I was scanning the Weblogs main feed last night and came upon Julie's post about book donations from publishing companies.  So I quickly sent her an email asking for help in hooking up my local user group and she nicely replied with “Just go to the respective publisher web sites and request to join.”

Hmm...yes something so simple it was apparently difficult to concieve.  Thanks Julie :)

Moral of the story: If you are a User Group Leader and you have not signed up, don't delay.  Sign up now!