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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #255 on: September 11, 2012, 02:46:56 PM »
My upcoming schedule:


September
9/24/2012 4th Monday – Golden Gate, San Francisco
Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Napa Room 1010 Northgate Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903
www.ggcs.org


9/25/2012 4th Tuesday – Computer User’s Group of Redding
Redding City Library 1100 Parkview Ave Redding, CA 96001
http://cugr.apcug.org/


9/27/2012 4th Thursday – Modesto PCUG
Denny's Restaurant 1525 McHenry Ave. Modesto, CA 95350
www.mpcug.net


October
10/01/2012 1st Monday – Greater South Bay User Group (Torrance)
3301 Airport Drive Torrance, CA 90505
http://gsbug.apcug.org/


10/03/2012 1st Wednesday – Under the Computer Hood UG (San Diego)
Woodbury Hall at the Wesley Palms 2404 Loring St, San Diego, CA 92109
www.uchug.org


10/04/2012 1st Thursday – Big Bear Computer Club
Big Bear Discovery Center 40971 North Shore Drive/Highway 38 Fawnskin, California 92303
www.bigbearcc.org


10/05/2012 1st Friday – PC Community, Hayward
Calvary Baptist Church at 28924 Ruus Road, Hayward California 94544
www.pcc.org


10/07/2012 1st Sunday – SLO Bytes, San Luis Obispo
IOOF Hall, 520 Dana Street, San Luis Obispo CA 93408 
http://www.slobytes.org/index.shtml


10/09/2012 2nd Tuesday 5:00pm – San Jose PCUG
Almaden Comm Center,Computer classroom 6445 Camden Avenue San Jose, CA 95120
http://www.sjpc.org


10/11/2012 2nd Thursday – KIPCUG, Bakersfield
Valley Baptist Church 4800 Fruitvale Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93308
http://www.kipug.org


There is an open invitation to attend any one of these presentations.
Guaranteed to be more exciting than watching TV.
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #256 on: September 12, 2012, 12:43:01 AM »
Hi bob3160,

This makes a very interesting read. Must be rather hectic for you. By the way as you meet a lot of people out there. How many of them you think are long time avast users? Can you make a fair guess at that number. As I assume avast av must be quite wide-spread in the States. Keep up the good work,

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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #257 on: September 12, 2012, 12:52:17 AM »
Hi bob3160,

This makes a very interesting read. Must be rather hectic for you. By the way as you meet a lot of people out there. How many of them you think are long time avast users? Can you make a fair guess at that number. As I assume avast av must be quite wide-spread in the States. Keep up the good work,

Damian
Hello Damian,

I wish I could say that a lot of them have been using avast! for a long time but that's not usually the case.
Most of the people at these presentations that are using a free AV program are using AVG or MSE.
That pictures changes to some extent when I return to a club. At that point, I usually find a greater number of
avast! users than before the first presentation.
I do know that if these presentations aren't helping in converting users, I would no longer be doing them. :)
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #258 on: September 12, 2012, 05:53:57 PM »
New converts to avast! don't only come from people who attend the presentation.


I just received the following from someone I met and talked to at my local Airport in
Albuquerque, NM (Sunport):


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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #259 on: September 14, 2012, 03:56:02 AM »
19 Members of the Mid-Hudson Computer Users Group in Poughkeepsie, NY,
attended the remote presentation on 9/13/2012.
The presentation was followed by a fairly lengthy Q&A session. 

The trials and tribulations of doing a remote presentation.
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #260 on: September 14, 2012, 01:45:34 PM »

                                 (Click image to start the video)
I'm still having a problem capturing the audio from the remote site.
(Eventually I'll find the right settings.)
As you can tell, doing a remote presentation 100% successfully depends on a lot of variables.
Not all of which are under the control of the presenter.  ;D
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #261 on: September 23, 2012, 11:47:51 AM »

A stopover in Mesa AZ before heading on to San Francisco this morning.
The first presentation on this tour will be for the Golden Gate Computer Society on Mon 9/24/2012
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #262 on: September 25, 2012, 01:45:05 PM »



The 9/24/2012 Presentation before the  Golden Gate Computer Society
was attended by 68 Members and Guests and filled the Napa room of the Four Points Sheraton Hotel
in San Rafael, CA.Many of the questions asked were answered during the presentation and the rest
were addressed after the presentation.
(More pictures to follow)


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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #263 on: September 26, 2012, 12:59:57 PM »

                             

On 9/25/2012, 46 members and guests of the CUGR attended the presentation at the Redding City Library
in Redding CA.

Here are a few pictures that were taken prior to the start of the presentation:
   
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« Reply #264 on: September 28, 2012, 01:58:10 PM »

                                                                                               Getting ready for a presentation in Modesto CA

On 9/27/2012, 15 Members of the Modesto PC Users Group attended the presentation. This is small but very active group and they asked quite a few questions.
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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #265 on: September 29, 2012, 10:04:51 PM »


Some pictures from our stop over at Sequoia National Monument on 9/28/2012 while in California
doing Security related Seminars. Thank you Avast for making this possible. :)
This tour coincides with Nation Cyber Security Month.

http://youtu.be/i9lxgSMiJsg

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« Reply #266 on: September 30, 2012, 08:06:32 PM »

Inside Sequoia National Monument



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Re: avast! Security Seminars and avast! Presentations at Technology Conferences
« Reply #267 on: October 02, 2012, 12:49:43 PM »


   
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On 10/1/2012, 19 members of the Greater South Bay Users Group attended the presentation.

The group asked many questions during and after the presentation.
I was even able to demonstrate the answer to a question posed by one of the members who is an avast! user.
The meeting was held at Zamperini Field in Torrance CA.

                               
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« Reply #268 on: October 03, 2012, 12:09:47 PM »
Bob, I'm not sure where to place this appreciation... so I searched "presentations" and found this thread.

As you know, I try to monitor all press coverage (at least in English) about AVAST Software, and sometimes it can take a while to get through it all. That said, I today finally got around to reading an article about your presentation to the Chicago Computer Society back in May, which was covered by Chicago Tribune's TribLocal!

http://triblocal.com/tinley-park/calendar/2012/05/01/south-suburban-computer-club-meeting-protecting-yourself-and-your-identity-online/

You're an amazing man, Bob, and on behalf of our whole Marketing/PR team, thanks for being a great alternative to full-page advertisements over urinals. ;)

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« Reply #269 on: October 03, 2012, 01:32:46 PM »
Thanks Jason,
http://bob3160.blogspot.com/2012/05/5-1-2012-south-suburban-sig-in-south.html
I'm enjoying every minute of it.
There's certainly a big difference in the weather between Chicago in May and California in October.
Wonder how many more urinals we can cover with full page ads.   ;D
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