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Executive Committee Meeting
The next Executive Committee Meeting will be held Monday evening,
September 10th from 7 to 9 PM at Little Euro Bar & Kitchen
(formerly The Black Lion Pub) in Meguro. All club members are invited to
attend, discuss, and help your club.
Annual General Meeting: Thursday, October 4th,
7PM
Elections
The October meeting includes the annual election of
officers. If you are interested in helping the club by serving as
President, Vice-President, or Treasurer (or care to nominate someone for
the positions), please contact the outgoing
executives.
The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union
Church on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the
Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines. The
entrance is through the parking area at the side of the church. Members free,
non-members Y1000 at the door. Doors open about 6:30, meeting starts at
7PM.
A job fair for Tokyo's Professionals
Hosted by the Tokyo PC Users Group and two other prominent Tokyo based
professional groups WIT '01 will
be the career networking event of the year. Sponsors are innovative
employers looking for engineers, project managers, web producers, web
designers and sales, marketing, media, operations and business development
specialists. Professionals from all these fields are encouraged to attend
-- even if they are not actively searching for a new position. The evening
will also feature keynote speakers addressing some of the hottest topics
in the Tokyo IT market today.
What Have You Missed?
September 2001 Meeting
A well-attended meeting, with lots of new faces,
heard three panelists describe their Internet companies and
experience, and their views about where Japan's internet scene is
going now.
- Tim Romero, Founder of Vanguard
- Business at Usual? - The real winners in Japan's
e-business revolution
PowerPoint
presentation (1.6MB zip file)
- Tim Clark, Senior Manager, Strategy, Ion Global and
author of the Japan
Internet Report
- SIPS Survivor - An inside look at the Strategic
Internet Professional Services (SIPS) industry in Japan
- Tom Foley, Chairman & C.E.O., Silver Egg
Technology
- Taking it Personal - Using AI to respond individually
to online customers
August 2001 Meeting
Martin Ott, Co-Founder and CEO of Eken K.K. described his
company's web sites: Eken, a consumer
community that lets its users share their experience and opinion on
any product or service and Moterukai which is
a simple and fun entertainment site where you can flip through other
people's pictures and rate their looks.
Richard Ochero, organizer of PC's
for Africa Campaign, described his plan for sending old and unwanted
PC's in Japan to Uganda. He urged the audience to spread the word
and help his plan to become a project. In particular, he is looking
for contacts at companies or organizations that are dumping PCs in
bulk which would make quantity shipment practical. |
July 2001 Meeting
Technocraft demonstrated Roboword a no
click translation tool. People at the meeting had the
opportunity to buy Roboword V5 at a special price.
The meeting also featured an auction of members' surplus
equipment, software, and books allowing a lot of fine junk to change
hands.
June 2001 Meeting
fusionOne
demonstrated their Internet Sync technology that allows
sharing all of your various PIM data across your office and home
PCs, handheld PDAs, mobile phone, and web desktops.
Shin'nichi Electronics demonstrated the Castlewood ORB
removeable media drive that holds up to 2.2 GB on cartridge. They
also showed of the tiny USB ThumbDrive and
gave away two to lucky members.
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