Friday Afternoon Community Twitter Meme

Just for a little fun today, I sent out a Tweet on @adobegroups: The response were great! We got both design and developer-focused replies: Some Twitter-related ones: Some social ones: A fashion-focused response: Plus several others not included here. But of them all, these two were my favorites, they really exemplify what the community spirit...

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Office Hours at Adobe MAX 2011

It’s hard to believe that in just a few short days Adobe MAX 2011 will be upon us! The team has been working hard getting everything ready for the Community Leaders Summit and all the activities in the Community Lounge. We’re adding something new to the Lounge this year: Office Hours @ MAX. A number...

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FOTB – The Once and Future Conference

Last week I joined the Adobe UK crew to help out at Flash On The Beach, an excellent conference based in Brighton. It’s in my personal Top 5 of conferences due to the amazing content, great location, and all-around excellent vibe. 2011 was no exception. And even the weather played along; we had perfect sunny...

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My #SocialC20 Slides: Community Management Don’ts

I promised a few people that I would post my slide deck from the Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies event, so here it is: Seven Don’ts of Community Management A kind blogger over at the Project Management Bistro also did some liveblogging here. My deck is heavy on the visuals so reading her summary...

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Upcoming Speaking Gigs

In the next few weeks I’ll be speaking at two different conferences, one on each coast. On March 21, I’ll be talking about how to navigate the waters when two developer communities are working together at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference in San Jose. I had a great time speaking there last year with...

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It Gets Better

Sadly none of the Community team was involved with the making of this video, but I’m proud to share it with all of you anyway.

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Adobe MAX 2010 – The Aftermath

Every year we have a habit of saying, “Best MAX Ever!” but this year’s MAX was pretty special even for MAX. And starting things off with our biggest Community Summit ever was even more special. We had 200 community members face-to-face for the first time (and even more than that at the community welcome reception...

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The Community Team at Adobe MAX

Image by Richard Cawood via Flickr Adobe’s annual conference, MAX is amost upon us. The team will all be flying into Los Angeles and we’re extremely excited to go. MAX is the single largest face-to-face gathering of Adobe community annually – at least 200 Adobe User Group managers and Adobe Community Porfessionals will be in...

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The Future of Developer Communities: Some Thoughts

Lately, I’ve noticed an increasing amount of discussion about the role of the “platform agnostic” developer – a developer who is equally comfortable across a range of languages and technologies, switching from one to another as each new project or customers requires. To call out just a few examples, Seb Lee-Delisle has been talking a...

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Thoughts on Blogging, At Adobe and Elsewhere

I participated in a panel discussion a few weeks ago as part of SES. Afterwards I did a quick interview with the panel moderator, Anna Maria Virzi from Clickz, sharing some thoughs on corporate blogging: I’m talkijng about blogging at Adobe, but towards the end the advice gets more general. The biggest takeaway? “Be human, be...

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