Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements

Led by Tom Lembke
Meets the 1st Monday of the month at 7pm and encompasses Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 is used to organize photos and delivers image-editing tools to produce good looking pictures and sophisticated graphics for the web.

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 includes all the tools necessary to acquire footage from any video device and produce videos with different formats.

Digital Audio

Led by Charlie Parks
Meets the 1st Thursday of the month at 7pm.
Using your computer to create music and produce professional quality CD’s and MP3's. Meetings will be geared to the beginner level for the first hour and more advanced lessons in the second hour (after we get people up to speed in the first few months).

Digital Photography

Meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7pm.
For beginning photographers who wish to learn more about their digital camera and how to take better pictures. Attendees are encourged to bring their own camera to the meeting along with any questions.

Digital Scrapbooking

Led by Jan McNulty
Meets the 1st Thursday of the month at 10am.
This SIG is all about having fun with photos, exploring software programs, sharing ideas, and showing results of one's creative work.

Digital Video

Led by Tom Lembke
Meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10am.
The group evaluates types and sources of digital files. The files may be imported into a video editor to produce a movie or archived. Methods of sharing the movie include copying the file to a DVD, publishing it to the web or saving it on the local computer.

Doc's Cafe

Led by Dave Dockery
Meets the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm.

Doc's Place

Meets each Friday at 10am.
Led by Dave Dockery

Excel

Led by Peter Summers
Meets the 1st Saturday of the month at 3pm.
This SIG explores the many uses of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program. It has many applications for users in both their work lives and personal lives ranging from a simple list keeper to a mathematically and organizationally complex spreadsheet. The topics range from basic to more advanced and are guided by the questions brought to the session by the attendees. The SIG is meant to introduce you to the software if you are a new user, and increase your skill if you are already familiar with it.

Expression Web

Led by Sam Richardson
Meets the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm.
Microsoft Expression Web is a full-featured web design program which is part of the Expression Studio suite. This SIG covers all aspects of website design, including designing for Wordpress.

EZ-Stock Trading

Led by Sue Tallmadge
Meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 10am.
If you are a serious investor, this is the place to hang out. Lots of strategies and resources: i.e. finding and using screeners, equity positions (buying, holding, selling, technicals, and alerts), options, and much, much more. Please bring your own stocks for sharing during Portfolio Selection.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

Led by Stew Bottorf
Meets the last Thursday of the month at 1pm.
The FOSS SIG encourages the use of Free and Open Source Software in place of expensive closed-source operating systems and applications. This includes Linux, the Foxfire browser and the OpenOffice suite plus much more. Now that we have started a separate Linux SIG, the FOSS SIG will now concentrate on Windows applications. See our SIG Website for an updated FOSS Finder, past SIG archives, and the next current meeting agenda.

Genealogy I & II

Led by Howard T. Smith
Meets the 1st Wednesday of the month at 2pm
and the 3rd Thursday at 7pm.

The Genealogy SIG's cover what to do in order to find your family’s vital records. Howard has over 40 years experience in the Genealogy field and teaches other basic Genealogy courses. If you have an interest in your family’s history, Howard invites you to "come and find those elusive horse thieves and other famous (or infamous) ancestors".

iPad / iPhone

Led by Tom Dixon
Meets the 2nd Friday of the month at 12pm.

Intermediate Computing

Led by Rudy Crawford
Meets the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month at 1pm.
Tips - followed by a Q&A session (all questions are fair game).

Internet Media (IMUG)

Led by Russ Fustino
Meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm.

Linux

Led by Stew Bottorf
This group meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 7pm
The Linux SIG encourages using the free Linux or BSD operating systems for desktops, laptops or servers in place of expensive proprietary closed-source operating systems. Linux / FOSS compromises no quality and allow you to put the extra money into hardware.
Find the Linux monthly agenda and more on our SIG Website.

Microsoft Access

Led by Howard Gray
Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
Microsoft Access is the relational database component of Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Office

Led by Ray Danen
Meets the 3rd Saturday of the month at 2pm.
The Microsoft Office SIG welcomes novice, intermediate and expert users. Each month we will address your issues in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. If there is a particular issue you would like addressed, please feel free to send an email to Ray Danen and we will put your item on the agenda. Please be sure o put: "Microsoft Office Sig TBCS" in the subject line of the email. It is always so much more fun to learn from each other than it is to study a manual! You will not only find information at this special interest group, but also camaraderie and fun.

Newbie

Led by Rudy Crawford
Meets the 2nd Friday of the month at 1pm.

Novice

Led by Bill De Lucia
This group meets each Tuesday at 1pm.
We welcome all of the folks just starting into the world of computing. We meet every Tuesday afternoon at the Resource Center. Our emphasis is on word processing, greeting cards, and Internet & e-mail basics. Our additional purpose is to help the novice become computer literate and suggest ways to keep out of trouble. All questions will be answered and treated with respect.

Photoshop

Led by Dennis Hughes
This group meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 7pm.
Our Photoshop class will range from beginners to the advanced Photoshop user. It is centered around the most recent version, CS5, but will cover features in previous versions. The class is primarily focused on the photography uses of Photoshop, but will entertain graphics questions. The class is two hours with a 10 minute break and will also cover Photoshop “plug ins” such as high dynamic range (HDR) and filters by different software houses. The class will cover both the PC and Mac versions.

Photoshop Elements Novice

Led by Peter Summers
Meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 1pm.
This is a daytime beginners forum for the Photoshop Elements product from Adobe. The program has many of the capabilities of the full Photoshop program, and is ideal for those who want some advanced photo editing tools but do not need the professional level version. The session will be question-and-answer driven, but each meeting the leader will select a topic for the group to explore.

Power Point

Led by Peter Summers
Meets the 1st Saturday of the month at 1pm.
This SIG explores the many uses of PowerPoint, a software component of Micro Soft Office. It has uses in both personal and business settings that will be explored. You can use it to make a photo album complete with animation and sound, and then put it on a disk that can be used anywhere whether or not the software is loaded on that particular computer (great for gifts or just sharing family events). In your business life you can use the program to create presentations consisting of slides, graphics and animation that will make any meeting more effective and enjoyable (and impress the boss). It will also produce outlines and handouts that support the presentation. The SIG is meant to introduce you to the software if you are a new user, and increase your skill if you are already familiar with it.

Publishing Software

Led by Stacy Lloyd
This group meets the 4th Monday of the month at 7pm.
The Publishing Software SIG uses In-Design software by Adobe to demonstrate professional software publishing techniques.

Visual Basic and General Programming SIG

Led by Tom Kiehl
This group meets the 1st Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
The VB SIG welcomes all members interested in programming in VB as well as other languages. All are invited to bring your coding triumphs and tribulations and share them with the group. Topics covered are often impromptu discussions that may apply to Visual Basic, PHP, MysQL, C#, SQL Server and other platforms. One thing is for certain though, you'll learn something new at every meeting of Tom Kiehl's popular SIG.

Web Entrepreneurs

Led by Tom Kiehl
This group meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
Tom teaches intermediate level subjects. He has an awesome grasp of computer and Internet technologies. He's our in-house Visual Basic, HTML, WordPress, C#, and CMS specialist.

Web Discussions

Led by Jim Cook
This group meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm.
This SIG focuses on the more advanced topics of web site design, and is for those wishing to learn to design Web sites.

Windows

Led by Chris Walters
Meets the 4th Thursday of the month at 7pm.
We explore all aspects of Window applications form Windows 95 to Vista.

WordPress

Led by Sam Richardson
Meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7pm.
For all Wordpress users of all levels of expertise. Each meeting will be comprised of a lecture / teaching portion and a troubleshooting / discussion portion, and each meeting will include some basic and some advanced subjects. Meeting topics will include themes, plugins, security, contact forms, graphics, media, post and page tweaks, incorporating social media accounts, maintenance and anything else that comes along. The goal is to delve deeper into using Wordpress and find new ways of getting more out of Wordpress.