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15 Nov Posted by in Community | 1 comment

DEVOXX – REDUX (RIAs, Mobile, and a Community-Revisited)

Tweet This week I am on the road to Antwerp, Belgium. There is a very popular Java Developer Conference here every year in November run by the Belgian Java User Group.  Adobe is a Premium sponsor again this year; and, it is my pleasure to be able to return to this very cool community driven...

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05 Nov Posted by in Community | 14 comments

A “MAX” Experience @AdobeMAX 2010

Tweet It was great to be part of the Adobe Community Team at my first AdobeMAX conference.  My first event with both developers and designers in a whole new community eco-system since coming over to Adobe from Sun Microsystems (6) months ago.  The communities are surprisingly very similar.  Adobe puts a lot of energy and...

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05 Nov Posted by in Community | 1 comment

AIR is EVERYWHERE Desktop Background

Tweet Download the ADOBE AIR is EVERYWHERE Desktop Background. All the cool kids are doing it! Can you find all the easter eggs? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4876167/air_everywhere_background.jpg

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04 Nov Posted by in Adobe, Events | 2 comments

Adobe MAX 2010 – The Aftermath

Tweet 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...

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22 Oct Posted by in Community, Events | Comments Off

The Community Team at Adobe MAX

Tweet 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...

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The Future of Developer Communities: Some Thoughts

Tweet 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...

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16 Sep Posted by in Community | Comments Off

Inside look at Community Building at Adobe

Tweet Earlier this year, I was approached by Dan Wilson, organizer of the NCDevCon event to do an interview for Dzone. I had fun talking about what community means to Adobe and how we all benefit from a healthy community. See the full video. http://css.dzone.com/videos/look-inside-adobe-ugs-building

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07 Sep Posted by in Adobe | Comments Off

Thoughts on Blogging, At Adobe and Elsewhere

Tweet 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,...

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02 Sep Posted by in Community | Comments Off

Flash and Flex Camps report

Tweet It was a great summer for Flash Camps and Flex Camps. We had our first two Flash Camps in China, in Hangzhou and Shanghai! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Flash Camps, Flex Camps and ColdFusion Camps , they are technical events, organized by members of the Adobe community, that introduce people...

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25 Aug Posted by in Events | 2 comments

FITC San Francisco

Tweet 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...

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