The New Web HTML5 14Nov11

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 June...

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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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NCDEVCON 2011

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), and...

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JAX-SJ-VegasFlash-LAFlex-June2011

“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 Platform. ...

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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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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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FITC San Francisco

FITC’s conferences have been a staple of the Flash community for roughly a decade, and this year, Shawn and his crew expanded their horizons to bring FITC to lovely, foggy, San Francisco. I was there at the Adobe booth for much of the conference and I have to say the content was amazing – a fantastic lineup of...

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Community Leadership Summit 2010

It’s been a week since I returned from the Community Leadership Summit in Portland and I’ve had a chance to digest the event. The CLS is a 2-day unconference organized by several longtime community managers, including Jono Bacon, Michael Van Riper, Marsee Henon, Dave Nielsen, and a bunch of others as well. Unconferences are a...

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