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PAST NBCUG PROGRAMS

SPEAKER GUIDELINES

Berne = Berne restaurant, GC = Golden Corral restaurant, Elk = Elks Lodge,

K of C = Knights of Columbus Hall

DATE - SPEAKER - SUBJECT - LOCATION & ATTENDANCE

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2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008


1994-1999

11/12/94 Berne (Mike O'Conner?) Subject ?

12/10/94 Coastalnet - Internet demo at Berne restaurant

1/14/95 ? Subject ?

2/11/95 Chris Shallcross Computer demo (Craven College)

3/11/95 Nate Salsbury Data Bases (Craven College)

4/1/95 Ken Barrow Using the Internet (Craven College)

5/13/95 Steve Dorsett Internet (Craven College)

Summer 95 Break

9/9/95 Joe Moore Windows 95 (beta tests) (Berne - ?)

10/14/95 Donnie Benners/Dave Wallace All About Benners BBS (Berne - ?)

11/9/95 Frank Chamberlin Getting the most out of your PC (Berne - ?)

12/9/96 Larry Groak/Jim Gray Upgrading your PC at Computers, Etc (Berne - ?)

1/13/96 John Brady Specialty Software (Berne - 100)

2/10/96 Gary Mitchell Tips/Tricks Using Windows (Berne - 45)

3/9/96 Joe Moore Preparing for a PC Crash (Berne - ?)

4/13/96 Cecil Butterfield Question and answer session (Berne - 52)

5/11/96 Dave Wallace Computer History - Eniac to Pentium (Berne - 35)

6/8/96 Larry Whitney Navigating the World-Wide-Web (Berne - 64)

7/13/96 --- Cancelled due to Hurricane Bertha

8/10/96 Dave Wallace/Jim Gray Open Forum - Misc topics (Berne - 39)

9/14/96 Bob Hanson Helping the WannaBe PC experts (Berne - 41)

10/12/96 Chuck Ehrenfried/Bill Ball Using your PC for Genealogy (Berne - 51)

11/9/96 John Proctor New ISP Carolina Connections (Berne - 71)

12/14/96 Jim Evans Online Banking at Centura Bank (Berne - 66)

1/11/97 Larry Whitney Quicken 6.0 Beta test (Berne - 100)

2/8/97 Jim Miller/Frank Chamberlin Creative Graphics, Snappy (Berne - 83)

3/8/97 Dave Wallace/Jim Gray Open Forum - Misc topics (GC - ?)

4/12/97 Jim Ebright/Gene Fegeley CoastalNet - Internet Resources (GC - 77)

5/10/97 Dave Wallace/Jim Gray Open Forum - Misc Topics (GC - 52)

6/14/97 Dave Wallace/Jim Gray Open Forum - Misc Topics (GC - 56)

7/12/97 Jim Gray/Bob Hanson Buying a New PC, Where to get help (GC - 67)

8/9/97 Dave Wallace The Internet Explosion (GC - 66)

9/13/97 Nate Salsbury Microsoft Windows 95 Explorer (GC - 59)

10/11/97 Carol Moore Digital Satellite Comm for PCs (GC - 52)

11/08/97 Clark Wright Computer Security/Privacy Legal Issues (GC - 72)

12/13/97 J.Gray/J.Miller/R.Hanson Financial Planning (GC - 85)

1/10/98 Larry Whitney Managing Desktop & Hard Disk Clutter (GC - 119)

2/14/98 Dave Wallace Open Forum - Misc Topics (CG - 69)

3/14/98 Garry Mitchell Upgrading Your Hard Drive (GC - 68)

4/11/98 C.Wright/E.Wagner/D.Wallace Using Your PC for Investments (Elk - 80)

5/9/98 Al Kish Windows 98 - To Upgrade or Not? (Elk - 71)

6/13/98 John Proctor (Carolina Connections) Common Internet Headaches (Elk - 62)

7/11/98 Jan Lockett, (Progressive Digital Concepts) Voice Recognition Systems (Elk - 46)

8/8/98 Bill Carver, (Webb Trixx Web Design Studios) Creating A Web Page (Elk - 54)

9/12/98 Jim Ebright, (Coastalnet) LINUX Operating System Overview (Elk - 42)

10/10/98 Pete Peterson/Dave Wallace , (Free Agent/Telnet/FTP and Open Forum) (Elk - 41)

11/14/98 Jake Roquet, President of CoastalNet (New Products and Services) (Elk - 86)

12/12/98 Art School, Controller-Ward & Smith PA, Preparing For Y2K (Elk - 60)

1/16/99 Tony Marie, Internet of New Bern ISP, Custom-built vs off-shelf PC (K of C - 55)

2/20/99 John Ross, Sprint, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (K of C - 69)

3/20/99 Gibralter Data Services - Art of E-Commerce and Design of Web Pages (Kof C - 53)

4/17/99 Larry Whitney - E-mail (Sending and Receiving Attachments), Viruses (K of C - 94)

5/15/99 Jim Miller - Chaired Panel on Viruses with Len Gorton, Nate Salsbury, Ray Stark, Mike Rice, Jim Ebright and Bill Carver (K of C - 64)

6/19/99 Scott Sirkin - President 1/2 Hour Photo, Digital Photography Solutions (K of C - 61)

7/17/99 Brad Geres -Craven Community College - How eBay's online auction site works (K of C - 55)

8/21/99 Nate Salsbury, Don Johnson - Connecting PCs Together (K of C - 52

9/18/99 ---Cancelled due to Hurricane Floyd.

10/16/99 Larry Whitney - Managing Disk Clutter - An Update, Dr. Dan Edwards - Medical Info on the Web (K of C - 70)

11/20/99 Dennis Fitzgerald - Always-Online ISP. How started and what to look for in an ISP (K of C - 40)

12/18/99 Joe Poole - IntraSource ISP - Discussion of ISDN, Web TV, DSL (K of C - 42)


2000 - 2005

1/15/00 Brad Geres - Craven Community College - Advice for PC newcomers (K of C - 105)

2/19/00 Alex Desberg - Mkt/Sales Mgr @ Coastalnet. High-speed Access to CoastalNet. (K of C - 86)

3/18/00 Larry Whitney - " A day in the life of a consultant." (K of C - 86)

4/15/00 Dave Wallace - Open Forum - Questions/Answers/Misc (K of C - 60)

5/20/00 John Proctor - President -UBWEB.NET - High Speed Internet Access and Wireless (K of C - 67)

6/17/00 Frank Chamberlin, Bill Ernul, Al Kish, Nils Hokansson, Don Tirabassi - Mini-tutorials (K of C - 72)

7/15/00 Clark Wright, Dwight Critzer - Online Stock Trading (K of C) - 62

8/19/00 Don Tirabassi, Joan Russell, Al Kish - How to Create a Web Page (K of C - 63)

9/16/00 Brad Geres - Craven Community College - Troubleshooting your PC (K of C - 79)

10/21/00 Tim Wittig/Carissa Kelley - Gateway /Jacksonville - How to go about buying a PC (K of C - 59)

11/18/00 Dave Wallace - Open Forum meeting (K of C - 51)

12/16/00 Dave Wallace, Dennis Fitzgerald, Larry Whitney - The HYBRIS virus and others (K of C - 113)

1/20/01 Max Myover - How to build your own PC (K of C - 75)

2/17/01 Jim Elpers (Computer Station), Dennis Fitzgerald (Always-Online) "How the pros troubleshoot your PC" (K of C - 95)

3/17/01 Brad Geres (Craven CC) "How to Create a Web Site in 4 hours" (K of C - 70)

4/21/01 Matt Barker/Tim Malson (Cox Communications) "RoadRunner high-speed cable service" and Dave Wallace "How to do some basic things on your PC." (K of C - 88)

5/19/01 Jim Miller "Using MS PowerPoint for Professional Presentations" (K of C - 46)

6/16/01 Bill Ernul "Using Outlook Express 5.5" (K of C) - 52

7/21/01 Nate Salsbury "Demo/ Discussion of Windows Explorer" (K of C) - 69

8/18/01 Larry Whitney "Protecting Your Important Data" (K of C) - 52

9/15/01 Dave Wallace - Open Forum meeting (K of C -53)

10/20/01 Gene Fegely - Internet Video, Discussion of ISP Help Desk, Misc. (K of C - 54)

11/17/01 Dave Wallace - "PC Tips and Tricks" - a computer demo/tutorial (K of C - 78)

12/15/01 Nils Hokansson - "How to Boss Your Computer Around" - a demo/tutorial (K of C -79)

1/19/02 Jim Miller - Digital Cameras - demo/tutorial (K of C -115)

2/16/02 Nils Hokansson - "Back to the Basics - Outlook Express" - a demo/tutorial (K of C - 77)

3/16/02 Dennis Fitzgerald -"SPAM - The Internet's Version of Junk Mail" (K of C - 83)

4/20/02 Nils Hokansson - "Outlook Express/MS Internet Explorer" wrap up tutorial (K of C - 59)

5/18/02 Dr. John Tayloe - "Registry Tutorial" (K of C - 64)

6/15/02 Dave Wallace - "Create a simple web page and post it in minutes" (K of C -54)

7/20/02 Brad Geres - "Networking Home and Business" (K of C -65)

8/17/02 Dave Wallace - "Buying a new PC" (K of C - 40)

9/21/02 Marge Schrempf - "Using MS EXCEL Spreadsheets" (K of C - 69)

10/19/02 Frank Fiederlein - "Power, Grounding and Lightening Protection (K of C - 47)

11/16/02 Larry Whitney - "Learning to use your Scanner" (K of C - 142)

12/21/02 Cancelled by vote of members - too close to Xmas

1/18/03 Brad /HollyGeres - "MS Windows XP and Office XP" (K of C - 104)

2/15/03 Jennifer Bowman -Attorney, Jim Ebright/Bobby Allen - EsisNet "Spam" (K of C -82)

3/15/03 Larry Whitney - "Scanners - Part II" (K of C - 93)

4/19/03 Brad/Holly Geres - "eBay Update"(K of C -84)

5/17/03 Victor T.Jones, Jr. - "Getting Started in Genealogy - Library and Internet Resources" (K of C -54)

6/21/03 Bill Ernul - "MS Outlook Express and other stuff" (K of C - 62)

By majority vote, meetings for July and August were cancelled. The meeting on September 20 was cancelled because of hurricane Isabel.

10/18/03 Don Tirabassi - "Making Sense out of CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc" (K of C -63)

11/15/03 Larry Whitney & Bill Healy - "Viruses, Spam, Security, Firewalls" (K of C -71)

12/20/03 Meeting cancelled by majority vote- too close to Xmas.

1/17/04 Dave Wallace, Dennis Fitzgerald - "The CAN-SPAM act & How Spam hurts ISP" (K of C - 90)

2/21/04 Frank Fiederlein & Nils Hokansson - "Understanding your Desktop" (K of C -77)

3/20/04 Brad Geres - "eBay online tutorial update" (K of C -81)

4/17/04 Dave Wallace - Open forum - any topic (K of C -62)

5/15/04 Jim Ebright - "How E-mail Works" (K of C - 63)

6/19/04 Larry Whitney - "Cataloging your Photos" (K of C - 40)

7/17/04 Joe Sharbrough - "Tips, Tricks and Tools a Microsoft Certified System Engineer Uses (K of C - 63)

8/21/04 Tom Dougherty - "Wireless Networks" (K of C - 64)

9/18/04 Dave Wallace/Dennis Fitzgerald - Misc Topics open for discussion (K of C - 45)

10/16/04 Jim Ebright - Linux operating system overview (K of C - 50)

11/20/04 John Melchior - Apple MAC demo and discussion (K of C - 48)

12/18/04 Meeting cancelled by majority vote- too close to Xmas.

1/15/05 George Herring (CyberEast) & Bill Healy (River Bend Help List) - PC Troubleshooting (K of C - 90)

2/19/05 Brad Geres - PC Security (K of C - 92 )

3/19/05 Frank Fiederlein/Nils Hokansson - Back to the Basics - PC Tips & Tricks (K of C - 78 )

4/16/05 Dennis Fitzgerald (Always-Online) - Genealogy - (K of C - 53 )

5/21/05 Dave Wallace - Open Forum plus NBCUG PC Contest awards - (K of C -46 )

6/18/05 Al Friedlander - Building Your Own PC + Demo (K of C -43)

7/16/05 Jim Miller (BLOGS) and Dave Wallace (Open Forum) (K of C - 45)

8/20/05 Meeting cancelled due to attendance falling off

9/17/05 Larry Whitney "Why you would want to backup all of your hard disk" (K of C - 48)

10/15/05 Dave Wallace "NBCUG in trouble" - an open forum organizational meeting (K of C - 45)

11/19/05 Nils Hokansson "Phishing, Scams & Hoaxes" (K of C - 50)

12/17/05 Meeting cancelled by majority vote - too close to Xmas


2006

1/21/06 Brad Geres "Voice over Internet (VOIP) and SKYPE" (K of C - 74)

2/18/06 Lou Valenti "The Craven County Geographical Information System (GIS)" (K of C - 66)

3/18/06 Hob Bonnett & Rick McCormick (CCC) "Computer Training Sources" (K of C - 66)

4/15/06 Nils Hokansson "Managing your mail in Outlook Express". (K of C - 49)

5/20/06 Mike Sagaser & Jeff Dixon "Viruses" & "How to Remove Spyware" (K of C -48)

6/17/06 Karen Mozingo "Online Banking" (K of C -50)

7/15/06 Jay Muraglia "Windows Vista" (K of C -53)

8/19/06 Meeting cancelled by majority vote

9/16/06 Bruce Waugh "Trouble Shooting and Tech Support" (K of C -43)

10/21/06 Brad Geres "Surveillance Cameras" (K of C -69)

11/18/06 Open Discussion (K of C -62)

12/16/06 Joe Wayman from 'LPM Micronics' "Windows VISTA" (K of C - 58)

Minutes for past 12 months are here.


2007

 

1/20/07 "Panel of Experts" Michael Sagaser, Wayne Maruna, Larry Whitney, and Jim Ebright (K of C - 78)

2/17/07 Tim Keeling & Bertha Green "The Operational Environment of Suddenlink" (K of C - 53)

3/17/07 Always Online & Esisnet "ISP's Comments & Open Q&A" (K of C - 64)

4/21/07 Open Forum Q & A (K of C - 40)

5/19/07 Jim Cason "Wireless Networking" (K of C -53)

6/16/07 Jim Cason "Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007" (K of C -35)

7/21/07 Nate Salsbury "Noteworthy Software" & Jim Cason "Windows-based Networking - Sharing Files and Printers" (K of C -48)

9/20/07 Jim Miller "New Bern 2010 Tricentenniel" (K of C -34)

10/20/07 Elliot Alterman "Open Office" (K of C -47)

11/17/07 Jim Cason "Wireless Networking, Windows networking, and Vista" (K of C -43)

12/15/07 Al Kish "How to eliminate Spam" (K of C -39)


2008

01/19/08 Open Forum Moderated by Jim Miller (K of C -51)

4/19/08 Don Wainwright "MSCONFIG" (K of C -81)

7/18/08 Wayne Maruna "Build your own PC" (K o C -52)

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SPEAKER GUIDELINES

The following guidelines are provided for speakers to be reimbursed for their expenses as agreed in the NBCUG meeting on 8/8/98.

NBCUG SPEAKER EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT

1. NBCUG collects no dues. The $2.00 charge to attend a meeting is required to cover rental of the Knights of Columbus ( K of C) Hall. .

2. NBCUG's volunteer Treasurer is Jerry Tetreault. All money received by Jerry comes from donations or from the sale of items donated to the club. The money is intended for miscellaneous expenses in running the club such as office supplies, reproductions and expenses incurred by speakers and for purchase of equipment for the club.

3. Except in unusual circumstances, speakers will not be eligible for reimbursement if their presentations represent their own business interests or those of their employer. The volunteer Treasurer shall be the judge of exceptions.

4. Speakers are limited to a maximum reimbursement of $25 for their receipted expenses provided the expenses are within the guidelines listed below. If receipts are not available, a satisfactory explanation will be accepted.

5. If several speakers share a meeting, they must also share the $25 maximum.

6. Legitimate speaker expenses that may be reimbursed are as follows:

a. Transparencies (viewgraphs) for use with the K of C's projector.

b. Slides for use in a slide projector. (The K of C does not have a slide projector.)

c. Reproduction of paper handouts, provided an explanation can be made as to why the handouts could not be e-mailed to all NBCUG members before the meeting. If the speaker does not have e-mail nor know how to send mail to the group other members may be contacted to do this.

d. Rental or purchase of special equipment/items for under $25, provided advance approval is given by the Treasurer.

7. Receipts should be given to the Treasurer for reimbursement whenever they are available.

8. Expenses not reimbursable include travel and lodging. If an item is questionable, it should be discussed with the Treasurer before the expense is incurred.

9. A speaker or speakers that provide the main program for NBCUG shall not be charged admission to the meeting regardless of whether he/she is a member of NBCUG.

 
 


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