Act Consultant Holds Virtual Meeting Of The Act! Users Group

The ACT! Users Group of South Florida will hold its August 7, 2006 meeting in a new location – the Internet. Previously, the meetings were held at the South County Civic Center in Delray Beach, Florida. The meeting, like others in the past, is sponsored by nationally known ACT! consultant, author and trainer, Karen Fredricks, of Tech Benders.

Fredricks is organizing and serving as the moderator for the evening. The meeting will focus on the upcoming release of ACT! 2007. Users log into the meeting site on the Internet and accessed a conference call to allow them to attend the meeting virtually as well as pose any questions or comments they have.

According to Fredricks, "The ACT! Users Group of South Florida has been going strong for the last 6 years because of the loyalty of ACT! Users. Every time a new release comes out users have all sorts of questions. The Users Group provides existing ACT! users with a forum to see a demo of ACT! 2007 prior to its release and to pose their questions.”

“Users have a lot of questions prior to purchasing a software upgrade,” continued Fredricks. “Our attendees have the chance to test drive the software before making a purchase.”

Fredricks has over 20 years of computer consulting and training experience, during which time she has acquired in-depth expertise in the operational requirements of a broad spectrum of businesses. Author of three ACT! ForDummies books, she is also the editor of the ACT! Extra newsletter. Fredricks recently completed work on ACT! 2007 for Dummies. A frequent guest on numerous computer radio talk shows, Fredricks is an ACT! Certified Consultant, an ACT! Premier Trainer and a former member of ACT!’s Partner Advisory Council. She was selected to host the Fort Lauderdale stop of the national launch of ACT! 6.0, which took place in August, 2002. Fredricks is also a QuickBooks Pro Certified Advisor and author of copyrighted training materials for business users of QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Basic Windows and the Internet.

Tech Benders, which was established by Karen Fredricks, provides technology consulting and training to business and industry. Its services include needs analysis to determine hardware and software requirements, installation of selected software packages and troubleshooting, software customization, and training. Tech Benders personnel are proficient in the most widely used business software packages, including ACT!, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and the Internet.

For further information about the ACT! Users Group, contact Fredricks at 561-470-5450 or by email at ugsf@techbenders.com.