Great Times and a Bright Future
The kick-off of the newly formed Hampton Roads User Group was a success.
March 5th, 2009 by Alondo McClees
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What a great time we all had as interested members from 9 different cities converged at the Norfolk City Hall conference room for the kick-off of our newly formed Hampton Roads User Group. For those who might be reading this from outside of Virginia, I’ll tell you that Hampton Roads is a geographic area comprised of many cities and counties along the southeastern shoreline of Virginia. More information about our little “neighborhood” can be found here.
The responses to my initial request for participants for this first meeting beat all of my expectations. On meeting day, the turnout was tremendous and everyone got to enjoy the 3 F’s: food, fun, and freebies. We also had some camaraderie and idea-sharing thrown in for good measure as we talked about our purpose and our plans for the future of our user group.
Better still, I continue to get a steady stream of new requests from individuals interested in joining in next time, guaranteeing an even bigger affair when we meet again on May 7th at the same location.
I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to thank those who made this first event a successful one:
- Debbie Wolff from City of Hampton, who is serving as the co-chair of our group.
- Jan Stringer from International Cooperating Ministries in Hampton, who helped provide the goodies.
- John Lane from Unity Business Systems, our Value Added Reseller, who provided some of our freebies.
- Cameron Waite from the City of Norfolk, who helped with the minutes and note-taking.
- Rosalind Collins from the City of Charlottesville, who lent ideas about our possible group structure and logistics.
- Melissa Henley and Brian Lim from Laserfiche, who provided support and helped create our logo.
These are exciting times for us in Hampton Roads, and we look forward to these meetings as a cost-effective and beneficial way for us to share ideas, talk about best practices, and train each other.
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March 5th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Hey, we already have 18 people signed up for the LF8/Workflow8 Seminar on March 19. If you are not one of those 18 and would like to be please give me a call 810-3603. CYA there!
March 24th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Alondo, Great job on getting this started and on the website too! … Janey