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I will be in the Portland, Oregon area for the June AUGI Board of Directors meeting at the end of this week. If you are local to that area, then join me and my AUGI buddies at a “Meet-Up” - check here for details.
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I just returned from presenting three classes at the Salt Lake City CAD Camp. It was a well attended event in downtown SLC. Matt Murphy “Revealed” several classes. David Cohn presented on Annotation Scaling for Text. There were Civil, Architectural and Manufacturing focused classes. I presented on CAD Leadership, [...]

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I attended the AUGI CAD Camp today.  It was located near LAX airport.  It was a great event.
AUGI provided a wide range of educational presentations.  Matt Murphy was the master of ceremonies, as he does so well at so many events.  He presented some of his “Revealed” topics.  Other presenters included Robert Green on CAD [...]

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I will be speaking at the ASPE (American Society of Professional Estimators) Building Information Modeling seminar in Las Vegas this Friday. I will be speaking on the topic of who is using BIM, what tools they are using and how BIM is changing the AEC market. The event is a one day seminar [...]

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Christmas Bells - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864)
As with any composition that touches the heart of the hearer, this poem flowed from the experience of Longfellow. When Longfellow penned the words to this poem, America was still embroiled in it’s Civil War and months away from Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on [...]

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Another long day. Up early to make my class on “CAD Leadership“. I presented this class twice as requested by the AU staff.

The AUGI booth was busy and many were signing up to join AUGI.
For more pictures of the event, check out Shaan Hurley’s photo album on Flickr. My smiling face even [...]

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A long day for me at AU 2007.
It started off with a “Writer’s Breakfast” that AUGI put on for the writers of Hot News, AUGI World and BLAUGI. A large group of writers were in attendance and we discussed the future of publication in differing languages. Next it was on to a Board [...]

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The day started off with an overwhelming confluence of people. Nearly 10,000 people are in attendance at this years event. And I think they all ate breakfast at the same time. It is quite a hike to get to the food area. Then the long hike back…
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I arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday for some pre AU events.
I spent the day on Monday with the AUGI Board of Directors developing plans for future AUGI programs, events, and offerings.
Then it was on the AUGI Leadership Conference. We had over 125 people involved. This was a dedicated time for leaders to [...]

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