User Group Community Awards Adobe Systems Incorporated for Excellent User Group Relations; User Group Community Awards Vendors of Ten Superior Macintosh Products.SOQUEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1996--Adobe Systems was presented the Premium Partnership Award at San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden MACWORLD Expo. Voting for the Premium Partnership Award was based on the vendor who provided the best support to Macintosh User Groups Macintosh User Groups (MUGs) are groups of people who meet both virtually (through email) and in the real world to discuss all things Mac. They exist to give and share support and advice between members. throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "It's very rewarding and quite an honor to have the Adobe User Group Relations Program recognized as the best," stated Rye Livingston, Adobe Manager of User Group Relations & Professional Associations. "User Groups are crucial to raising awareness Raising awareness is a common phrase advocacy groups use to justify a particular event, brochure or even the entire organization. Raising awareness refers to alerting the general public that a certain issue exists and should be approached the way the group desires. , building understanding, and educating the community on the use of computer software products. We want to thank the User Group community for their continued support." Premium Product Awards were given to ten Macintosh vendors at San Francisco MACWORLD Expo. Premium Product Award recipients were: Zip Drive See Zip disk. (hardware, storage) Zip Drive - A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable 100 megabyte hard disks. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. , Iomega Emailer, Claris Corporation Norton Utilities, Symantec Corporation Soft Windows 2.0, Insignia Solutions RAM Doubler, Connectix Speed Doubler, Connectix Radius 81/110 CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , Radius Conflict Catcher 3.0, Casady & Greene Supra A relational DBMS from Cincom Systems, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (www.cincom.com) that runs on IBM mainframes and VAXs. It includes a query language and a program that automates the database design process. FaxModem 28.8, Supra Corporation Quicken, Intuit Selection for the Premium Product Awards was based on quality of the product and overall value to the individual user. User Group Connection subsidiary, User Group Store, polled Macintosh User Group See MUG. (MUG) leaders throughout the U.S. via e-mail. MUG leaders responded with their votes for Premium Products and for the vendor with the best User Group relations. The kudos for Adobe was confirmed by a questionnaire filled out by 232 MUG leaders two days after the award was presented to Mr. Livingston. 70% of the respondents felt that Adobe was one of the most successful vendors in working with User Groups. Claris was second with 34% votes. Peter Visel, Merchandise Manager for the User Group Store, stated that, "The public opinions of User Group Leaders for, or against, a product carries a tremendous weight in their respective communities. There are over 2,100 MUGs in the U.S., representing over 500,000 enthusiastic Mac users. When a large percentage of them are favoring the same specific product or vendor, it speaks volumes for that vendor." User Group Connection (UGC See user-generated content. ), a privately-held California Corporation, was founded July 26, 1993, as a spin-out of Apple Computer, Inc. UGC is dedicated to supporting User Groups and helping vendors connect with them. Individual users can locate a PC or Macintosh User Group near them through an online locator at http://www.ugconnection.com/. The User Group Store started in August, 1995, as a mail-order subsidiary of UGC. The User Group Store catalog features various MacOS-compatible systems, refurbished Macintosh computers and other Mac hardware and software that is recommended by User Groups. Only current members of Apple-authorized User Groups in the United States can purchase from User Group Store. For further information, you can reach UGC and User Group Store at 2840 Research Park Drive, Suite 100, Soquel, CA 95073, 408-477-4277, E-mail: ugc@ugconnection.com. CONTACT: User Group Connection Sam Decker, 408-461-5700, x202 sdecker@ugconnection.com |
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