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At a kick-off
meeting held today at Apple
Computer's
headquarters here, the New
York MacUsers Group (NYMUG) unveiled a broad
range of new membership services designed
for the unique needs of businesses with
large numbers of Macintosh users or with
Macs in mission-critical roles. MIS
professionals and executives from New
York's Fortune 100, as well as their
counterparts at high-end post-production,
advertising and multimedia boutiques,
attended in a record setting display of
support. This is believed to be the first
time a user group has presented a suite of
business-oriented services such as
these.
NYMUG officials
announced a broad array of new services
including special interest groups (SIGs)
for MIS professionals, multiple levels of
technical support services, education, and
temporary and permanent staffing services,
to help businesses more efficiently manage
their support and infrastructure
demands.
"It is no secret
that these are interesting times for
Macintosh users," said Scott Douglas,
Director of NYMUG. "We have structured a
set of membership services that build a
bridge between the needs of corporate Mac
environments and what is essentially the
'club-house' for New York's most savvy
Macintosh creative and technical
talent."
The launch of
Corporate Membership Services is just one
of many enhancements that NYMUG has
introduced since they announced the
partnership with Charles River Computers,
a leading NYC-based Mac and PC systems
support and consulting
organization.
"We're very pleased
that NYMUG has been able to leverage some
of our management systems and tools for
supporting corporate information
technology in order to put together these
much-needed programs for the business
community," commented Vincent Salzillo,
Director of Macintosh Services at Charles
River Computers.
"In the past,
businesses in New York City looking for
Mac expertise would have limited options
and ultimately would have to choose
between taking on additional technical
staff or engaging the services of
consulting or systems integration houses.
Which, when you think about it, is not
very efficient, since many of the city's
best Macintosh professionals are right
here at NYMUG. With our talent pool and
CRC's management infrastructure and
resources, corporate members get the
best
of both worlds."
About NYMUG NYMUG is
the country's third largest Macintosh
computer user group and New York's largest
association of computer talent. It is
perhaps best known for its award-winning
Mac Street Journal, a widely-circulated
newsletter produced by its members, as
well as a popular Internet bulletin board
service (BBS) and MacFair, an annual trade
show.
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