We are growing and expanding, having many alliances and activities with groups and businesses in the greater Danbury area. If you like what we are doing, please help to spread the word about DACS, our excellent presentations each month, and the growing list of workshops we run and co-sponsor with other groups throughout the month.
Upcoming Events – Bring a friend to our future meetings. Get updated about Health Attitude and the future of healthcare and the internet (May 5th). Don’t forget, for this special meeting only, our meeting time is 6:30pm and starts with our main presentation. Don’t be late. Let us know what new topics you would like to know more about or email us directly at programs@dacs.org.
A video recording of DACS General Meeting was made at our Social media presentation on April 7th. This will be available for viewing in early May on Charter’s community access channel 192 and on their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/CommunityVision21/. We hope to make this a regular occurrence with enough support from DACS members.
Charter is willing to train us with their equipment in their free intern program so we can continue doing this. Call (203) 304-4050 to sign up now while space is still available. This is a great opportunity for you! I am excited about our new alliance with Charter, the opportunity for you to get hands-on free training, and possibly start a new DACS video workshop series at their Newtown offices.
New DACS Online Business Workshop – We launched our newest DACS workshop a few weeks ago with help from Mike Brooks who gave our March General Meeting presentation, and it was very well attended. The next “Online Business” workshop is on Monday, May 11th. Thanks go to Sean Henderson for organizing and leading future workshops.
A new Social Media workshop series will be forming soon as a result of the interest in Tom Zarecki’s Social media presentation last month. This will explore in depth how to use and benefit from each of the popular social media applications. Tom is working out the details and will announce them soon.
DACS co-sponsored Workshops and Events – We have just finished the excellent series of four Small Business Workshops we co-sponsored with SCORE and the Danbury Library. These Web-centric workshops were well attended by DACS members and resulted in attracting new DACS members.
We are co-sponsoring a new series of Microsoft Office workshops with both SCORE and Microsoft. These will run for three consecutive Saturdays starting on May 2nd and will explore the powerful capabilities baked into MS Office. DACS contributed to the structure of these workshops. My hope is that after the series is done, they will continue into regular monthly DACS workshops.
Tag line – Your opinion counts. We need a short but descriptive tag line to describe DACS that will be used consistently with our newsletter, website, social media, email, and all printed material. I like and have been using “From mobile to desktop, we inform, enlighten, and educate”. Do you agree or do you think we should use something else? Please let us know at http://dacs.org/feedback/.
25th anniversary – Let’s make this yearlong celebration a success. We want to create a much broader awareness of DACS as we participate in new activities, and create collectables of interest to DACS members and the general public. Talk about your ideas with Cathy Quaranta at the check-in table at our next general meeting or let her know by email.
From mobile to desktop, we inform, enlighten, and educate.
– Dick Gingras, President