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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Friday Afternoon Community Twitter Meme

Tweet 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...

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Office Hours at Adobe MAX 2011

Tweet 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...

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FOTB – The Once and Future Conference

Tweet 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...

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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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JAX-SJ-VegasFlash-LAFlex-June2011

Tweet “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...

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