CreateNOW-Atlanta Event boosts a community

Tweet Atlanta #CreateNOW event boosts rebooted local Adobe User Group. #CreateNOW tour stopped in Atlanta on 27 Feb 2013; and, it provided an excellent opportunity for Adobe to reconnect with its User Group community. The Atlanta AUG has had a series of leadership transitions the last couple of years. So, as an Adobe Community Manager,...

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Tweet Create Now Warsaw – A Rousing Success! On Friday 1st March, Adobe held a #CreateNow event in the historic city of Warsaw. It was a huge success with over 500+ attendees – standing room only! Our evangelists Rufus Deuchler, Jason Levine and Paul Trani presented the Creative Cloud Workflow. The team had collaborated to...

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Tweet 15 Jan 2013  Seattle Photoshop Meeting with Colin Smith It all started with an email from a User Group Manager frantically looking for a last minute speaker.  As a Community Manager, sometimes I can help, sometimes I cannot.  But this time, I was able to go the extra mile in trying to help this User...

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Creative Talent Network Expo 2012

Tweet Adobe Community Team was invited by WACOM to participate alongside them in the 2012 Creative Talent Network Expo. CTNX2012 was held in Burbank, CA November 16-18, 2012. with  over 8000 art & film students, animators, and illustrators in attendance. What was really cool about this event was that it takes place very close to the Disney...

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Announcing UK Creative Week 9-13 July!

Tweet Adobe UK is proud to announce its first Creative Week, celebrating all things creative! Join us for lively interactive daily debates, creative challenges, and exclusive demonstrations broadcast live online over 5 days from our London studio. We’ll be covering every aspect of the creative industry with the help of creative luminaries, industry experts, Adobe...

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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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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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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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My #SocialC20 Slides: Community Management Don’ts

Tweet 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...

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