The New Web HTML5 14Nov11

I had the opportunity to go on a road trip to see the HTML5 event put on by the Los Angeles Adobe User Groups.  Once again, like the June Creative Suite 5.5 Launch Event, I was impressed on how well the LA Adobe User Group Managers get along and organize their events together.  The June...

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NCDEVCON 2011

Adobe sponsored the North Carolina Developer Conference (NCDEVCON) in Raleigh, NC last weekend (Sept 17-18th, 2011). There were over 250 paid attendees — the event sold out.  I was approached (8) weeks ago to help wrangle speakers, content, promotion, logistics on behalf of Adobe.   Hats off to Dan Wilson (@danwilson), Jim Priest (@thecrumb), and...

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MuraCON Sacramento Aug 25-26th, 2011

  Adobe was called in to be a last minute sponsor of MuraCON.  Over (70) ColdFusion and Web Developers attended a 2 day conference at Drexel University campus in Sacramento. Nice venue right by the river and down the street from the California capital building.  The MuraCon organizers assured me that they wanted to start small...

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Community Leadership Summit (Portland, OR) Jul 23-24, 2011

Birds of a Feather — Flock Together Michael Van Riper (Google), Aaron Houston (Adobe/Sun), Bruno Souza (SouJava/Sun), & Steve Chin (JUG/AUG leader–OSCON Java Track Lead) Rachel Luxemburg and I attended the Community Leadership Conference which takes place the weekend before OSCON.  We saw some of the same familiar faces that we normally see at the January...

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JAX-SJ-VegasFlash-LAFlex-June2011

“June was a busy month for the Adobe Community & Evangelism Teams, so here are some highlights“ — Aaron Houston (Adobe Community Mgr)  JAX San Jose Ca – June 21-22, 2011 Ben Forta (above), Adobe’s Evangelism Director, addresses Java Enterprise audience at JAX San Jose about Adobe’s launch of new product: Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform. ...

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Creative Suite 5.5 Joint Launch Event with LA Adobe User Groups — June 03, 2011

Creative Suite 5.5 Joint Launch Event with LA Adobe User Groups — June 03, 2011 Challenge Met! – Exceeded!  I attended a very special Adobe User Group (AUG) CS5.5 launch event held at the offices of AlmerBlank located at 525 Venezia Ave in Venice, CA. For past couple of months, I have been issuing a...

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First of many visits…. My trip to Vegas User Groups

Adobe User Group Visit – 16 March 2011 (Las Vegas AUGs) One of the things, I asked Adobe to do for the User Groups this past year in our budget process was to make it easier for me as the Adobe Community Manager to visit user group meetings, so I can judge for myself how...

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RIM Playbook webinars for AUGs Feb 2011

These Events have concluded. We had (5) sessions with over 400 attendees. Webinar Agenda: - Overview - API’s to build great apps - Skinning with QNX UI Components - BlackBerry App World (submitting apps & revenue generation) - Q&A with RIM engineers Webinar Slide Deck: http://bit.ly/augs-rim2011-slidedeck We may ask other User Groups to have their...

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Visit with JP Pettines: former educator Univ of Philippines-JEDI

1/25/2011 Old Friends from the Java Community & JEDI Lots of my former community folks, Java User Group leaders, were in San Francisco Area this week.  One of my former Java Champions stopped by to chat with me at the San Jose Adobe office.  John Paul “JP” Pettines was interested on how my life as...

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Lunch w/Stephen Chin: FlashON; Visage-Android; AIR for TV; and more

21Jan2011 — San Jose, CA -Community Connections- I had the opportunity to host Stephen Chin for lunch at the Adobe offices in San Jose.  Stephen Chin is Director of SW Engineering at GXS by day and an open-source developer and author by night.  Indeed, “Steve” was taking a break from writing his upcoming A-Press book...

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