#LVAdobe Photoshop World 2012 Meetup/Tweetup 9-3-12

Tweet       The Las Vegas Adobe User Group held a meetup/tweetup event on 3 Sep 2012 to kick-off the Photoshop World (PSW12) festivities. The event was totally and organically organized by the Adobe User Group community and Adobe Community Professionals flying-in to participate in PSW12. I was invited to come represent Adobe, chat...

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Adobe Community Team @ Photoshop World User Group Event Sept 3rd @ RiRa Mandalay Bay

Tweet I will be attending this casual meetup (Pre-Photoshop World) at the RiRa Irish Pub inside Mandalay Bay Casino. Those that register on the eventbrite site should look me up for their raffle ticket. I will be drawing prizes at 9pm. Who knows what I will bring to this event? Get in! Also, at this...

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CS6 Adobe User Group Launch Parties – Boston & Kansas City–May 2012

Tweet   First leg of the CS6 Adobe User Group tour began in Boston with the Boston Design Camp.  Kirsten Rourke was the organizer of this event; we had been working on the organization of the event since February.  It was nice to see it all come together.  The event was cross-promoted among the local...

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On the Road to CS6 Launch Parties – Denver

Tweet CS6 User Group events May-June 2012 (Denver) While on my way to the Boston Design Camp, I had a stop over in Denver. I met up with Amanda Johnson and Joseph Labrecque from the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group. It’s always time well spent while on the road… talking to the User Group Managers...

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San Diego and Orange County AUG visits – March 2012

Tweet “Getting to know your community is one of the most important things a Community Manager should be doing; and, one can’t do that behind a desk!”  Besides, the big community summit the Community Team does every year @AdobeMAX, we often get out and visit the User Groups to see if they are healthy, alive/still meeting,...

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Adobe Flex Tour Seattle 22Feb2012

Tweet I had the opportunity to attend the Adobe Flex Tour Stop at the Silver Cloud Inn in Seattle this week. Adobe Evangelism Manager Greg Wilson was co-presenting with Mike Labriola(ApacheFlex/Spoon) to over 40 attendees.We had several Adobe folks attending as well Evangelist Renaun Erickson(Las Vegas), Alex Harui (Adobe Flex SDK team Seattle), and Michelle Yaiser...

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The New Web HTML5 14Nov11

Tweet 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...

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NCDEVCON 2011

Tweet 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),...

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MuraCON Sacramento Aug 25-26th, 2011

Tweet   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...

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

Tweet 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...

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