Liz’s New Position

Tweet The Community Team at Adobe is constantly evolving and 2011 is turning out to be a year of many changes. Adobe proposed to our team a new outreach program targeting PHP, JAVA, jQuery/HTML, and Android. Starting July 11th, I have a new role as the Community Development Program Manager! I get to take what...

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

Tweet 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...

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

Tweet 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...

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RIM Playbook webinars for AUGs Feb 2011

Tweet 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...

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Adobe Community Professionals 2011

Tweet Please help me congratulate the new members of the Adobe Community Professionals Program for 2011! Tariq Ahmed Lutz Albrecht Andy Allan Charlie Arehart Jim Babbage Jungyun Bae Simon Bailey Donna baker Victoria Bampton Christian Baptiste Lou Barber Simeon Bateman Nate Beck Jeff Bellune Ann Bens Kajorn BHIRAKIT Mykola Bilokonsky Stephen Blades John C. Bland...

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Adobe Community Champions 2011

Tweet Please help me congratulate the first members of the new Adobe Community Champions Program!! Leonardo Agosti Campbell Anderson Laura Arguello Ragunathan Arul Kumaran Mark Atchley Adam Bell Viktor Bezdek Mark Bloomfield Craig Boassaly Demian Borba Geoff Bowers Dave Buell Graeme Bull Diane Burns Mariano Andres Carrizo Alison Cattelona Jerry Chabolla Fernando Colaco Lawrence Cramer...

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Adobe Community Champions Program Launch

Tweet The Community Team would like to announce the launch of the Adobe Community Champion Program worldwide! Adobe Community Champions are the “megaphone” of the Adobe community, whose objective is to evangelize Adobe products beyond the existing circle of our Adobe ecosystem and helping connect people to the Adobe community. ACCs are influencers who share information...

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

Tweet 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...

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

Tweet 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...

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CLS West 2011 – A Community Leader’s Cabal

Tweet 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,...

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