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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CLS West 2011 – A Community Leader’s Cabal

About a year ago, I attended this conference of community leaders at insistence of Michael Van Riper (aka “the Serial Community Organizer“) whom I knew very well from the Java Community.  Little did I know, that I would be meeting my future boss (Rachel Luxemburg aka rlux on twitter) at the CLS-West conference.  So, after...

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DEVOXX – Day2 University Day (+ some BOF recordings)

Just a quick Update Post-DEVOXX. Previous DEVOXX Day1 Blog Entry here: http://bit.ly/da0Ook Below is a collection of MP3′s while at the conference. BOFs are not normally recorded at DEVOXX, so I make no claims about the quality of the recordings…in other words — turn the volume to “11″ to make the most of this content....

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DEVOXX – REDUX (RIAs, Mobile, and a Community-Revisited)

This week I am on the road to Antwerp, Belgium. There is a very popular Java Developer Conference here every year in November run by the Belgian Java User Group.  Adobe is a Premium sponsor again this year; and, it is my pleasure to be able to return to this very cool community driven conference. ...

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A “MAX” Experience @AdobeMAX 2010

It was great to be part of the Adobe Community Team at my first AdobeMAX conference.  My first event with both developers and designers in a whole new community eco-system since coming over to Adobe from Sun Microsystems (6) months ago.  The communities are surprisingly very similar.  Adobe puts a lot of energy and resources...

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Adobe Community Team: We <3 Community

First entry to the Adobe Community Team blog… .just getting started

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