Join a Computer Users Group!
Often times, we feel alone when we use our computers. We think our frustrations, our questions, and our needs are unique. Sometimes, we think that we have dumb questions, or we don’t want to show our lack of knowledge or experience — and, yet, that’s what we have to do to learn more…
Or, at least, to learn more the easy way! Learning the hard way is reading books, magazines, Usenet news and Internet web sites for years. The easy way is to find a local computer user group and learn from each other.
Computer clubs are full of people who want to learn and who want to share what they know. Strangely, before we find our first computer club — our first computer user group — we think that it will be nothing but experts and that we, alone, will be the outsider. In reality, many user group members are far from experts, but they are interested in learning more.
The most important thing about computer user groups is that they are full of people who meet to share information and to learn from each other.
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