Special Interest Groups for Focused Vectorworks Training

A few months ago, archoncad changed the structure for the subscription meetings to have workshop meetings one week, with special-interest group meetings the following week.

Each month, we have a series of workshop meetings. These meetings follow the structure of the PDF manual closely, but still allow time for Q&A based on the workshop topic. These are working extremely well, allowing users to question topics from the workshop (following along the PDF manual) or ask questions when more clarification is required.  the PDF manual has links to movies. This allows the user to read the manual, click on the link and watch a movie that covers that part of the manual.

Unlike the workshop meetings, the special-interest group meetings do not have a PDF manual, therefore we not limited to the topic. This allows users to choose the topic for the meeting, allowing them to focus on the most important areas of Vectorworks that they need to resolve. Users are responding well to these special interest groups. They are enjoying the ability to ask questions on a range of topics, but focused on their industry group.  These sessions are recorded, allowing users that were unable to attend to still learn from the sessions. After each special interest group session, I get several users sending me e-mails or messages, telling me how much they got out of the session, such as this email.