Issue 24—January 2010

Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter
 

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News & Announcements

The Facebook Era Marketing Guide
Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff, provides a quick reference to get anyone started using Facebook for marketing. Tips include the best ways to build a Facebook presence, creating an ad, and more. Download The Facebook Era Marketing Guide .pdf now.
 

Ask an Expert: Windows 7
Windows 7 is newer and better than Windows XP—but are the differences important enough to switch? In this article, Windows expert Mark Edward Soper, author of Easy Microsoft Windows 7, gives you ten important reasons to make the move from XP to Windows 7.

Article: Ten Ways Windows 7 is Better than Windows XP
 


 


User Groups of the Month

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Ruby Brigade brings local developers together to "talk shop" and trade tips on projects. Learn more about upcoming meetings and topics at http://pghrb.org/.

 
Florida: Central Florida Cisco Press Certification Group seeks to assist in the understanding and implementation of Cisco related Certifications—from the associate to expert level—in a community forum. For more information, visit the CFCPC User Group on LinkedIn.


User Group Offers
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Last Chance to Win a Pre-Loaded Kindle!
InformIT and Pearson are giving away two Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices, loaded with 6 Kindle eBooks (published by Pearson) of the winner's choice. Pearson publishing imprints have more than 800 titles available for the Kindle so you can take your technical library with you for easy access and reference. Read the official rules and enter to win!
 

 

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In the Store

Blogging to Drive Business
Blogging to Drive Business
By Eric Butow, Rebecca Bollwitt
CompTIA A+ 220-701 and 220-702 Cert Kit
CompTIA A+ 220-701 and 220-702 Cert Kit
By Elizabeth Smith, Robin Graham, Ben Conry, Scott Honeycutt
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
By Zach Seils, Joel Christner, Nancy Jin
Drupal Fundamentals LiveLesson Bundle
Drupal Fundamentals LiveLesson Bundle
By Emma Jane Hogbin, Konstantin Kafer
SUSE Linux 11 Unleashed, 3rd Edition
SUSE Linux 11 Unleashed, 3rd Edition
By Michael McCallister
Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
By Rand Morimoto

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Authors and Events: January

January 13–15—CodeMash
CodeMash is a unique community event that educates developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby, Python and PHP. Stop by the Pearson table and see our latest releases for 2010!

Have a User Group event in your area? Let us know!
E-mail any event details to usergroups@informit.com for consideration in next month's User Group Program newsletter. Please include "User Group Event" in the subject line.


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