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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://sqlblog.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'fun', 'Education', and 'User Group Meetings'</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=fun,Education,User+Group+Meetings&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'fun', 'Education', and 'User Group Meetings'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)</generator><item><title>SQL Saturday #33 in Charlotte!</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2010/02/05/sql-saturday-33-in-charlotte.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:21877</guid><dc:creator>RickHeiges</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;SQL Saturday is coming to Charlotte next month!&amp;nbsp; If you are in the area, come on by.&amp;nbsp; We have a great line-up of speakers.&amp;nbsp; Find out more information at &lt;A href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/33/eventhome.aspx"&gt;http://www.sqlsaturday.com/33/eventhome.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Attend a SQL Server User Group Meeting - Today (Nov 12) - From Virtually Anywhere</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2008/11/12/attend-a-sql-server-user-group-meeting-today-nov-12-from-virtually-anywhere.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:9938</guid><dc:creator>RickHeiges</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;I posted earlier that we are holding an organizational meeting in a virtual world called "Second Life".&amp;nbsp; Second Life is a Virtual World where you interact with others by voice or typing or gestures.&amp;nbsp; Here are the details:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Where:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Microsoft User Group Island (Classroom 1) - &lt;A href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#02469b&gt;http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;When: November 12, 2008 @ 12:00pm Pacific Time&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;What:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Organizational Meeting for a SQL Server User Group&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;Leader:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Rick Heiges, Director of (not-so) Special Projects for PASS (&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.sqlpass.org/"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri color=#02469b size=3&gt;www.sqlpass.org&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;) &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;O:P&gt;If you are new to second life, it is free to join and to create yor own avitar.&amp;nbsp; Come Join us in establising a Virtual Chapter in a Virtual World.&lt;/O:P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Virtual User Group</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2008/11/06/virtual-user-group.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:56:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:9883</guid><dc:creator>RickHeiges</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;Are you interested in SQL Server?&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Have you heard about User Group Meetings (perhaps in your area), but it is difficult to get there?&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Do you like the idea of webcasts, but get bored due to little interaction?&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Come join us in establishing an Official PASS Chapter in the Virtual World of Second Life.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Second Life is a Virtual World where almost anything is possible.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Get “In-World” for FREE at &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.secondlife.com/"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri color=#0000ff size=3&gt;www.secondlife.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Where:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Microsoft User Group Island (Classroom 1) - &lt;A href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22"&gt;http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;When: November 12, 2008 @ 12:00pm PT&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;What:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Organizational Meeting for a SQL Server User Group&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;Leader:&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Rick Heiges, Director of (not-so) Special Projects for PASS (&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.sqlpass.org/"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;www.sqlpass.org&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;) &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If you are new to Second Life, go ahead and create "yourself" before next Wednesday.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I recently created my own avatar a few months ago when this was on the horizon.&amp;nbsp; I sat in on a Microsoft Office User Group Meeting and found the content informative and the interaction similar to what I found at other User Group Meetings.&amp;nbsp; The down side was there was no FREE food.&amp;nbsp;:-)&amp;nbsp; I encourage you to explore this world&amp;nbsp; - especially Microsoft isalnd - and join us next Wednesday!&lt;/P&gt;
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