Nonprofit @ Adobe

Creative Suite 2.3 for Nonprofit Organizations

2007-01-16T17:04:14Z

Join us for a free eSeminar tomorrow, Wednesday January 17th @ 3PM EST - Register Now!:

Join Adobe experts as they conduct a free online seminar about using industry-leading Adobe software solutions. Discover how to implement creative solutions, and all you need is a computer with a browser, Adobe® Flash® player, and an Internet connection.

]]> What's new in Adobe® Creative Suite® 2.3 Premium Discover exciting, new features for producing print, web, and mobile projects with this complete design environment, which includes all-new Adobe Acrobat® 8 Professional and comes with Dreamweaver® 8. Adobe experts will show you how tighter integration among Creative Suite 2.3 components ‹ Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, GoLive®, and Acrobat - simplify creative and production tasks, enabling your organization to work more efficiently than ever. You¹ll also learn how Version Cue® CS2 includes enhancements in file versioning and review management, while other features such as Adobe Bridge, Adobe Stock Photos, color consistency, and unified Adobe PDF file creation offer greater productivity and collaboration.

Check it out: Captivate 2

2006-09-07T17:11:23Z

On September 5th, Adobe announced the latest update to our product line: Captivate 2

Captivate 2 software is a perfect fit in the nonprofit tech world: it enables anyone (no Flash training necessary!) to create simulations, software demonstrations, and training modules. Captivate 2 automatically generates interactive content in Flash format, the industry-leading platform to share and view streaming content.

Of course, any qualified Nonprofit Organization can save on Captivate 2 - talk to a Nonprofit Authorized Reseller today!

Adobe Nonprofit eSeminar Series

2006-08-15T20:32:40Z

Join us tomorrow for our second Breeze for Nonprofit Organizations eSeminar @ 1:00 PM EST! Click here to find the registration page for all of our upcoming eSeminars, including LiveCycle for Nonprofit Organizations on August 22nd @ 12:00 PM EST.

Alliance Conference

2006-08-02T16:57:50Z

Hey everyone- join us at the Alliance Conference for Nonprofit Management in downtown Los Angeles today through Friday. We'll have a booth today and tomorrow and also have one of our resources, John Schuman, leading breakfast roundtable discussions both tomorrow and Friday morning. Come say hello!

CTCNet Conference

2006-07-26T17:20:53Z

Visit Adobe at the CTCNet Conference in Washington D.C., tomorrow (July 27th) through Saturday (July 29th) @ the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. Our Nonprofit Sales program is also sponsoring the Youth Media Showcase event, Friday (July 28th) at 7:30pm:

"Join 10 of CTCNet's Youth Visions for Stronger Neighborhoods grantees as they present their short, student-created films that explore community issues of importance to youth. The showcase is being sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc."

Stop by our booth at the show and ask for some goodies!

Events tomorrow

2006-07-10T22:08:01Z

Three events to check out:

-Virtual: Our second ever Acrobat for Nonprofit Organizations eSeminar at 3PM EST. Sign up now!

-Washington, D.C.: Adobe Nonprofit Licensing Event with Fig Leaf Software at 2PM EST. Click here for more info and to RSVP!

-Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Net Tuesday Meetup at 7PM PST. Click here to find out about the Net2LA group, part of the NetSquared community.

Adobe.com site is live!

2006-07-10T21:55:48Z

Our Nonprofit Solutions page on Adobe.com is now live!

Check it out @ http://www.adobe.com/nonprofit

What's new on here:
-Pages focused on specific software solutions for Nonprofit Organizations
-Links to Nonprofit Resellers
-Links to our new Discussion Forum

Did you know...?

2006-06-30T16:38:30Z

Did you know that you can try almost every piece of Adobe software before you buy? Find out first hand how Acrobat 7.0 Pro can help you communicate, collaborate and improve your organization's workflow. Give Creative Suite 2 a try and see what kinds of rich media you can develop to spread your message. Visit http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ to download free trial versions of our best programs!

Introducing Flex 2 & Flash Player 9

2006-06-28T22:04:29Z

Today, we released new versions of Flex 2 and Flash Player 9! For those in the nonprofit community, Flash Player 9 provides ground-breaking performance for running rich Internet applications and rich media you deliver through your organizations via the Web. Flex 2 is be an incredible tool to create next generation Web applications and empowering your nonprofit to provide more dynamic user interfaces.

]]> "Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of the Adobe® Flex™ 2 product line . . . and introduced a new tiered licensing model to bring the power of Flex development within reach of every application developer. With powerful tools based on Eclipse™, a robust data services offering, and the introduction of the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK), Adobe is equipping developers to build a new class of rich Internet applications with improved usability and effectiveness." (click here to read more)

"Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 . . . the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player provides a more secure, lightweight, robust runtime environment for rich media and enterprise-ready rich Internet applications. Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), which features a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed." (click here to read more)

Breeze eSeminar - June 21st

2006-06-14T16:42:59Z

On June 21st at 9 AM PST, join us for our second eSeminar in our series for nonprofit organizations:

"Save time, save money and save the world. Learn how Macromedia Breeze by Adobe can help you produce high-impact web communications in an hour instead of months. Join this eSeminar to see Breeze first-hand and learn how it can revolutionize the way you train members of your nonprofit organization, meet with people in real time or deliver narrated presentations that your audience members can view at their convenience. "

Click here for more information.

NetSquared Wrap-Up

2006-06-01T16:31:26Z

This past Tuesday, I was lucky enough to attend the NetSquared Conference up in San Jose. Our Nonprofit Program at Adobe was sponsoring this event, and the Adobe Foundation Fund had given grants to bring people from all over the world to this event. This was a really fabulous conference, bringing together members of the nonprofit community to discuss how internet technologies can drive social change.

]]> The speakers were all very knowledgeable and passionate, and the breakout sessions were highly informative. I certainly benefitted on a personal level as well, knowing that these organizations were becoming more and more empowered to drive their cause and help others via technology. I was disappointed that my schedule hadn't allowed me to stay for the entire event, but I got a good taste of what is was all about. I want to find out more about how Adobe software is being used to these ends. Feel free to post your creative ideas as comments!

Latest News

2006-05-23T19:37:54Z

• "Acrobat for Nonprofit Organizations"- Our very first eSeminar is tomorrow, 9AM PST/12PM EST. Be sure and register now!

• Adobe Authorized Nonprofit Resellers are now posted online, so start saving money!

• Members of the Adobe Community Relations Team as well as Adobe Nonprofit will be at the NetSquared conference in San Jose next week as sponsors. See you there!

United Way Wrap-up

2006-05-23T17:51:12Z

We had a great time at the United Way Community Leaders Conference! Thanks to everyone who attended and stopped by the Adobe booth.

In this photo: Nico Juber (Adobe), Jonathan Beekman (Technology Project Manager for United Way of America), Norma Jean Loftus (Adobe)

Citizens for Global Solutions Flash Movie Contest

2006-05-17T22:59:35Z

We love this:

In the Citizens for Global Solututions 2006 Flash Movie Contest, young artists and designers were asked to create short films using Flash answering these two questions: Why do global problems matter to Americans? What should America do about them?

]]> Stats about the contest:
*More than 9,000 people from all over the world participated
*Submitted entries came from 14 countries and 5 continents
*More than one-third of the finalists either wrote or recorded their own music for their films
*Connected with 600 teachers (high school and college) across the U.S. who teach Flash in their classrooms
*The ages of the finalists range from 14 to 32

Today is the last day for voting, and winners will be announced tomorrow!

Are you using Adobe technology in a similar way? Comment back and let us know...

Acrobat Tracker Tip

2006-05-08T23:00:08Z

From Ali Hanyaloglu, Acrobat Technical Evangelist: Acrobat 7.0's Tracker tool (Comments > Tracker is one way to get to it) is primarily used for keeping an eye on review cycles you've initiated or are participating in, whether it was sent by email or uploaded for a browser-based review session. However, it also has another purpose: it's an RSS or Atom news feed reader.

]]> "So what? I have one of those." you may ask. Well, to add the feed to Tracker, click the Services button on the Tracker toolbar and choose "Subscribe...". Enter the URL for the RSS or Atom feed and Tracker will add it as a new entry in the left pane. As well as aggregating a feed, you can right-click on the feed entry on the right side of Tracker and select "Convert to PDF". Acrobat will generate a new PDF that lists the entries from the feed. You can then use this like any other PDF: view it offline, keep it as an archive, combine it with other PDF documents and pages, and share it with others.

Join us for a special Acrobat in Nonprofit eSeminar coming up on May 24th. Register now!

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