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Starting an InDesign® User Group

Phase I

Organizational meeting or conference call:

1. Invite other users to join in an organizational meeting to determine interest, needs, and how structured the group needs to be initially.
2. Survey all attending the first organizational meeting to discover where the user group focus would serve the most people.
3. Ask some of the attendees to serve on an organizational committee and/or as charter officers.
4. Notify potential members via local computer dealers, corporate IT departments, schools, friends, co-workers, local newspapers. Point them to the InDesign User Group website and encourage them to enter their contact information (http://www.indesignusergroup.com).

Phase II

InDesign User Group 1st meeting:

1. Confirm the meeting place and the meeting date.
2. Decide the meeting title/subject/agenda and write an e-mail invitation.
   
   
3. E-mail the meeting’s “invitation” to (3 weeks before the meeting’s date).
4. The webmaster will send an e-mail invitation to all those who have registered and to a selected list of InDesign users from Adobe.
5. As the date of the meeting approaches, the webmaster will provide you a count and a list of the attendees.
6. Provide the webmaster with the group officer’s complete contact information (Shipping address) where we can ship product literature and door prizes for the meeting

Phase III

Get your meeting communications posted to this site. E-mail the webmaster with:

1. An announcement of upcoming meetings (including time, date, agenda and location)
2. A count of how many people attended the last meeting
3. A summary of the last meeting (topics discussed, presentations, guest speakers)
4. Photographs of the group, photos of presenters, events, etc.

This information will get posted on your chapter’s home page (examples can be seen on the chapters page of this site).

If you need to discuss these steps or if you have any questions about starting up a user group in your area, please e-mail Noha Edell at:

Noha Edell

Noha is a Business Development Manager for Adobe Systems and specializes in Adobe InDesign® and Adobe Illustrator®.

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