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Hooray for Us!
Apologies to Tom Coleman, but this month I am borrowing a couple of typically Colemanish sayings. That was one! The next - "We are the greatest!". Well Tom knows something and, as usual, he's been proved right. PC Update has been honoured with no less than three awards at the Annual Intergalactic User Group Officers Conference, 1991 BIX User Group Newsletter Contest (what a mouthful!)
These awards were presented at the Association of Personal Computer User Groups( APCUG) Annual Summit, held at the same time as Comdex, late last October. When I entered our magazine in this contest, I did not realise that it was for all-comers, not just APCUG groups. As the awards were being read out (starting with newsletters up to 12 pages) and many were going to Mac publications, I thought that our chances had diminished rapidly.
To my delight our first award was for "Best Feature Articles" - beating all others! This is a tribute to everyone who writes articles for
PC Update. Many of you may not know, but lots of our articles are regularly reprinted by other groups, all around the globe. Next I was on my feet again to accept the Co-Runner Up award for Best Coverage of Group Events and Meetings - we must be doing a reasonable job of keeping you informed! Without time to get back to my chair I was up yet again
- this time for Co-Runner Up as Best Publication. This award recognises the quality of the effort put into our magazine by everyone associated with it: the authors, SIG co-ordinators, associate editors, advertisers, advertising manager, proof-readers and so on. A small but dedicated team. My thanks to all of you. Perhaps the best part of this latter award is that the Winner and other Co-Runner Up were both Mac publications. I regard this as meaning we can justifiably claim to be not only
"The Southern Hemisphere's Largest User Group Magazine", but also "The World's Best IBM PC User Group
Magazine"!!
The Best Features award is a wood-mounted plaque, with brass engraving, the other two are certificates, all three will soon be on display at the Group Office in St. Kilda Road.
A.G.M.
Elsewhere in this issue you will find details of candidates for committee positions. An election will be held to fill ten positions from the twelve nominees. (The executive positions, having exactly one nominee each, do not require an election.) If you are unable to attend the December meeting and A.G.M., please send a postal vote. If you
can come - do; there will be a lot of surprises at this meeting, those absent will miss out!
Happy Holiday Season
This is the last PC Update for 1991. The next issue will hit your mail box around 1st February 1992. On behalf of everyone associated with
PC Update, I would like to wish all our readers and advertisers the compliments of the season and a more prosperous, less recessive new year.
Your Editorial team is planning how to best bring you an even bigger magazine (while retaining sanity and marriage and getting some
sleep!) and is looking forward to the challenges of ousting the Mac guys from Number 1 spot next
year!
Reprinted from the December 1991 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
