The following post was written by Rodney Lake. Rodney runs the .Net User Group in Tauranga, and recently had 54 people attend one of his user group meetings due to smart promotion. He shares his tips for you here. Promoting a user group One way...

I was just looking at the user group schedule around the country and there are lots on this week. Just tonight there are the following user group meetings: Auckland SQL Server User Group Wellington SQL Server User Group Wellington Office User Group Wellington...

I know - the last one only just came out yesterday. I'll blame the spam legislation :-) Here is this weeks - should be in your mail box Friday or early next week. Silverlight, Rugby and Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 1.0 is out! The final release...

The following post was written by Kirk Jackson who leads the Wellington .Net User Group. Kirks group is one of the most consistent and well run groups in New Zealand. Continuity, speakers and good running I organise the Wellington .NET user group, and...

The following post was written by Chandima Kulathilake who was one of the founders and is a leader of the Wellington Sharepoint User Group. Starting a user group (Lessons learnt) Darryl from MSFT NZ sent a few of the New Zealand User Group leads an email...

We've got some smart people running User Groups in New Zealand. They have been running user groups for a variety of periods from several years to several months, but they are all smart, hard working people who know how to start and run these groups well...

The user group leaders in New Zealand do an outstanding job. These are the people who out of passion for technology start and/or run a user group in New Zealand. Month in and month out they organize venues, speakers, beer, pizza, mailing lists, attendees...

Next week my User Group Tour kicks off. This is the first one since last year , and I have more user groups to go to now too. I'm presenting on Visual Studio 2008 which is due to RTM late this year and launch next March. Title: A Lap around Visual...

You may have already noticed the murmurings of another code camp - just weeks after the last one. This Code Camp is being organized by the Christchurch crowd ( Peter is the front man for it) and will therefore be the first Code Camp ever in the South...