Vendor Relations

A letter from Brendan McPartlan (BrendanMcPartlan@economist.com) to Potential NYLANA Sponsors:

Corporate sponsorship or membership in New York LAN Association (NYLANA) includes: a hotlink from our website to your website, addressing our general membership meeting, a one-half page ad in our publication, the New York LAN Journal all for only $500.00 per year.

Group membership in NYLANA is intended for those organizations with several networking professionals who may elect to pay $250.00 for six or more individual members instead of the usual membership fee of $50.00 per individual member.

Advantages of Organization Sponsorships

"Organization sponsorships promises to be one of the most exciting areas of marketing... Sponsorships that can potentially expand our customer base are a marketer's dream, working with associations and user groups gives us access to an industry demographic that's unbeatable--involved, technically savvy, decision-makers."
Richard Wilson, CEO of Application Partners, Inc. (Iselin, NJ).

General Information

The New York LAN Association (NYLANA) is a volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to the education of enterprise computing professionals. NYLANA is an member of the Association of PC User groups (APCUG), NetWare Users International (NUI), Microsoft Mindshare, WANTUG the Worldwide NT User Group Association amongst others. NYLANA is a volunteer operation whose membership is open to all persons interested in networking LAN's, WAN's, Intranet and the Internet.

NYLANA was organized in 1990 in New York City. Today our membership database contains over 1,200 networking interested professionals who live or work in the greater New York area.

NYLANA is organized and volunteer operated to provide opportunity for:

The primary and principal activity is to educate and promote the exchange of ideas and opinions relating to networking, LAN's, WAN's, the Internet and Intranet. To studying and discussing various business and technical aspects of networking computers.
The Association will endeavor to do this by the distribution of information to members, and in providing a forum in which members can educate themselves and share information, at the general meetings, at special interest group (SIG) meetings and through our various publications, including our bimonthly New York Lan Journal.
The activities of NYLANA are designed and intended to keeping its members informed of current scientific and technical data of special interest to them as people who utilize networking computer hardware and computer software.
The exchange of ideas and opinions, and for studying and discussing various business and technical aspects of networking personal computers.
Distribution of new information to members, and a forum in which members can share information.
Encouragement of software development among members, and assistance to members in obtaining resources necessary to develop software.

New York LAN Association Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

The Cisco SIG: A Special Interest Group of the New York LAN Association (NYLANA) user group. We focus primarily, but not exclusively, to Cisco products. We carry on the vision of providing user-to-user assistance and information related to Cisco's products, current news and information on certification and employment as well as networking with our fellow IT professionals. Learn More
The Linux SIG: A Special Interest Group of the New York LAN Association (NYLANA) user group, a not-for-profit organization established in 1990. The LINUX SIG user group is a technical resource pertaining to LINUX | RED HAT software. Learn More
The Lotus SIG: A Special Interest Group of the New York LAN Association (NYLANA) user group, a not-for-profit organization established in 1990. The IBM LOTUS SIG user group is a technical resource pertaining to IBM LOTUS software. Learn More
The Microsoft Exchange SIG: This newest user group contains information for NYLANA users of Microsoft Exchange servers. Learn More
The Novell SIG: Perhaps the largest attended because of its recurrent emphasis addressing NetWare installations, utilities, (Console One, Syscon, Session, PrintCon), Login Scripts. This SIG is usually conducted by a CNE/SE. It is a great refresher course for those new to networking. Learn More
The Small Business SIG: A new special interest group at NYLANA. This group is specially focused on information technology, just like our others, but this one has a special bent towards the particular needs of small businesses. Visit this page to find out more about small business IT. Learn More

Contact NYLANA:
1.212.807.5771

So, make the connection so that we can continue to grow professionally together.

Contact Brendan McPartlan (BrendanMcPartlan@economist.com) , President