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Advantages of membership:
Hardware and Software Discounts at Local & Mail Order Retailers
Computer Discount Warehouse - just a little over cost through exclusive Website
Other World Computing (OWC) - ISP services & monthly TNWoU special offers
MacZone - significant discounts through a special contact at the company
Hardware and Software Discounts Direct from Manufacturers
Group purchases - most recent: almost 9,000 megabytes of RAM - photos
Books and magazines - 20% to 40% off
MacAcademy training media at 35% off
Always dozens of limited time discount offers on hardware and software
Monthly membership Meetings - as many as 200 attendees - see photo above
Vendor Presentations
Apple, Inc. Presentations
Public Domain/Shareware Library
Question and Answer Session - Hardware/Software issues
Hear About Product Introductions Before the Public!
Monthly Software and other item Door Prizes
Monthly buy-sell-swap table
We were the first and only site in Illinois for the iMac roll out in 1998, two months before they were in the stores - - more than 300 people in attendance.
Bi-Monthly Award Winning, Information-Packed Newsletter
NorthWest Passages, won the 1994 and 1996 awards for outstanding design from the National Association of User Groups and the 1997 Best In Show award for medium size groups from the User Group Academy. For 1998 Editor Emeritus Waynne Warren was awarded the Academy's prestigious Special Judges Citation. In 1999, under Editor Carol Sierzega's leadership, the staff of NorthWest Passages was honored with the User Group Academy Judges' Recognition of Merit. Always seeking to improve, in 2000 NorthWest Passages received User Group Academy recognition for the Best Newsletter in our size category and for 2001 the Best in Show. Issuing such awards of recognition was discontinued in 2002. Every issue of NorthWest Passages contains TNWoU news, special features & departments, software reviews, CD of the month description and a calendar of events. The newsletter is mailed for arrival at member homes a few days before the regular TNWoU Saturday meeting of odd numbered month.
Newsletter Advertising Rates
Monthly New User Training Class
Members-Helping-Members Program
- Software and Hardware Support via telephone, FAX and email
Monthly Special Interest Groups (SIG's) including:
Novice Users Internet/Web Site Design Microsoft Office
Graphics FileMaker Pro Programmers
Genealogy AppleWorks Technical Mac
Full and Half-Day Macintosh "Boot Camp" Training
- Sessions for New, Intermediate and Advanced Users
Periodic Day-long Seminars
Most Importantly, the ability to...
Network, Network, Network