[buug] Fwd: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- December 2009

Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu
Wed Dec 2 12:56:57 PST 2009 

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Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter
Issue 23 -- December 2009

Thank you for reading the Pearson Education User Group Program
monthly newsletter for official group members. Please pass this
along to your colleagues and share our news and offers.

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== News & Announcements ==

Happy Holidays from the Pearson User Group Program Team!
   -- Jamie Adams, Andrea Bledsoe, Lisa Jacobson-Brown, Heather
      Fox, and Emily Nave

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== User Groups of the Month ==

Louisiana: Greater New Orleans .NET Developers User Group promotes
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Visit http://www.gnodotnet.org/ to see a schedule of upcoming
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== Authors and Events: December ==

December 3 -- Indy CUG Kickoff
8888 Keystone Crossing, 13th Floor
Indianapolis, Indiana
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Help kick off the first Indianapolis Cisco Users Group meeting in
style -- meet leaders, network, discuss group goals, eat pizza, and
listen to a presentation from Doug Ingersoll, Executive Marketing
Manager for Pearson/Cisco Press. Doug will provide news on technical
learning trends and the state of Cisco Press publishing and Cisco
certifications.
   http://www.indycug.org/home/events-and-happenings-3

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December 7-8 -- XpDay
Steve Freeman, author of "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided
by Tests," will speak at the 9th Annual XpDay London conference.
   http://www.xpday.org/

Have a User Group event in your area? Let us know!
E-mail any event details to usergroups at informit.comfor consideration
in next month's newsletter. Please include "User Group Event" in
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