{"id":4869,"date":"2018-01-10T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T01:21:55","slug":"calling-all-user-group-leaders-we-want-to-present-for-you-in-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/calling-all-user-group-leaders-we-want-to-present-for-you-in-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all user group leaders! We want to present for you in 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By the end of December, we at SQLskills\u00a0had presented remotely (and a few in-person) to\u00a0more than 100 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the world in 2017, and we already have 45 user group sessions scheduled in 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We\u2019d love to present remotely for your user group in 2018,\u00a0<em>anywhere in the world<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s not feasible for us to travel to user groups or SQL Saturdays unless we\u2019re already in that particular city, but remote presentations are easy to do and are becoming more and more popular. We haven\u2019t had any bandwidth problems doing remote presentations in 2017 to groups as far away as South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, plus Norway, Canada, UK, Poland, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Ireland. This way we can spread the community love around user groups everywhere that we wouldn\u2019t usually get to in person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note: we have our own Webex accounts which we\u00a0generally\u00a0use, or we can use your GoToMeeting or Webex, but you must use computer audio \u2013 we won\u2019t call in by phone as the sound quality is too poor. We also will not\u00a0use Skype\/Lync as we\u2019ve had too many problems\u00a0with it around user group laptops and sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>So, calling all user group leaders!<\/strong>\u00a0If you\u2019d like one of us (me, Kimberly, Jon, Erin, Tim) to present remotely for you in 2018 (or maybe even multiple times),\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/paul@sqlskills.com?subject=2018%20user%20group%20presentation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">send me an email<\/a>\u00a0and be sure to include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Details of which user group you represent (and if sending from a shared user group account, your name)<\/li>\n<li>The usual day of the month, meeting time, and timezone of the user group<\/li>\n<li>Which months you have available, starting in January 2018 (a list of available dates would be ideal)<\/li>\n<li>Whether you\u2019d like just one or multiple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I\u2019ll let you know who\u2019s available with what topics so you can pick. We have around 20 topics across the team that we can present on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What\u2019s the catch? There is no catch. We\u2019re just continuing\u00a0our community involvement next year and we all love presenting :-)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no deadline for this\u00a0\u2013 send me an email at any time and we\u2019ll see what we can do.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re really looking forward to engaging with you all!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p>PS By all means pass the word on to any SharePoint and .Net user group leaders you know too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of December, we at SQLskills\u00a0had presented remotely (and a few in-person) to\u00a0more than 100 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the world in 2017, and we already have 45 user group sessions scheduled in 2018! 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