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On the subject of anniversaries, the one year anniversary of this blog passed quietly in early November.  Just want to take a moment to recap our experience with it so far.  Back on Nov 5th 2008, this is how we launched:

“Hello everyone.  I’m starting this blog in tandem with a push to move the Philly FileMaker Developer Group into a more participatory, public space.  Not really sure yet where that will take us.”

We’ve done our best since then to make our user group experience both public and participatory, especially in terms of sharing content with an audience that doesn’t necessarily walk through our physical doors.  In the past year we’ve:

• written product reviews
• posted FileMaker tips and tricks
• launched the “Five Minutes with Philly FileMaker” video interview series with FileMaker luminaries
• live streamed and recorded Philly FileMaker meeting sessions
• written comprehensive recaps of meetings
• reported from Pause On Error
• reported from DevCon

We also had tons of DevCon speakers present to the group this year, including Matt O’Dell (FileMaker Inc), Jesse Barnum (360Works), Ernest Koe (Proof Group), Jason Mundok (IT Solutions Consulting), and Tim Neudecker (Kyologic), as well as MacWorld Expo speaker, author and Applescript guru Ben Waldie (Automated Workflows) and Anthony Celini (CAB Inc).  Thank you!

And a thank you in advance to Molly Connolly (Thorsen Consulting) and Kirk Bowman (Mighty Data), who will present in February and March 2010 respectively.

As far as the blog itself, we’re still working out which of these efforts best serve our core group and the general public, so expect things to continue to change.

But I thought I’d take this opportunity to solicit suggestions from the group and from the public as to what you’d like to see in this space.  You can email me at colin.keee(at)itsolutions-inc.com with anything you’d like to share.

It’s been an exciting year, and we’re looking forward to the next one.  For those of you in the neighborhood, hope to see you in December!

Best,

Colin Keefe
PFUG Coordinator