mugh

About

A few years ago, an idea was born it was and is still popularly known as DNUG (DotNET Users Group) Hyderabad. which today has matured and stands in front of you transformed as MUGH (Microsoft Users Group; Hyderabad).

Although MUGH started life as DNUG (.NET Users' Group), Hyderabad, we felt that various Microsoft technologies function so well in concert with each other - and our earlier name did restrict our scope to just one of them. Today we have special groups branched into various fields under MUGH, namely dnug (a dot net user group) , it pro (a user group for it community), sqlcon ( India's first sql community ) , a students group , and supports various other user groups from different Regions.

MUGH is operated by a core group that consists of Microsoft MVPs and Community Stars - in addition, Microsoft often helps us in conducting our activities that include user group meetings.

Presently, MUGH's user group meetings are held once every month - you need to be a MUGH member to attend these meets. MUGH membership is free - in fact you can join straightaway...

Core Group Profiles

Hima Bindu Vejella has been a Microsoft MVP and member for the Community-Credit Hall of Fame since 2006, and is currently working as a Team Manager at Prokarma Softech in Hyderabad, where she makes use of her vast experience in software development using Microsoft technologies. She is also an active community leader, as well as an author for sites such as aspalliance, dotnetslackers, PCQuest and, recently, Simple-Talk. She is a speaker, book reviewer, DotnetUserGroupHyderabad India Lead, a Moderator at syntaxhelp, an INETA APAC volenteer, a regular columnist for MUNDO.NET, and a Technical Member at dotnetspider. She has presented more than 200 sessions at various colleges and events both virtual and 'real', covering topics ranging from MVP awareness to VS2010. Hima is passionate about giving back to the community, and you can follow her on Twitter, or read her personal blog at HimaBinduVeljella.blogspot.com, and technical blog at http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/hima

Geetesh Bajaj is an awarded Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for over a decade now. He has been designing and training with PowerPoint for 15 years and heads Indezine, a presentation design studio and content development organization based out of Hyderabad, India. Geetesh believes that any PowerPoint presentation is a sum of its elements--these elements include abstract elements like concept, color, interactivity, and navigation--and also slide elements like shapes, graphics, charts, text, sound, video, and animation. He explains how these elements work together in his best-selling book Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies--the book has several five-star ratings on Amazon.com. He has also authored three subsequent books on PowerPoint 2007 for Windows, and one on PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.

His Indezine.com site attracts more than two million page views each month and has thousands of free PowerPoint templates and other goodies for visitors to download. In addition, Geetesh also issues a bi-weekly PowerPoint newsletter on Indezine.com that has a hundred thousand subscribers. And yes--indezine.com has so much more--product reviews, personality interviews, a busy blog, and even a presentation bank.