From announce@ip495.org Sat Sep 20 07:36:22 2003 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:03:23 -0400 From: IP495 To: announce@ip495.org Subject: IP495 - Microsoft Office 2003 Sneak Preview and Software [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Just because you are on the IP495 mailing list, you have an opportunity to get a not-for-resale copy of Microsoft's new Office 2003 product, from Microsoft. COST: The cost to you will be a one-time $20 fee to join the BizProd group as a "Premium" member and 90 minutes of your time spent in the Microsoft Office 2003 "Sneak Preview" live presentation on October 14 in Waltham. But, you must pre-register and attend Microsoft's meeting! [The BizProd group is a sister group to IP495 in the Boston User Group.] More details below: ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Subject: The Office 2003 Tour and NFR Software announcement Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:30:50 EDT From: Arnoldbilansky@cs.com To: Members@bostonusergroups.com *** Free Not For Resale copies of Microsoft Office 2003 for BizProd Premium User Group Members *** This is the actual full product, not a time limited version. The only restriction is that you are not permitted sell it (hence the "Not for Resale" label). The Boston Microsoft Business Productivity User Group (AKA BizProd) is hosting the Microsoft IT Professionals Office 2003 Sneak Preview on October 14. We are offering two identical sessions, one at 5:00pm and one at 7:30pm, in order to double our attendee seating capacity. MS Office experts from Microsoft's Redmond headquarters are coming in for these live presentations. The meeting sessions are FREE. Only paid-up BizProd User Group Premium members will be entitled to the free NFR software. Read further for information on becoming a paid Premium member. The session content is technical, geared towards IT Professionals as opposed to knowledge workers or end-users. Details about the topic are at the end of this e-mail. You must pre-register. Seating is limited. All attendees receive a free copy of the MS Press book "First Look Microsoft Office 2003" and a VOUCHER for a Free NFR copy of Office 2003. In order to redeem your voucher, you must become a Premium Member of the BizProd User Group, which entails paying a $20 signup. Membership dues have historically been event-driven as opposed to time-driven. This is certainly a marquee event! We are making this offer available to you as an affiliate of Boston User Groups, Inc (BUG). Membership fees go directly to BUG to fund user group activities of their affiliates. Here are the details: 1) Register for either the 5pm session OR the 7:30pm session. You can register by phone by calling 1-877-673-8368 and giving the event code. If registering on-line, since Organization is a required field - you may use "BizProd". The 5:00pm to 6:30pm session event code is 1032236380 You can register on-line at http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032236380&EIDS.x=7&EIDS.y=8 The 7:30pm to 9:00pm session event code is 1032236381 You can register on-line at http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032236381&EIDS.x=11&EIDS.y=5 2) Sign in at the event and pick up your free book and personalized voucher. 3) Enjoy the meeting 4) When you get home after the meeting, follow the instructions on the voucher to activate it. This tells us how many copies of Office 2003 to have shipped to us. You can pay for your Premium BizProd User Group membership through Paypal at that time, or wait and pay cash or check for your membership when you pick up the NFR software. Please pay strict attention to the deadline for activating the voucher. 5) Show up at the one of the designated follow-up pickup dates about one month later to get your software, and pay for your membership if you have not already done so. One of the pickup dates is expected to be the November 11 BizProd meeting night. Full details will follow later, including one or two additional pickup dates. Only one membership and NFR product is permitted per person. Everyone is required to individually attend one of the sessions on October 14. However, you may have a designee pick up your copy of NFR software for you on the pickup night. *** Here are the details on the meeting. Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Road, Waltham MA. Microsoft BizProd User Group Program Presents: OFFICE 2003 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION The new Microsoft Office 2003 System is coming, and Microsoft is offering special technical previews for IT professionals. This firsthand look provides an opportunity to see new Microsoft Office technologies that are keeping corporate data safer, reducing downtime, and increasing productivity. Join the Boston Microsoft Business Productivity User Group as Microsoft Office System specialists from Redmond showcase Microsoft Office System deployment tips and tricks, new security features, integration with Microsoft server technologies, and much more. The BizProd Web page is at http://www.bostonusergroups.com/bizprod/ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- DON'T FORGET: Oct. 7, 2003, the next IP495 meeting After several "techie" topics like ColdFusion, XML, and .NET, we're changing pace a bit and learning how to "Work the Room with Confidence" - a workshop to improve networking skills, presented by Dr. Jan Cannon. Attend our October 7 meeting to polish your networking skills, and use the October 14 Sneak Preview meeting to expand your network as well as getting a head start on Microsoft Office 2003. To be removed from this list, got to http://www.ip495.org/rsvpform.htm. Give us the e-mail address that received this message, select "Leave our meeting distribution list," and click "Submit the RSVP" button. -- http://www.IP495.org