Attachment / Redundant Array of Independent Disks) controllers
(June '01) Rick Altman
(May '01) Jan Altman on tips and tricks for Excel 97. Also, Misha M. McPherson (mishaDOTmcphersonATinfousaDOTcom) of infoUSA spoke on the Resume Plus.
(April '01) Leticia Cowan, Marketing and Account Manager for Monterey Network Center, and Shawn Burson, Web Development Services
Email for all general inquiries or for all technical support
(March '01) Neil Scott (ngscottATarchDOTstanfordDOTedu) Archimedes Project at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language "Computer Innovations for the Handicapped".
(February '01) Russell J. Jacobsen of Gemteq Software Inc. talking about eGems
(January '01) Richard "Dick" Kratt, (prATpaloaltoelksDOTorg) of the Palo Alto Elks Lodge (www.paloaltoelks.org) gave an interesting talk about his system that allows him to function as secretary despite being paralyzed.
Jaime Alvarez (jaimeATtiqitDOTcom) Tiqit Computers and the Matchbox PC
(November '00) Hank Skawinski, President of Datawise
(October '00) Steve Nguyen (qnguyenATechelonDOTcom), Director of Corporate Marketing, Echelon Corporation
(September '00) George Heller (hellerggATaolDOTcom) of the Little House, Menlo Park
August '00) Bill Dixon (BillATgoogleDOTcom) (of Google)
(July '00) Salil Pradhan, the CoolTown project (see also http://cooltown.hp.com/index.htm)
(June '00) Harold Black (hblackATbestDOTcom), Genealogy Instructor from the Peninsula Volunteers Little House Staff in Menlo Park
(May, '00) Dan Trimble, www.autodesk.com/foundation/staff/trimble.htm A consultant for website creation
(May, '00) Brad Williams www.websiteasp.com/release1.html Talked about OmniUpdate, use the Internet to update website content.
(Mar '00) Bill Reichert, President of GARAGE.COM, funding startup companies
(February '00) Craig Stadler of East Bay Technologies. The firm makes LiveWire! Broadcast!, MediaGrab!, IM SpeakEasy!, UsenetGrab!, and WebGrab!.
(January '00) Karin Stahl of EBAY
(November '99) Gene Barlow of PowerQuest
(October '99) (Seth Shostak sethATseti-instDOTedu) from the SETI project
(September '99) Bill Gardner of UltraServ - a PC repair company
(August '99) Rick Altman
(July '99) Hank Skawinski
(June '99) Don Teague Uptime One Corp - implement the e-business and e-commerce "e-frastructure"
(May '99) Microsoft Corp. - Preview of Windows 2000
(April '99) Dennis Dillon - Embedded Computers in Boeing Aircraft. Excellent speaker.
(March '99) Adobe Systems
(October '98) Jan Altman
(September '98) Hank Skawinski
(August '98) Robbie Robins of Trellix - Web Document Processing
Nancy DeBiccari - General Manager - Micro Center