CFMUG Downshifts from Monthly to Two Yearly Meetings
March 9, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The Central Florida Midrange Users Group (CFMUG) has announced that it is downshifting from monthly meetings of its users to meetings twice a year. User groups, while still valuable and perhaps even preferable as a means to network among peers, are under pressure as IT professionals have less time to attend meetings and rely, as you might expect, on the Internet to keep in contact with their peers and vendors. CFMUG is no more immune to this as is LinuxWorld (downsized as well), Novell’s BrainShare (canceled), and COMMON, which has shifted to one big meeting a year instead of |
