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Getting Started with Adobe Connect - Online Training Webinar Series

May 28, 2013 - June 07, 2013: Tuesday, May 28,2013; Wednesday, May 29,2013; Thursday, May 30,2013; Friday, May 31,2013; Monday, June 03,2013; More

Get the most from your experience with Adobe Connect by attending this series of live training sessions. These sessions are meant to build on each other and we strongly suggest that you take them in order as the concepts build on each other throughout the series; 1) Getting Started (Mondays) 2) Beyond the Basics (Tuesdays) 3) 15 Tips and Tricks (Wednesdays) 4) Event Module Made Easy (Thursdays) 5) Reporting and Analytics (Fridays) You will receive step-by-step instructions on setting up and using your trial or new account. All sessions start at 10am PT/1pm ET.

Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Adobe Captivate Development Workflow.

May 30, 2013

Adobe Captivate developers require an extensive set of tools and techniques in their arsenal in order to utilize the intricacies of the full environment effectively. Anita Horsley will guide you through techniques to optimize your Adobe Captivate workflow. She’ll discuss ways of setting up Captivate for faster, easier development, some best practices, and even several tips and tricks that aren’t in books! Anita will walk you through various tools, tips, tricks, techniques, and approaches towards development that might make your life a little easier so you’ll get more done in less time.

Exploring RoboHelp: Dynamic "boilerplate" with Snippets and UDVs (Variables)

May 31, 2013

Reusable content is a huge timesaver with any HAAT or publishing system: discover how RoboHelp employs "snippets" (subtopics or tracts of text) and UDVs (User Defined Variables) to leverage this technique. Simple drag n' drop allow you to plant globally "update-able" lists, cautions, warnings. You may also do the reverse by selecting sections of legacy data in your project and moving it into a new snippet.

Discover strategies for using UDVs (variables) to cover changeable data like product names, versions, office locations, etc. Again, a simple drag n' drop may be used by beginners or simple keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. With these techniques you can swiftly customize your RoboHelp project to publish multiple versions for external or internal audiences.

About the Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.

Adobe Connect Webinar Series

June 04, 2013 - August 08, 2013: Tuesday, June 04,2013; Thursday, June 13,2013; Thursday, July 11,2013; Thursday, August 08,2013

Join leading industry experts as they discuss real-world e-learning issues, strategies, and best practices. Understand what the future holds and learn how to improve your development practices and training content to meet those challenges.

Developing Large Quizzes in Adobe Captivate from Quiz Databases

June 05, 2013

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of methods for working with an established quiz database to rapidly create beautiful, interactive and effective quizzes using Adobe Captivate.

Adobe Captivate & Interactive eLearning

June 06, 2013

Interactions add life to eLearning courses by making it engaging for the learners. It helps learners actively participate in the course and hence improves learning and retention. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how to transform the drab content screens to interactive eLearning courses in a few simple steps. They will also demonstrate how you can easily publish these courses to HTML5 and/or apps for mobile consumption. Don’t miss it!

HYPERWRITE Sess 5) Thoughts on the future of Help systems

June 06, 2013

Help systems have evolved dramatically since their invention in the 1980s, and continue to morph into an array of user assistance deliverables. In this Webinar, we will take a book back at the history and future of Help in software user interfaces, before looking ahead to what user assistance may look like in the next decade. Will online Help systems, perhaps delivered with eInk, be commonly found in consumer goods such as fridges, lawn mowers and food mixers? Will augmented reality result in engineering drawings and documentation becoming closely inter-related? Will video usurp text as the primary medium for Help delivery? Will software tools write their own manuals? These interesting questions will be explored and many of our assumptions will be challenged.

About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.

Create Now: Ask A Pro Webinar Series

June 07-28, 2013: Friday, June 07,2013; Friday, June 21,2013; Thursday, June 27,2013; Friday, June 28,2013

Join our Adobe evangelists each week to learn new ways to create, manage the creative process and share your work. Experts will show new features in Adobe Creative Cloud™

Virtual Tours of Adobe® Connect™

June 11, 2013 - August 13, 2013: Tuesday, June 11,2013; Tuesday, June 11,2013; Tuesday, July 16,2013; Tuesday, July 16,2013; Tuesday, August 13,2013; More

Join us for an exciting and informative webinar introducing the newest version of Adobe’s web conferencing and communication tool, Adobe Connect.

Understanding Accessibility Standards for eLearning

June 12, 2013

earn how to quickly and effectively build Accessibility compliant interactive courses in Adobe Captivate. Join Adobe Accessibility Specialist, Greg Pisocky & Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this deep dive explanation of accessibility in eLearning courses. Whether you are developing training for government, education or a commercial organization, you are very likely to face stringent organizational requirements and growing legal demands to ensure that your eLearning content is 100% accessible. Learn how to create your projects in Captivate, deliver them to either online or mobile learners, and deliver accessibility compliant courses to your organization’s accessibility officer that will easily meet standards and guidelines.

Create Now: Ask A Video Pro Webinar Series

June 13-27, 2013: Thursday, June 13,2013; Thursday, June 20,2013; Thursday, June 27,2013

In this webinar series, you will hear from experts in their fields discuss new product features and tips and tricks to enhance your work. You will also have a chance to ask them questions in these live online sessions.

Sess 8) FrameMaker for Word Users: Dynamic Links; Cross-References in text and Hot Spots in Graphics

June 13, 2013

Discover how FrameMaker's long history with hyperlinks, cross-references and dynamic data has been extended even further with "reverse" cross references from graphics to related text: "hot spots." Also discover how a couple clicks of a mouse can generate a table of hyperlinked data derived from imported 3D graphics. Review over tradiitonal cross-references will not only cover how to master xref formats, but how to target only a portion of a numbered paragraph title or heading.

Create Your First eLearning Course

June 17, 2013

New to online course development? Never built an eLearning course in Adobe Captivate before? Never fear, we are here to help. Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of how to build beautiful interactive eLearning courses quickly using Adobe Captivate.

REST Support in ColdFusion 10

June 18, 2013

You have heard of REST as a buzzword and as an architecture best suited for developing web applications. Now it’s time to take a dive into this new world full of possibilities. With ColdFusion Zeus natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure, within minutes using components that you already know of. In this session we will cover 1)REST – What, why & when 2) Developing RESTful services using ColdFusion

Presenter: Paul Nibin

Using Advanced Features in Unstructured FrameMaker 11

June 20, 2013

Ironically, some of the most powerful and advanced features in FrameMaker 11 are the easiest to use! Join this session to view FrameMaker expert, Barb Binder, sharing a detailed tour of such powerful features as:

Creating and managing cross-references
Generated lists for books like TOCs and Indices
"Intelligent" page running headers/footers from system variables
Advanced features in tables and table styles
Powerful uses of the reference page
How to have page layout (master pages) automatically change with key paragraph styles

You will find this tour well worth it, and realize just how much you can accomplish with FrameMaker after a very short "ramp up" time.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Virtual Tour of Adobe Connect for Marketing Webinars

June 20, 2013 - August 15, 2013: Thursday, June 20,2013; Thursday, July 18,2013; Thursday, August 15,2013

Discover ten ways to make your job easier and your webinars more interactive and engaging with Adobe Connect web conferencing.

Drag and Drop Extravaganza

June 26, 2013

Learn how to make the most of drag and drop questions in Adobe Captivate. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. We’ll explore many examples of drag and drop for all different kinds of eLearning applications.

Creating Interactive and Scenario-based Learning with Adobe Presenter

June 27, 2013

Adobe Presenter is widely known for its ease of use to create eLearning courses from PowerPoint slides. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how you can take it a step further and add engaging interactions to your courses. They will also show you how you can easily transform your slides to scenario-based courses using Adobe Presenter.

Discover the Difference Webinar Series

June 27, 2013 - August 22, 2013: Thursday, June 27,2013; Thursday, July 25,2013; Thursday, August 22,2013

Is your web conferencing solution meeting all your online collaboration and training needs? Join us to discover the difference.

Save on print costs and optimize printing with Adobe LeanPrint

July 16, 2013

In this economic scenario where budget cuts are looming, do you know that printing presents a compelling avenue for saving costs?

And even if you have adopted various methodologies to reduce print costs, there is still scope to save more, no matter whether you have an MPS or do self-managed printing. Akhilesh Ghushe, Senior Product Manager at Adobe will showcase Adobe LeanPrint Enterprise Edition in a 60 minute webinar.

A software only printing solution, LeanPrint dramatically reduces print costs using an innovative method to optimize paper and toner/ink usage.

A must attend if you want to be an achiever and help your organization save money, even more if you are responsible for managing printing.

Join the webinar and learn more on;

Calculating the print costs for your organization
Viewing how printing is being done in your organization and understand what more you can do to optimize printing
Setting up free LeanPrint pilot in your organization and start saving instantly post the webinar
And a lot more

Security Best Practices for ColdFusion

July 18, 2013

We will discuss general guidelines about securing ColdFusion server and writing CFML applications. This e-seminar will also highlight some of the important sections of the lockdown guide. We will then discuss about recent important security hot-fixes and importance of keeping the servers fully patches. We will discuss how some of the recent attacks could have been prevented.

Presenter: Shilpi Khariwal

Sess 9) FrameMaker for Word Users: DITA for beginners: workspaces, built-in DITA 1.2 structures and 3 edit views

July 18, 2013

FrameMaker has been a full-fledged DITA authoring/editing solution for quite some time, and is a logical progression for MS Word users. Not only is it easy to convert Word documents to regular FrameMaker files, a relatively painless method can convert such files to DITA/XML files. This session focuses on how DITA or structured editing workspaces can be customized to make the transition easier for Word users. Discover how built-in DITA support creates "fill-in-the-blank" topics and why there are 3 markedly different ways to view and edit DITA. This session will help you determine if FrameMaker is the right path to DITA for you if you are outgrowing MS Word.

Designing Templates in FrameMaker 11

July 25, 2013

Template design in FrameMaker is intuitive, easy-to-grasp, yet produces potent results, even in the early stages of a project. Whether you are working with unstructured FrameMaker, or you plan to use existing paragraph and character styles to incorporate into a structured DITA project, you can benefit from this session. Watch seasoned FrameMaker maven Barb Binder explain concepts like:

Planning for logical paragraph, character, table and graphic object styles
Time-saving steps in page layout (replicating and modifying master pages)
Internal document content re-use from Reference Pages
Advanced template "extras" like user variables, cross-references and more
Tips for managing externally referenced graphics for logos and similar data

After this session you will have a good grounding in the fundamentals for planning a template, and also "borrowing" design elements from existing documents.

Sess 10) FrameMaker for Word Users: Hybrid Publishing: mixing DITA/XML and unstructured content in FM Books

August 22, 2013

Many Word users want to migrate to topic-based authoring and structured editing. But this is not an overnight process, and their project delivery schedule may prevent converting all data to DITA before first publication occurs. FrameMaker 11 allows you to create a book that is composed of DITA or XML files for chapters, and unstructured FrameMaker files (swiftly converted from legacy Word docs) for appendices and "back matter." This unique approach to "hybrid publishing" is ideal for an enterprise "in transition", moving towards full DITA/XML content/publishing. View this session to find out just how logical and easy this can be with FrameMaker.

Optimizing the Word to FrameMaker Workflow

September 13, 2013

Migration from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker is a very common path for content creators whose worklfow outgrows Word's limitations with high volume or document complexity. Watch FrameMaker expert Barb Binder share her tips on how to manage a migration workflow from Word to FrameMaker, including:

Optimizing styles and catalogs in Word before conversion to reduce document touch up
Word document artifacts to eliminate or avoid
How to grasp fundamentals of FrameMaker publishing in terms that Word users can appreciate and understand
How to automate publishing tasks in FrameMaker via intelligent styles that required more manual effort in Word

After this session you will have a good foundation on how to work with Word and FrameMaker, and when it makes sense to migrate your project content into FrameMaker.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Sess 11) FrameMaker for Word Users: User Engagement; utilizing video, audio and rich 3D graphics in your projects

September 17, 2013

Word users, learn how to engage and retain users with documentation that is more dynamic via video, 3D graphics and audio. Discover how FrameMaker 11 gives you easy to use tools for importing rich graphics that have intelligence and a guided user experience when publishing to PDF. Turn what was previously a static "paper" experience into a dynamic, customer retaining achievement.

Using Unstructured FrameMaker with Adobe Illustrator

October 24, 2013

FrameMaker is tightly integrated with Adobe Illustrator via Tech Comm Suite, which makes a terrific solution for all of your vector graphic challenges. Join FrameMaker maven Barb Binder for a thorough tour of using these two powerful products together to get the best in both text and graphics content.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Using Unstructured FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat

November 21, 2013

Adobe Acrobat combined with FrameMaker provides potent solutions in several areas, ranging from collaborative PDF review, to publishing an interactive, guided user experience via 3D graphics published to PDF. Discover some of the many ways that you can make your PDF output come alive by combining the strengths of two great products; FrameMaker and Acrobat.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Digital Publishing Suite Webinars

In this webinar series, learn how companies can use Adobe products to enhance their business strategy. You will also have a chance to ask them questions in these live, online sessions.

Every Day eLearning: Ask an Evangelist

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive opportunity to ask an Adobe Evangelist … anything. Wondering how to solve a special eLearning problem? Wish you understood some button or tool better? Here’s your chance. Come armed with questions or just come ready to learn from peers as we get together to solve the challenges you and your colleagues are facing every day.

Every Day eLearning: From PowerPoint to Power Interactions

How can you build interactions that engage and educate? Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion and demonstration of Interactions for eLearning using Adobe Captivate. This session will focus on creating interactions that are more fun and engaging for your learners, and still keep the educational ball moving toward the objectives at hand.

Every Day eLearning: What’s the story?

Every Day eLearning: What’s this slide about?

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a fun, casual, interactive eSeminar & discussion focused on one of the most fundamental problems eLearning developers face every day. Ideally every element of content that we produce for our learners is focused on furthering the educational objectives – but thousands of things can change that along the path to production and often we find ourselves asking – “What is this slide about?” We’ll examine the underlying problem, but more importantly, we’ll look for strategies to relocate, remove, or repurpose those crazy off-point slides as you work to streamline and improve your content.

HYPERWRITE Sess 4) 10 Acronyms Changing the World of Technical Communication

In order to WOOO, technical communicators must shift from a WYSIWYG to a WYSIOO philosophy. And in a globalised world, XLIFF is becoming a lynchpin for L10N, but sometimes I18N can be accomplished through STE. RSS is proving to be useful for purposes other than textual content, but technical communicators may find developments in SWF creation more fun. For technical illustrations, SVG offers advantages not only for creators of diagrams, but for users of documentation. While initially XUL and XAML may seem to be something for programmers to dream about, technical communicators will find that these technologies will cause screen capture techniques to change from raster to vector. And we haven’t even touched on ISO 26514, S1000D and DITA yet! Time to STOP! In this Webinar, the bewildering acronyms that have an immediate and specific relevance to the technical communication world will be explained, and the significance of the ideas, methodologies, technologies and standards behind them revealed.

About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.

Beyond Help: Aggregating content with RoboHelp

RoboHelp 10 is an ideal solultion for publishing to multiple devices: HTML5 output expands publishing to a variety of tablets with "device aware" layouts. But RoboHelp is also an ideal authoring tool for collecting and aggregating content from a variety of common file formats.

In the webinar see how to:

import or link files from Word
import or link files from FrameMaker
import legacy files from formats like PDF

Many people producing policies and procedures or help desk sites must capture critical information from many legacy files. This brief webinar will show you examples of just how easy it is to bring files in from multiple formats into a simple RoboHelp project. Naturally, you can still author topics "from scratch" within RoboHelp itself, or combine those new topics with the legacy source file data mentioned above.

Join our special guest, RoboHelp expert Willam van Weelden, for this dynamic presentation, which will be filled with many short, simple, live examples. Willam van Weelden is from Amsterdam and expert in CSS3 design and the new HTML5 standards. (www.wvanweelden.eu)

FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 7) FrameMaker for Word Users: "Bullet-proof" autonumbered lists and headings

One long-standing complaint amongst Word users has been fragile auto-numbers. This feature is one of FrameMaker's greatest strengths. View this recorded webinar to discover how (a) simple building blocks will create "bullet-proof" numbering schemes, (b) how you can easily "borrow" existing numbering schemes from existing templates and (c) how you can use the paragraph "numbering" feature for other purposes (e.g. "prefix" text for CAUTIONs or WARNINGs.)

AEM 5.6 Upgrade Mechanisms

This session describes the upgrade mechanisms in CQ, which allow upgrading CQ itself as well as custom applications and content, by just replacing the CQ jar file with the new one. We'll go over the general upgrade scenario, describe the upgrade extension points, explain how we test the upgrade mechanisms and comment on some of the technical challenges related to upgrading.

Get the Most Out of Your Digital Assets

Watch this on-demand webinar to see how Adobe Experience Manager for Digital Asset Management with integration of dynamic media capabilities (formerly Adobe Scene7®) and Adobe Creative Cloud™ can help you to:

Cut time spent searching for marketing content and images
Deliver rich, personalized media across all digital channels
Connect creative professionals, external agencies, and marketers on one platform

Adobe FrameMaker for Unstructured Layout (compared to Word & InDesign)

Are a technical writer, trying to determine which software will work best to lay out your specific projects? If so, this seminar is for you.

Join us for a 60-minute overview of unstructured layout using Adobe FrameMaker 11. Your guest presenter and Adobe Certified Instructor, Barb Binder, will help you to understand the strengths (and weaknesses) of Adobe FrameMaker, Word and InDesign for different workflow. A feature check-off list is used to indicate which products are better suited for certain types of projects.

About our Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 7

Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.

Introducing the new Adobe Education Enterprise Agreement

Join Johann Zimmern, Adobe Worldwide Education Group Manager, to learn about the new Adobe Enterprise Agreement program. This term-based licensing ensures that your institution has access to the latest features and technology innovations. Equipping your institution with these tools can enhance productivity, foster creativity in teaching and learning, and help students develop digital communication skills for college and career success.

Edit Your Way: What's New in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Premiere Pro CC focuses on sleek design, new customization capabilities, brand-Premiere Pro CC focuses on sleek design, new customization capabilities, brand-new editing features and a slew of keyboard-driven editing improvements letting editors work exactly the way they want. New dialogs allow for fast, intelligent linking to media, no matter where it has moved and the Lumetri Deep Color Engine enables editors to achieve beautiful, rich color palettes using pre-set grades from SpeedGrade without ever leaving the NLE. The marketing leading non-linear editing software, made even better through integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, learn how Adobe Premiere Pro CC delivers the most powerful, customizable and collaborative workflows for professional editors.

Towards an Agile authoring methodology: learning from the Lean methodology

Agile development is a way of managing IT development teams and projects that was introduced around 2001. It is a set of principles that aims to result in more successful projects by breaking a project down into a series of incremental and iterative stages. As Agile has become increasingly popular, technical communicators have needed to learn how they can work effectively within these projects.

In this session, thought leader Ellis Pratt will share key highlights from a White Paper he has written on this topic. The session covers topics that include:
- Features of Agile
- Agile's affect on writing
- Learning from Lean
- Writing in an Agile environment
- Load leveling
- Minimize the need for rework
Slides and notices in the recording will give you the link to the white paper itself.
About the presentor: Ellis is Director and Help Strategist at Cherryleaf, a technical writing services and training company based near London, in the United Kingdom. He has over fifteen years’ experience working in the field of documentation, has a BA in Business Studies, and is an Associate of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Ranked the most influential blogger on technical communication in Europe, Ellis is also an author and editor of two books: ‘How to Write Instructions’ and ‘Trends in Technical Communication’.

hybris/AEM 5.6 eCommerce framework integration

In this session we will be presenting our integration solution for hybris into CQ. We'll start with an overview of how the connector integrates with the eCommerce framework and what the general workflows are when using this solution. Then, we'll go into more depth talking about how the connector can be extended and / or customized in order to adapt to project-specific needs.

dobe Flash with Easel/CreateJS

CreateJS is a suite of modular libraries and tools that work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5. These libraries are designed to work completely independently, or mixed and matched to suit your needs. The CreateJS Suite is comprised of: EaselJS, TweenJS, SoundJS, PreloadJS, and Zoë. We will cover the inclusion of CreateJS tools into Flash CS6 to generate HTML5 code using the

Flip the Classroom with Adobe Presenter Video Creator!

So you’ve been reading and hearing about flipped classrooms for quite some time, but not sure how implement it in your organization. Worry no more! Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh as she takes you through an amazing journey of flipping the classroom with Adobe Presenter Video Creator. You will learn about the fundamental principles behind the flipped classroom, and how to easily migrate your lessons and lectures into online modules. You will also see a short demonstration on how to record video lectures in three simple steps using Presenter Video Creator which will equip you with the technology needs of the flipped classrooms.

HYPERWRITE Sess 3) Separation of Content and Form

Fundamental to structured authoring is the concept of the separation of content from presentation and delivery. The way a piece of text looks during authoring is irrelevant. The formatting and presentation are post-authoring considerations, and activities possibly not performed by a technical writer. The more content and form are separated, the greater the opportunity to re-use that content in different forms, such as paper, Web, mobile, synthetic voice, and eBook.
In this session, presenter Tony Self uses a simple yet effective, highly visual approach to drive home key concepts about separating form from content. His methodology goes far beyond style sheets for paper vs the web. You will find this session a real eye-opener.

About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.

Adobe Brackets

Adobe Brackets is a code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. What makes Brackets different from other web code editors? Tools shouldn't get in your way. Instead of cluttering up your coding environment with lots of panels and icons, the Quick Edit UI in Brackets puts context-specific code and tools inline. Brackets is in sync with your browser. With Live Development, Brackets works directly with your browser to push code edits instantly and jump back and forth between your real source code and the browser view. Do it yourself. Because Brackets is open source, and built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you can help build the best code editor for the web.

Mobile Content Management and Personalization

With Adobe Experience Manager, you can integrate mobile into your overall brand experience through responsive design, adaptive mobile sites, as well as mobile apps. And now, with the integration of Adobe Target, you even have the ability to drive personalized mobile experiences to keep your customers coming back.

Creating Adobe Presenter courses for iPad

Adobe Presenter converts your PowerPoint Presentations into exciting eLearning. Now you can also access these courses on your iPad using the Presenter Mobile App. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a step-by-step demonstration on creating an engaging mLearning course in Adobe Presenter for best viewing experience in Presenter Mobile App.

Certifying Creativity: the Adobe Certified Associate for Career and College-Readiness

This spring, Adobe will be adding two new ACA exams to its portfolio of certifications. Join this webinar to learn about how the ACA supports students on their paths to post-secondary success.

Introducing an Integrated Solution for Authoring, Publishing, and Managing DITA with FrameMaker and "DITAToo" DITA CMS

DITAToo is a DITA Content Management System (DITA CMS) that lets you easily and cost-effectively automate and facilitate many DITA-related tasks. Features that DITAToo provides include full text and metadata-based search, automatic conversion from MS Word to DITA, link management, topic reuse tracking, maps assembly, publishing, translation management, version control, and much more. Now DITAToo DITA CMS is tightly integrated with Adobe FrameMaker 11. You can access the DITAToo content repository and work with files from within the FrameMaker user interface. This gives you an out-of-the-box integrated solution where you use FrameMaker for DITA authoring and publishing and DITAToo for managing DITA.

In this webinar, among other things, you'll see how to:
-    Automatically convert an MS Word document to DITA and upload the converted content to the DITAToo content repository
-    Access the DITAToo content repository from within Adobe FrameMaker
-    Move and rename files and folders in the DITAToo content repository and let DITAToo automatically update cross-references
-    Create new DITA topics and update existing topics in the DITAToo content repository using FrameMaker
-    Publish and manage conditional content variations

About the Presenter: Alex Masycheff is a co-founder and CEO of Intuillion Ltd., the developer of DITAToo DITA CMS. Before founding Intuillion Ltd , Alex worked in the technical communication and content management industry for over 17 years as information architect, content management consultant, CMS implementation manager, and product manager. He was leading the implementation of XML-based solutions at many companies, including Kodak, General Electric, Siemens, and RADVision.

Database Publishing with FrameMaker 11 – When your print color catalogue is too important to give up

A classic customer tale – The company has taken the leap to move their product data into an online stores system, so that their customers can order their products online. Even though customers are ordering online, they still expect to receive their 600 color page, 12,000 product catalogue in print.

Marketing Team requirements:
- Must re-use content from their proprietary stores system for the print catalogue
- Desire to have the print catalogue produced automatically
- Must be able to produce high quality color PDF’s for print publishing
Desktop Publishing Team requirements:
- System must be able to be easy for desktop publishing staff to use.
- Multiple users (normally four) must be able to work on the catalogue at the same time during catalogue preparation.
- User may need to tweak content, styles and advertising randomly, just before they go to print.
- Must be able to generate accurate Catalogue and Section level TOC’s based on last second changes.
- Must be able to generate an accurate Parts Index for the entire Catalogue.
Re-using the data that comes out of the stores database Tammy demonstrates how conversion of database fields into useful, well-formed XML allows Adobe Framemaker 11 to do what it does best, produce a robust 600 page catalogue ready for print.

About the Presenter: Tammy Halter is the founder and sole Director of Absolute Data Group, with over 17 years experience in the information technology field; including SGML/XML publishing, S1000D Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) and IETP delivery, combined with document management experience with various solution companies. Tammy has been a technical trainer, support engineer and project manager for several SGML software Distributors over the years, and was the Frame Product Engineer, Asia Pacific & Latin America for Adobe

Adobe Dreamweaver with Responsive Design

Create webpage designs with Dreamweaver CS6 for Responsive Design that adapt to the size of the viewer's screen with the new Fluid Grid Layout feature and media queries, which allow a wide spectrum of designers to reach their target audience via desktops, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Optimizing your RoboHelp content for best SEO results

RoboHelp 10 swiftly creates beautiful WebHelp, HTML5 or other types of web and Help files. In nearly all cases, your users are going to use search to locate desired content. In some cases, your RoboHelp published results may allow search to go outside of your files and bring up results from other website. Obviously, you would not want information from a competitor’s website to appear at the top of the list. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a high priority for the success of your projects.

Fortunately, RoboHelp 10 provides a number of easy-to-use tools to help refine and control the search experience for your users. In this session you will see live examples on how to use a variety of tools and techniques, including:

•    Metadata menu to define search keywords
•    Linguistic synonyms
•    Stop lists

Join our special guest, RoboHelp expert Willam van Weelden, for this dynamic presentation, which will be filled with many short, simple, live examples. Willam van Weelden is from Amsterdam and expert in CSS3 design and the new HTML5 standards. (www.wvanweelden.eu)

HYPERWRITE Sess 2) The importance of metadata

Partly due to the advent of XML, many parts of the documentation process can now be automated. And one of the keys to accurate “processing” and “transforming” of text is metadata. Metadata is data about data. Information that describes or classifies information. Even if we've never used the term "metadata" before, we've actually know it well. An index is metadata. It helps describes the information, but it is not part of the core information itself. When we look deeper, we find metadata in document styling, in semantic mark-up, in SEO, in translation, in content management systems, and even in file names. By improving our knowledge and application of metadata, we can raise the quality of our documents.
About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.

DCO Cloud for Virtual Conferences

Watch this webinar that will explain how to use Defense Connect Online (DCO) Cloud to run a conference in a virtual world, starting with promotion & marketing, to pre-learning, to live events, to continuous learning & follow-up.

How to be a Great Webinar Moderator

Learn the “tricks of the trade” from a professional webinar moderator. Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, offers best practices and recommendations gleaned from his many years of webinar support experience.

Session 1) Introductie in FrameMaker (in het Nederlands/Dutch)

Same webinar 3 times: in Dutch, German, then English on same day --
When writing technical documentation, users of Microsoft Word will eventually reach the boundaries of what this word processor can do in real life. When manuals get too bulky and contain too many images, Word is almost impossible to handle and often causes unforeseen problems. In this webinar, Jang F.M. Graat (bio below) shows why he has exclusively used Adobe FrameMaker in the past 10 years . FrameMaker 11 offers so much more than can be expected of a simple word processor. The key functions of the program are clearly explained. After this webinar, you will have a sound basis to decide whether FrameMaker can help solve your documentation problems.
Session 1) Introductie in FrameMaker (in het Nederlands) [webinar in Dutch]
Bij het schrijven van technische documentatie komen gebruikers van Microsoft Word vroeg of laat aan de grenzen van wat deze tekstverwerker in de praktijk kan. Wanneer de handleidingen te groot worden en teveel afbeeldingen bevatten, is het bijna niet meer te hanteren en kunnen vaak onverwachte problemen opduiken. In dit webinar laat Jang F.M. Graat (bio in het Engels zie onder) zien waarom hij sinds ruim 10 jaar alleen nog maar met Adobe FrameMaker werkt. Het programma biedt veel meer mogelijkheden dan men van een eenvoudige tekstverwerker kan verwachten. De belangrijkste functies van het programma worden helder uitgelegd. Na dit webinar heeft U een goede basis om te kunnen besluiten of FrameMaker uw documentatieproblemen kan helpen oplossen.

About the Presenter, Jang F.M. Graat: After studying Physics, Psychology and Philosophy, Jang has worked as technical author, consultant and trainer more than 25 years. He has seen many business domains and industries and traveled around the globe many times. He has his own consulting company based in Amsterdam. He is fluent in Dutch, English, German and French and plans to give multi-lingual webinars like this more often in the future.

Session 3) Introduction to FrameMaker (in English)

Same webinar 3 times: in Dutch, German, then English were delivered on same day --
Session 3) Introduction to FrameMaker (in English) -
When writing technical documentation, users of Microsoft Word will eventually reach the boundaries of what this word processor can do in real life. When manuals get too bulky and contain too many images, Word is almost impossible to handle and often causes unforeseen problems. In this webinar, Jang F.M. Graat (bio below) shows why he has exclusively used Adobe FrameMaker in the past 10 years. FrameMaker 11 offers so much more than can be expected of a simple word processor. The key functions of the program are clearly explained. After this viewing this recorded webinar, you will have a sound basis to decide whether FrameMaker can help solve your documentation problems.
About the Presenter, Jang F.M. Graat: After studying Physics, Psychology and Philosophy, Jang has worked as technical author, consultant and trainer more than 25 years. He has seen many business domains and industries and traveled around the globe many times. He has his own consulting company based in Amsterdam. He is fluent in Dutch, English, German and French and plans to give multi-lingual webinars like this more often in the future.

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 6

Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.

New Trends: The changing nature of content

In recent years, technical communicators have focused on improving User Assistance through new technologies and systems, with the assumption that the nature of the content, the tone of voice, the writing style should remain the same. In this webinar, though leader Ellis Pratt will cover highlights of a new white paper on this topic; we’ll investigate whether the tried-and-tested writing methods from past decades still make sense today. We’ll look at the reasons why some organizations are “breaking the rules” with the User Assistance they provide.

Topics covered include:
- Traditional approach to tech doc and the Tech Writer's relationship with the reader
- Why change? The weakness with the current approach
- Removing waste from user documentation
- Using psychology as well as technology to provide effective User Assistance
- The context where content is used
- How can software help us make this change
About the presentor: Ellis is Director and Help Strategist at Cherryleaf, a technical writing services and training company based near London, in the United Kingdom. He has over fifteen years’ experience working in the field of documentation, has a BA in Business Studies, and is an Associate of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Ranked the most influential blogger on technical communication in Europe, Ellis is also an author and editor of two books: ‘How to Write Instructions’ and ‘Trends in Technical Communication’.

Giving effective Feedbacks through Advanced Quizzing options in Adobe Captivate

Giving effective feedback to the learners is very important in the learning process, and Adobe Captivate makes this easier through Advanced Answer options. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh when they take you through a journey of feedback options for the Question Slides in Adobe Captivate.

Adobe Dreamweaver with PhoneGap

Learn how to build a mobile app with PhoneGap and Dreamweaver, using PhoneGap Build Panel in Dreamweaver CS6 to build native apps for Android and iOS devices.

How to Optimize content for a smooth migration into XML or DITA

Some of us are familiar with the basic steps involved in converting unstructured docs into XML. Most of us, however, are not fully aware of what should be removed from or modified in content before conversion takes place. In this webinar, long time doc conversion and FrameMaker maven Scott Prentice will cover a host of issues you may have never thought of before.
Many times documents have a murky history; they may have originated in Microsoft Word some years ago and still contain artifacts that came from OLE or review and track changes. Even more subtle document artifacts may lurk within unstructured FrameMaker documents created by well-meaning, but inexperienced authors, from years ago.
This session will give you a clear picture on how to approach this challenge and ensure that your content is conversion ready. Scott may also be previewing a prototype of a new plug-in tool he's developed to further automate the product.
About the author: Scott Prentice is familar to many FrameMaker users due to his many useful tools he's developed for his company, Leximation. A frequent answer man in a variety of forums as well as an in-demand panelist at conferences, Scott is the "go to guy" on many technical issues relevant to your workflow.

Drag till you Drop! Making eLearning fun with Drag & Drop Interaction - Part 2

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists, as they take your through a journey of making your courses interactive in a fun way. They will share different variations of using drag and drop interactions for different types of scenarios. So, sit back and watch as they share different examples of adding Drag and Drop interaction to your eLearning courses.

AEM 5.6 Media Publisher Deep Dive

As part of Adobe Experience Manager, CQ 5.6 provides a new Media Publisher feature to create and manage digital content and publications in CQ for distribution and monetization to mobile devices using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

eCommerce Integration Framework

As part of Adobe Experience Manager, CQ 5.6 provides a new Commerce Framework to build Experience Driven Commerce websites on top of a 3rd party Commerce Platform. This session provides an overview of the framework from an architectural perspective and presents some details of the reference implementation, based on the JCR repository.

Sess 1) Adobe Tech Comm Suite: what "else" is in it for me?

Ask most people what Tech Comm Suite is composed of, and they will probably answer FrameMaker and RoboHelp. But there are 4 other products that add great value to this potent, integrated collection of software. This introductory webinar will touch on some of the great features found in the following components of Tech Comm Suite:
- Captivate, for creating motion screen captures, software simulation and step-by-step eLearning modules
- Acrobat XI Pro, for (a) collaborative review, (b) creating “intelligent” forms, (c) outputting “intelligent” 3D graphics, and more
- Illustrator, for creating and editing “best of breed” vector graphics
- Adobe Presenter, for effortless video creation; (a) create videos on your desktop from webcam and video feeds and (b) convert PowerPoint slides into rich, interactive video presentations.
This webinar will give you but a sample of the powerful capabilities that Tech Comm Suite has to offer beyond the well-known capabilities of FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 to publish to tablets and mobile devices via HTML5 output. Part 2 and Part 3 of this series will include more in-depth example demos.
Join presenter Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, who has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.

Adobe Edge Animate

Edge Animate enables you create interactive motion graphics for web sites by using HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Tom Green, Professor Interactive Multimedia, Humber College, will show you how to design complex animations and create animate content. You’ll also receive handouts and exercises that you can use in the classroom.

Power Virtual Classrooms: Captivating Your Learners

Trainers report that they hate the lack of visual feedback and their inability to read their learners’ needs when delivering training via web. If you want to do it better, enjoy it more, and feel satisfaction in your training efforts, watch this webinar.

FrameMaker ExtendScript: One End-User's success story

Many have heard of the power of FrameMaker 11's ExtendScript, but not that many people have experienced it's potential and power for themselves. Long time FrameMaker user, Chris Despopoulos, has had extensive experience with ExtendScript, from a strictly practical basis. As an in-demand Tech Writer and developer, he has frequently worked on projects involving document conversion and other issues that can lead to countless, tedious manual processes. Like:
- Finding and removing all blank paragraphs
- Universally locating and removing manually entered bullets and tabs in "lists"
- Globally changing the position of all anchored frames
The ExtendScript Toolkit in FrameMaker 11 enables even end-users to develop simple scripts that take care of challenges bigger than these in mere seconds. Chris uses only a few slides to summarize key points, but the bulk of his presentation is practical, live demonstrations. This recorded webinar also has a downloadable file with several sample scripts that you to try out for yourself. Just download the winzip file from the "Files" pod. This session proved to be a highly engaging and educational session on a rarely covered aspect of FrameMaker 11.
About the Presenter: Chris Despopoulos worked with early versions of FrameMaker as a tech writer and QA tester at Frame Technology. He has done extensive development with DITA/XML and high end authoring tools besides FrameMaker. Chris has spent most of his professional life as a Tech Writer and Content Developer for complex products, often working in an agile environment. He currently resides and works from the north coast of Spain.

Ask A Pro: Mythbusting Adobe Creative Cloud: How to Get More from Membership

Watch Adobe Evangelist Paul Trani demonstrate new, better ways to work in Adobe Creative Cloud and step through workflows showing creativity and collaboration features. If you have questions regarding how to get more value from your membership, Paul will cover ways to use new product features and services with examples of how you can work smarter, manage your creative process and share your work, while debunking several myths about Creative Cloud.

Adobe Muse

Adobe Muse software enables you to create HTML websites for desktop and mobile devices, without writing code. Hear from Professor Mark Dubois, to see how design web-standard sites, let you design print layouts. Understand how professors in many disciplines can create educational sites for their students and deploy these sites with minimal knowledge of the underlying technologies. You’ll also learn some teaching methodologies with an overview of selected lesson plans and projects.

FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 6) customized workspaces and Quick Edits in FrameMaker

Every product has its frustrations; one commonly associated with Word is the number of times that you must “drill down” several levels to get to a desired menu. FrameMaker has approached this challenge in a unique way with “workspaces,” which present the most commonly used menus associated with particular tasks.

Users benefit greatly from their ability to customize workspaces by docking and placing collapsed or expanded menus where they wish to find them. Even without customization, FrameMaker will gradually reduce the choices available as you move into highly specific tasks, like editing DITA in the XML Code View. If you work with contractors or team members who only occasionally assist with FrameMaker projects, you can greatly reduce the learning curve by creating customized workspaces with very limited choices.

Quick edits refers to a number of convenient short cuts that will display choices (e.g. paragraph styles, conditional tags, DITA elements) in a vertical catalog adjacent to your current insertion point. Mastering this feature enables you to author complex content even more quickly.

Whether you are a Word user contemplating a move to FrameMaker, or a veteran FrameMaker users still using an older version, you may benefit greatly from this session. Join presenter Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, who has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.

Developing Quarantine: An example of eLearning soft skills scenario training

Alien invasion, bizarre POW camps in the Arizona desert & demystifying soft skills scenario training all go hand in hand as Dr. Allen Partridge gives practical, repeatable, code-complete examples from this crazy cool new best practice demo of soft skills training from Adobe & the eLearning Brothers. You won’t want to miss this very special workshop – note the elongated time, to allow for a deeper dive.

Leveraging the Power of Two Industry Leaders: Acrolinx and FrameMaker

In our previous eSeminar, “The Evolution of Technical Communication Processes”, we talked about the next megatrend on the horizon. Now it’s time to apply these concepts firsthand and fully realize the power of information quality control within one of the most powerful desktop publishing environments available today. Witness a powerful demonstration of how Acrolinx can enhance FrameMaker content far beyond where you thought it could go!

Content is king, as we all know, but many of those in the technical writing industry lack the means to truly prioritize their content. As a result, errors can escape the notice of even the most well-intentioned writers and editors. With Acrolinx, we’ll show you how to tighten your writing skills and nip these problems in the bud – from basic spelling and grammar errors, to more industry-specific problems like the use of deprecated terminology, branding violations, and ambiguous/superfluous phrases and vocabulary. We’ll also show you how Acrolinx optimizes content reuse for purposes of consistency and localization/translation.

About the Presenter: Thomas Aldous is Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Acrolinx. A former director of Sales and Evangelism for Tech Comm Suite with Adobe, Tom has well over 20 years experience in high level consulting implimenting publishing solutions built around XML, DITA, FrameMaker and other products.

Event Module Made Easy - Training Webinar

Watch this webinar to learn how to create an Event using the Adobe Connect 9 Event Module. You will get step by step instructions for adding registration to your live webinars, virtual trainings, eLearning content, OnDemand presentations, event recordings, whitepapers and more.

6 Weeks to a Great Webinar

Do you know the best practices that get results? Watch and learn how Marketing Webinars are a great way to generate leads and reach out to prospects, customers and your channel partners.

Focused Highlights of Standard (unstructured) FrameMaker 11

In this webinar, participants will see live demonstrations of some of the most interesting new features in FrameMaker 11, including object styles, image hotspots, video options, and smart insert functions. FYI – This session may be of particular interest to Microsoft Word users whose workflow has outgrown their product due to increased volume or complexity.

In this dynamic session, you will learn the following, among other things:
- See how to hyperlink a portion of a graphic to relevant text
- See how to add cues that will jump to desired locations w/in an embedded video
- Insert styles, conditions, variables and more with “smart insert”
About the Presenters: Matt Sullivan focuses on online training and Adobe’s technical communication and online training technologies. Matt’s background in digital prepress prepared him for his current job, helping companies and individuals produce content using both the Adobe Technical Communication Suite and Adobe Creative Suite. He regularly trains groups in all related applications and also consults in document conversion and template design for both structured and unstructured documents. He is an Adobe beta tester and regular Adobe representative at industry conferences.

Introducing Adobe Experience Manager

Powering Adobe Experience Manager is Adobe CQ, a recognized industry leader in web experience management. Discover how Adobe Experience Manager can help your organization drive engagement by delivering targeted, contextually relevant experiences, optimized for web, and mobile, as well as social media, converting visitors to buyers and accelerating business growth.

In this on-demand webinar, learn how you can:
- Transform and extend the reach of your digital marketing campaigns to include mobile and social channels.
- Simplify your mobile strategy and discover the benefits of responsive design.
- Decrease time-to-market for multi-channel marketing campaigns.
  
  Adobe TCS: Blending Captivate with RoboHelp
  
  There’s more to Adobe Tech Comm Suite than just RoboHelp and FrameMaker; there is also Captivate! This dynamic, almost “self-training” eLearning tool is a tremendous “value add” to the suite for both products previously mentioned. This webinar will focus on the many ways in which Captivate videos or screen simulations can be integrated with RoboHelp. You may pause during the creation of a RoboHelp project to initiate a Captivate movie for inclusion in that project. You may also import previous saved Captivate projects into RoboHelp for step-by-step learning. RoboHelp and Captivate expert Rick Stone of Show Me Solutions will show you how.
  About the presenter: Rick Stone is the instructor and co-owner of ShowMe Solutions, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Rick became an Adobe® Certified Instructor for the Adobe® RoboHelp HTML™ and Adobe® Captivate™ products after first being a long time power user. Rick is well known among the user communities and is also recognized as an Adobe Community Expert for both products. He is also recognized as a Microsoft Help MVP as well as a member of the Adobe® Captivate™ Advisory Board.
  
  Building Mobile Apps with Adobe PhoneGap Build
  
  Learn how to use Adobe PhoneGap Build to package HTML5 applications built with Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Edge Tools and Services for multiple mobile platforms easily in the cloud.Presenter bio: Raymond Camden is a developer evangelist for Adobe. By night he fights crime under the pseudonym, "HTML5 Super Dude".
  
  From 'Just PPT' to 'Wow eLearning' with new Adobe Presenter 8 Update
  
  Converting PowerPoint Presentations to eLearning is a need that we all have, and Adobe Presenter makes it a complete solution as a plug-in for powerpoint. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the key features of latest Adobe Presenter update to take the PowerPoint Presentation to next level by adding Media and assessment capabilities of Adobe Presenter.
  
  Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 4
  
  Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.
  
  Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced - Part 5
  
  Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.
  
  HYPERWRITE Sess 1) Topic-based Information Development
  
  Topic-based, modular information development is a technique, rather than a technology. The change in writing technique from document-centric to topic-based can be a challenge for many technical writers. The biggest challenge when moving to topic-based paradigms such as DITA has proven to be the "major change in the document-centric mindset" required. The important changes in technical writing practice include the separation of content and form, using modular information units, document assembly, context-neutral writing, map and manifest files, and document assembly.
  
  This webinar will cover:
  - Influences on technical communication approaches
  - What topic-based information development is
  - The different skills required for good topic-based writing
  - The role of semantics in single-source topic-based approaches
  About the Presenter: Based in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Tony Self (@hyperwrite) has over 30 years of experience as a technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of online help systems, computer-based training, and XML documents. In 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee), is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University, and is the Director of Training for TCTrainNet, a training initiative of tekom, the German professional association for technical communicators.
  
  The Case for Adopting Virtual Classroom Training
  
  Experience what it takes to set up and use virtual classroom tools properly. Learn ways to maximize the advantages and overcome the objections of virtual classroom delivery.
  
  The Evolution of Technical Communication Processes
  
  Former Adobe Product Evangelist, Thomas Aldous, now Sr. Vice President, shares his perspective on where content is going. Having worked with DITA/XML and FrameMaker for years, Tom now has expanded his vision into how to optimize content and make it more useable. In his own words:
  
  "In the couple of decades that I have been involved in the Technical Communications industry, there has been a very interesting migration of processes and workflows.
  
  At first, simply creating our content in a word processor was a huge productivity enhancer. We then evolved further by creating our content in standardized templates in a desktop publishing system. Lately, consumers have adopted and adapted to a mobile content interactive experience using their new tablets and smart phones.
  
  Single sourcing content to these multiple devices in an automated fashion is the current "holy grail", but which approach is best? The current question that is begging to be asked is, so what is next?"
  Knowing Tom, we can expect some highly original examples, images and useful metaphors for workflows that you probably have never thought of before. Be sure to attend this event, which is a precursor to an actual live demonstration of a dynamic solution, later in April.
  
  About the Presenter: Thomas Aldous is Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Acrolinx. A former director of Sales and Evangelism for Tech Comm Suite with Adobe, Tom has well over 20 years experience in high level consulting implementing publishing solutions built around XML, DITA, FrameMaker and other products.
  
  How to deliver an S1000D IETM for iPad with Adobe FrameMaker, RoboHelp and Absolute Data Group’s R4i Suite
  
  Get ready for a deep dive into this topic with real projects and software illustrating all solution concepts. This session is a Real USER Demonstration of FrameMaker 11 interacting with the R4i CSDB for the Authoring and Validation process, before publishing from the Common Source DataBase to an S1000D IETM which will then be opened in RoboHelp to output as a fully functional HTML IETM and iPad IETM.
  
  Demonstration includes real content:
  - S1000D Data Module (DM) management within a CSDB
  - Checking a DM out into FrameMaker 11 and updating content
  - Inserting a graphic & refdm via the CSDB’s R4i Cross Reference Manager
  - Saving the file and checking in to the CSDB
  - Load Media Generator & select Output Templates
  - Create the HTML IETM
  - Copy files into RobHelp Project directory (including graphics)
  - Open RoboHelp Project
  - Import all documents into Project
  - Add TOC entry to Project
  - From RoboHelp generate:
    - HTML Help and demonstrate capability
    - iPad IETM and demonstrate capability
  About the Presenter: Tammy Halter is the founder and sole Director of Absolute Data Group, with over 17 years experience in the info technology field; including SGML/XML publishing, S1000D Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) and IETP delivery, combined with doc management experience with various solution companies. Tammy has been a technical trainer, support engineer and project manager for several SGML software Distributors over the years, and was the Frame Product Engineer, Asia Pacific & Latin America for Adobe Systems in 1997.
  
  Enterprise ColdFusion - Technical and Business metric monitoring & analysis
  
  As a platform known for nurturing rapid development, ColdFusion often spreads through an organization. As any technology spreads, it's important to keep up best practices like monitoring and continuous server analysis. FusionReactor and FusionAnalytics are two third-party tools from Enterprise vendor Intergral which can assist in the full circle of gathering knowledge and deploying that back into the development cycle. The forthcoming FusionReactor v5 offers real user experience monitoring with full-stack DB, page generation, network transfer and browser rendering metrics. Unlike many contemporary monitoring solutions, it sits within the JVM for deep metric gathering and with unique features like Crash Protection and recovery, can often prevent a server's failure before it's too late. Whilst FusionReactor takes care of the "right now", FusionAnalytics simplifies deep-dive root-cause analysis, long-term trending and SLA reporting at the click of a button. With the release of FusionReactor v5, organizations will also be able to monitor business data through transaction metrics. Enterprises serious about their platform will use the tools to empower their DevOps teams with a combination of technical and business metric information. This session will run through some of the benefits a ColdFusion platform monitored by FusionReactor and analyzed with FusionAnalytics can offer the enterprise marketplace
  
  Learn about the top new Creative Cloud features in Dreamweaver CS6
  
  Dreamweaver CS6 just had a major update for Creative Cloud members, introducing Edge Web Fonts integration, improved responsive web design workflows, and more! Join Product Manager, Alejandro Gutierrez, for a tour of the latest in Dreamweaver.
  
  FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 5) Managing styles, catalogs and format overrides for text, tables and graphics
  
  By popular demand, we continue our series of FrameMaker 11 power features that are ideal for Word users, by covering the powerful tools for managing styles and catalogs. This webinar will also be of high interest to FrameMaker users with older versions (e.g. FM 7.)
  
  When working with unstructured documents, one of the biggest challenges is maintaining style conformance, and either avoiding or correcting format overrides. FrameMaker is unique in that it provides separate catalogs for (a) paragraphs (b) character styles (c) tables styles and (d) object styles [graphic objects and anchored frames]. In this webinar you will learn how to:
  Locate and eliminate unwanted styles in all categories
  How to create custom displays that only present the styles you wish available during certain times
  Globally updating Table styles, including margins, rules and shading
  How to globally update Object Styles, which change anchored frame positioning and display or positioning of graphic objects
  How to swiftly import any category of catalogs from one document into another or an entire Book
  The addition of Object Styles for global update control over graphics and anchored frames tremendously increases your control over document integrity. Attend this webinar and find out just how far you can go!
  
  About the Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.
  
  What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6 Update
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they take you through an interesting tour of the new features introduced in the exclusive update for subscription and ASA customers. During this session, learn how to use the Adobe Captivate App Packager to add HTML5 animations and package your courses as an app. Also learn how to create custom drag-and-drop interactions using Captivate, record system audio, author in right-to-left languages, add new interactions to your courses like Jigsaw, Hourglass, and Hangman, and much more.
  
  Tech Comm Suite "out of the box" publishing HTML5 to Tablets via RoboHelp
  
  Several past webinars have focused on the mechanics of setting up a custom project with your desired layout and features in RoboHelp 10 for publishing to multiscreen HTML5 for tablets and other devices.In this webinar, we spent some time showing just how much you can do via Tech Comm Suite, when publishing from FrameMaker source files, with absolutely no set up at all!
  When Adobe Tech Comm Suite is installed, special RoboHelp default project files are installed within FrameMaker, allowing you to get decent HTML5 output with the "publish" function, based on styles established in FrameMaker. Although you may wish to customize these built-in files, or build your own RoboHelp project to guide layout and formatting, this webinar will show you:
  How styles are auto mapped "out of the box" with the DEFAULT RoboHelp project in FrameMaker
  Some document types you may wish to avoid
  How to make allowances for templates defined for paper and PDF when using defaults to publish to HTML5 for tablets.
  In a nutshell, "you can do it too!"
  About the Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, has extensive tech comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable publishing solutions over the years.
  
  LiveCycle ES4
  
  LiveCycle ES4
  
  Removing the barriers to effective live virtual training
  
  Individuals often associate live virtual training with technological complexity and less than compelling content. In fact live virtual can provide not only an effective learning experience but can provide many other benefits to the user. Watch this webinar and see how to make your virtual trainings more effective.
  
  What is your 5th element in marketing?
  
  A “5th element” element is needed in the sequence of a deck or a presentation to refresh attention, energize the brain, and distinguish a message. Watch this session to learn hear about how to incorporate your 5th element.
  
  Ask A Pro: Going from print to web design and hosting: How A3 Creative built their
  
  A year ago, Aaron Macdonald, the principal of A3 Creative Solutions was specializing in print and brand design and turning web design work over to other agencies. When he became a Creative Cloud member, Aaron began experimenting with Adobe Muse to leverage his print design skills to design his first website. Aaron will discuss how this has changed his business, discussing his evolution from a traditional print designer into cross-media design agency utilizing Creative Cloud, Adobe Muse, Edge Animate and Dreamweaver and Business Catalyst to design for the web and provide an enhanced service to his customers. Laurel D’Angelo, Adobe Muse Product Marketing Manager will introduce the session with a brief update on Adobe Muse.
  
  FrameMaker 11 Classroom in a Book: meet the author, see it on iPad!
  
  Have you heard the news? Adobe FrameMaker 11 Classroom in a Book is now available from Adobe Press. This workbook is designed to help novice and intermediate-level users get up to speed quickly on FrameMaker 11. In addition to helping you develop document design and book management skills, this book provides the best way to avoid the common pitfalls that accompany the “I know Word, therefore I already know FrameMaker” mindset.
  In this recorded webinar, you will have to opportunity to meet the author, Adobe Certified Instructor Barb Binder of Rocky Mountain Training. She brings 20 years of FrameMaker training to the table, and she can’t wait to show you her book, and to demonstrate some of the easy, yet powerful FrameMaker 11 features. Barb answers a variety of questions about how and why she wrote the book. The last portion of her presentation is a tour of her eBook on an iPad, and she shares several "live" training examples from the book in FrameMaker 11, so you can see first hand just how useful her guidance is.
  
  About the Presenter: Barb Binder is an Adobe Certified Instructor and the owner of Rocky Mountain Training. When she’s not teaching grown-ups how to use Adobe software, she’s at Winter Park teaching kids how to ski. -- She has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 1997, and is currently certified on FrameMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy and the Digital Publishing Suite. Her company, Rocky Mountain Training was one of the early adopters of online, interactive training delivery. Students attend classes from locations in North America, South America, Europe and even Australia.
  
  Become the Superstar of your University’s Online Course Catalog
  
  Are you teaching at a college or university that is rapidly adopting online courses? Do you want to enhance your traditional classroom experience with more online course materials? Are you one of the thousands moving to mostly online teaching? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. You’ll learn to use Adobe Presenter 8 & the new Video Creator to take the course materials you’ve got, and create amazing interactive experiences your students will love.
  
  Drag till you Drop! Making eLearning fun with Drag and Drop Interaction - Part 1
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists, as they take your through a journey of making your courses interactive in a fun way. They will share different variations of using drag and drop interactions for different types of scenarios. So, sit back and watch as they share different examples of adding Drag and Drop interaction to your eLearning courses.
  
  Delivering successful Programs of Study: CTE and technology integration with Adobe software, curriculum & certification
  
  Join Johann Zimmern, Adobe’s K-12 Education Program Manager, in a review of a recent Grunwald & Associate study regarding technology use and certification in the classroom. To prepare your students for College and Career Readiness, learn about new licensing programs for entire school districts including free learning content, year-long ISTE aligned curriculum, Adobe Association Certification and much more.
  
  FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 4) FrameMaker for Word Users: Books, multiple versions from single source files, TOC/IX and Xrefs
  
  Discover how "unstructured" FrameMaker 11 can end "growing pains" and production headaches that occur when your workload and production scale outgrows the bandwidth Word was designed for.
  
  Session 4) FrameMaker for Word Users: Books, multiple versions from single source files, TOC/IX and Xrefs
  Divide and conquer: segregate your project via chapters or sections in hierarchical books to control what will and won't print during draft stage. Discover conditional text, user variables and other tools for making multiple versions from single-sourcing. Tech Comm Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann covers all of this and more.
  
  Ask A Pro: Edge Reflow and Responsive Design Workflows
  
  Edge Reflow preview has just been released and now is your chance to see all the ins and outs of this new tool, as well as how it integrates with other Edge tools and services. Join evangelist Paul Trani as he takes you through Reflow workflows with other Edge tools and services when designing for the modern and mobile web.
  
  Adobe & Notre Dame: Engaging through mobile apps
  
  In this online session, join Adobe and the Notre Dame Athletics to learn how Fighting Irish Digital Media engaged fans and stakeholders through their 2012 Season Review and BCS Championship Game app. Showcasing season highlights, player bios and the rich traditions of the university, Notre Dame was able to actively engage its fan base, easily convert existing content to digital, and speed time-to-market for their app. Join us for this exciting glimpse into the mobile strategy of one of the nation's most storied athletic programs.
  
  Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 3
  
  Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.
  
  Creating HTML5 Courses from Adobe Captivate
  
  HTML5 is becoming a popular format for distributing learning content. With HTML5 publishing capability in Adobe Captivate, now anyone can easily create content for iPad in very less time. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on a journey of creating courses for iDevices in HTML5 format.
  
  Advanced Quizzing in Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Assessment and Tracking is an integral part of any eLearning content, Adobe Captivate 6 has improved Quizzing capabilities to do decision-based branching to Branch-aware quizzing. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn various techniques used in creating smart branching with the course using the advanced capacities of Adobe Captivate 6.
  
  Ask A Video Pro: Two Decades of After Effects:Chris & Trish Meyer share their story
  
  Two Decades of After Effects:Chris & Trish Meyer share their story Thursday, Febuary 21st, 2012 at 10:00am Pacific Time Join After Effects users and trainers, Chris & Trish Meyer of Crish Design, as they share their journey of how they have built an entire career on their use of After Effects.
  
  Globalization Series: Session 2) Optimizing unstructured FrameMaker documents for translation/localization
  
  For FrameMaker users, there are a number of steps that can improve both workflow and document quality for translation. This two-part series will cover two areas where simple steps can make a difference.
  Session 2) Optimizing unstructured FrameMaker documents for translation/localization
  Since a sizeable portion of FrameMaker users continue to create unstructured documents, this session will focus on simple steps to clean up such documents for optimized translation. In this session you will learn:
  == Hidden trouble-spots in tables and other confining containers
  == One simple step in document review that can eliminate hours of unwanted project time
  == Alternatives to text layers in graphics
  == The top page layout "design traps" to avoid that can lead to costly, post-translation format fixes
  In this session Adobe Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann, uses his background in translation/localization to help you determine simple steps you can take to make your unstructured FrameMaker document structure more "nimble" for the translation process. Many principles shared are universal in nature and would apply to documents authored by other products as well.
  
  FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 3) Page layout, anchored frames and rich graphics
  
  Discover how "unstructured" FrameMaker 11 can end "growing pains" and production headaches that occur when your workload and production scale outgrows the bandwidth Word was designed for.
  
  Session 3) FrameMaker for Word Users: Page layout, anchored frames and rich graphics
  Tech Comm Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann will walk you through how master pages are created and managed, versatile options for globally changing how certain graphics are positioned and how to instantly generate hyperlinked tables of parts, views or animations from 3D diagrams and rich media graphics.
  
  Dramatically reduce your print costs and improve productivity with Adobe® LeanPrint
  
  Every organization faces the following challenges in today’s economic scenario –
  Reducing operating expenses and thereby increasing profit margins
  Reducing carbon footprint and becoming more green
  Of course, there are multiple ways to address these and we all do it in our own way. Adobe is trying to help organizations address these challenges by doing what Adobe does best, i.e. make software.
  Join Akhilesh Ghushe, Senior Product Manager at Adobe for a 60 minute webinar, as he demonstrates Adobe LeanPrint, a new product from Adobe’s portfolio, and how it can help you and your organization save money and become more green.
  What is LeanPrint? “Adobe® LeanPrint is a software-only, print management solution that dramatically reduces print costs by using an innovative method to optimize paper and toner usage when printing from popular applications and browsers. Conveniently deploy, manage, and track with a cloud-based or on-premise dashboard. Monitor all print jobs and costs, and analyse paper and toner savings achieved with Adobe LeanPrint usage to identify ways to save more.”
  
  Ask A CS Pro: Get started creating video with Adobe Creative Cloud
  
  It's amazing what can be done these days with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. But that doesn't mean staring at lines of code all day. In this session learn how to easily and intuitively create rich animation and interactivity with content that can be responsive and change based on your screen size. See how you can easily use Edge Animate in your next web-based project as well as get a peek at other tools and features in Adobe Creative Cloud to create and publish for the modern web and mobile devices.
  
  Introduction to CSS in RoboHelp
  
  RoboHelp's cascading style sheet (CSS) editor offers a powerful, flexible way to format content in your projects. For example, if you format all the subheads in a project one at a time using the formatting toolbar, then have to reformat them one at a time for a font change, you'll love being able to reformat them all at once with a dozen mouse clicks by using styles. This power applies to any RoboHelp project output, and is crucial if you want to go mobile or use the HTML5 outputs in RoboHelp 10.
  
  Some find CSS to be arcane and mysterious. What is a <div> anyway? And more… This webinar answers these questions. You'll get:
  An overview of CSS concepts, new concepts like absolute vs. relative size units, and trends like CSS2 vs. CSS3 and media queries.
  A light overview of CSS coding.
  A review of the eight style categories offered by the RoboHelp 10 style editor.
  A review of why bulleted and numbered lists in old projects may break when opened in RoboHelp 8, 9, or 10, and what to do about it.
  About the presenter: Neil is an internationally known consultant, strategist, developer, and trainer for online content in all forms from traditional online help to mobile. Neil is a long-time RoboHelp consultant and trainer, and is certified in other help authoring tools and the Viziapps app development platform. He provides these services through Hyper/Word Services (www.hyperword.com). He is an STC Fellow and the founder and manager of the Bleeding Edge stem at the STC summit. You can reach him at nperlin@nperlin.cnc.net.
  
  Mobile Learning Made Easy
  
  Jacquie Beck will discuss the Connect Mobile application that is used for participating and hosting events.
  
  What can virtual presenters learn from pick-up artists?
  
  Watch this webinar as we will reverse engineer the concept of virtual presentations and transform your virtual delivery style in a way that can seduce any audience.
  
  A practical demonstration of the Top 10 Reasons to move from MS Word to Adobe FrameMaker 11
  
  You have read the article, now see Adobe FrameMaker 11 in action, and see the benefits of why FrameMaker should be your first choice, when MS Word has reached its functional limit. Tammy will walk you through the top 10 features highlighted in the article, based on actual customer feedback:
  Reliable Styles
  Robust Numbering
  Large File handling
  Image Display options
  Robust and customizable TOC, LOF, LOT
  Complex and customizable numbering
  Automatic update of referenced material links
  Customizable Warning, Caution, Note symbols as part of style
  Drag’n’drop capability at File and Book level
  Easy insertion and management of Amendment Numbering
  ... plus a few more …
  
  About the Presenter: Tammy Halter is the founder and sole Director of Absolute Data Group, with over 17 years experience in the information technology field; including SGML/XML publishing, S1000D Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) and IETP delivery, combined with document management experience with various solution companies. Tammy has been a technical trainer, support engineer and project manager for several SGML software Distributors over the years, and was the Frame Product Engineer, Asia Pacific & Latin America for Adobe Systems in 1997. Tammy is a winner of numerous awards in the industry and a speaker at several industry programs.
  
  FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 2) Tables, tabs, global cautions and warnings
  
  Discover how "unstructured" FrameMaker 11 can end "growing pains" and production headaches that occur when your workload and production scale outgrows the bandwidth Word was designed for.
  
  Session 2) FrameMaker for Word Users: Tables, tabs, global cautions and warnings
  Learn how to define and globally update specific table styles that control placement, margins, ruling and shading. Also discover the best techniques for globally updated caution or warning boxes which include artwork. Tech Comm Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann will show you how to leverage powerful features on Reference Pages, with referenced text and graphics and more.
  
  FrameMaker 11 for Word Users: Sess 1) Converting Word docs to FrameMaker
  
  Discover how "unstructured" FrameMaker 11 can end "growing pains" and production headaches that occur when your workload and production scale outgrows the bandwidth Word was designed for.
  
  Session 1) Converting Word docs to FrameMaker
  Basic steps for converting Word files to FrameMaker are relatively simple, but best practices can save you hours of corrective reformatting and make documents more nimble for editing and language translation. Tech Comm Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann shares powerful time savers, including how to convert embedded graphics into referenced graphics and template management.
  
  Ask A Pro Creative Cloud for Photographers
  
  Join Adobe Evangelist Terry White to learn about the new features in Adobe Photoshop for Adobe Creative Cloud members. Terry will demo Creative Cloud workflows showing how you can take projects created in Photoshop or other CS apps and publish websites using Adobe Muse or iPad apps using DPS SE.
  
  Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 2
  
  Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.
  
  Create Drag & Drop Questions in Your Online Courses
  
  Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of quiz creation using Drag & Drop Questions to tackle a variety of assessment scenarios in your eLearning. Learn the fundamental concepts behind drag and drop mechanics in eLearning and join the discussion of best practices for adding these questions to your courses.
  
  Cognitive Design for UA Series: Session 3: Integrated Learning: Building Customer Loyalty
  
  This 3-part webinar looks at users as learners, and applies ideas from cognitive development theory to the design and execution of user assistance. The practical illustrations in these seminars are based on using DITA structures.
  Session 3: Integrated Learning: Building Customer Loyalty
  The results of collective know-how from crowd sourcing, social media and related techniques can be used to create learning materials that are, themselves, circulated to widen the community:
  How we can profit from what happens at the top of the cognitive spiral
  Creating communities of knowledge - it's not just technology
  Generating learning objects from the crowd (SCORM, etc.) - reuse with high added value.
  About our Presentor: Ray Gallon, owner of Culturecom, a content consultancy, has practiced communication over three decades in many forms. Before technical communications, he worked in radio journalism; he is a frequent speaker on technical communications issues, and is currently a board member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).
  
  Teaching and Learning with Adobe Captivate 6
  
  When you Google 'Captivate 6', the first hit you come to features this quote - "Adobe Captivate 6 software is the industry-leading elearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining interactive eLearning content." A bold statement but what does that mean in the real world? What makes one eLearning authoring tool more 'industry-leading' than another?
  
  This week's presenter, Dave Dunbar, will suggest that is comes down to versatility, in that many of today's educational gadgets, gizmos and applications are simply one trick ponies, with very limited shelf lives.
  
  David will demonstrate how a number of different teaching and learning methods can be facilitated using this authoring software, providing solutions in so many different areas of education, and not just eLearning. The letters of the word Captivate will be used to help illustrate these points -
  
  Case Studies
  
  Activities
  
  Presentations
  
  Tutorials
  
  Independent Learning
  
  Visiting Speakers
  
  Assignments
  
  Tests
  
  ELearning
  
  Ask A Video Pro: The History of After Effects
  
  Ae & Me: Celebrating 20 years of inspiration and innovation After Effects is celebrating its 20th anniversary. And to celebrate, we’re highlighting users, employees and the community in various ways to showcase how After Effects has impacted them and their career. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro session to learn more from the After Effects community and how you can be inspired too
  
  Finalyser: PlugIn- and ExtendScript-Collection for FrameMaker 11
  
  In this "how to" webinar, SQUIDDS will explain how easy is to use the PlugIn and ExtendScript Collection Finalyser for Adobe FrameMaker 11. With this Tool you can transfer documents and books in separate directories or assign graphic objects a background. In the webinar SQUIDDS will show, how Finalyser works:
  
  Book transfer
  Different ways to transfer your book
  
  Transfer retain directory structure of all components in the target directory
  Transfer 1 target directory each for book/chapter, text insets and graphics
  Explain and show of the transfer dialogs
  Creating backgrounds for graphic objects
  How to define the configuration
  
  Insert the graphic object
  Assign a background to selected graphic object within an anchored frame
  Assign a background to all graphic objects within an anchored frame
  Presenter: Georg Eck (Owner and Managing Director of SQUIDDS ek) is an expert in all phases of technical documentation, including solutions with licenses and tools like FINALYSER for an automated process and terminology checking. He has designed workflows to create 3D image integration, DITA and unstructered technical documentation with FrameMaker, as well as database publishing for part lists and web-based online Help.
  
  Cognitive Design for UA Series: Session 2: Empowering User/Learners Through Cognitive Development
  
  This 3-part webinar looks at users as learners, and applies ideas from cognitive development theory to the design and execution of user assistance. The practical illustrations in these seminars are based on using DITA structures.
  Session 2: Empowering User/Learners Through Cognitive Development
  Think of user assistance as a learning experience meant to empower users through the acquisition of basic concepts; we tech communicators also benefit from cognitive development methodologies:
  How cognition works - the cognitive spiral
  Nemetics approach to creating Kanban information
  How to seamlessly integrate concepts into DITA task topics
  About our Presentor: Ray Gallon, owner of Culturecom, a content consultancy, has practiced communication over three decades in many forms. Before technical communications, he worked in radio journalism; he is a frequent speaker on technical communications issues, and is currently a board member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).
  
  Discover the Difference: Adobe Connect
  
  Not all web conferencing and online training tools are created equal. A better web conferencing solution exists and we invite you to see the difference for yourself. Join us to learn how WebEx, Lync, GoToMeeting, and others compare to Adobe Connect on topics like engaging features, security, ease-of-use, and more.
  
  Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 1
  
  Adding interactivity in an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising in Multi-Part series to learn the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will learn using various examples that can be used in every eLearning courses.
  
  Think outside box Sess 2) Demos of live examples showing benefits of custom structure
  
  Although FrameMaker 11 works as an excellent XML or DITA authoring solution, conforming to "standards," there are many customers that can benefit from customized structure. Fortunately, FrameMaker gives users the option of creating "pure" DITA document structure, or XML structure customized to more closely meet their needs. There are a number of reasons for considering customized XML structure:
  purposed based labels for elements can dramatically reduce the learning curve
  specific industry or corporate content doesn't always fit nicely with the "box" of a generic standard
  it certainly does make sense to keep standards in mind, and to design customization as close to standards as possible, so migration to the standard structure is simpler, if required in the future.
  
  Session (2) Hybrid publishing: mixing XML structure with unstructured content
  The second session will extend customized structure in FrameMaker into multi-document publishing. Discover how and when it can be a good idea to combine XML documents with unstructured files. This workflow can be beneficial for corporations undergoing a step-by-step migration who need immediate publishing results.
  About the presenter: Dustin Vaughn is a Consultant in the Print and Publications business unit at Adobe Systems. His expertise is in the Adobe Tech
  
  From Blah to Aha: Engaging Learners in the Virtual Classroom
  
  As classroom trainers transition to the online virtual classroom, they often deliver boring lectures with an occasional poll or chat thrown in to mix it up. Watch this webinar as Cynthia Clay shares her expertise on engaging learners.
  
  How To Incorporate Demos Into Your Marketing Webinars
  
  Watch this webinar as Ken Molay shows you how to plan and present product demos in your webinars. You will benefit from the combination of webinar skills and product marketing experience that Ken brings to this free one-hour presentation.
  
  Discover the Difference_Adobe Connect vs. MSLM
  
  Learn how Adobe Connect can help you transition from Microsoft Live Meeting.
  
  As the Live Meeting service is discontinued and replaced with Microsoft Lync®, users will likely find significant gaps if needs go beyond basic screensharing and internal meetings.
  
  Think outside standards box: Sess 1) Considerations for choosing custom or standard XML structure
  
  Although FrameMaker 11 works as an excellent XML or DITA authoring solution, conforming to "standards," there are many customers that can benefit from customized structure. Fortunately, FrameMaker gives users the option of creating "pure" DITA document structure, or XML structure customized to more closely meet their needs. There are a number of reasons for considering customized XML structure:
  purposed based labels for elements can dramatically reduce the learning curve
  specific industry or corporate content doesn't always fit nicely with the "box" of a generic standard
  it certainly does make sense to keep standards in mind, and to design customization as close to standards as possible, so migration to the standard structure is simpler, if required in the future.
  Session (1) Considerations for choosing custom or standard structure
  This session will shows actual examples of improved publishing processes that result from intelligent customization of XML structure. Customization may be obvious in element display, or may involve clever, automated insertion of elements based on meta-data.
  About the presenter: Dustin Vaughn is a Consultant in the Print and Publications business unit at Adobe Systems. His expertise is in the Adobe Tech
  
  Ask A Pro: Photoshop for Web Design
  
  Photoshop has long been the go-to program for image editing. But being such a powerful, robust and flexible program lends itself to many tasks. Which is why it's no surprise so many designers use it for web design. In this session learn how to master Photoshop from a web designers perspective. Creating layouts for desktop and mobile, using color, text and exporting images and color palettes when needed. And with the new update to Photoshop CS6 for Creative Cloud members even have the ability to export CSS! See all these features and more during this very special session
  
  Making of the Best Soft Skills eLearning Course!
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, eLearning DemoFest 2012 winner for Best Soft Skills Course, as she shares the secrets of creating an award-winning scenario-based course. She will be taking you through the entire journey of creating the Captivate Customer Service Team Training course from content acquisition, analysis, storyboarding, graphic design, audio recording and editing, to course integration.
  
  Globalization Series: Session 1) Using PDF Collaborative Review with FrameMaker for In-Country-Review (ICR)
  
  For FrameMaker users, there are a number of steps that can improve both workflow and document quality for translation. This two-part series will cover two areas where simple steps can make a difference.
  Session 1) Using PDF Collaborative Review with FrameMaker for In-Country-Review (ICR)
  ICR can potentially be one of the biggest headaches in a translation project. Let ENLASO show you the ideal way to use FrameMaker’s PDF review capabilities for maximum benefit. In this session you will learn:
  Basic guidelines for setting up ICR and selecting appropriate staff
  How to create PDF docs from FrameMaker that can be annotated with Free Acrobat Reader, or collaboratively in an Acrobat.com “cloud”
  What the preferred annotation editing tools are in Acrobat to make change requests crystal clear collaboratively during a shared review.
  Join the experts from ENLASO to determine the simple steps you can take to move through a more economical review cycle and how to avoid unnecessary “clean up” expenses after translation. ENLASO Corporation is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, offering full-service language translation and localization solutions for many industries, from medical and life sciences to eLearning and training. ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Judith Soloduk, Senior Localization Strategist at ENLASO, is a seventeen-year veteran of the localization industry and has held positions on both the production and sales fronts of the industry.
  
  Social Networking Communications & eLearning: Tweeting in Adobe Captivate Course Modules
  
  As the web evolves it's impossible to ignore the ever rising tide of social networking. The ability to micro-message, inquire, post & share our ideas, thoughts and questions in virtually every context has given rise to expectations that within our eLearning modules, students and teachers should be able to communicate effortlessly. Advancements to the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget are designed to facilitate this sort of immediacy within your courses by leveraging the Adobe Captivate Course Companion to send instant, context relevant messages from inside Adobe Captivate course modules between educators and learners & even between students & their peers. Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a walk-through of this social media learning innovation, in order to learn how you can introduce social networking into your own courses.
  
  Cognitive Design for UA Series: Session 1) Users become learners
  
  This 3-part webinar looks at users as learners, and applies ideas from cognitive development theory to the design and execution of user assistance. The practical illustrations in these seminars are based on using DITA structures.
  Session 1: Users Become Learners
  To be effective, user assistance needs to help users learn principles that they can transfer from one use case to another:
  From minimalism to Kanban information
  User assistance as a subsystem
  Real-world example of embedded, progressively disclosed UA, using DITA.
  About our Presentor: Ray Gallon, owner of Culturecom, a content consultancy, has practiced communication over three decades in many forms. Before technical communications, he worked in radio journalism; he is a frequent speaker on technical communications issues, and is currently a board member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).
  
  Ask A pro What’s new in Adobe Muse – Designing for mobile devices
  
  In this Ask a Pro session, Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont will show you how to create tablet and smartphone versions of your desktop site. This session includes how to set up a unique Site Plan and Master Page elements for each version, define the content and optimize it for mobile viewing, and work with touch-enabled Adobe Muse widgets in mobile layouts so that site menu navigation, slideshows, forms and more will automatically work at the touch of a finger.
  
  Ask A pro What’s new in Adobe Muse – Designing for mobile devices
  
  In this Ask a Pro session, Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont will show you how to create tablet and smartphone versions of your desktop site. This session includes how to set up a unique Site Plan and Master Page elements for each version, define the content and optimize it for mobile viewing, and work with touch-enabled Adobe Muse widgets in mobile layouts so that site menu navigation, slideshows, forms and more will automatically work at the touch of a finger.
  
  DITA SPECIALIZATION SERIES: Session 2) DITA Specialization: live, dynamic examples
  
  Topic-based and structured authoring offer many advantages, especially with DITA. Many people feel that they must adhere to the "standard" definition of DITA. While this can be the best route in some instances, there are tremendous advantages in DITA Specialization, which can automate a variety of tasks associated with document structure and formatting. Benefits of DITA Specialization can be magnified by the number of target languages that you translate into. This 2-part series will cover first the strategy and planning phases, then show actual live examples of DITA Customization.
  Session 2) DITA Specialization: live, dynamic examples
  This second session will focus on actual working examples of specialized DITA in FrameMaker 11. You will see live documents with relatively simple specialization that enables a variety of transformations to occur automatically. This recorded session also includes downloadable files which you can use for your own hands-on.
  Your "take-aways" from this series will be (a) determining if DITA Specialization is right for you and (b) how to actually accomplish it. Join Adobe's Tom Aldous, Director, Global TechComm Business Development and Product Evangelism, as he guides us on this fascinating technical journey. Before joining Adobe, Tom spent over 20 years as a consultant, frequently specializing in complex DITA and XML projects which required specialization for industries ranging from nuclear power to financial.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 5: Simple Lecture Capture – Adding Audio to PowerPoint
  
  Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of fundamental lecture capture – adding audio – to your PowerPoint slide decks using Adobe Presenter 8. Learn how easy it is to add your audio and bring those PowerPoint decks to life.
  
  Louder, Faster, Funnier: Humor & Learning
  
  Funny is Money! At least that's the perspective of many in the entertainment industry, but is comedy a viable tool in educational content, specifically within eLearning? What issues are introduced when eLearning modules depend on humor and what kinds of humor are most and least effective? Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a tongue in cheek examination of laughter and learning. We'll explore the latest ideas & research on humor in learning and look for special applications and exceptions that apply to online learning. You'll probably laugh, and you might even learn something.
  
  DITA SPECIALIZATION SERIES: Session 1) Modeling DITA Specialization
  
  Topic-based and structured authoring offer many advantages, especially with DITA. Many people feel that they must adhere to the "standard" definition of DITA. While this can be the best route in some instances, there are tremendous advantages in DITA Specialization, which can automate a variety of tasks associated with document structure and formatting. Benefits of DITA Specialization can be magnified by the number of target languages that you translate into. This 2-part series will cover first the strategy and planning phases, then show actual live examples of DITA Customization.
  Session 1) Modeling DITA Specialization
  
  In this session, we examine the process of analyzing your DITA needs and determining where specialization is most appropriate and potentially the most powerful. Find out how to analyze your content and build the right road map before beginning the specialization process.
  Your "take-aways" from this series will be (a) determining if DITA Specialization is right for you and (b) how to actually accomplish it. Join Adobe's Tom Aldous, Director, Global TechComm Business Development and Product Evangelism, as he guides us on this fascinating technical journey. Before joining Adobe, Tom spent over 20 years as a consultant, frequently specializing in complex DITA and XML projects which required specialization for industries ranging from nuclear power to financial.
  
  Ask a Video Pro for Switchers Part 2 – Tips & Tricks for Switching to Premiere Pro
  
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  Session (2) Book building, hyperlinks, tables & more in FrameMaker 11
  
  Session (2) Book building, hyperlinks, tables & more in FrameMaker 11
  Discover the power of book building, with the ability to make links across documents, and from graphic objects to text. Use special pods to monitor embedded info in index markers, referenced graphics and more. Discover just how easy it is to customize ordering of elements in TOCs, Indices, List of Tables and more. Find out how table formats may be saved with specific paragraph styles assigned to columns.
  About the presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe’s Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, will draw from years in the translation industry, where he frequently published projects in both Word and FrameMaker.
  
  Session (1) Page Layout, formatting and rich media in FrameMaker 11
  
  Now, more than ever before, FrameMaker can be the next logical “step up” for a segment of Microsoft Word users. Although it is possible to achieve powerful results with Word when enough time and effort is applied, there is a tipping point in which your workload may have “outgrown” Word’s bandwidth and capabilities. This 2-part series will focus on the “unstructured” mode of authoring in FrameMaker for generic yet powerful tech comm content. This series will cover:
  how to swiftly modifying or creating templates
  handle pagination exceptions without the use of section breaks
  granular control over placement of tables and anchored frames
  and a whole lot more
  Session (1) Page Layout, formatting & rich media in FrameMaker 11
  Find out how to use templates that ensure consistent results between all users. See the simple use of page header/footer tools that go far beyond “Quick Parts.” Locate and correct format overrides. Create automatic parts list tables hyperlinked to 3D graphics.
  
  About the presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe’s Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, will draw from years in the translation industry, where he frequently published projects in both Word and FrameMaker.
  
  Sneak Peek - Adobe CQ5.6
  
  The world today is exploding with digital distractions and channels. To seize online competitive advantage, digital marketers and IT must quickly respond to changing markets and consumer expectations. Discover how Adobe CQ, part of the Adobe Experience Manager solution, can help your organization build brand more effectively, extend your marketing reach, and drive increased demand and revenue. In this webinar, find out how Adobe CQ5.6 can help you:
  
  Transform and extend the reach of your digital marketing campaigns
  Simplify your mobile strategy
  Decrease time to market for multi-channel marketing campaigns
  
  Ask A Pro:See What’s New in Adobe Muse - Designing for mobile devices
  
  Join Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Rufus Deuchler as he shows you the latest, hot-off-the-press updates to Adobe Muse!
  
  Merged Help Magic with RoboHelp
  
  Learn how to easily and expertly create merged webhelp systems in RoboHelp 10. Lightext will demystify the process of merging multiple help projects into one seamless online library. In this session you will learn what a merged help system is and why you may want to create one. Lightext will walk through building a merged help system and show samples of libraries that have already been created. This webinar will cover:
  Creating a parent project
  Merging the child (subordinate projects) into the parent project
  Setting up the first page redirect
  Creating links between projects
  Creating the merged webhelp output
  Testing the output
  Developing topics for an instructional project including, What's New, Helpful Hints, and Revision pages.
  Managing the merged help system
  Presenters: This eSeminar is features Beth Gerber, President of Lightext, Inc. Lightext is a technical writing and training consulting firm specializing in policy and procedure development and instructional design and delivery for the financial services industry. Lightext is also an Authorized Adobe Training Center located in Arcadia, California. www.lightext.com
  
  Adobe Ask a Video Webinar by Jacob Rosenberg on Making of "Waiting for Lightning" using Adobe tools
  
  See how the video pros behind Waiting for Lightning used high-performance Adobe post-production tools to document the life of Danny Way, one of the world’s most visionary skateboarders. This presentation will cover Bandito Brothers’ digital workflows which relied on After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other Adobe Creative Cloud tools to tell the story about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive family troubles, and how high and far dreams can fly. Join director, filmmaker, author, and digital media expert Jacob Rosenberg of the studio Bandito Brothers for a webinar where he walks you through the making of this remarkable new, feature-length documentary and some of the breakthrough cinematography used in its creation
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 4: Adding Assessments to your PowerPoint based eLearning
  
  Join Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of quiz creation and editing in Adobe Presenter 8. Learn to Add and Modify quizzes, report quiz scores to Learning Management Systems and to integrate the quiz creation style with the look and feel of your PowerPoint themes.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 4: Working with Simple Buttons and Actions
  
  Learn how to make the most of simple interactive buttons in Adobe Captivate 6 in this introduction to interaction and Advanced Actions. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. You’ll learn to get deeper control of your projects with Captivate’s Advanced Actions and how to connect those actions to your interactions.
  
  Mobile Goes Global
  
  Back in the day, just a few years ago, content strategy was an in-country affair and the distribution focus was mainly the desktop web. Well, not anymore. These days, even the smallest company is shipping globally at FCS. In addition, much of the world consumes content on a mobile device, not on a computer. Put it all together and you can see the imperative to deliver multi-lingual content on mobile devices. Are you ready?
  In this webinar, Val Swisher will discuss the specific challenges facing global mobile content. She will articulate the issues many companies are grappling with as they roll out content to mobile devices around the world. Val will also provide guidelines and a framework for thinking through how to globalize your content for presentation on mobile devices worldwide.
  
  What’s New in the latest Business Catalyst System Update
  
  Join product evangelist Adam Broadway for a walkthrough of this update’s highlights, and how you can get started using them today.
  
  Making the most of Learning Interactions in Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Adobe Captivate 6 allows you to add out-of-the-box learning interactions like accordions, tabs, timeline, process circle, glossary, and many more such exciting interactions. Join Sara Henderson, as she shares some of the best practices of using these interactions in your eLearning courses. She will also show you some nifty examples on how and where to use these interactions in the course. Don’t miss it!
  
  Planning Your Global Content Strategy
  
  You’re taking the plunge into content strategy. You are busy auditing your content, modeling it, and coming up with recommendations. Well, hold on a minute! Have you thought about your entire customer base? Yes, I mean all of those customers who are in other markets outside of your geography? Content strategy doesn’t end when you reach your country’s borders. Taking your strategy all the way through localization and translation is a critical and often overlooked part of the overall process. In this session, Val Swisher will help you understand what a global strategy is and why it’s important. We will discuss ways to think about your content strategically so you can grow from your source market to other markets around the world.
  
  Ask a Video Pro for Switchers Part 1 – Getting Comfortable with Premiere Pro
  
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  Ask A Video Pro: Video Professionals: Switching to the Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6
  
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  Ask a DV Pro: Color Correction and Grading in Production Premium
  
  Robbie Carman is a professional film and video colorist and co-owner of Amigo Media LLC a small finishing boutique located in Washington, DC with a focus on broadcast television and independent film finishing. Robbie has 15 years of experience in SD and HD projects including hundreds of programs for Discovery Networks, National Geographic, PBS, MSNBC and many others.
  
  Ask A Pro: Adobe Edge Tools & Services Crash Course
  
  The online world is changing thanks to new web technologies and the proliferation of devices and internet connections. So how can you stay on top of these new technologies and create compelling content for this new, modern web?
  
  Adobe allows you to stay in the forefront by launching Adobe Edge Tools & Services. In this session, Adobe Evangelist, Paul Trani will demonstrate all you need to know about these powerful tools and services. Everything from Edge Animate, Edge Code, Edge Inspect, PhoneGap Build, and even a sneak of Edge Reflow, among many others. An onDemand session not to be missed for anyone interested in creating web content.
  
  Ask A Pro: Illustrator CS6 -- Ask A CS Pro with Rufus Deuchler
  
  Come see how you can be creative anywhere with Illustrator, Ideas and Adobe Creative Cloud, and then get a deep dive into the new ImageTrace feature in Illustrator CS6. Join Rufus Deuchler, worldwide design evangelist for Adobe, shares his techniques for creating on the go in Adobe Ideas and then polishing those designs in Illustrator CS6.
  
  And in the second part of this session, Rufus will show you how to get your best results when vectorizing raster images with Illustrator’s Image Trace.
  
  Ask A Pro: Streamlined DPS, Single Edition workflow
  
  On September 19, Adobe announced that Creative Cloud members would be able to submit an unlimited number of single-issue iPad apps to the Apple App Store using Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition, as part of their membership! Please join DPS Evangelist Colin Fleming in this exciting Ask a CS Pro session as he demonstrates the new, streamlined DPS, Single Edition workflow.
  
  Ask A Pro: Using EDGE Animate to Design Interactive Websites with Adobe Agency Partner Terralever
  
  Join this session as Adobe Product Manager Sarah Hunt, shows Adobe EDGE tools now available in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Edge Animate, to create interactive content using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, followed by guest presenters from Terralever, Adobe Agency Partner and renowned digital marketing agency. Terralever SVP of Interactive Production, David Foster, and Creative Director, Craig Budwitz will show their contest winning HTML5 work for the Children's Miracle Network, presenting their process from concept to completion. You'll learn about the tools used throughout the project and can ask your questions. This session is appropriate for anyone looking to expand their approach to creative design and development as well as anyone looking to understand uses for Edge Animate.
  
  Ask A Pro: Adobe Muse – Adding and styling engaging, interactive elements
  
  Join Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she shows you how to engage your audiences by adding and styling interactive elements, such as lightboxes, tooltips, contact forms, and slide shows, to your Adobe Muse web sites. Next, you’ll learn how easy it is to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos, Google Maps, Facebook like buttons, and more.
  
  Ask A Pro: Learn about the Dreamweaver update for the Creative Cloud
  
  The Dreamweaver team recently released a CS6 update available to Creative Cloud members. This update includes enhanced HTML5 support for Forms and Semantic tags, integration with Edge Animate, and the ability to easily insert HTML audio and video into projects. Join us in this session to learn all about these exciting new features.
  
  Ask A Pro: From Stunning Websites to Online Stores - What's Possible with Adobe Business Catalyst
  
  Adobe Business Catalyst enables web professionals to build everything from simple websites through to lead generating mini-sites, and eCommerce powerhouses. Join Product Evangelist Adam Broadway to discover what’s possible when using the Adobe Business Catalyst platform. He’ll run you through: - Generating leads with custom web forms- Sending email blasts to your segmented customer database- Selling anything online – from physical products to digital downloads- Building dynamic web apps, without server-side codingPresenter: Adam Broadway, Product Evangelist. Originally co-founder of the product prior to the team joining Adobe, Adam Broadway lives and breathes Business Catalyst. As product evangelist, he spends his time educating and engaging with business owners and our passionate community of web design Partners.
  
  Session 5) RoboHelp 10 Help productivity features and context-sensitive help (CSH) for mobile apps
  
  Session 5) RoboHelp 10 Help productivity features and context-sensitive help (CSH) for mobile apps
  November 28: “There’s an app for that!” Now, RoboHelp 10 extends it Help publishing capabilities to context sensitive help and embedded apps for certain tablet devices. Find out how.
  
  Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann is Adobe’s Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite. A former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology (prior to product acquisition by Adobe), Hoffmann also spent a dozen years doing multi-lingual production in the language translation industry. Hoffmann has also provided face-to-face, hands-on training to over 1,200 people in scalable authoring solutions. He has also managed “high page count” projects in DITA, XML and most common authoring tools as well as FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
  
  Publishing Policies and Procedures for Multiple Channels, Formats and Screens
  
  Having procedures, training guides and user manuals available on multiple devices is becoming a business objective in many corporations. We’ll take sample procedures and describe best practices for creating content that will be output to multiple devices and at the same time, learn how RoboHelp 10 provides an easy solution for making this possible. Join the experts from Lightext.com, Beth Gerber and Pam Harrison, for guidelines in effectively using RoboHelp 10 in this versatile workflow.
  
  Adopting DITA to Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity--Backing up your Claims
  
  When managers develop business cases to support a move to the OASIS DITA Standard, they must estimate a Return on Investment (ROI). Decision-makers require that the investment required in tools, training, and process change be recouped within a reasonably short time span, often one to two years, at least for the cost of tools acquisition and implementation. Business cases often include predictions of decreased costs for translation and increased productivity from reductions in formatting activities and the direct reuse of standard content rather than through duplication or cut-and-paste. After implementation, managers are charged with comparing their predictions to the actual cost reductions to prove that they have achieved their goals and to predict future savings.
  Dr. JoAnn Hackos reports on the results of the 2012 CIDM (Center for Information-Development Management) business survey. The survey asks manager what predictions they included in their business cases for DITA adoption, whether those predictions were accurate, and whether they have continued to experience reduced costs and increased productivity. The results of the 2012 survey are compared with the results of the 2010 survey. Dr. Hackos presents several case studies that provide examples of cost reduction and productivity increases experienced by CIDM members.
  Dr. JoAnn Hackos, is the President of Comtech Services, Inc. and the Director of The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM).
  
  Structured authoring: getting from point A to point B
  
  This webinar will highlight the challenges, risks, and top techniques to assure successful XML adoption within your company and help you to quantify your ROI and business case for your organization’s leadership. The challenge: companies with existing unstructured content that plan to migrate to XML structured content formats often struggle with the details of how to accomplish the migration.
  Attendees will learn about:
  Full CMS integration with both XML/DITA authored content AND pre-existing unstructured FrameMaker content, and how to manage such mixed content to best effect.
  How to achieve the lowest total cost of output with CMS control of translation, re-use optimization and integrated workflow capabilities
  How to master robust yet flexible output/publishing options with ADOBE TCS publishing suite.
  Our guest speakers: Jacquie Samuels is an Information Architect, Senior Information Developer, and CMS Consultant. She also has an extensive background in technical writing and editing and is AIIM certified in SharePoint and has a certificate of Information Management from the University of Toronto. Suzanne Mescan, Vice President of Marketing for Vasont Systems, has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of the information management and publishing industry. Suzanne has authored numerous articles about content management for industry publications and has delivered presentations to a variety of professional organizations.
  
  Employing a Flexible Interaction Language Scheme with User Defined Variables (UDVs)
  
  User Assistance (UA) professionals are often faced with situations where software applications need to support multiple computing devices, multiple input mechanisms and many human interactions at the same time. This means that the majority of mainstream customers are going to need help from us to learn the language of touch, hand gestures, voice, and more.
  When it comes to writing procedures we all need to make an important decision. Do we want to use a generic set of verbs that support all the different types of interactions designed into our software? Or, do we want to customize the content for specific types of interactions?
  If you decide to customize your verbs for multiple interaction types, then you definitely want to take advantage of User Defined Variables (UDVs) in RoboHelp 10. Adding UDVs into your procedure steps automates the process of adjusting verb choices for different interaction types. Even if you are currently only using generic verbs, you may want to use UDVs. That way if you change your approach in the future it will be easy to add support for multiple interaction types. UDVs have many uses in RoboHelp projects. You may already be using them for brand names or user interface terms. This webinar by UA expert Joe Welinske describes how to use UDVs for specifying interaction types.
  
  Session 4) Using new RoboHelp 10 features to make content more searchable
  
  Session 4) Using new RoboHelp 10 features to make content more searchable
  November 14: Discover how new enhancements within RoboHelp 10 and Tech Comm Suite give you tighter control over your customer’s search experience. Ensure that search queries will be accurate and relevant.
  Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann is Adobe’s Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite. A former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology (prior to product acquisition by Adobe), Hoffmann also spent a dozen years doing multi-lingual production in the language translation industry. Hoffmann has also provided face-to-face, hands-on training to over 1,200 people in scalable authoring solutions. He has also managed “high page count” projects in DITA, XML and most common authoring tools as well as FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
  
  Presenter and Captivate: Together at Last!
  
  This year, Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8 were both released. Used individually, they are both great tools for creating eLearning. Together, they are more than the sum of their parts. In fact, when used together, you can capitalize on the strengths of both. But how? What are the best ways to ensure success? Joe Ganci, eLearning expert lo these many years, and an expert in both Captivate and Presenter, will guide you through the steps that will get you up and running quickly. He will also give you a few choice tips you may find difficult to find elsewhere. Come with your questions too. Joe will do his best to answer them.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 3: Mixing PowerPoint & Application Capture
  
  Learn to add Adobe Captivate style application captures to your Adobe Presenter 8 courses in this discussion and demonstration. Join Dr. Allen Partridge as he walks you through the technique and rationale behind integrating your PowerPoint presentation with interactive application captures all created with the new Adobe Presenter 8.
  
  Adobe Design Achievement Awards Ceremony
  
  See inspired student and faculty work from around the world being honored during the DesignThinkers Conference in Toronto, Canada. Special hosts, Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka of Adams/Morioka will honor the student and faculty winners of this prestigous design award.
  
  Adobe Education Exchange Live-The Future of Flash
  
  Tomas Krcha, Gaming Evangelist, discusses new directions that Flash technology is heading.
  
  Adobe Education Exchange Live-Adobe Digital Publishing Solutions
  
  Steve Hart, Manager for Digital Publishing Solutions shows off digital magazine publishing tools and services.
  
  Adobe Education Exchange Live-Adobe Active Use
  
  Tacy Trowbridge, Group Manager, Education Programs showcases resources that educators can use in their classrooms to enhance use of Adobe solutions.
  
  Adobe Education Exchange Live-Welcome
  
  Join Jon Perera, Vice President, Adobe Education Marketing as he opens a day of higher education exchanges and presentations with focus on Adobe Digital Publishing solutions and Adobe Flash directions.
  
  Audio Editing Basics for eLearning Designers
  
  Adding audio to your eLearning courses brings the courses to life. It also leaves you with a lot of real estate space on the screen, as you can get rid of the Onscreen Text and utilize the space for adding graphics, animations, and videos to explain the content better. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to explore the capabilities of Adobe Audition CS6 for audio recording and editing. They will also show you the Audition roundtripping feature in Adobe Captivate 6.
  
  K-12 EA Customer Spotlight - Alberta Ministry of Education:Students and Teachers
  
  Responsible for supporting Alberta’s diverse educational system, the Alberta Ministry of Education is providing teachers and students with powerful creative tools that offer students a 21st century education and the skills necessary to succeed in post-secondary education and the competitive job market. Learn how the K-12 Enterprise agreement along with their new Master Teacher program is making this a reality.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 2: Creating Video Demos
  
  Video demonstrations have growing use in the video savvy web and mobile world of education and training today. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration of the amazing new MP4 video workflows in Adobe Captivate 6. Learn to Zoom and Pan, work with transitions, layer various media and captions and work with audio in your project.
  
  It's All About Structure! Why Structured Content Is Increasingly Becoming A Necessity, Not An Option
  
  Structured content. XML. Content reuse. Single-sourcing. We've been talking about these techniques, standards and approaches for years. And yet, many organizations still aren't producing semantically-enriched, machine-readable, consistently structured content. But, that's got to change. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, will explore the many reasons why we must adopt a structured XML, single-source approach to creating, managing and delivering content if we are to succeed in the global, mobile world in which we live.
  Speaker Profile:
  Scott Abel, aka The Content Wrangler, is an internationally-recognized technical communication professional and content management strategist whose strengths lie in helping global organizations improve the way they author, maintain, and deliver information. In addition to his popular business blog, TheContentWrangler.com, an online resource for content professionals with an interest in content management, content standards and content technologies, Scott maintains several online communities on Facebook and Linkedin, and is a popular and influential technology blogger on Twitter. He also manages the social networking activities for several software and services firms in the high technology and digital mobile publishing arenas.
  
  Create an iPad-ready project with Captivate 6 and your EA from Adobe
  
  iPads, HTML5, interactivity, and project-based learning are all hot topics in today's educational environment. Adobe's new Enterprise Agreement program brings all of this together and provides a platform you can use to both deliver learning material and allow students to create content of their own for any tablet, smartphone, or computer. Now, with Captivate 6 in the mix, you have an unprecedented way to create interactive projects that combine quizzing, branching, and motion video together to make learning fun and effective while leveraging the exciting new technologies found in hands of teachers and students alike.
  
  Creating courses for Presenter Mobile App using Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on a journey to create eLearning courses for your iPad using Adobe Presenter 8. In this session, learn how to create a course in Adobe Presenter 8, host it on Adobe Connect, and view it in Presenter Mobile App, step-by-step. Also learn about the best practices, do’s and don'ts of using the features and creating a good experience in iPad.
  
  Ask A Pro: The Latest Workflow Enhancements in Adobe Edge Inspect: Weinre, JS Bin, Localhosts and What's Coming
  
  Join Senior Computer Scientist for the Adobe Edge Inspect team, Mark Rausch, as he demos the latest workflow enhancements possible with Edge Inspect. Recent enhancements include the ability to install a custom local Weinre server, integration with JS Bin, localhost configurations with xip.io. Learn what's coming down the pipeline.
  
  Content Strategies for the Real World
  
  There is a lot of talk these days about content strategy. Recent discussions on content strategy have been stressing considerations such as addressing the mobile user and leveraging content as a strategic marketing resource. These are all important and beneficial points. An effective content strategy will factor in a wide range of considerations in order to equip an organization to engage customers on any channel and at any point in the relationship lifecycle.
  This presentation will take a look at a number of real-world examples of how content strategies have been framed and implemented in a number of industry sectors. Examples will be used to demonstrate the elements that a practical content strategy must contain if it is going to have a beneficial and long-standing impact for organizations and their customers. Join Joe Gollner, leading industry expert and consultant with Gnostyx.com, for guidance through the many significant issues that must be addressed to achieve these goals.
  
  Best Practices for Virtual Training
  
  Learn about the mobile application and the features. You will also see live use cases from the field and are encouraged to dial in via your device. You will: - Learn how to download the application - Understand the features and options available for your device - Observe a live broadcast from the field with an iPad - Have the opportunity to ask questions with our live mobile experts
  
  The Webinar Manifesto: Never Design, Deliver, or Sell Crappy Webinars Again
  
  Once people have joined your webinar, how do you keep their attention? Watch this webinar and see how Web conferencing software offers features that enable you to move beyond simple narration over PowerPoint slides to make your webinars more compelling, interesting, and fun to attend.
  
  Session 3) Publishing unstructured or XML content from FrameMaker 11 to tablets
  
  Session 3) Publishing unstructured or XML content from FrameMaker 11 to tablets and productivity enhancements
  October 30: Regardless of whether you author regular unstructured content, or DITA/XML in FrameMaker 11, now Tech Comm Suite 4 allows a few mouse clicks to publish your content to HTML4 multiscreen, ePub2, ePub3 or both Kindle formats.
  
  Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann is Adobe’s Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite. A former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology (prior to product acquisition by Adobe), Hoffmann also spent a dozen years doing multi-lingual production in the language translation industry. Hoffmann has also provided face-to-face, hands-on training to over 1,200 people in scalable authoring solutions. He has also managed “high page count” projects in DITA, XML and most common authoring tools as well as FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
  
  From Drab to Fab! An eLearning Makeover Using Workflows and Customizable Objects
  
  You do your best to make the most visually pleasing eLearning you can -- but, let's face it, your strengths are in eLearning and instructional design, not graphic design or copywriting. Fortunately, Adobe Captivate gives you the ability to collaborate with others, leverage powerful workflows with tools like Photoshop and MS Word, and customize objects.
  Join Linda Mahnken, Adobe Captivate Enthusiast, as she demonstrates an "eLearning make-over" case study of how she approached her company's creative department for help in making a new eLearning course more visually appealing and in line with the company voice. The result was fabulous! The creative team was able to mock up templates for different types of slides in Photoshop that she was able to either import into Captivate or set up as customizable objects, including branded buttons and correct/incorrect quiz captions. She also used an unsung Captivate document workflow to make her collaboration with the copywriters a snap! (Bonus: once she had the customizable objects and styles set up for that eLearning, she has been able to re-use them in additional eLearning projects. Huge time saver!)
  Whether you are a one-person eLearning department or you collaborate with a team, this session showcases how using workflows, styles, and customizable objects can save you time and create a more visually appealing and consistent course. This is not a step-by-step "how to" session, but is an overview of what's possible for taking eLearning from drab to fab.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 1: Application Simulation & Software Training
  
  Creating realistic and useful simulations of software applications for training can present a significant challenge. Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of the industry leading tool for software capture and simulation. Learn how to create and customize basic application simulations with Adobe Captivate 6.
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 2: Create Rapid Training Courses with Pizzazz
  
  Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration of the powerful and simple tools in Adobe Presenter 8 for Rapid eLearning Authoring. Learn how, why and when to integrate characters, how to add interest and enhance engagement with smart learning interactions and how to work with the Presenter 8 eLearning Templates to rapidly create sensational looking, branded and customized eLearning courses.
  
  Making Your Webinars More Engaging and Interactive
  
  Watch this webinar as Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, explains web conferencing features and techniques you can use to more fully involve your audience. Learn how to make your webinars more effective – and enjoyable – by inviting your audience to interact rather than passively listen.
  
  Streamlining the Approval Process of Policies and Procedures via RoboHelp
  
  Obtaining approvals on policy and procedures can be a painstaking and complex process. Using the Content Review tool, which has been improved in RoboHelp Version 10, learn how this process can be simplified and managed. In this webinar, Lightext will demonstrate strategies for:
  Handling multiple reviews
  Tracking reviewers' edits
  Techniques for shortening the approval process
  Providing the reviewer with a webhelp to .chm sample
  Simultaneously managing content that is being developed, out for review, and approved for publishing
  Presenters: his eSeminar is hosted by Beth Gerber, President of Lightext, Inc. Lightext is a technical writing and training consulting firm specializing in policy and procedure development and instructional design and delivery for the financial services industry. Lightext is also an Authorized Adobe Training Center located in Arcadia, California. www.lightext.com
  
  End-to-End Microsoft SharePoint integration with Adobe RoboHelp 10
  
  Microsoft SharePoint is a growing platform for multi-author teams who need to keep their content synchronized. A growing share of SharePoint users now access their content from mobile devices and tablets. Adobe RoboHelp 10 provides an easy way to publish Multiscreen HTML5 directly to a SharePoint site to facilitate those devices. At the same time, the workflow provides version and source control integration between RoboHelp and SharePoint. This allows for files to be checked in and out. Authors can also publish native SharePoint files (.aspx) directly to a SharePoint site from within RoboHelp.
  In this eSeminar you will learn how to:
  Publish native Microsoft SharePoint (.aspx) format directly to a document library.
  Reuse shared assets from a common repository on a shared location using RoboHelp’s Resource Manager
  Use SharePoint as your source control tool with Check-in, Check-Out of files and keeping a history of your topic content all from a convenient toolbar right within RoboHelp.
  Improve the Search Experience by taking advantage of both SharePoint and RoboHelp’s search capabilities.
  Use SharePoint to facilitate RoboHelp’s PDF Review and Collaboration workflow to keep authors and subject matter experts in sync.
  
  Presenters: This eSeminar is hosted by Adobe Certified RoboHelp Instructor John Daigle. John teaches and consults Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate and is based in Evergreen, Colorado. (www.showmethedemo.com).
  
  Showtime! Adding production value to your online training
  
  For online training to be successful, you need great content and great delivery. You also need to think like a trainer and a producer.
  
  My First eLearning Course with Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Adobe Presenter 8 is very easy-to-use rapid authoring tool which helps you transform your boring presentations to interactive and trackable eLearning content. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists, as they take you through a journey of creating an interactive eLearning course from scratch to finish using the all-new features of Adobe Presenter 8. Don’t miss it!
  
  Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 1: Video Lecture Capture & Knowledge Sharing
  
  Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a practical discussion and demonstration of basic uses of Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator for knowledge sharing and lecture capture. Learn why Adobe Presenter 8 is the latest sensation in personalized video creation, and see for yourself how you can revolutionize training & education efforts in your organization with minimal investment.
  
  Adobe Muse – Adding and styling engaging, interactive elements
  
  Join Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she shows you how to engage your audiences by adding and styling interactive elements, such as lightboxes, tooltips, contact forms, and slide shows, to your Adobe Muse web sites. Next, you’ll learn how easy it is to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos, Google Maps, Facebook like buttons, and more. Register now.
  
  Virtual Tour of Adobe Connect 9 for Marketing Webinars
  
  Discover ten ways to make your job easier and your webinars more interactive and engaging with Adobe Connect web conferencing.
  
  Finding the light-switch in your virtual classroom
  
  Watch this webinar to learn Dr. Carmen Taran show tips and tricks on enhancing your virtual classroom experience.
  
  A Guide To Building Effective Marketing Presentations
  
  Learn from Ken Molay, as he presents practical guidelines for creating webinar presentations that engage your audience and create sales interest.
  
  Session 2) Multichannel, multiscreen publishing workflow using RoboHelp and Tech Comm Suite
  
  Session 2) Multichannel, multiscreen publishing workflow using RoboHelp and Tech Comm Suite
  October 11: RoboHelp 10’s new ability to publish to HTML5 multiscreen enables swift single source publishing to tablets and mobile devices as well as desktop HTML. Discover how much more flexible your Help output can be.
  
  Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann is Adobe’s Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite. A former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology (prior to product acquisition by Adobe), Hoffmann also spent a dozen years doing multi-lingual production in the language translation industry. Hoffmann has also provided face-to-face, hands-on training to over 1,200 people in scalable authoring solutions. He has also managed “high page count” projects in DITA, XML and most common authoring tools as well as FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
  
  Lilybiri’s favourite: shapes to trigger advanced actions
  
  The new smart shapes in Captivate 6 are really game changers, not only because they double as text containers and rollover shapes but especially because they can be used as buttons with all functionalities, including triggering advanced actions.
  In this webinar you’ll learn
  About the difference between those shape buttons and normal buttons
  How shape buttons can be used on Master slides or timed for the rest of the project and how to choose for either method
  How they can be used on question slides
  How to create custom toggle buttons using shapes
  Tips and tricks
  
  From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side
  
  Practical Advice for Educators who want to instantly create fantastic online resources from their lectures and slide decks. Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of practical tips to capture your lectures, economize their length and distribution and make them available to your students.
  
  Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners or How to Create and Publish Your First Course Module
  
  Just downloaded Adobe Captivate 6 and want that perfect starter tutorial? Looking for more info before you launch your first course module? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this handy introduction to creating your first course module in Adobe Captivate 6. Aimed at beginners, this session will guide you through the basic steps of course creation, demonstrate how to add your own content to a project and integrate quizzes. You will learn to publish your content and even get a good sense of how to deploy it to a learning management system.
  
  eLearning Made Easy with Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create eLearning courses with trackable quizzes using the all new Adobe Presenter 8. They will also show you how to convert your slides into interactive training content using out-of-the-box assets such as actors, scenes, layouts, and learning interactions.
  
  Debugging XSLT with FrameMaker 11
  
  In this presentation, hear Lynne Price of Text Structure Consulting illustrate how a developer can use new FrameMaker 11 features to test and maintain XSLT code. The speaker will use an XSLT advanced run to transform all files in a test suite and examine the results using XPath to find particular structures, make changes, and repeat the process until correct results are produced.
  
  Ask A Video Pro: The Making of “A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman”
  
  See how the video pros behind “A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman” used high-performance Adobe post-production tools to bring the animated Graham Chapman memoir to life. Join this webinar to learn how this breakthrough film integrated the work of 14 animation studios into a holistic 3D stereographic film, to celebrate the life and multifaceted career of deceased Monty Python member Graham Chapman. This presentation will cover Made Visual Studios’ digital workflows which relied on After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium tools to weave the creative visions and talents of many contributors into a film that mirrors Chapman’s genius.
  Presenters: Justin Weyers, Co-Founder & Director at Made Visual Studio and Animation Producer for “A Liar’s Autobiography”. Justin is the Co-Founder of Made Visual Studio, a multidisciplinary creative agency in east London that thrives on unique, diverse projects and whose motto is “Simply Put: An Idea To An Image”. Branching across Animation, Branding, Strategy, Design, and Art Direction, Justin sticks his nose in them all.
  
  Session1) Collaborative Review Workflow for FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 using Acrobat.com
  
  TOPICS
  Session1) Collaborative Review Workflow for FrameMaker 11 and RoboHelp 10 using Acrobat.com “cloud”
  September 28: Discover how a team can collaborate on review, requiring no license. Comments and annotations may be imported “in place” into FrameMaker 11 or RoboHelp 10 via Tech Comm Suite 4
  
  Session 2) Multichannel, multiscreen publishing workflow using RoboHelp and Tech Comm Suite
  October 11: RoboHelp 10’s new ability to publish to HTML5 multiscreen enables swift single source publishing to tablets and mobile devices as well as desktop HTML. Discover how much more flexible your Help output can be.
  
  Session 3) Publishing unstructured or XML content from FrameMaker 11 to tablets and productivity enhancements
  October 30: Regardless of whether you author regular unstructured content, or DITA/XML in FrameMaker 11, now Tech Comm Suite 4 allows a few mouse clicks to publish your content to HTML4 multiscreen, ePub2, ePub3 or both Kindle formats.
  
  Session 4) Using new RoboHelp 10 features to make content more searchable
  November 14: Discover how new enhancements within RoboHelp 10 and Tech Comm Suite give you tighter control over your customer’s search experience. Ensure that search queries will be accurate and relevant.
  
  Session 5) RoboHelp 10 Help productivity features and context-sensitive help (CSH) for mobile apps
  November 28: “There’s an app for that!” Now, RoboHelp 10 extends it Help publishing capabilities to context sensitive help and embedded apps for certain tablet devices. Find out how.
  
  Presenter: Maxwell Hoffmann is Adobe’s Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite. A former product manager for FrameMaker at Frame Technology (prior to product acquisition by Adobe), Hoffmann also spent a dozen years doing multi-lingual production in the language translation industry. Hoffmann has also provided face-to-face, hands-on training to over 1,200 people in scalable authoring solutions. He has also managed “high page count” projects in DITA, XML and most common authoring tools as well as FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
  
  RoboHelp 10 Goes Mobile
  
  RoboHelp has offered mobile outputs since v. 8, even earlier than that depending on how you define "mobile". But RoboHelp 10 represents a big step forward, with Adobe adding support for HTML5, media queries, and a variety of mobile outputs. In this presentation, we'll take a look at the overall world of mobile in order to set the context. We'll then look specifically at the mobile output support features added to 10. Finally, we'll look at design and publishing considerations. Whether you plan to extend an existing RoboHelp project to the iPhone, iPad, etc., or create a new mobile output from scratch, this presentation will give you the basic overview of what's involved. More specifically, we'll look at:
  - The environment - Why simply saying "mobile" is dangerous. We'll look at rationales for using mobile, types of mobile, and some high level management issues.
  - RoboHelp mobile - What features did Adobe add in RoboHelp 10, what do they do, and what we'll have to learn to use them.
  - Help-to-mobile-transition issues - How do we shove a billboard onto a sticky note? We'll look at major differences in design, functionality, and publishing between help and mobile and how they'll affect your work.
  You won't know everything you need at the end of this presentation, but you'll be able to ask much better questions.
  The presenter, Neil Perlin, is an internationally known consultant and president of Hyper/Word Services. Neil is a 33-year veteran of tech comm, a 26-year veteran of hypertext, a 21-year veteran of RoboHelp, and has been working with the evolving "mobile" market since 1998.
  
  Part 1: Taking Advantage of RoboHelp 10 Authoring Enhancements for Policy and Procedure Development
  
  Watch Part 1 of a 3-part series to learn about updates to the authoring environment in RoboHelp 10 related to improvements in developing policy and procedure as well as training content. Relevant product improvements include css enhancements, reusable content, revised templates and more. Join the experts from Lightext.com, Beth Gerber and Pam Harrison, for guidelines on using recently released RoboHelp 10 in the most effective manner for this important work. Live demos of RoboHelp 10 features using actual projects are shared. Although the focus is on Policies & Procedures, the workflow and features used are applicable to all industries and most tech comm projects.
  
  Multi-screen Help Authoring
  
  For the last thirty years or so the designers of personal computing software have had a fairly consistent canvas with which to work. Viewing screens for most computers have been in a range of approximately 10-14 diagonal inches. Screen resolutions in the past twenty years have been fairly static as well. It was possible to deliver our user experience in one presentation flavor. The UI would scale automatically from desktop to laptop and even to netbook. UA designers enjoyed not having to worry very much about how our information would look and feel on different displays.
  This has changed quickly and dramatically. The Smartphone storm kicked off by the iPhone created enormous demand for devices with dimensions of less than three inches on a side. Similarly, Apple’s launch of iOS sparked a furious drive by software developers to create applications to fit this new form factor. Whether we are doing Help for native OS apps or presenting content in a mobile browser, we need to address the wide and growing fragmentation of devices.
  One possible solution lies with multiscreen authoring for a responsive design. HTML 5, partnered with CSS3 and JavaScript, offers a way to single-source our content in an intelligent and scalable way. Products like RoboHelp 10 include support for this as well as conditional text and user-defined variables.
  Join Joe Welinske in this session which will introduce the concept of responsive design and multiscreen authoring. It will include demonstrations of how to craft your content to support varying screen dimensions and user interaction types like touch and hand gestures.
  
  Create Professional Videos with Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create professional looking videos right at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. In this session, you will learn how to use Adobe Presenter 8 to easily record and edit your video with crop, trim, pan, and zoom, and automatically adjust the brightness and sharpness of the video.
  
  Ask A Pro: What's New in Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7 + A Special Focus on Adding Interactivity
  
  View this Ask a Pro session to get an up close and personal look at what's new in Preview 7. Our fearless Product Manager Sarah Hunt covers new features like resizable layouts, enhancements to the timeline and stage, and much more. Sarah will also show you how to add interactivity to your compositions, as requested by our fans.
  
  Ask A Pro: Adobe Muse – Latest updates, including built-in support for contact forms
  
  Join Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she demonstrates the latest updates in Adobe Muse, including built-in support for contact forms using the new Forms widget, plus new features and enhancements that give you more precise control over your design, and more efficient support for publishing, including search engine optimization improvements.
  
  Ask A Pro: The new, streamlined DPS, Single Edition workflow
  
  On September 19, Adobe announced that Creative Cloud members would be able to submit an unlimited number of single-issue iPad apps to the Apple App Store using Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition, as part of their membership! In this session, Keith Gilbert demonstrates the new, streamlined DPS, Single Edition workflow.
  
  Creating a Knowledge Sharing Community & Culture with Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator
  
  Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration centered on knowledge sharing in your organization. Business communication today is growing increasingly dependent on clean, well-produced video content, and corporate culture has sent forth a clarion call to leverage internal knowledge in order to cut costs and protect the business process understanding resident in virtually every knowledge worker. This is sometimes a stark contrast to a prevailing knowledge hoarding culture. How can your organization facilitate both the cultural changes needed and the technological innovation required to move from knowledge protection to knowledge sharing within the group? Dr. Partridge will discuss the issues and demonstrate the technologies. You’ll learn how you can spearhead the knowledge revolution in your organization.
  
  Advanced Actions for Dummies using Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Join Anita Horsley, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to make eLearning more engaging using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate.
  Ever wondered how to allow users to click on any button, in any order, before they can advance in the course? This could be the case if you have multiple lessons that jump to other slides and return to the Topics Menu each time or you may simply have multiple objects on one slide that the user must click on before advancing. The webinar will demonstrate simple step-by-step instructions on how to create and apply Conditional Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate.
  
  Lightbox Me Baby: The Power of Groups and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6
  
  In this one hour introductory session on grouping and Advanced Actions within Adobe Captivate 6, Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist will demonstrate the process of creating, grouping, and manipulating through Advanced Actions elements in a lightbox window. Learn to make your projects shine with attractive popover lightbox windows, and how to control the elements in those windows individually or as a group using behind the scenes actions to guide and facilitate your learners.
  
  Become an eBOOK Publisher for eReaders, Desktop, Mobile and Tablet Devices
  
  Technical documentation teams are now moving Policies and Procedures project content from the desktop to mobile devices and tablets. Adobe RoboHelp 10 supports the new ePub 3 (and ePub 2.0.1) as well as the Kindle Fire (KF8) formats. The publishing targets are eBook readers (such as Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble's, Nook, etc.) as well as tablets users (Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy, BlackBerry Playbook, etc.) and even smartphones such as Motorola's Droid and Samsung's Galaxy S series.
  In this eSeminar you will learn how to:
  Prepare an existing RoboHelp project for generating to many devices using the new eBook Single Source Layout.
  Optimize content maximum compatibility to adapt and accommodate a growing number of eBook readers and mobile devices.
  Create an eBook Single Source Layout for ePub 3 and Kindle Book.
  Enter Meta Information including publisher and copyright info as well as a Cover Image.
  Validate the content in accordance with requirements of the Apple Store.
  
  Presenters: This eSeminar is hosted by Adobe Certified RoboHelp Instructor John Daigle and his guest, Kevin Siegel. John teaches and consults Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate and is based in Evergreen, Colorado (www.showmethedemo.com). Kevin Siegel is founder of IconLogic and develops courseware for Adobe RoboHelp and many other Adobe products. He distributes his courseware using the ePUB format and is based near Baltimore, Maryland (www.iconlogic.com).
  
  First Look at the Enhanced Multi-SCO Packager!
  
  Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about the new enhancements in Multi-SCO Packager in Adobe eLearning Suite 6. Watch as they combine content created from products within the eLearning Suite, like Adobe Captivate 6, Flash Professional CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, and Adobe Presenter 8 and then publish the course to SCORM 2004 LMSs, and track module-specific results effortlessly.
  
  Flipping the College Classroom with Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator
  
  Join Dr. Allen Partridge, veteran College Professor for this fascinating demonstration and discussion of flipping the college classroom. Participants will learn the fundamental principles behind the flipped classroom, the advantages of the constructivist approach, and how to easily migrate their lessons & lectures into online modules that students can use to investigate and research the principle topics. Includes demonstrations of Adobe Presenter 8 aimed specifically at supporting the technology needs of the flipped classroom.
  
  Maintaining XSLT code as a structured FrameMaker document
  
  This webinar describes a structured FrameMaker application for editing XSLT. While the document window appears to show actual XSLT code, the structure of the edited document is an easily-understood variation of that used in the final XML output. Features of this editing structure include:
  1) Names of various constructs (variables, templates, modes, and so forth) can be entered once and referenced multiple times as cross-references. To change a name therefore, a user need only change the typed occurrence and update cross-references; there is no need to search for all the individual occurrence.
  2) The user can navigate through multiple files with generated lists of elements such as named templates and calls to those templates. Index markers can be used to generate an index into the code.
  3) Elements in the structured document spare the user the need to remember details of XSLT syntax such as the names of the different axes and the order of the arguments to various functions. Color is used to visually identify matching parentheses and help prevent some syntax errors.
  Once a document is complete, the user saves it as XML using an application that uses XSLT itself to change from the editing structure into actual XSLT code. Furthermore, existing XSLT code can be brought into this environment by opening it using an application that converts XSLT to the editing structure.
  In addition to demonstrating a productive environment for maintaining XSLT transforms (or stylesheets), this application illustrates:
  1) A practical application of the XSLT features Tom Aldous described in his recent 5-part series of presentations on XSLT in FrameMaker
  2) How useful FrameMaker 11 can be for producing XML
  3) A situation in which there is more information in a FrameMaker structured document than the corresponding XML
  
  Multiscreen HTML5 for multi-device publishing with Adobe RoboHelp 10
  
  With Multiscreen HTML5 Single Source Layouts and the new Screen Layout Editor, you can deliver content to almost any device and screen size. From iPhones to Android smartphones like Galaxy, tablets like iPad and Kindle Fire to desktop computers, Adobe RoboHelp 10 has you covered! Support for modern HTML5 output and CSS3 means authors are no longer limited to the old-fashioned and restrictive frame-based "tri-pane" window. Convenient common screen sizes for many devices are ready-to-use. Each screen size can be mapped to a different screen layout so that the appearance of the content is right for the device.
  In this eSeminar you will learn how to:
  Choose Screen Profiles to accommodate the particular screen sizes you are targeting (Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, etc.)
  Take your existing project and generate "batch" output for many screen sizes using the new Multiscreen HTML5 Single Source Layout.
  Select from the Screen Layout “Gallery” of prepared layouts.
  Customize the look and feel as well as the structure of your content using the Screen Layout Editor.
  Optimize the output so that the content adjusts and adapts to different screen sizes.
  
  Presenters:
  This webinar is hosted by Adobe Certified RoboHelp Instructor John Daigle and his guest, Willam van Weelden. John teaches and consults Adobe RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate and is based in Evergreen, Colorado (www.showmethedemo.com). Willam van Weelden is from Amsterdam and expert in CSS3 design and the new HTML5 standards. (www.wvanweelden.eu)
  
  Ask A Video Pro: Audio Editing for Video Editors, with Kanen Flowers
  
  Adobe® Audition® CS6 software is the audio editor that speeds up editing, mixing, and sound design for video, radio, music, games, and more. Audition CS6 complements Adobe Premiere® Pro, bringing a powerful and easy-to-use toolset for fixing and sweetening sound. Sign up for this Ask a Video Pro session and join popular podcaster and filmmaker Kanen Flowers to learn how audio editing can enhance your production work.
  
  High Definition Screencasts with Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to easily create high-quality screencasts with the new capture-as-a-video workflow. In this session, you will learn how to edit video, and add transitions, pan and zoom, smart shapes, audio, and captions. You will also see how to insert a talking head or another video in a picture-in-picture format and publish the video to YouTube with a single click.
  
  Ask A Video Pro: SpeedGrade for Aspiring Colorists
  
  Aimed at editors who want to add color grading to their workflow, this seminar will start with a look at the color correction tools in Premiere Pro and then move on to provide a primer in the powerful color capabilities of Adobe® SpeedGrade™ CS6. Now part of Adobe Creative Suite® and Creative Cloud, SpeedGrade gives you the power to push your stories further. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro session with award-winning editor and colorist Jeff August to learn more.
  
  Key Trends in Software User Assistance (Part Two) - Emerging Paradigms and Opportunities
  
  Adobe is proud to present the second part of this two part webinar series (watch Part 1 here) on Trends in Software User Assistance (UA). In this series UA expert Joe Welinske, discusses the current and future issues associated with software user assistance. This webinar will focus on the emerging paradigms in information technology and user assistance. These include comprehensive support strategies, integration with Agile methodologies, emerging opportunities in technical writing, editing simulations and videocasts, supporting mobile devices, and search engine optimization. These trends address some of the key questions currently being asked by technical communicators and content strategists who work with help content.
  
  Discover the Difference: Adobe Connect
  
  Is your web conferencing solution meeting all your online collaboration and training needs? Watch this webinar to discover the difference.
  
  Virtual Tour of Adobe Connect for Marketing Webinars
  
  Discover ten ways to make your job easier and your webinars more interactive and engaging with Adobe Connect web conferencing.
  
  Crossing the Chasm to Virtual Facilitation
  
  Watch this webinar and learn the secrets and strategies to make the virtual classroom as exciting, meaningful, and relevant as the face-to-face classroom.
  
  Three Simple Steps to Create Professional Videos
  
  Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create professional looking videos right at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. In this session, you will learn how to use Adobe Presenter 8 to easily record and edit your video with crop, trim, pan, and zoom, and automatically adjust the brightness and sharpness of the video.
  
  Create Professional Videos with a Minimal Budget
  
  Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a very hands on session explaining how to create professional quality video productions from the comfort of your desk. Dr. Partridge will create examples live and give you his top tips to guarantee success when building your arsenal of video tutorials, marketing materials and more.
  
  Ask A Pro: From Stunning Websites to Online Stores – What’s Possible with Adobe Business Catalyst
  
  Adobe Business Catalyst enables web professionals to build everything from simple websites through to lead generating mini-sites, and eCommerce powerhouses. Join Product Evangelist Adam Broadway to discover what’s possible when using the Adobe Business Catalyst platform. He’ll run you through:
  
  Generating leads with custom web forms
  Sending email blasts to your segmented customer database
  Selling anything online – from physical products to digital downloads
  Building dynamic web apps, without server-side coding
  
  Ask A Pro: What's new in Flash Pro CS6 and its HTML capabilities? (Yes, HTML!)
  
  Senior Product Manager Tom Barclay will show you powerful new capabilities in Adobe Flash Professional CS6, including the Toolkit for CreateJS extension that lets you easily convert Flash content to HTML5. Join us and learn what's new, as well hear from the pros from our team.
  
  Ask A Pro: Streamline Your Mobile Web Workflows with Adobe Shadow Labs Release 4
  
  See solutions to some of today's most frustrating and time consuming problems faced by mobile web developers and designers. In this 45 minute web conference led by Shadow team engineer Mark Rausch, you'll see an in-depth demo of Adobe Shadow. Mark will show you how you can save time and improve your workflow.
  
  Ask A Pro: Adobe Muse – Planning, Designing, and Publishing your websites
  
  Join Adobe Muse Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she gives an overview of Adobe Muse. You’ll see how to quickly lay a smart foundation for your site using site maps and master pages, learn how to combine imagery, graphics, and beautiful typography using web fonts served by the Adobe Typekit® service, and engage your audiences by adding interactive elements including custom navigation, slide shows and accordions. When you’re ready to take your site live, learn how to publish using a third-party hosting provider or with the Adobe Business Catalyst® service, our flexible, all-in-one hosting solution.
  
  What’s new in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4
  
  Adobe® Technical Communication Suite 4 is a powerful, integrated toolkit with single-source authoring, rich multimedia integration, and multichannel, multiscreen HTML5 publishing capabilities. Create XML/DITA content natively with Adobe FrameMaker® 11. Publish virtually anywhere using Adobe RoboHelp® 10. Deliver engaging, interactive content with graphics, demos, and more using Adobe Illustrator® CS6, Adobe Captivate® 6, and Adobe Presenter 8. Rapidly collaborate with review-capable PDF documents.
  Join Ankur Jain, Senior Product Manager at Adobe, for an interactive webinar where Ankur will take you through the amazing new capabilities in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4.
  Work faster with cross-product integration
  Easily author and enrich XML/DIT A content
  Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens using multiscreen HTM L5
  Increase enterprise productivity
  
  Go Mobile with Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Join Josh Cavalier along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create eLearning content for mobile devices using Adobe Captivate, publish it to HTML5 format, and deliver on iOS and Android devices. You will also learn how to send scoring data for your HTML5 courses to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and track learner progress.
  
  What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp 10
  
  Adobe RoboHelp 10 software is an easy-to-use authoring and multichannel, multiscreen HTML5 publishing solution. Deliver content to iPad and other tablets, smartphones, and desktops using output formats such as multiscreen HTML5, WebHelp, CHM, Adobe® AIR® Help, PDF, eBook, and native mobile apps. Work in multi-author environments using next-generation collaboration and review features. Personalize and optimize content for relevance and search. Easily develop context-sensitive help with usability enhancements.
  Join Ankur Jain, Senior Product Manager at Adobe, for an interactive webinar where Ankur will take you through the amazing new capabilities in Adobe RoboHelp 10.
  Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens using multiscreen HTML5
  Easily author help, policy and procedure and knowledgebase content
  Personalize, optimize, and socially enable content
  Efficiently collaborate and rapidly review
  
  What is new in Adobe eLearning Suite 6
  
  Adobe® eLearning Suite 6 software is an integrated toolbox for creating eLearning and HTML5-based mLearning content. Get the best tools for application simulation, product demos, digital imaging, rich animations, and audio production. Accelerate development with rapid prototyping, roundtripping workflows, and out-of-the-box assets like actors and smart interactions. Publish to SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and easily track SWF, PDF, and HTML5 content.
  
  What is new in Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Adobe® Presenter 8 software helps you communicate more effectively with engaging videos and interactive presentations created in PowerPoint. Minimize the time, effort, and cost of producing and editing videos by doing it yourself at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. Add quizzes and out-of-the-box assets, deliver content to the web, video sharing sites, desktops, and mobile devices, including iPads*, and track using integration with LMSs.
  
  Bring your eLearning Courses to Life with Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Join Bryan Jones, author of the Assets eLearning Blog and President of eLearningArt. Bryan will show you how you can use the new character images included in Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8 to design better eLearning courses. This session will deliver five hands-on methods that you can use to rapidly build better courses.
  
  What’s New in Adobe eLearning Suite 6
  
  Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn what’s new and exciting in Adobe eLearning Suite 6.
  Adobe eLearning Suite 6 software offers best-in-class tools for application simulations, product demos, digital imaging, rich animations, and audio production. Now you can create HTML5-based mLearning content and deliver it to mobile devices and liven up courses with actors, themes, and smart interactions. You can also combine multiple modules, including pre-test and post-test quizzes, into a single course, publish to leading LMSs, and track SWF, PDF, and HTML5 content.
  
  Revamped scheduled tasks in ColdFusion 10
  
  The scheduling task management has been completely revamped in ColdFusion 10. We'll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more. You'll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.
  
  Securing applications with ColdFusion 10 security enhancements
  
  The session will include best practices for writing secure applications. It will discuss the new APIs and features added in ColdFusion 10. We will do hands on/Examples of each category. The session will also include brief about hot-fix installer and Secure profile features. We will end with discussing some of the configurations which can help largely protect an application.
  Shilpi Khariwal (shilpik@adobe.com)
  
  What’s new in Adobe FrameMaker 11
  
  Adobe FrameMaker 11 software is a best-in-class authoring and publishing solution with one of the lowest transition costs and highest ROI for migration to XML. Use the new XML Code View to natively author structured content. Collaborate with PDF-based roundtrip reviews. Manage content with out-of-the-box CMS integration. Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens via HTML5 using Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 or Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4.
  Join Kapil Verma, Senior Product Manager at Adobe, for an interactive webinar where Kapil will take you through the amazing new capabilities in Adobe FrameMaker 11.
  Easily author XML/DITA content
  Increase enterprise productivity
  Do even more with rich multimedia
  Publish to multiple channels, formats, and screens
  
  Future of TechComm – Content Accessibility Webinar Series - Part 3
  
  The future of TechComm is rapidly changing. It’s going to be a complex – but exciting time. And Adobe is committed to help you succeed and prosper in it. As a first step we bring to you a host of thought-leadership content from a list of well-known thought-leader and speakers.
  As businesses grow and become increasingly global, they must cater to a larger and more diverse set of content consumers. And therefore, creating great content has to be complimented with the ability to deliver the content in the format, style and location preferred by users. This makes ‘accessibility’ a cornerstone of successful content strategy. Adobe is excited to host Char James Tanny, a content accessibility thought-leader, author and speaker, for a three webinar series that includes:
  Part I: Making Sense of Accessibility - standards, legal issues, and myths (19th June 10-11AM PST)
  Part II: Creating an Accessible Layout - document structures, colors, and using custom style sheets (17th July, 10-11AM PST)
  Parth III: Developing Accessible Content - tips on grammar, paragraph and sentence length, alternate text, and more (31st July, 10-11AM PST)
  
  What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists to learn more about the new release of Adobe Captivate 6 - the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool.
  Adobe Captivate 6 helps users author and deliver HTML5-based eLearning content to virtually any device. They can create HD product demos with a new capture-as-a-video workflow and liven up courses with actors, themes, smart shapes, and interactive elements. Quizzing is now much easier and more effective with pre-tests, audio responses, and remediation.
  
  Ask A Pro: PDF forms within InDesign CS6
  
  View this informative session to learn about an exciting new feature in InDesign CS6 – Creating form fields directly within InDesign before you export to PDF. You will learn how to assign the tab order in InDesign using the Articles panel and set the tool tip descriptions to help filling out the form. Sandee Cohen is the only third-party author to have written educational materials for all versions of InDesign. Her latest books are the InDesign CS6 Visual QuickStart Guide and Digital Publishing With Adobe InDesign CS6. She is the Senior Contributing Editor to InDesign Magazine.
  
  Personify Your Presentations with Adobe Presenter 8
  
  Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn what’s new and exciting in Adobe Presenter 8.
  Adobe Presenter 8 helps you convert slides into interactive training content using out-of-the-box assets such as actors and learning interactions. You can minimize the time, effort, and cost of producing and editing videos by doing it yourself, at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. You can also add quizzes to your courses, deliver content to video sharing sites, desktops, and mobile devices, and track learner’s progress using integration with LMSs.
  
  Let’s Explore the Advanced Quizzing Options with Adobe Captivate
  
  Creating quizzes with Adobe Captivate is a simple task, but there are a lot of advanced options available to take your quizzes to the next level. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to explore these advanced quizzing options available with Adobe Captivate.
  
  At last, LMS & Scorm Integration without the Headache
  
  Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for an amazing introduction to the simple, elegant, and above all effective new tools for LMS integration with SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems found in Adobe Captivate. Tired of fighting constantly with SCORM and LMS? You won’t want to miss this demonstration and discussion of the genuine solutions available now in Adobe Captivate.
  
  High Definition Video for Application Simulation, Screencasting & Everything Else
  
  Join eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge for a demonstration of High Definition Video creation and editing in Adobe Captivate. See why Captivate is the industry leader in Application Capture and Simulation and learn how Captivate can make a huge difference for your entire organization when it comes to creating awesome videos, incredibly fast.
  
  "So, what were the right answers, anyway?" Using Advanced Actions and Variables for Quizzing
  
  Have you ever taken a quiz, passed with 80%, but wondered about the 20% you got wrong and why? In many quizzes, as soon as a learner passes a quiz, the course ends and the learner may never find out what the right answers were on the ones they missed -- a serious missed learning opportunity for the curious and the conscientious. This session shows one method to quickly and elegantly show the user which question(s) he answered incorrectly and what the correct answer is. Get ready for a dive into conditional variables and a handy tool in the quiz panel you may have overlooked in the past: triggering an advanced action based on a correct or incorrect answer.
  About the Instructor: Linda Mahnken has worked in the eLearning instructional design field for over 10 years and is passionate about learning new theories, exploring new technologies, creating engaging content, and helping people learn. She earned a master's degree in instructional technologies and has applied her knowledge to solve training challenges in a wide range of sectors including corporate training, university level cyber courses, and K-12 educational software. Currently, she holds the title of Sr. eLearning Instructional Designer and is intrigued by training that uses avatars, social media, games, and mobile devices.
  
  Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations - Part 5
  
  One of the advantages of using XML as a source file format is that it’s application-independent. Some of the other advantages include easy reusability and language translation cost reductions.
  Did you know that the biggest advantage of XML is that you can transform your source content with very quick and easy-to-write XSLT statements? FrameMaker can apply an XSLT transform on ‘Open’ and ‘Save’. The possibilities are endless if you know the basics of “how to” write XSLT for XML to XML transforms. You can use attributes to automatically apply Conditional Tag processing instructions. You can build TOC’s at the top of each chapter without having to do it manually with cross references. And there are several other uses.
  The problem earlier used to be that you either had to have an XSLT developer on staff or outsource the requirement. With your imagination, creativity and the knowledge gathered through this webinar series – the possibilities are endless.
  Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – the 1^st/ 2^nd/ 3^rd / 4^th /5^th webinar in a 5-part series . Tom will start off with the basics as a foundation. And soon enough, Tom will be having you building your own XSL transforms to resolve complex and time-consuming issues, automate processes and multiply productivity.
  
  Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations - Part 4
  
  One of the advantages of using XML as a source file format is that it’s application-independent. Some of the other advantages include easy reusability and language translation cost reductions.
  Did you know that the biggest advantage of XML is that you can transform your source content with very quick and easy-to-write XSLT statements? FrameMaker can apply an XSLT transform on ‘Open’ and ‘Save’. The possibilities are endless if you know the basics of “how to” write XSLT for XML to XML transforms. You can use attributes to automatically apply Conditional Tag processing instructions. You can build TOC’s at the top of each chapter without having to do it manually with cross references. And there are several other uses.
  The problem earlier used to be that you either had to have an XSLT developer on staff or outsource the requirement. With your imagination, creativity and the knowledge gathered through this webinar series – the possibilities are endless.
  Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – the 1^st/ 2^nd/ 3^rd / 4^th /5^th webinar in a 5-part series . Tom will start off with the basics as a foundation. And soon enough, Tom will be having you building your own XSL transforms to resolve complex and time-consuming issues, automate processes and multiply productivity.
  
  Future of TechComm – Content Accessibility Webinar Series - Part 2
  
  The future of TechComm is rapidly changing. It’s going to be a complex – but exciting time. And Adobe is committed to help you succeed and prosper in it. As a first step we bring to you a host of thought-leadership content from a list of well-known thought-leader and speakers.
  As businesses grow and become increasingly global, they must cater to a larger and more diverse set of content consumers. And therefore, creating great content has to be complimented with the ability to deliver the content in the format, style and location preferred by users. This makes ‘accessibility’ a cornerstone of successful content strategy. Adobe is excited to host Char James Tanny, a content accessibility thought-leader, author and speaker, for a three webinar series that includes:
  Part I: Making Sense of Accessibility - standards, legal issues, and myths (19th June 10-11AM PST)
  Part II: Creating an Accessible Layout - document structures, colors, and using custom style sheets (17th July, 10-11AM PST)
  Parth III: Developing Accessible Content - tips on grammar, paragraph and sentence length, alternate text, and more (31st July, 10-11AM PST)
  
  Using Webinars to Engage Prospects
  
  Marketing webinars can build sales leads and generate enthusiasm for your products and services. Learn the tricks of effective marketing presentations in this session.
  
  Ask A Pro: What’s New in BC’s Dreamweaver CS6 Integration
  
  View this session to learn about Business Catalyst’s tight integration with Dreamweaver CS6. Build everything from stunning websites through to powerful online stores, without server-side coding.
  What is covered:
  Create and publish BC websites online right from within Dreamweaver
  Insert dynamic modules such as blogs, photos galleries and more, without server-side coding
  Customer lead capture with database integration, in just minutes
  Set up a fully-featured online store with payment integration in a few clicks
  Easily host your sites online with a few simple steps
  
  Secrets of B2B Lead Generation Webinars
  
  Marketing webinars can build sales leads and generate enthusiasm for your products and services. Watch this webinar to learn the tricks of effective marketing presentations.
  
  Ask A Pro: Introduction to Adobe Edge
  
  View this informative session intended to introduce Adobe Edge, its features and outline how Edge can make your HTML5 motion and interaction design simple and powerful
  
  Ask A Pro: Come and see what's New in Dreamweaver CS6 – with even more support for web standards
  
  View this informative session where you can see the latest features of Dreamweaver CS6. There is more packed in the feature set this time around for mobile and standards based web design. There is Advanced integration with jQuery Mobile and improved PhoneGap support.
  
  Ask A Pro: Introduction to Adobe Muse
  
  Join Adobe® Muse™ Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she introduces Adobe Muse and how it fits into the new Adobe Creative Cloud™ membership offering, including access to hundreds of hardworking typefaces from Adobe Typekit™, and the benefits of web hosting with Adobe Business Catalyst.
  
  Ask A Pro: What’s New in BC’s Dreamweaver CS6 Integration
  
  Join product evangelist Adam Broadway to learn about Business Catalyst’s tight integration with Dreamweaver CS6. Build everything from stunning websites through to powerful online stores, without server-side coding.
  What will be covered:
  Create and publish BC websites online right from within Dreamweaver
  Insert dynamic modules such as blogs, photos galleries and more, without server-side coding
  Customer lead capture with database integration, in just minutes
  Set up a fully-featured online store with payment integration in a few clicks
  Easily host your sites online with a few simple steps
  
  Bio for Presenter: Adam Broadway, Product Evangelist. Originally co-founder of the product prior to the team joining Adobe, Adam Broadway lives and breathes Business Catalyst. As product evangelist, he spends his time educating and engaging with business owners and our passionate community of web design Partners.
Are you struggling to create long, complex documents with Microsoft Word? There is a much easier way!

Document crashes. Malfunctioning cross-references. Hanging systems.
Do any of these problems sound familiar when creating long, complex documents with Microsoft Word?
This is eSeminar is designed to address the pain points for anyone trying to create long, complex documents with Microsoft Word. Adobe FrameMaker 10 is built from the ground up to ensure that creating long documents is a ‘smooth sail’. Learn how FrameMaker features like conditional text, cross references, book files, hypertext, automatically generated TOC/LOT/LOF/IX and can streamline your documentation workflow.
Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – where Tom will demonstrate how to make the seamless and successful switch from Microsoft Word to Adobe FrameMaker with no sweat.

Are You Tempted to Use a Template to Expedite Policies & Procedure Development?

When you or others in your organization mention the term “template” for policies and procedures (P&P), do you really know what type of template you or they are talking about? It is a fact: there is much confusion and misunderstanding about what is meant by “template” and the expectation of using a template for developing or communicating P&P content. Join the recognized P&P authority Raymond Urgo as he defines three types of templates and clarifies their purposes and limitations. He will reveal why people are tempted toward templates for solutions and fall victim to templates for the wrong reasons resulting in poor P&P content.

Branding eLearning Development with theme-based templates using Adobe Captivate

Join Anita Horsley, the community expert for Adobe Captivate with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to Brand your eLearning courses with the use of Styles and Theme-based templates in new version of Adobe Captivate. During the session we will not only discuss how to modify the existing branding in the courses but would discuss how to create new themes for the use in other courses.

Working with Advanced Actions: Upgrade to complex conditional advanced actions

Join Lieve Weymeis, Adobe Captivate Expert, with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on yet another journey on using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. We will focus on conditional advanced actions, from simple ones with only one decision and one condition to complex actions with multiple decisions and complex conditions.
By attending this, you will be able to:
Learn about preparation, tips, good practice and testing
How to combine a standard action with a conditional action
Prerequisites: basic knowledge of simple, standard and conditional actions and the possible events to trigger those actions (slide events and interactive object events).

Ask A Pro: What's new for EPUB Workflows in InDesign CS6

Converting your Adobe InDesign publications to great-looking EPUBs is easier than ever with the latest versions of InDesign, which come equipped with new and improved features specifically forquality eBook publishing. Whether you hail from design or production, you'll learn where those features are, which new ones were added in InDesign CS6, and how to best use these EPUBtools in this webinar.

Join Anne-Marie Concepcion, co-host of InDesignSecrets and an InDesign-to-EPUB expert, as she takes a publication from its print-ready state to EPUB and Kindle-ready MOBI format. You will learn how to:

Use the Articles panel for drag-and-drop content ordering,
Map InDesign styles to CSS styles for consistent and clean text formatting
Create TOC styles for easier eBook navigation,
Use the new custom rasterization dialog box to maintain flexibility,
Create EPUB2 and EPUB3-ready eBooks,
Convert InDesign publications to MOBI format for Kindle devices.

Anne-Marie Concepcion is the author of the InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad video tutorial series on lynda.com. As the owner of cross-media design studio Seneca Design & Training (senecadesign.com) in Chicago, she and her staff have designed and created multiple eBooks for publishing clients, including WTC: In Their Own Words (Kindle version available on Amazon) and the Tuscany by Car series, five eBooks currently available in the iBookstore and the Amazon Kindle store.

Ask A Pro: Adobe Creative Cloud--the ideal solution for digital imaging pros

Attend this session and find out how Adobe Creative Cloud gives professional photographers everything they need to perfect, organize and share images and video. Matt Kloskowski, Education Director for Kelby Media Group, will show you the powerful features of the industry-leading photography tools that come with membership—Adobe Photoshop® CS6 Extended, Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 and powerful integration with Adobe Photoshop Touch. Paul Trani, Adobe Evangelist, will also be on hand to show you how to take your membership even further by giving you access to tools that will help you publish your work and market your business. Learn how to make fast, professional videos with Adobe Premiere Pro; create and host websites using Adobe Muse™ and Adobe Business Catalyst and more. Don’t miss this fast-paced hour filled with all of the information you need to get the most out of a Creative Cloud membership.

Just Add Content: Instant eLearning with Awesome Out-Of-The-Box Assets

Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for an introduction to the awesome assets, tools and powerful theme based workflows available out of the box with Adobe Captivate. Allen will demonstrate the amazing new assets and workflows in Adobe Captivate Next and will guide you through the basic steps of working with these new assets and workflows.

Expand Your Content Reuse Potential through Indirect Addressing: Using @keys-based Referencing in DITA 1.2

DITA is rapidly gaining ground in the enterprise content space. DITA 1.2 introduced a set of indirect addressing features, based on the new @keys attribute, which enables resources to be defined at a global level, in a map, rather than having to be defined within each topic that uses the resource. This webinar will explain the use of these features to help authors reuse content easily and accurately within large enterprise content systems. Attendees will leave with an understanding of, and models for using, the new features to expand the reuse potential for their content.

Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations - Part 3

One of the advantages of using XML as a source file format is that it’s application-independent. Some of the other advantages include easy reusability and language translation cost reductions.
Did you know that the biggest advantage of XML is that you can transform your source content with very quick and easy-to-write XSLT statements? FrameMaker can apply an XSLT transform on ‘Open’ and ‘Save’. The possibilities are endless if you know the basics of “how to” write XSLT for XML to XML transforms. You can use attributes to automatically apply Conditional Tag processing instructions. You can build TOC’s at the top of each chapter without having to do it manually with cross references. And there are several other uses.
The problem earlier used to be that you either had to have an XSLT developer on staff or outsource the requirement. With your imagination, creativity and the knowledge gathered through this webinar series – the possibilities are endless.
Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – the 1^st/ 2^nd/ 3^rd / 4^th /5^th webinar in a 5-part series . Tom will start off with the basics as a foundation. And soon enough, Tom will be having you building your own XSL transforms to resolve complex and time-consuming issues, automate processes and multiply productivity.

Live from mLearn with Allen & Pooja

Join eLearning Evangelists, Dr. Allen Partridge & Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a fascinating discussion of Adobe Captivate. The evangelists will be at the mLearn conference and ready to take on all your mobile learning questions as well. You’ll get the latest, hottest information live from Adobe’s eLearning Evangelists and have a chance to ask them anything you’d like to know about Adobe Captivate, Adobe Presenter & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Adobe Captivate 6 is here. See what's new!

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist to learn more about the new release of Adobe Captivate 6 - the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool.
Adobe Captivate 6 helps users author and deliver HTML5-based eLearning content to virtually any device. They can create HD product demos with a new capture-as-a-video workflow and liven up courses with actors, themes, smart shapes, and interactive elements. Quizzing is now much easier and more effective with pre-tests, audio responses, and remediation.
To view this and much more, register now!

Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations - Part 2

One of the advantages of using XML as a source file format is that it’s application-independent. Some of the other advantages include easy reusability and language translation cost reductions.
Did you know that the biggest advantage of XML is that you can transform your source content with very quick and easy-to-write XSLT statements? FrameMaker can apply an XSLT transform on ‘Open’ and ‘Save’. The possibilities are endless if you know the basics of “how to” write XSLT for XML to XML transforms. You can use attributes to automatically apply Conditional Tag processing instructions. You can build TOC’s at the top of each chapter without having to do it manually with cross references. And there are several other uses.
The problem earlier used to be that you either had to have an XSLT developer on staff or outsource the requirement. With your imagination, creativity and the knowledge gathered through this webinar series – the possibilities are endless.
Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – the 1^st/ 2^nd/ 3^rd / 4^th /5^th webinar in a 5-part series . Tom will start off with the basics as a foundation. And soon enough, Tom will be having you building your own XSL transforms to resolve complex and time-consuming issues, automate processes and multiply productivity.

Find Out How to Write XSLT Statements for XML to XML Transformations - Part 1

One of the advantages of using XML as a source file format is that it’s application-independent. Some of the other advantages include easy reusability and language translation cost reductions.
Did you know that the biggest advantage of XML is that you can transform your source content with very quick and easy-to-write XSLT statements? FrameMaker can apply an XSLT transform on ‘Open’ and ‘Save’. The possibilities are endless if you know the basics of “how to” write XSLT for XML to XML transforms. You can use attributes to automatically apply Conditional Tag processing instructions. You can build TOC’s at the top of each chapter without having to do it manually with cross references. And there are several other uses.
The problem earlier used to be that you either had to have an XSLT developer on staff or outsource the requirement. With your imagination, creativity and the knowledge gathered through this webinar series – the possibilities are endless.
Join Tom Aldous, Director of Business Development and Evangelism for Adobe’s Tech Comm business, for an interactive and engaging webinar – the 1^st/ 2^nd/ 3^rd / 4^th /5^th webinar in a 5-part series . Tom will start off with the basics as a foundation. And soon enough, Tom will be having you building your own XSL transforms to resolve complex and time-consuming issues, automate processes and multiply productivity.

How to present a webinar without PowerPoint slides

Watch this webinar with Dr. Carmen Taran to find out how to take your presentations to the next level and engage your audience.

Content Scenarios for exploring new Information Products

Every day technical communication teams are being asked to do something new. Given the rate of change that is apparent in the marketplace, and the expanding array of new devices and venues that will need to be supported, this trend will only accelerate. One question that comes up is how do teams explore the new publishing pathways so that they can determine what changes they will need to their overall content creation and publishing process. Join Intelligent Content thought leader Joe Gollner as he guides us through some proven steps in exploring new information products and refining content processes. In particular, this session will introduce the concept of a content scenario, a technique he has used for years to help organizations adapt their information product portfolios efficiently and effectively. As part of this session, Joe will introduce a public domain content scenario for helping projects to explore how DITA might be used to address certain types of new information product. Join Joe Gollner and Adobe product evangelist Maxwell Hoffmann for this practical session on how technical communication teams can handle the demands being sent their way.

Future of TechComm series: Designing technical documentation for tablets

With more and more people using tablets for reading technical documentation, this webinar looks at how this trend will affect the way technical documents are designed and developed. We'll look at examples of documents that 'work' on a tablet, as well as documents that don't. We'll explore some of the emerging design trends for presenting technical documentation on tablets, and what they mean for Technical Writers. We'll also investigate how tablets, and the technologies contained within then, could be used to improve the User Assistance we provide to our readers.
Ellis is Director and Help Strategist at Cherryleaf, a technical writing services and training company based near London, in the United Kingdom. He has over fifteen years’ experience working in the field of documentation, has a BA in Business Studies, and is an Associate of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Ranked the most influential blogger on technical communication in Europe, Ellis is also an author and editor of two books: ‘How to Write Instructions’ and ‘Trends in Technical Communication’.

Effectively Using Effects in Adobe Captivate

Join Jeff Blackman, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to easily add effects and get some ideas on using them EFFECTIVELY in your Adobe Captivate projects. Effects in Captivate allow you to add all kinds of simple animations and other effects to Captivate objects such as pictures, text boxes, shapes, and you name it! Using effects can greatly enhance your project and make your content come to life for your end user … and it’s super easy!
About the Instructor: Jeff Blackman works as an eLearning Training Specialist with The Methodist Hospital System. He is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying a wide variety of online courses for the entire hospital system. He also assists with the maintenance and administration of its learning management system. Jeff has over 15 years of training and development experience working for a variety of companies, including Walt Disney World and IBM.

Getting Real: Electronic Documents for the Field

With all of current focus on handheld devices and smartphones, we sometimes forget that there is a compelling need for portable, mission critical content available on devices that display well out-of-doors and that can operate for extended periods without recharging or reconnecting. Examples can be drawn from the construction, defense, energy and transportation sectors. Users working in these circumstances need up-to-date information that they can assess using e-Ink Readers, which have better out-of-doors display, longer battery life, and faster download times over slower connections. In this session, Intelligent Content thought leader Joe Gollner will lead us in an exploration of these requirements and of the tactics that can be deployed to address them. Among the considerations to emerge is the need for metadata to enable highly tailored information products to be built to these users. Other practical considerations touch upon the types of illustrations that will need to be available to the publishing process. Join Joe Gollner and Adobe product evangelist Maxwell Hoffmann for this compelling session on one more direction that portable content delivery is headed.

Adobe Connect 9: End-to-end eLearning Solution on Any Device

Discover a complete solution for rapid training and mobile learning, enabling rapid deployment of training accessible from anywhere, anytime, on virtually any device.

Adobe Connect 9: All-in-one Digital Marketing Event Solution

Adobe Connect for Webinars helps you deliver compelling, immersive events; maximize attendance; and measure results to optimize outcomes.

Adobe Connect 9: What's New

Watch this session to learn about the critical new capabilities and enhancements supporting webinars and eLearning in Adobe® Connect™ 9.

Adobe Connect 9 for Citizen Engagement

Learn how Adobe® Connect™ for Webinars is the ideal solution for any agency committed to delivering truly impactful events to enhance citizen services.

Future of TechComm – Content Accessibility Webinar Series - Part 1

The future of TechComm is rapidly changing. It’s going to be a complex – but exciting time. And Adobe is committed to help you succeed and prosper in it. As a first step we bring to you a host of thought-leadership content from a list of well-known thought-leader and speakers.
As businesses grow and become increasingly global, they must cater to a larger and more diverse set of content consumers. And therefore, creating great content has to be complimented with the ability to deliver the content in the format, style and location preferred by users. This makes ‘accessibility’ a cornerstone of successful content strategy. Adobe is excited to host Char James Tanny, a content accessibility thought-leader, author and speaker, for a three webinar series that includes:
Part I: Making Sense of Accessibility - standards, legal issues, and myths (19th June 10-11AM PST)
Part II: Creating an Accessible Layout - document structures, colors, and using custom style sheets (17th July, 10-11AM PST)
Part III: Developing Accessible Content - tips on grammar, paragraph and sentence length, alternate text, and more (31st July, 10-11AM PST)

Deploying Creative Suite 6

Learn to use Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition, a free downloadable utility that helps IT professionals take greater control of enterprise-wide deployments of Creative Suite. Learn about the latest, free Creative Suite Deployment tools Discover how to manage the Creative Suite install and update process on both Macintosh and Windows platforms Find out time-saving tips and tricks and avoid common mistakes

13 Common Mistakes about Communicating Policies & Procedures Content…and How to Avoid Them [Part 2 of 2]

Every organization functions according to its unique operating practices, frequently referred to as policies and procedures (P&P). For those organizations interested in investing in the communication of their P&P, the first of this two-part webinar will address six common mistakes specifically concerning the understanding of the use of P&P information and the approaches to developing P&P information. The second part will address seven common mistakes specifically concerning the process for developing P&P information, standards for developing P&P information and talents for developing P&P information. Join the recognized P&P authority Raymond Urgo as he identifies these common mistakes with their myths and misunderstood expectations while introducing you to the proper understandings and strategies to avoid these mistakes.

LMS Strategies and Implementation with Adobe Captivate

Integrating Adobe Captivate with your Learning Management System (LMS) can be daunting. Join Rick Zannoti, Captivate Community Expert, as he demonstrates how to simplify this process for you. In this webinar, he will be covering LMS basics about SCORM and AICC, Captivate LMS preferences, SCORM Aggregator, course deployment on LMS, and LMS gotchas and things you should be aware of.
About the Instructor: Rick Zanotti founded RELATE Corporation, an eLearning and multimedia development firm in 1984. He is a member of the Adobe Captivate Advisory Board, a content developer for Adobe, and a well-known presenter for several trade organizations. A management consultant, multimedia author, instructional designer, voice talent, and videographer. Rick has a broad business background and was directly responsible for implementing large-scale ERP systems for many Fortune 500 corporations.

Ask A Pro: The Ins and Outs of Fireworks CS6

This session on Fireworks will show you some of the exciting new features of the application, including the new jQuery and CSS support, and answer any questions that you may have.

About the presenter: Jacob Surber is a Senior Product Manager with Adobe focused on HTML and design. For over 10 years, Jacob has been working with web design and development for a variety of agencies and consulting shops. He later joined Adobe’s Experience Design (XD) team to help create UI’s for the Creative Suite. Leveraging design thinking and a strong technical background, Jacob moved to Product Management with the goal of changing how the web is designed.

Ask A Video Pro - Perfect Pixels: What’s new in Photoshop CS6

In this Ask a Video Pro session join Rich Harrington to learn what’s new in Photoshop CS6 with a particular emphasis on tools that benefit the motion graphic artist and video editor. Take advantage of new blurring and color correction options as well as support for enhanced text layout and 3D objects.

About the Presenter:

Richard Harington

As a digital video expert and trained business professional, Rich understands both the creative and management sides of the visual communications industry. He is the founder of the visual communications company RHED Pixel in Washington, DC. He is an Adobe Master Trainer for Adobe Premiere Pro and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team. He has also written several books for the video industry, including An Editor's Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, From Still to Motion, and Photoshop for Video. To explore more resources for media professionals and to watch Rich's many podcasts, visit www.RichardHarringtonBlog.com.

Ask A Pro - InDesign CS6- Liquid Layout Tools

Interested in learning how to efficiently create multiple versions of a document? Want to learn how to convert your traditional INDD layout for digital output (EPUB or DPS)? You'll learn all these things, and much, much more at this Ask a CS Pro! Ben Trissel, Lead Quality Engineer on the InDesign team, will show you some of his favorite tricks – big and small – in InDesign CS6!

Ask A Pro - Productivity Enhancements in InDesign CS6

Please join Nathan Brutzman, Quality Engineer on the InDesign team, to learn about how the new productivity enhancements in Adobe InDesign CS6 can help make your day-to-day production tasks more efficient while making it easier than ever to design for multiple outputs. Nathan will share tips and tricks on several new features including Primary Text Frame, Split Window, Recently Used Fonts and Align to Key Object. Whether you design for print, digital or both, this session is not to be missed!

Ask A Pro - What's New in InDesign CS6 for Digital Publishing

If designing for tablet devices is something you are interested in, this session is not to be missed! InDesign CS6 includes exciting new features that will make designing for tablet devices more efficient than ever. You will learn about the new Adaptive Design Tools - Adobe Liquid Layout, Alternate Layout, Linked Content, and how to export both horizontal and vertical layouts of a tablet design from a single InDesign file. These new features make designing content for publication through Digital Publishing Suite simpler than ever!

Ask A Pro Launch Week - Adobe Creative Cloud and the CS6 Video Tour

Hear from Jason Levine, Adobe Worldwide Video Evangelist, about the Creative Cloud and all the new features in Adobe Production Premium CS6, the complete solution at the heart of any production workflow for video professionals. Packed with major updates to help bring high-quality productions to any screen, you’ll learn about new updates to familiar tools including powerful new versions of Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Audition®, Adobe Story Plus, Media Encoder and Photoshop Extended, along with two new tools, SpeedGrade CS6 for professional color grading, and Prelude CS6, the world’s most elegant solution for the processes of ingest, logging and transcoding – essential tasks in a modern file-based workflow.

Ask A Pro Launch Week - What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Join Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost as she shows off some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud. See the blazingly fast performance of the new Mercury Graphics Engine. Learn about the new improved processing and enhanced controls in Adobe Camera Raw 7, the new photographic blur effects, how to straighten objects using the new Adaptive Wide Angle, and more. Explore many of the timesaving and user-inspired enhancements including new type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, and the all-new Crop tool. Also explore the intuitive video editing capabilities of Photoshop CS6 and 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS6 Extended.

Ask A Pro Launch Week - Adobe Creative Cloud and the CS6 Web Tour

Hear from Paul Trani, Adobe World Wide Web Evangelist, about the Creative Cloud and many of the new features in Adobe Design and Web Premium CS6. Learn more about updates to industry leading CS6 tools, including breakthrough image editing in Photoshop CS6 Extended, adaptive design with fluid grid layouts with Dreamweaver CS6, export to HTML with the CreateJS tookit for Flash Professional CS6 (available separately) and more. Explore how new tools and services like Adobe Edge preview, Typekit and Business Catalyst enable web professionals to create immersive experiences with built-in support for all the latest web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript and publish on-line businesses.

Ask A Pro Launch Week - Adobe Creative Cloud for Designers

Join Terry White, Adobe Design Evangelist, to see Adobe Creative Cloud and the new features in Creative Suite 6 in action. Learn how you can create at lightning speed thanks to new performance engines in Photoshop Extended and Illustrator. See how to quickly create multiple layouts from a single set of content in Adobe InDesign CS6. And discover Adobe Muse, for designing HTML websites without writing code including 400+ web fonts served by Typekit that make it a breeze to include distinctive typography in your site design.

Ask A Pro Launch Week - Adobe Creative Cloud Tour

Hear from Paul Trani, Adobe World Wide Evangelist, about the new Adobe Creative Cloud, a digital hub where you can download and install any of the Adobe Creative Suite® 6 desktop tools and access a host of additional applications and services. You’ll learn how cloud-based storage and device syncing features let you access and share your work anywhere with virtually anyone and connectivity with Adobe Touch Apps enables a powerful mobile workflow. Plus, hear how membership provides you with the most up-to-date technology as soon as it is available--you get every new version upon its release, and new features and services between releases--giving you the freedom to create anything you can imagine.

CF 10 Developer Week - CF User Experience upgrade through HTML5 charts and videos

Learn how to create an enriched user experience with CF10 that lets you access a large repository of interactive, client-side HTML5 charts and easily implement them using the built-in CFCHART tag.

Presenter Bio: Dave Ferguson - Dave has been working in information technology for many, many, years. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems. Dave currently holds a Master ColdFusion Developer certification as well as many other information technology certifications. He runs his own ColdFusion blog,http://blog.dkferguson.com where he posts interesting things he comes across. He is also one of the voices of the CFHour podcast http://www.cfhour.com. The podcast, just like his blog, is mostly focused on ColdFusion but dabbles in to other technologies. Dave is also a member of the Adobe Community Professional group.

Creating Meaningful assets for your elearning courses

Join Alice Acker, Adobe Captivate Expert along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the nuances of selecting and using assets like images and videos for your elearning courses. During the session, we will also discuss how to make use of Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop to select, manage and edit the assets for an effective use inside the course.
What's in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Carefully select the assets for your elearning course from different sources
Create assets from the internal sources like people images or office images etc.
Edit images using Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop

Transition from Content Consumer to Content Creator: Dual Viewpoints

The technical communications world is changing quickly with technological advances. It can be a difficult transition from content consumer to becoming a content creator. If you are new to the technical communications field and trying to find some direction, how do you make that transition and learn the tools of the trade? Join technical communicator Danielle Villegas, who blogs and tweets as TechCommGeekMom, as she discusses the challenges of being a content manager, pursuing a professional course in Technical Communication, and moving ahead in a technical communications career. Danielle will concentrate on content for mobile devices while sharing her first hand experiences learning about the most desired skills. She will be discussing how visual and web design, technical writing and editing, and content management skills come together to create good technical content.

CF 10 Developer Week -What's new in ColdFusion10

What ColdFusion 10 has to offer to its existing users in terms of new and enhanced benefits. The session will cover the top features around HTML5, Tomcat integration, REST, Revamped scheduler etc. There will also be demos of various features, new tags, and functions.

Presented by: Ray Camden - Raymond Camden is an Developer Evangelist for Adobe focusing on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, jQuery, and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. He's spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community web sites. He's the manager of RIAForge.org, CFLib.org, and writes at his blog: http://coldfusionjedi.com. Raymond is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.

CF 10 Developer Week - Make Your Site Searchable with ColdFusion 10 and Solr

Solr, an open source, enterprise search platform from Apache, is becoming the standard search engine for use with ColdFusion. In this session, we discuss how to set up Solr collections, index collections, and run searches against those collections and new enhancements such as data import handler and dynamic custom fields.

Presented by:Scott Stroz - Scott Stroz specializes in developing and deploying enterprise-level web applications, as well as integrating new programming features into older applications to help organizations achieve growth by migrating data management to advanced web technology. His experience with web application development technology spans nearly a decade, during which he was named an Adobe Community Professional. Scott excels at completing unusual, complex and challenging tasks, and he embraces new technology and its possible inclusion in current and future projects, earning him the title “Chief Problem Solver.” Scott is recognized as an industry expert through his speaking engagements at conferences and user groups and contributions to a number of technical publications.

CF 10 Developer Week - Adobe ColdFusion : The most popular server side platform for PDFs

ColdFusion and PDF are both Adobe products, so it should be no surprise that it is very simple to work with PDFs in ColdFusion. This demonstration shows you how quickly you can create PDFs dynamically, work with existing PDF. It will also show you the power of populating, submitting and embedding PDF forms with ColdFusion

CF 10 Developer Week - Revamped Scheduled Tasks in ColdFusion 10

The scheduling task management has been completely revamped in ColdFusion 10. We'll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more. You'll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.

CF 10 Developer Week - Speed your websites using Caching in ColdFusion 10

This session walks you through the basics of Caching including the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of Caching. The session also focuses on how caching in ColdFusion will affect the performance of your apps including the latest functionality available for Caching in ColdFusion 10

CF 10 Developer Week -Secure your apps using ColdFusion 10

The day your application gets hacked will probably be one of the most unpleasent days you will ever work. While we would all love to ignore the security holes in our applications, some things just can't be ignored for too long before consequences arise. ColdFusion 10 is loaded with security enhancements that make building secure ColdFusion applications easier than ever. In this session we will cover each new security feature and describe the vulnerabilities that the feature is designed to circumvent..
Presenter Pete Freitag: Pete Freitag has over a dozen years experience building web applications with ColdFusion. In 2006 he started Foundeo Inc, a ColdFusion consulting and products company. Pete helps clients develop and architect custom ColdFusion applications, as well as review and improve the performance and security of existing applications. He has also built several products and services for ColdFusion including a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion called FuseGuard and a ColdFusion server security scanning service called HackMyCF. Pete holds a BS in Software Engineering from Clarkson University.

CF 10 Developer Week - Leverage the productivity of ColdFusion within Java SpringMVC

Learn how to use ColdFusion as the VIEW layer with the Spring MVC framework. We will cover how to build the Models and Controllers in Java. And then how to pass java models/variables into ColdFusion to render your pages with CFML. Giving you the best of both worlds - low level java and rapid development of CF. We will also cover using Spring WebFlow with ColdFusion.
Presented by: Mike Nimer

CF 10 Developer Week - Get productive using the language enhancements in ColdFusion 10

Get productive using the language enhancements in ColdFusion 10
Wednesday June 6, 2012 11:00 AM US/Pacific
As always, the latest release of ColdFusion introduces quite a lot of language features which would make the development easier and more productive. In this session, learn the new language syntaxes as well as the enhancements to the existing language constructs that have been added in ColdFusion 10.
Presenter Bio: Matt Gifford - Matt Gifford is an RIA developer from Cambridge, England, who specializes in ColdFusion development. With over ten years' industry experience across various sectors, Matt is a consultant developer and director of Gorilla Works Ltd. A regular presenter at national and international conferences and online meetings, Matt also contributes articles and tutorials to international industry magazines, and maintains his blog www.mattgifford.co.uk. As an Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion and Adobe User Group manager (Hertfordshire, UK), Matt is a keen proponent for community resources and sharing knowledge. Matt is the author of “Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion.

CF 10 Developer Week - What’s new and different about ColdFusion 10 on Tomcat

In this session, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will review and explore these new capabilities and any differences. He'll address such things as changes in using external or the "internal" web server, config tweaks people have done in JRun and whether/how those are to be done on Tomcat, as well as logging, configuration, and other matters. More than that, Charlie will identify new capabilities that Tomcat enables (related to deployment and performance), some of which may not be identified by Adobe as "new" for us as we make the transition.
Presenter Bio: Charlie Arehart - A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with more than three decades in enterprise IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance (and training/mentoring) for organizations of all sizes and CF experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

Besides running the 2700-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he also hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv), the CF411 site of over 1700 tools/resources for CFers (cf411.com), and the new CF911 site of troubleshooting resources (cf911.com). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4, Charlie's spoken at each of the major CF conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Ben Forta's ColdFusion 8 and 9 WACK books.

CF10 Developer Week - ColdFusion Builder: The professional IDE to Boost Your Productivity

ColdFusion Builder has many features that makes CFML coding easier and faster, like code assist for functions and variables, auto code complete, code insight for CFCs and ORM entities, tighter integration with ColdFusion server, line debugger, advanced search functionality, extensibility using extensions and many more. This session will explain such productivity features, including those that are not easily discoverable.
Presenter bio: Ramchandra Kulkarni - Ramchandra Kulkarni works as Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe and is a lead engineer for ColdFusion Builder. He has more than 18 years experience and has worked on servers, IDE, web applications and mobile applications. He blogs at http://ramkulkarni.com/blog

About the Presenter: Ramchandra Kulkarni works as Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe and is a lead engineer for ColdFusion Builder. He has more than 18 years experience and has worked on servers, IDE, web applications and mobile applications. He blogs at http://ramkulkarni.com/blog

6 Weeks to a Great Webinar

Marketing Webinars are a great way to generate leads and reach out to prospects, customers and your channel partners. Do you know the best practices that get results?

Rapid Instructional Design for Agile Software Development

Join Sara Feijó, Adobe Captivate enthusiast, as she talks about Rapid Instructional Design for Agile Software Development. She will discuss about the Agile methodology and incorporating the ADDIE model using a variety of tools including Adobe Captivate, Adobe Air, and Adobe Connect to build concise, succinct, relevant, and engaging eLearning within the constraints of Agile processes.

CF 10 Developer Week - Using ColdFusion frameworks for Application development

Finding the arguments about increased productivity, maintenance, employ-ability, and community testing persuasive, you may have finally decided to join the large number of people who are using a ColdFusion framework for their application development. Since the framework space has exploded in the last few years with so many new frameworks and so many different areas, it is very difficult to keep up. So you’re left with a hard task: deciding which framework, or even combination of frameworks, is right for you.

CF 10 Developer Week - Building applications using ColdFusion 10 and ORM

We've all heard the buzz about CF10's ORM integration, but exactly what is it, and how can you use it? This session will demystify the idea of ORM by introducing the concepts that you need to know to get started using it right away. Not an object oriented developer? No problem! As long as you know what an object is, and a little bit about cfcs, this session will help you get past the buzzwords and be productive with ORM on your next project.

Presenter Bio: John Whish - John Whish, also known as Aliaspooryorik, is the author of the book; "ColdFusion ORM - A guide to developing applications using ColdFusion ORM".

He has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.5 and is the manager and founding member of the official Adobe ColdFusion User Group for Devon (UK). An Adobe Certified Expert in Advanced ColdFusion 8, John regularly blogs about ColdFusion and contributes to several FOSS projects. In previous years he has spoken at the cf.Objective (USA) and Scotch on the Rocks conferences (UK) on subjects; ORM, HQL and ValidateThis.

His hobbies include writing biographies in the third person.

CF 10 Developer Week - Improve your apps through unit testing

Join us as we review what unit testing is, what it is not, and how it can improve your application code quality and maintainability. We will cover a brief introduction to unit testing concepts and dive into getting setup and writing and running unit tests. We will walk through the basics of the MXUnit framework and then quickly start writing and running unit tests for our ColdFusion code.

Presenter Bio: Jamie Krug - Jamie Krug developed a love for programming early on, writing a BASIC program on a RadioShack TRS-80 to track "little league" baseball batting averages at an early age. He has since continued to enjoy programming and the learning experiences along the way. Primarily building Web applications in CFML since 2001, Jamie is a passionate learner and also geeks around with JavaScript, Groovy, Java and Linux, among others. He also greatly appreciates and participates in many open source software projects. You'll find Jamie occasionally blogging at http://jamiekrug.com/blog/ and sharing other tid-bits at http://identi.ca/jamiekrug and http://twitter.com/jamiekrug.

CF 10 Developer Week - Hidden gems in ColdFusion 10

Prepare to be surprised! In this talk, veteran CF troubleshooter and presenter Charlie Arehart will continue his tradition of identifying hidden gems, this time in CF10. Sure, we hear all about the big, new features, or some that wow certain developers, but in every release (of CF and CFBuilder) there are always lots of little things that go unheralded, and this is true in CF10 as well. Some may solve a long-standing problem for you, or provide a new technique, whether related to coding, troubleshooting, administration, enterprise integration, and more.

Presenter Bio: Charlie Arehart - A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with more than three decades in enterprise IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance (and training/mentoring) for organizations of all sizes and CF experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

Besides running the 2700-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he also hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv), the CF411 site of over 1700 tools/resources for CFers (cf411.com), and the new CF911 site of troubleshooting resources (cf911.com). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4, Charlie's spoken at each of the major CF conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Ben Forta's ColdFusion 8 and 9 WACK books.

CF 10 Developer Week - RESTful WebServices made easy in ColdFusion 10

REST is a buzzword and an architecture best suited for developing web applications. With ColdFusion 10 natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure. In this session we will cover: 1) REST – What, why & when 2) Developing RESTful services 3) Testing RESTful services
Presented by: Chadan Kumar

CF 10 Developer Week - Power your ColdFusion 10 apps with HTML5 WebSockets

Get introduced to the powerful yet simple to use built-in support for HTML5 WebSockets and how they are used within ColdFusion 10. Minimal JavaScript experience is suggested before attendance.

Presenter Bio: Ray Camden - Raymond Camden is an Developer Evangelist for Adobe focusing on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, jQuery, and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. He's spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community web sites. He's the manager of RIAForge.org, CFLib.org, and writes at his blog: http://coldfusionjedi.com. Raymond is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.

CF 10 Developer Week -What's new in ColdFusion10

What ColdFusion 10 has to offer to its existing users in terms of new and enhanced benefits. The session will cover the top features around HTML5, Tomcat integration, REST, Revamped scheduler etc. There will also be demos of various features, new tags, and functions.

Presenter Bio: Rakshith N - Rakshith Naresh is the Product Manager for ColdFusion. Though he recently moved into the Product Management for ColdFusion, Rakshith is not new to ColdFusion. He has been working in the ColdFusion Engineering team researching and building features for ColdFusion 8, ColdFusion 9 and even for the new ColdFusion 10. He is passionate to work with ColdFusion community and deliver value to businesses. When not at work, Rakshith loves to take a trek or a run in the park.

CF 10 Developer Week -Getting Started with Web Application Development Using ColdFusion

What is ColdFusion and why would you want to use it? This session will answer that and show off some of the simple power of ColdFusion. By the end you should have a clear answer of what CF is, what it can do for you, the huge productivity benefits it has to offer, and why so many ColdFusion developers are passionate about this tool.

Presenter Bio: Elishia Dvorak - Elishia Dvorak has been assisting ColdFusion customers with server support, consulting and training since 1999. She is the a co-founder of SupportObjective LLC, an Adobe Reseller and Solution Partner specializing in ColdFusion. Prior to SupportObjective she was with Allaire, Macromedia, and Adobe performing Enterprise Dedicated support for some of the largest ColdFusion architectures. She continues to promote ColdFusion with SupportObjective assisting ColdFusion customers with successful deployments.

The Case for Live Virtual Training

TrainingIndustry.com webinar, presented on the Adobe Connect platform, as we look at how and where live virtual training can benefit your organization.

13 Common Mistakes about Communicating Policies & Procedures Content…and How to Avoid Them [Part 1 of 2]

Every organization functions according to its unique operating practices, frequently referred to as policies and procedures (P&P). For those organizations interested in investing in the communication of their P&P, the first of this two-part webinar will address six common mistakes specifically concerning the understanding of the use of P&P information and the approaches to developing P&P information. The second part will address seven common mistakes specifically concerning the process for developing P&P information, standards for developing P&P information and talents for developing P&P information. Join the recognized P&P authority Raymond Urgo as he identifies these common mistakes with their myths and misunderstood expectations while introducing you to the proper understandings and strategies to avoid these mistakes.

Deriving efficiencies from collaborative review cycles

Subject matter expert, Oana Diaconu, of Globalization Partners International joins Adobe product evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann, to demonstrate various collaborative review processes for technical content. If the linguistic reviewers have access to the Cloud (such as SharePoint Server or Acrobat.com), multiple comments and annotations may be made in the same review files. If you work with remote staff with limited internet bandwidth, PDF review files may be emailed and annotated with the free Acrobat Reader. In this webinar you will discover:
the proper way to make annotations (about 60% of PDF annotations submitted to translation agencies are incorrect), and
how multiple reviewers’ collaborative comments may be imported directly into tools like FrameMaker or RoboHelp as source files for “fool proof” edits.

Developing Rapid Prototypes for Adobe Captivate Course Modules

Join eLearning Professional Rod Ward for a practical session on rapid prototyping. Learn how to go directly from a rough set of initial high-level learning objectives to a working prototype in Adobe Captivate. This is not a finished module, just something that you can use to test assumptions about learner behaviour and acceptability of certain treatment methods or assessment approaches. This approach will allow you to create something to show a client VERY quickly, perhaps even while you are having an initial design meeting with the SME or client. Learn why Rod favours rapid prototyping over detailed storyboarding documents. This approach follows the logic that the faster you can get into Captivate and start creating prototypes, the better. Using this method you’ll find that you can actually use the Captivate handouts as a form of storyboard that makes more sense to most clients than traditional detailed storyboard docs.

The Secrets of FrameMaker Developer Kit (FDK)

Watch a master FrameMaker veteran construct a small but powerful plug-in for FrameMaker in 15 minutes or less. John Smart of Smart Communications, Inc., who has constructed dozens of plug-ins for FrameMaker over the years, will explore Adobe FrameMaker 10’s FDK (FrameMaker Developer Kit) fundamentals. His approach will be appropriate for new C++ programmers or just those curious users who would like to understand how this tool works. The FrameMaker plug-in, developed live during the eSeminar, will enable a “bookmarking” function in FrameMaker and will be available for download at the conclusion of the session. This eSeminar will give you a good grasp of one of the many ways that FrameMaker may be further enhanced via customization that can access any FrameMaker feature or function.

Effective Planning for your eLearning Courses

Join Kirsten Rourke, Adobe Captivate Expert and Trainer, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to discuss the essentials during the planning process for your eLearning courses. During the session, they will discuss how storyboarding, planning for assets and navigation is essential to minimize risks and maximize productivity.

Support for REST in ColdFusion 10

You have heard of REST as a buzzword and as an architecture best suited for developing web applications. Now it’s time to take a dive into this new world full of possibilities. With ColdFusion Zeus natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure, within minutes using components that you already know of.

eCommerce made easy with Adobe ColdFusion and Slatwall

Creating an eCommerce solution that can fit thousands of different business requirements is not easy. Add multiple platforms and databases to the mix and it's really challenging to create a solution that can serve the unique need of various businesses. ColdFusion's rapid application development times combined with enterprise level features like Object Relational Mapping (ORM) enabled ten24 to create powerful, robust, flexible and highly scalable open source eCommerce application. In this seminar, ten24 will share the architecture and features of Slatwall eCommerce application.

Get your blog up and running on Mango Blog

Join Laura Arguello, creator of Mango Blog, as she introduces Mango Blog. Mango Blog is an extensible blog engine released under the Apache license, built with ColdFusion. It provides the core engine to administer and publish entries and the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plug-ins. Mango Blog can be easily customized by the use of exchangeable and completely customizable skins.

What’s the Big Deal about HTML5 for Mobile eLearning

Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a fascinating discussion of HTML5 and other mobile solutions for eLearning. Dr. Partridge will give practical advice for developing ‘just in time’ tools, job aids and other practical solutions to today’s mLearning requirements. Attendees will learn how to convert their eLearning content to HTML5, and when to convert their content to HTML5. Allen will discuss the short and long term implications of the latest version of Hypertext language and it’s uses and limitations for everything from performance aids to on demand eLearning assessments.

Publishing Multi-Device Enterprise Content Without Migrating to an XML Workflow

Do enterprises need to convert all their content to XML to be able to publish it to the latest devices or build Content Apps? Not at all! Attend this webinar to understand how your business can stay ahead of industry output trends without migrating from an unstructured FrameMaker environment to XML by using the Technical Communication Suite 3.5.

Power of Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate: Tips and Tricks

Join Lieve Weymeis, Adobe Captivate Expert and Community Leader, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to unleash the power of Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. They will discuss the tips and tricks for using Adobe Captivate and best practices to get stunning results.

CF 10 Developer Week -Jump-start your production with Adobe Prelude CS6

ed up your workflow and stay organized with Adobe Prelude CS6, now part of the Creative Cloud. With a unified interface designed for ingest and logging workflows, you now can work faster, stay organized and streamline your production process. Copy your media, then begin logging immediately with the ability to add searchable markers and other temporal metadata that let you find what you need, when you need it. Create rough cuts with production notes that flow into Adobe Premiere Pro, communicating your vision for the project through final editing. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro session to learn more.

Ask A Video Pro - Innovation in Motion: After Effects CS6

er Effects CS6 holds exciting new features for the motion graphics designer, visual effects artist, and video editor. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro session and join Product Manager Steve Forde to learn about new features and how to jump in and get things done.

Ask A Video Pro - Editing Faster Your Way with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Join Adobe Product Manager, Al Mooney, as he demos the exciting new features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 —the powerful non-linear editing system that sits at the heart of Adobe CS6 Production Premium, connecting all of your media as it flows in and out of post-production. See how Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS6 combines incredible performance with a sleek revamped UI, and a host of powerful new creative features, including Warp Stabilizer for stabilizing footage, dynamic timeline trimming, expanded multicam editing, adjustment layers, and more for a fluid editing workflow. Sign up for this live Ask a Video Pro Session.

Developing Digital Publishing Suite Content for the New iPad

e you heard about that new iPad? That amazing Retina Display with double the resolution of previous iPads is gorgeous. But how are you going to author your Digital Publishing Suite content so that it looks good on both this device and the earlier versions of the iPad? Join Colin Fleming, Adobe Digital Publishing Evangelist, for an Ask a CS Pro session on Friday, April 6th to learn how to efficiently design and author for both types of iPad. There are a couple things to keep in mind, and some pretty nifty solutions so your content looks great. Adobe has just updated their guidance on authoring Digital Publishing Suite for the new iPad, and Colin will demonstrate many of these techniques in this session.

What's New in InDesign CS6 for Digital Publishing

If designing for tablet devices is something you are interested in, this session is not to be missed! InDesign CS6 includes exciting new features that will make designing for tablet devices more efficient than ever. You will learn about the new Adaptive Design Tools - Adobe Liquid Layout, Alternate Layout, Linked Content, and how to export both horizontal and vertical layouts of a tablet design from a single InDesign file. These new features make designing content for publication through Digital Publishing Suite simpler than ever!

Making giant strides in technical authoring: FrameMaker in the last decade

Adobe FrameMaker has been at the forefront of the technical authoring space for a long time. The ability of product to keep abreast of the latest trends in the content industry has been a significant reason for it’s being a tool-of-choice across the globe. Since the early 2000s, FrameMaker has added many features that have been remarkable strides towards easier authoring and better content delivery. However, a significant number of writers still use older versions of FrameMaker starting from 7.x due to the product’s robust vision. Tom Aldous and Maxwell Hoffmann of Adobe take you on a journey that tell you how the industry and the product have changed in the last decade using a comparative study of product versions. Much of the webinar will be based on Tom and Max’s personal experience with FrameMaker and will also include their vision of the future of technical authoring.

Captivate Your Learners with Engaging eLearning

Join Dr. Risa Blair, Adobe Captivate enthusiast, as she transforms a bland course into a captivating experience for her learners. She will also be discussing some best practices of creating instructionally sound eLearning courses.

Low Cost – High Quality Avatar Animation for eLearning Module Personalization

Dr. Allen Partridge will present a special session on developing high quality 3D animated Avatars on a very low budget. This session will focus on step by step guidelines for capturing animations and using them in your eLearning. Dr. Partridge will demonstrate the methods and tools, and provide you with step-by-step instructions that you can use to follow along live, or to perform the steps on your own after the session. Attendees who want to follow along should have Adobe Captivate installed as well as Second Life.

Transitioning from eLearning to mLearning

Join Josh Cavalier, popularly known as Captain Captivate, along with Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as talk about how mLearning fits into the overall instructional strategy and how you can effectively use mobile devices for learning consumption and creation. They will also discuss how to build the mLearning content delivery ecosystem and various delivery options available for mLearning.

Best Practices for Creating and Using Videos in Adobe Captivate

Join Joseph Caplan, Adobe Captivate Expert, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to effectively create videos for Adobe Captivate. During the session, they will also discuss the best practices, tools and techniques used for generating high-quality videos.

Using Video in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Rick Zannoti, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to use video in Captivate 5.5. Video is rapidly becoming a very important part of eLearning. During this session, he will demonstrate how to insert video, use slide video and time a video across contiguous and non-contiguous slides. He will also be sharing some video tips and tricks.

Leverage on Typography to Create the Engaging Interfaces for eLearning Courses

Join Jay Dutta, Typographer, Designer and Design Evangelist along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to play with text and type to create interesting and immersive designs that keeps the learners engaged with your eLearning courses. During the session they will also discuss how these principles can effectively be used inside Adobe Captivate.

Data mining documents for Acronyms and Terminology

FrameMaker expert John Smart of Smart Communications, Inc. will show you how to use and explore a unique plug-in ‘Show FM’ doc to find all common nouns, and abbreviations in the content. It could take months to accomplish this advanced data mining without this simple tool. In the session, you will witness Smart Communications’ tool dissect an entire doc in a manner of minutes. This tool and methodology allows a highly accessible way to capture all acronyms and key glossary terms that need to be collated and approved to ensure consistency during the authoring cycle. This not only leads to more effective language translation but to leaner, more accessible English content as well.

Enterprise Productivity Enhancements in FrameMaker 10 and FrameMaker Server 10 Environments

A large number of organizations across the globe use FrameMaker 10 and FrameMaker Server 10 for their content authoring and publishing needs. Tom Aldous of Adobe will guide attendees on how to best leverage the tools to streamline enterprise workflows and realize unprecedented productivity benefits. Apart from the demonstration by Tom, attendees are welcome to share any best practices known to them.

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to formulate learning Objectives

Join eLearning professional Rod Ward for a practical session about how to use Learning Objectives to design an e-learning course in Adobe Captivate. Learn how to use Blooms Taxonomy to formulate learning objectives, how to map out objectives in a hierarchy for design purposes, and avoiding common pitfalls with invalid learning objective verbs. Attendees will also learn how to map the learning objectives to different types of content treatments, mapping objectives to assessments (e.g. which verbs go best with which question types in Captivate).

Enterprise Productivity Enhancements in RoboHelp 9 and RoboHelp Server 9

Enterprise users regularly use Adobe tools like RoboHelp 9 and RoboHelp Server 9 for Help & Policy Authoring, Publishing and Hosting. However many organizations fail to capitalize on features that enable these tools to be used as enterprise-wide content aggregators (pdf, Word, HTML, FrameMaker, XML, etc.). Businesses of the future will only be thronged by a bigger plethora of content formats and hence a greater challenge towards publishing in a consistent manner and provided content users with a seamless experience. This eSeminar will look at best practices for enterprise-wide content development and publishing using RoboHelp.

Ask A Pro: Design with beautiful typography

Hear from Adobe® Muse™ Group Product Manager Dani Beaumont as she demonstrates how you can create beautiful, sophisticated text for your websites using Adobe Muse. You'll see how easy it is to choose from hundreds of typefaces including web fonts served by the Adobe Typekit service, plus learn when to use web fonts, web-safe fonts, and system fonts, and how to apply typographical styles just as you'd expect when designing for print.

Going global and mobile with Adobe FrameMaker

A key term in the globalization process is Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Many companies use PLM tools like SIEMENS TeamCenter to manage the lifecycle of their products from design, manufacture, technical communications, customer service and disposal. The use the Adobe Technical Communications suite of tools like Framemaker and Robohelp offer a low-cost method to create Controlled English technical documents that integrate into PLM.
Another key trend indicates that tablet sales may soon exceed sales of personal computers. Apple has sold 15 million iPads, Windows tablets are emerging and the era of ePub has arrived. During this free webinar, John Smart of SMART Communications, Inc, New York will describe and demonstrate how to use FrameMaker10 and their MAXit Checker plug-in to write, clear, concise Technical English that is easy to translate and comprehend in 190 countries and fits on a tablet screen. John will highlight the 21 common mistakes that writers make in technical communications.

Practical Mobile eLearning Today: Real Solutions for Creating mLearning for Your Organization Right Now

Join Chandranath Bhattacharyya, the engineering manager for HTML5 eLearning projects at Adobe and Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for an introduction to the practical side of mobile eLearning development. We’ll discuss the UI differences that make eLearning content for mobile delivery different than PC deployments and we’ll show you how to get from Adobe Captivate to iOS and other mobile platforms. Get down to the business of creating actual training content that can be delivered on cell phones, tablets and other mobile devices. We'll give you an overview of the dominant types of mLearning content, and give you some examples of how to create content of these types. Finally I'll talk about some of the inherent tools in mobile devices that might be leveraged in order to provide new opportunities for your learning solutions.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 8 (Creating Templates with Photoshop)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on creating interface elements with Adobe Photoshop. Attendees will learn basic methods to create interface elements from scratch with an emphasis on pragmatic solutions that are quick to produce, creative in practice and lead to aesthetically pleasing finished eLearning content.

The Time-Line Demystified

Join Tim Lucas, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how to effectively use the timeline to create captivating projects. They will show you how to set the duration right, understand the stacking order and discuss some troubleshooting tips related to objects placed on the timeline.

Best Practices for Creating HTML5 Courses using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter

Join Michael Hinze, Adobe Captivate Expert, as he shares the best practices of creating HTML5 Courses using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter. He will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and publish it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter. He will also share some tips and tricks for effectively creating HTML5 courses.

Increase Productivity with Master Slides, Object Styles and Object Effects

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create great looking courses using the power of Master Slides, Object Styles and Object Effects. During the session, we will discuss the best practices of using these features in Adobe Captivate to do the tasks faster and still create aesthetically good looking courses.

Simulations made easy with Adobe Captivate 5.5 – Basics and best practices

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Capture in Adobe Captivate 5.5. We will also discuss the best practices while creating and modifying the simulations in Adobe Captivate.
What's in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Understand the suitable settings to be done before capturing
Capture any application/screen area as Automatic or Full Motion Recording
Understand the best practices while editing the captured project
Resize the project for various requirements

Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 2

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the second part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.
What's in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Create graphics to be used as buttons in Adobe Captivate
Create graphics to be used as Text Caption Backgrounds
Understand and create layer comps
Use the layer comps in Adobe Captivate for various layouts

Recording Modes and Using the Captivate Library

Join Tim Lucas, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they talk about the different recording modes in Adobe Captivate. They will guide you how to select the right mode for your training requirements. They will also show you how to effectively use the Library.

Lessons in interactive media and help authoring with localization

Join RoboHelp expert Colum McAndrew (RoboColum) as he shares highlights of a complex RoboHelp project that involved embedded Captivate videos and also alternate versions that displayed a Quick Start Guide. Preparing the project for localization into German led to several discoveries and positive lessons that will be shared in this session. This session will cover the decisions made on how to create Captivate videos that involved minimal localization and maximum benefit to the end user. Expert tips will also be shared on how conditional expressions were used to produce multiple versions of the project.

End-to-end authoring and publishing with RoboHelp

The authoring prowess of FrameMaker and multi-software, integrated experience of the TechComm Suite notwithstanding, there exist circumstances where organizations can author content with RoboHelp as well. One can author all content from scratch in native XHTML format, or aggregate content created on tools like Word or FrameMaker to DITA map to create a hybrid project that has consistent and determinable results. Join Adobe product evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann, to do determine which of the several RoboHelp authoring and collaborative review cycles works best for you.

Up the TechComm Ante on Your Mac with Adobe

For Mac users of best-of-breed technical communication tools, there are several options to consider when installing and running tools. In this webinar, Adobe product evangelist Tom Aldous discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using Boot Camp, Parallels 7 and VMWare fusion 4 along with Adobe’s products like FrameMaker, RoboHelp and the Technical Communication Suite. This eSeminar will be led by an on-screen demonstration.

Single-source publishing to tablets and smartphones

Demand for outputs to tablet computers and smartphones is greater than ever. Many organizations want to repurpose their existing content and create multiple output formats including of publication to smaller screens. Join Adobe Product Evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann, on a tour of several methods to efficiently transform content originally intended for PDF or the web to publish appropriately to iPads, iPhones or the Kindle.

Benefits of customizing workspaces and user experience

Whether you are working with DITA or unstructured content in FrameMaker, you probably have team members who serve different roles and require access to different tools when authoring content. In this webinar, discover how to make the most of the new user interface introduced first in Version 9. Also find out how to control the availability of menus and features to each team member. Join Adobe evangelist Maxwell Hoffmann to find out how you can customize FrameMaker to eliminate tools that are not required for some staff members, and how to display advanced tools and menus to those that need them. This customized publishing experience can significantly reduce the learning curve with FrameMaker and is ideal for team members who use the product infrequently.

Best Practices in Help & Policy Authoring and Publishing to Drive Downstream Localization Efficiencies – Reduced Cost, Faster GTM

Join Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, as he walks you through some of the best practices in translation that he has learnt in his 20+ years in the technical communication industry, and specifically in the localization space. The webinar will help you understand how to reduce costs and streamline the downstream translation processes for authoring and publishing user assistance content.
Topics to be covered in User Assistance:
Leveraging Unicode support
Simultaneous topic editing
Control over language definitions and attributes
Managing multi-author environments
Review and collaboration workflows
Comment moderation
Tracking changes
PDF based review workflows
Shared and reusable resources
Live linking of key assets

Reduced Cost, Faster GTM – Best Practices in Structured & Unstructured Authoring to Drive Downstream Localization Efficiencies

Join Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, as he walks you through some of the best practices in translation that he has learnt in his 20+ years in the technical communication industry, and specifically in the localization space. The webinar will help you understand how to reduce costs and streamline the downstream translation processes for structured as well as unstructured authoring scenarios.
Topics to be covered in Unstructured Authoring:
Managing styles in paragraph, character and table catalogs
Managing format overrides
Suppressing unwanted alerts when opening documents
Real-time spell checker
Drag-n-drop editing and automated scripting to eliminate repetitive tasks
Background text color highlighting
Handling rich media and leveraging “poster” frames
Collaborative review through enhanced importing of PDF comments

Topics to be covered in Structured Authoring:
DITA element manipulation using enhanced tag views
Managing metadata
Filter by attribute as a better solution for “conditional text”
Developing attribute values
Leveraging integrating with the CMS (Content Management System)

Creating Educational Games in Adobe Captivate with Joe Ganci

Leap into Spring with eLearning Rock Star Joe Ganci on leap day. Join Joe for an amazing session on creating eLearning Games with Adobe Captivate. You know that games can be beneficial in helping learners retain what they learn. Of course, games can also distract from the content, so you must plan carefully what kind of games to include in your learning. During this session, reknowned Captivate expert, Joe Ganci will teach the factors that must be considered in choosing or building games for learning and will also show you how to create a learning game in Adobe Captivate. You will even get a free copy of a game for your own use!

Best Practices for Working with Objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join John Daigle, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the best practices of working with standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5. These objects include text captions, images, rollover images/captions/slidelets, animations, click boxes, buttons, and highlight boxes. They will also be sharing some quick tips on troubleshooting common issues you can face when working with objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5.

Enhancing Captivate eLearning with Interactive Widgets- Part 2

This vicarious eLearning eSeminar features me (Allen) learning from Tristan Ward of Infosemantics how you can use the new Widget to do unbelievably cool things in Adobe Captivate. Particularly mind-blowing from our prep-session? Tristan showed me how I can combine things like Jim Liechliter's radio button widget with Captivate variables and use the master widget to create incredibly detailed form simulations with very deep tests to determine if the form is properly filled out - then, amazingly - evaluate the entire problem and report it as a single question response! You won't want to miss this amazing session.

Karl Kapp on Gamification & eLearning

Join Dr. Allen Partridge as he interviews Dr. Karl Kapp, distinguished author and expert on simulations and games in eLearning. Dr. Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA and has worked with such organizations as Black and Decker, L’OREAL and Sovereign Bank as well as government agencies to help them create effective online instruction. Dr. Kapp is author of five books on the convergence of learning and technology including "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" and “Learning in 3D” which he co-authored with Tony O’Driscoll. Currently, he is working on his fifth book "The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” where he explores the research and theoretical foundations behind effective game-based learning; examining everything from reward schedules to the use of avatars to games for teaching pro-social behaviors which will be discussed during this session. Look for his latest book on Gamification in the Spring of 2012.

Confessions of an ‘Enlightened’ Mind – Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid when Starting a Help Project!

Join Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, as he walks you through some of the best practices in translation that he has learnt in his 20+ years in the technical communication industry, and specifically in the localization space. The webinar will help you understand how to reduce costs and streamline the downstream translation processes for structured as well as unstructured authoring scenarios.
Modern help authoring tools like RoboHelp are powerful and feature-rich, and provide great flexibility to online help authors. But that power also makes it possible to get a project off to a bad start. Some of the mistakes are just silly, but others can lead to hiring the wrong author, developing the wrong output, or just sending a project out of control in ways that need expensive rework or cleanup later.
Authors made such mistakes in the past and got away with it. But today, as new technologies, concepts (“multi-channel publishing”?), and terms appear –– and time-to-market and ROI requirements continue to tighten, those mistakes are increasingly unacceptable.
The presenter, Neil Perlin, is an internationally known consultant and president of Hyper/Word Services. Neil is a 33-year veteran of tech comm, a 26-year veteran of hypertext, and a 21-year veteran of RoboHelp (who has probably made all of those top 10 mistakes at one time or other).
Join us to learn from the best in the business.

Enhancing Captivate eLearning with Interactive Widgets – Part 1: Drag and Drop

Join Dr. Allen Partridge and Tristan Ward (AKA: The Widget King) for a new series of seminars focused around Infosemantics’ latest widgets for Adobe Captivate 4, 5, and 5.5. The first of these seminars teaches how to use the Interactive Drag and Drop widget to create complex interactions that were previously impossible in Captivate. The first half of this seminar will give an introduction the unique features of the Interactive Drag and Drop widget. The second half will demonstrate how to construct a sophisticated drag and drop interaction for an online safety training course. This seminar assumes a basic knowledge of how to use Infosemantics Drag and Drop widgets. For those unfamiliar with these widgets, it is recommended to watch the previous seminar on the Drag and Drop Lite question widget accessible from here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/drag-drop-in-adobe-captivate.html

Mobile and Social – The Future of Technical Communication

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Adobe partner Daniel R. Odio, CEO of Socialize, Inc. <http://www.getsocialize.com/> for an interactive webinar where they will discuss how mobile and social are changing the way people communicate (create, share and consume content), the strategic implications of the same for today’s technical communication professionals, and how best to ride these mega trends in the technical communication space.
If you are looking for ways to better engage your users and boost discovery and interaction with your content, this is a “can't-miss” webinar!

Looking to Implement a CMS? How about a FREE Developer License of Adobe CRX Lite (Day Software) with out-of-the-box integration with FrameMaker 10?

Join Tom Aldous, Director of Adobe Technical Communication Business Development and Evangelism, for an interactive webinar where he will demonstrate LIVE how to install, configure and run CRX Lite.
Tom will also walk you through the steps showing how to configure FrameMaker 10 for use with CRX. A cloud-based CMS with integration with your favorite unstructured, structured and XML editor and publisher!

Preparing Captivate for Efficient Recording and Editing

Join Tim Lucas, Adobe Captivate Expert, along with Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to set the ground right for capture workflow. They will show you how to work with global preferences and custom styles and talk about the best practices around these settings.

Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 1

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the first part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.
What's in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Export the Captured images from Adobe Captivate for editing, edit it in Adobe Photoshop, and import it back into Adobe Captivate
Understand the image and canvas dimensions
Create backgrounds using different tools available in Adobe Photoshop
Create image masks to edit the images
Create Transparent PNGs to be used inside Adobe Photoshop

Creating Quizzes with Random Questions in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create quizzes with random questions using Adobe Captivate 5.5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.
What’s in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Create a random question slide
Create a question pool
Create a quiz with random questions from a single question pool
Create a quiz with random questions from a multiple question pools
Reuse question pools created for other projects
Move questions from pool to pool, main project to pool and vice versa

Introduction to ColdFusion Zeus

In this session, Raymond Camden will introduce you to ColdFusion Zeus, the latest iteration of the ColdFusion Application Server. New features such as REST, Web Sockets, and closures will be demonstrated.

Strategies for Building and Managing Large Online Libraries

Do you utilize online help to support a policy and procedure library in your company or for your clients? Is your existing library underutilized, redundant or outdated? Is there user confidence that the library is accessible, current and that search results are relevant?
If you are starting from scratch or need to revamp your existing documentation, the task can be overwhelming, particularly if time and resources are limited. Additionally, making your way through the approval process and then subsequently maintaining your library can be daunting.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and experts from Lightext Inc. <http://www.lightext.com/> for an interactive webinar to learn some key methodologies for starting a large project, gaining client/employer consensus, and making your way from ground zero to useable, accessible procedures. These solid practices will help you independent of the help authoring tool you have selected.

Step-by-step Procedure to Create Good Looking Templates for Your Adobe Captivate

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create great looking course templates using various applications available in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5. We will also discuss how we can do the roundtripping between these applications to edit the assets used in these templates.

Create Cool Assets for Your Adobe Captivate Courses

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create various assets for your eLearning courses such as buttons, text caption backgrounds, slide backgrounds, etc. During this session we will use Adobe Captivate and other products in Adobe eLearning Suite to create and modify the assets.

Creating HTML5 Courses for iPad using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create eLearning courses for your iPad. They will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and publish it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter. They will also share some tips and tricks for effectively creating HTML5 courses.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 7 (Learning from the Best & Worst of PowerPoint)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on learning from common problems found in PowerPoint based layout & design.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 6 (Making it Mobile with HTML5 & Captivate)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on converting your content to HTML5 for iOS devices like the iPad, the iPod and the iPhone.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 5 (Adding Animation with Adobe Flash)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on creating animation for user interface components using Adobe Flash Professional CS 5.5.

Monitoring ColdFusion with FusionReactor

If your CF server starts acting up, how do you go about resolving problems? If you’re on ColdFusion 8 or 9 Enterprise, you may know that you have a built-in ColdFusion Server Monitor. Did you know there is an alternative tool that supplements it well? FusionReactor is a commercial third-party tool, which can monitor not only any version of CF (6, 7, 8 or 9, whether Standard or Enterprise) but also Livecycle and any other Java web application or server in your environment.
Such monitoring is about more than “watching a screen”. You can arrange to receive email alerts with valuable information (sort of a black box recording before a crash), and FusionReactor also creates really valuable logs that can also help with post-mortem analysis. They can also assist with deciding on CF server configuration settings, watch trends for hardware upgrades, and more. And as of FusionReactor 4, these logs now track information that previous only the CF Server Monitor displayed (but didn’t log at all). Finally, an additional tool, FusionAnalytics, can help analyze and visualize that data over minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and so on.
In this 50-minute session, veteran CF troubleshooter and independent consultant Charlie Arehart will introduce and demonstrate these and other key features of FusionReactor (including stack tracing and crash protection), and will end with a brief demo of FusionAnaytics.

Best Practices for Creating eLearning Courses using Adobe Presenter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will share some best practices to transform drab presentations into interactive multimedia experiences with narration, animations, quizzes, and simulations.

APIs and SDKs – Breaking into a Specialty Market

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Adobe partner Ed Marshall, an independent consultant technical writer and the sole proprietor of Marshall Documentation Consulting <www.MarshallDocumentationServices.com> for an interactive webinar where they will discuss APIs (application programming interfaces) and SDKs (software development kits). Writers should consider this area as the demand is often greater than the supply of writers; hence, you can get higher pay than for other types of writing. Also, you often get greater flexibility in telecommuting / working remotely when doing this type of writing. Ed will define APIs / SDKs and their differences, discuss the benefits and drawbacks to doing this type of writing, discuss the types of personalities that thrive in this environment, provide sources of training, discuss logistical issues unique to these products and some of the commonly used (free) tools to generate the documentation.
Ed will discuss the following topics:
Several sample APIs / SDKs will be shown. Typical uses for each will be explained. Typical documentation deliverables and the ideal information for both.
Key programming concepts that writers need to be familiar with for this type of writing.
Benefits and drawbacks to doing this type of writing. Discuss the types of personalities that thrive in this environment.
Ways to add value to these products using the skills we already have as technical communicators
The training needed for this writing and where you can get the training.
Logistical issues faced by writers: how you get your information, automated tools you can use, deciding the best formats for online help, platform issues, etc.
Summary and Q&A.

Adobe, Acrolinx and Lionbridge present - a how to guide for creating global-ready content that works!

Communicating with a global audience is no easy task. How do you get people to listen to your message? How do you know if they get it? There is no shortage of content out there. How can you be sure that they read your message and find your products?
Content delivery experts from Acrolinx, Adobe and Lionbridge show you how to manage the complexity and deliver a high impact message that will resonate with customers. Attend this webinar to learn:
How to develop content that gets attention
How to ensure that your customers get a consistent experience- in every channel and in every language
Shortcuts for delivering high quality, multilingual content – faster
Things you don't know about how your customers get content about your products

Presenters:
Tom Aldous, Technical Communication Evangelist, Adobe Systems Inc.
Marc Osofsky, VP Marketing, Lionbridge
Jennifer Beaupre, VP Global Marketing, Acrolinx

One size fits all: How Adobe FrameMaker can help you best resolve content issues for today and tomorrow

Have you been using Adobe FrameMaker to create content in a unstructured authoring environment for years? Are you contemplating a change to structured authoring? Is XML the bright shiny object attracting the attention of your senior management?
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Val Swisher <vals@contentrules.com>, founder and CEO of Content Rules <www.contentrules.com> for an interactive webinar as we look at the most critical things you need to consider when choosing between structured and unstructured authoring. We will also examine how to use Adobe FrameMaker to solve the content challenges that you face today and those you anticipate in the future.

How to optimally leverage a Content Management System as a Technical Communicator

Find out how optimally leveraging a Content Management System to store/manage/retrieve/repurpose content can help save time and money and more importantly secure your content. Using Adobe FrameMaker to develop content is a great decision as has been proved for long enough; now you need to store and secure the content and easily access and reuse the content.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Jim Fettes < jim.fettes@consortio-usa.com>, Business Development Manager at Consortio <www.consortio-usa.com> LIVE IN ACTION for an interactive webinar to learn more, as they demonstrate the best practices of optimally using a Content Management System.

What is the future of indexing for technical documentation?

With the rapid growth of e-books, tablets, and mobile devices, the ways in which we consume content are changing. The methods readers use to find content are also changing overall. Despite that, the need for quality indexes will not fade, but the appearance of indexes will be different. The concepts for indexing content will remain the same, however.
What will these future indexes look like? Cheryl Landes, who has indexed technical content for 21 years, will answer that question and provide examples of the new world of indexes. Some of these indexes are coming sooner than you might think!
During this one hour interactive session, Cheryl will cover the following topics:
Changes in how people read documentation, and how this is affecting how we look for information. Mobile devices, e-readers, and tablets will be covered in this segment.
A discussion of current interfaces and their benefits and limitations in terms of finding information.
Samples of effective indexes on the new reading devices, along with a discussion of tools that can produce these indexes. (NOTE: There isn’t a consistently accepted format yet, but the American Society for Indexing’s Digital Trends Task Force has created a proposed mock-up and electronic indexing standards and is working with various industry leaders and organizations to integrate these into e-books and other types of electronic documentation. Cheryl is active in this task force.)

Introduction to RIAForge

In this session, Raymond will talk about the open source hosting site RIAForge.org, built using ColdFusion. Raymond will discuss why it was built and why developers should make use of it, as well as how it can help people new to the open source world. During the session Raymond will talk about how the site was built and the tools behind the service.

Why upgrade from older versions of RoboHelp (X5, 6, 7 or 8) to RoboHelp 9? What is the value proposition for your business?

Thinking about upgrading from older versions of RoboHelp (X5, 6, 7 or 8) to RoboHelp 9? Is it worth the investment?
Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) for an interactive eSeminar, where he will demonstrate what additional business value RoboHelp 9 brings to the table in terms of the following functional areas:
Multichannel multidevice publishing
Next-generation collaboration and review workflows
Innovative and unique features to power progressive help documentation (Dynamic user-centric content; integrated Google search; external content search; community-generated content; automated context-sensitive help authoring)
Next-generation help documentation with Adobe® AIR® Help 2.0 (Content Curation and moderation-enabled commenting; professional, personalized, and customizable appearance)
Cross-browser, cross-operating system delivery mechanism
Support for EPUB, Java Help, FlashHelp, and Eclipse Help
Easy customization to meet business needs
Compliance with industry standards
Robust and scalable solution
User-friendly, intuitive interface

Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 2

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create interactive screens using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5. The interactive screens included in this two-part training session will be click-reveal text screen, tabbed screen, click-based animation screen, and timeline screen.

Training: Creating an HTML5 course using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 converter

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create a good looking eLearning course which can be published as HTML5 output. In this Hands-on session, we will also look at using HTML5 converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5. While doing this, we will discuss creating content slides and question slides as well for the course.

Key Trends in Software User Assistance: An Expert’s Perspective - Part 1

Most valued User Assistance skills and technologies. Platform dependencies. And much more…
This is the first of a two-part series discussing the current and future trends associated with software user assistance.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Joe Welinske < joewe@writersua.com>, President of WritersUA <www.writersua.com> for an interactive webinar as they discuss the findings of an independent research conducted by Joe for the User Assistance professionals of today and tomorrow.
P.S.: Look out for a free download link to the latest Software User Assistance whitepaper by Joe Welinske on the Adobe RoboHelp 9 website under LEARNING tab around mid-December 2011: http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp.html.

Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 1

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create interactive screens using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5. The interactive screens included in this two-part training session will be click-reveal text screen, tabbed screen, click-based animation screen, and timeline screen.

20 Tips in 30 Minutes

Learn tricks and shortcuts for using Adobe Connect. This session will help you maximize productivity and keep your audience engaged. This session focuses on tips and tricks gathered by Connect experts to help make your virtual meeting, event or training session a true success.

Beyond the Basics with Adobe Connect Training Webinar

Attend our Beyond the Basics Webinar to learn how to use Adobe Connect’s advanced features, including how to customize a meeting room, recording, using a web camera, creating polls, screen sharing, breakouts and much, much more. This webinar is a follow-up to the Getting Started with Adobe Connect series. We encourage you to view the Getting Started webinar before registering for this one.

Getting Started with Adobe Connect Training Webinar

This session provides a quick overview of how to use Adobe Connect. Learn how to set up your Personal Meeting Room and how to effectively use Adobe Connect for small team collaboration or large-scale meetings, presentations, trainings and online events.

Adobe FrameMaker and DITAToo – A Complete Solution for Your DITA Content

Adobe FrameMaker, the industry leading single source authoring and publishing tool and DITAToo, the ground-breaking new DITA automation tool,provide you with a complete solution to easily create, publish, and manage DITA content. Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Andy Lewis, leading expert from Adobe Partner iG5 Authoring Tools (www.ig5authoringtools.com) for an interactive and engaging session to find out how FrameMaker lets you author and publish DITA content while DITAToo seamlessly automates a lot of content management tasks.
The experts will demonstrate how FrameMaker and DITAToo enable you to:
Store DITA topics in a central, searchable repository – so that they can be easily managed, tracked, and retrieved
Automatically convert unstyled Word documents to valid DITA
Create DITA topics and automatically add them to a central shared content repository
Assemble topics into maps without knowing DITA (enabling non-technical writers to easily create their own deliverables)
View where each topic is reused
Avoid broken links when moving or renaming files, thanks to the Advanced Link Management functionality
Automatically generate a DITAVAL file based on the attributes used in topics throughout the map
Publish DITA content to multiple output formats and manage content variations
Control versions....and much more!

Using Multi-SCO Packager to Create a Single Course out of SCOs from Captivate, Flash and Dreamweaver

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to combine SWF and PDF from Captivate, Learning interactions SWF from Flash and Course Builder SCOs from Dreamweaver into a single course. We will also learn about using Learning Interactions in Flash and Course Builder in Dreamweaver.
What’s in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Create SCORM Trackable SWF and PDF from Captivate
Create Learning Interaction SWF from Flash
Create Course Builder SCO from Dreamweaver
Use Multi-SCO Packager to create single course.
Upload to LMS to test the content.

Your Webinar Questions – Answered!

Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, will spend an entire one-hour session doing nothing but answering your questions about web seminars and web conferencing! Call it a free consulting session or a community learning exercise. Either way, it promises to be one of the most practical and valuable webinars you have ever attended.

Creating Interactive eLearning with Adobe Presenter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an interactive eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will show you how to create interactive screens using simple actions in PowerPoint. They will also show you how to ember interactive SWFs in your Adobe Presenter courses.

Adobe RoboHelp and Lightext, Inc. - The Help and Training Connection

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and experts from Lightext (http://www.lightext.com/), a leading provider of training and documentation services, for an engaging and interactive eSeminar to learn how to create valuable training materials, such as leaders’ guides and participants’ manuals, from your existing RoboHelp projects.
In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to set up your projects in a manner that will allow you to utilize them as single source for your help and classroom tools, thus saving time, eliminating duplication, and ensuring consistency. Also, Lightext and Adobe will introduce the concept of the Learning Professional, an individual who utilizes available tools, knowledge and systems for the optimum user experience, whether it be through Help or Training.
Traditionally, companies (particularly those managing a lot of policies and procedures and training mandates) reinvent the wheel to meet these two objectives. See how Lightext has successfully introduced the concept of utilizing RoboHelp to handle both needs – thus saving time and ensuring synchronicity and compliance.

Alternate Reporting and Quiz Result Analyzer in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the alternate options available for quiz reporting like Acrobat.com and Internal Server. They will also show you how to analyze the results using Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer.
What’s in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Set the reporting preferences.
Submit results for the quiz.
View the results in Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer.

Hands-on: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables.
What’s in it for you?
After attending the session, you will be able to:
Create a user-defined variable.
Edit/delete a user-defined variable.
Control Adobe Captivate projects with variables.
Create advanced actions.
Edit/delete/duplicate advanced actions.
Apply advanced actions to slides.
Apply advanced actions to interactive objects.

Getting it Right from the Start:Setting Up Online Help and Documentation Projects Correctly

Adobe RoboHelp is a powerful, versatile tool that’s often used to create large, complex online Help and documentation projects. Yet tools like RoboHelp also make it easy to simply start a project without any front-end planning – with a philosophy of “we don’t have time to define the project up-front; we’ll work out the details once the project gets rolling…. “But working like this – defining the project’s specifications and settings during development and under a tight schedule and full to-do list – can spell trouble. It’s hard to remember when to use certain styles or conditional build tags, and just hard to stay controlled and consistent.
We can avoid most of these problems by defining as many settings as possible when the project starts, while we have time to think. And it doesn’t take a lot of time or effort, often just a day or two to define a small number of crucial control files and settings.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Neil Perlin, an Adobe Partner and an internationally acclaimed Subject Matter Expert in online help and documentation, for an interactive eSeminar that looks at these files and settings, with a focus on topic templates, CSSs, table styles, skins, Resource Manager, and a written project description and quick-reference. You’ll see how, with just a day or two of planning, you’ll wind up with greater consistency and maintainability within and across your projects.
About Neil Perlin
Neil Perlin is an internationally known consultant, strategist, trainer, and developer for online help and documentation.

Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Flash

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to instantly update Flash applications used in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Flash from within Adobe Captivate, and synchronize the files in Adobe Captivate and Flash with a single click.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Edit animation with Flash from within Captivate
Update and swap animations
Relink Flash source file
Export Captivate project to Flash

Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Photoshop

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting session on Photoshop roundtripping. Learn how to instantly update Adobe Photoshop files imported in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Adobe Photoshop from within Adobe Captivate and keep the linked files in sync using a single click.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Import Photoshop files
Manage layers and layer comps
Edit Photoshop files from within Captivate
Update and relink Photoshop files

Paperless with Adobe FormsCentral

During this seminar, Judy Durkin, Adobe Education Leader and teacher at Washington High School, will share how she has improved literacy in her classroom and simplified assessments through the use of online forms.

Experience True Multimedia, Multidevice, Multipurpose Technical Communication – With the all-new Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5!

The best in technical communication is here! With the all-new Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5, now you can author, enrich, review, publish and repurpose your technical content with a single integrated toolkit comprising of five powerful software.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, for an interactive eSeminar.

Getting started with Adobe Photoshop for Adobe Captivate users

Join RJ Jacquez, Adobe Senior Product Evangelist, for a fun session on Photoshop, specifically designed for new users who are already familiar with Adobe Captivate. In this session, you learn how to get started using Photoshop for enhancing your Captivate projects, how to work with Layers and how to use the powerful content-aware fill tool for including just the right images in your eLearning projects.

Introduction to Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users

Join RJ Jacquez, Adobe Senior Product Evangelist, for an introductory session on the entire Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users. This session is intended for Adobe Captivate users who are interested in discovering how they can take their eLearning projects to the next level by using dedicated applications, such as Adobe Audition, Photoshop and Flash for audio, rich media and animation editing.

Topic-Based Authoring in Unstructured Adobe FrameMaker

Topic-based authoring can offer lots of benefits, from improved consistency and usability of information, to the possibility of reuse of topics in different contexts. It can also simplify maintenance, speed up the review process, and facilitate shared authoring.
You can benefit from using topic-based writing techniques even if you are writing in unstructured FrameMaker, and are used to writing linear, book-style documents. The greatest benefits come from defining a topic-based information model and applying it as you write. The key is to define the right model for your content and your users.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and Linda Urban (www.urbancreations.com), Adobe Partner and a leading industry expert, for an interactive session, where they review how you can leverage topic-based authoring techniques in Adobe FrameMaker.
About our expert, Linda Urban: Linda Urban has more than 25 years of experience in designing and developing technical information and instruction. A consultant, she is available to work on projects, and to work with writers and teams to improve the quality of their documentation and training content, focusing on both usefulness and usability.
Linda's popular workshop, “Topic-Based Authoring: Getting Your Feet Wet”, has been highly praised by both private clients and participants at conferences and workshops in the US, UK, and France. Linda's company is Linda Urban Communications, LLC, and her website is www.urbancreations.com.

Reviewing eLearning Courses Made Easy with Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to use Adobe Captivate Reviewer to get your Captivate projects reviewed by the SMEs, internal team or customers. Also learn how to leverage Acrobat.com or your internal server in this process.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Publish the project for review
Share project for review on an internal server
Share the project on Acrobat.com for review
Review Adobe Captivate project
Add comments to the SWF file
Edit comments in the SWF file
Import comments from an XML file
Export comments to an XML file
View or sort comments in the AIR application
View or sort comments in the Adobe Captivate project
Provide feedback on comments by reviewers

Understanding Adobe Captivate for Total Beginners: Part 2

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an introductory session demonstrating the fundamental components of Adobe Captivate, and explaining how to use these tools to create eLearning modules. This session is intended for beginners who have already seen Part 1 in this series, and it will gently guide you to a stronger understanding of how to use Adobe Captivate to create slightly more complex eLearning content.

Discover How to Automate Publishing Using PatternStream and Adobe FrameMaker 10

Adobe FrameMaker 10 is a great publishing engine that can be driven seamlessly with information from databases, cubes, XML, spreadsheets and a variety of other data sources using FML PatternStream, believes Ben Slone, President & CEO at Finite Matters Ltd. (http://www.fml.com/).
Join Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, Tom Aldous, and Ben for an interactive eSeminar to find out how Adobe FrameMaker 10 and PatternStream can be used to automatically create budgets, catalogs, directories, financial reports, manuals, other reports, and reference books from information sources.

Introduction to Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users

Join RJ Jacquez, Adobe Senior Product Evangelist, for an introductory session on the entire Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users. This session is intended for Adobe Captivate users who are interested in discovering how they can take their eLearning projects to the next level by using dedicated applications, such as Adobe Audition, Photoshop and Flash for audio, rich media and animation editing.

Hands-on: Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a hands-on session on capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this session, you learn to create application recordings in demonstration mode, training mode and assessment mode -- all in one go. You will also learn to enhance the recordings with additional objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5, to make the captured content more effective.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Modify the capture settings
Capture application in demonstration mode
Capture application in assessment mode
Capture application in training mode
Edit the captured simulation
Insert additional objects
Publish the project

Applying Topic-Based Authoring Principles to Your Adobe RoboHelp Content

When you develop content in Adobe RoboHelp, you are already creating modular topics. But writing content in separate topics doesn't by itself guarantee all the benefits you can get from using a topic-based approach.
At the heart of topic-based authoring is the idea of developing an information model that includes topic types and patterns. Defining these patterns helps you develop and present information in a consistent manner, which improves the usability of your content. Once you have designed your information model, you can implement it in Adobe RoboHelp and apply it as you write.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and Linda Urban (www.urbancreations.com), Adobe Partner and a leading industry expert, for an interactive session, where they show how to apply topic-based concepts while using Adobe RoboHelp.
About our expert, Linda Urban: Linda Urban has more than 25 years of experience in designing and developing technical information and instruction. A consultant, she is available to work on projects, and to work with writers and teams to improve the quality of their documentation and training content, focusing on both usefulness and usability.
Linda's popular workshop, “Topic-Based Authoring: Getting Your Feet Wet”, has been highly praised by both private clients and participants at conferences and workshops in the US, UK, and France. Linda's company is Linda Urban Communications, LLC, and her website is www.urbancreations.com.

Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 3: Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 2

Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the third in a series of seven), where we will take you through the steps required to move your Unstructured Content to an XML Workflow using Adobe FrameMaker 10 as your Authoring and Publishing Tool.
In this third eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will continue where he left off in Creating a FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 1. We will build Nested Element Structures and complete the balance of the Conversion Table. The completed Conversion Table will be run against our Unstructured Document, creating a well formed Structured Document.

Adobe Captivate Interface Made Easy!

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on Adobe Captivate interface. In this session, they will walk you through the Adobe Captivate workspace and show you how to use the toolbar, panels, filmstrip and timeline effectively.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Rearrange the toolbar, timeline and panels
Show/hide various panels
Initiate various actions using the Filmstrip view
Change the zoom level of the timeline panel
Change the order of object layers
Hide objects during editing
Set time for objects and slides using the timeline
Preview a slide using the playhead

Easily Build Mobile Apps for iOS and Android with Adobe Flex

Join Christophe Coenraets as he demonstrates how to build mobile apps for iOS and Android devices more easily using Adobe Flash Builder, Flex & LiveCycle. Learn how to minimize development time and reuse components across device platforms.

Hands-on: Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting hands-on session on how to convert the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. Learn how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with the Captivate project and enhance the course by adding animations/interactivity in this session with them.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Create Adobe Captivate projects from PowerPoint presentations
Edit imported PowerPoint slides within Adobe Captivate
Import additional PowerPoint slides
Synchronize the PowerPoint presentation with Captivate project file
Add objects and slides
Delete PowerPoint slides
Change modes from Linked to Embedded and vice versa
Export Animations

Effective eLearning with new Adobe Captivate 5.5 & eLearning Suite 2.5 - EMEA

Join Dr Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a demonstration of the exciting new ways to create effective eLearning with Adobe's latest industry leading authoring tools for rapid eLearning authoring. Adobe Captivate is widely recognized as the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool. Explore how Adobe Captivate extends your reach into mobile publishing and enables you to create great looking course content.
The Adobe eLearning Suite has rocketed to the top, quickly becoming the must-have software package for eLearning professionals since Adobe first released this Dream Team of integrated eLearning Tools in 2009. Find out what everyone's buzzing about, and see the amazing ways Adobe eLearning Suite, featuring Adobe Captivate can help you create dynamic, engaging and productive eLearning courses.

Hands-on: My First Captivate Project

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to get introduced to Adobe Captivate 5 workspace and to use different standard and Interactive objects. Also learn how to preview and publish the finished projects.
What’s in it for you?
After attending this session, you will be able to:
Work with Adobe Captivate 5 improved workspace
Save and reuse the workspace
Create a new project
Insert standard objects
Insert interactive objects
Preview and publish the project

Effective eLearning with the new Adobe Captivate 5.5 & eLearning Suite 2.5

Join Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a demonstration of the exciting new ways to create effective eLearning with Adobe's latest updated to the industry leading Authoring tools for rapid eLearning Authoring. Adobe Captivate is widely recognized as the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool. This update adds new functionality to the software that extend its reach into mobile publishing and enhance authors' tools for quickly creating great looking course content.
The Adobe eLearning Suite has rocketed to the top, quickly becoming the must-have software package for eLearning professionals since Adobe first released this dream team of integrated eLearning Tools in 2009. Find out what everyone's buzzing about, and see what new treasures the Adobe eLearning Team has cooked up for you at this one hour eSeminar demonstrating the amazing ways that the new Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5, featuring Adobe Captivate 5.5 can help you create dynamic, engaging and productive eLearning courses.

Creating Inspired Activities and Interactions for Effective eLearning

Adobe’s eLearning Evangelist, Dr Allen Partridge and esteemed eLearning and Communication Consultant, Clive Shepherd, will discuss the future of eLearning and how organisations can best create ‘Inspired Activities and Interactions for Effective eLearning’.

Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5

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With Adobe RoboHelp 9, you know how easy it is to create EPUB files for smartphones, eBook readers, tablets, PDF, Adobe AIR & other Help applications. Now see how easy it is to create a RoboHelp project start to finish

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, for an interactive eSeminar, where Tom will demonstrate how easy it is to work with RoboHelp 9 to create your Help content for various applications. Tom will start with a new project from scratch, and build everything needed to generate EPUB, PDF, Adobe AIR, WebHelp and more output formats. It’s faster and easier than you think!

Controlled authoring in Adobe FrameMaker 10 – How clear and consistent communication can help you save cost and improve your customer experience

Controlled English is a method of writing that makes technical English easy to understand. The adaptation of a controlled language stimulates the (global) acceptance of technical documentation as it improves readability and translatability, and prevents misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and Adobe Partner Berry Braster (Marketing & Sales Director at Tedopres) for an interactive eSeminar. During this eSeminar, Berry will explain the benefits of controlled authoring in FrameMaker 10 using case studies, and show how overall cost, time to market, and content volume will be reduced and how you can save considerably on translations: up to 40% per language!
About Berry Braster:
Berry Braster is the Marketing & Sales Director of Tedopres. Berry, fluent in 4 languages, holds a BA in International Marketing & Business Management from the University of Amsterdam. Berry has a background in quality assurance and regulatory affairs and has assisted many organizations with their global strategy for product and manual compliance. He has been with Tedopres for 11 years, during which he has managed the implementation of Tedopres' controlled language solution HyperSTE and translation cost savings with companies in various industries.
About Tedopres (http://www.tedopres.com/):
Established in 1974 and with offices in Europe, North America and Asia, Tedopres International offers a full range of technical documentation services, including translations, content management and controlled language solutions (aka Simplified Technical English) for quality assurance and considerable cost savings. Tedopres HyperSTE checker software is the industry's leading solution for controlled language authoring thanks to its flexibility, ease of use, and cost saving benefits.

Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh while they demonstrate how to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables.

Using Object Styles and Effects in Adobe Captivate 5

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Question Banking Made Easy with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create Question Banks with Adobe Captivate 5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.

If It Is Not Broken, Why Fix It? Why Would An Enterprise Upgrade To The Latest Version Of Adobe FrameMaker 10 And Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3?

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist for an interactive and engaging eSeminar, as he talks about Documentation LifeCycle and how to measure Return On Investment (ROI) when changing your current environment to the latest revision of Adobe FrameMaker 10 and Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.

We know that the new features built into the latest releases of Adobe’s market-leading technical communication tools will significantly improve productivity and give us the ability to communicate in new ways. But how do we communicate this value in a language that the management will understand and appreciate? It’s called “Return on Investment (ROI)”.

Tom will also give a quick demonstration of some of the most valued new FrameMaker 10 and Technical Communication Suite 3 features as they relate to ROI.

Deep Dive: Effective Soft Skills Training in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an advanced tutorial on creating soft skills simulations with Adobe Captivate. This session is recommended for intermediate and advanced users and assumes fundamental awareness of Adobe Captivate. Dr. Partridge will demonstrate and break-down the elements commonly used in creating soft skills simulations. This will be a technically oriented session focused on advanced actions and creating the logical decision trees and complementary functions to make advanced branching dependent projects really sing.

Preferences and Publish Settings in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to explore the various preferences and publish settings available in Adobe Captivate 5.

Enhancing global customer experience with high quality and consistent content in DITA using Adobe FrameMaker 10 and SDL AuthorAssistant

Join Adobe Product Evangelist Tom Aldous and Tom Smith from SDL for an interactive and engaging eSeminar, where they will discuss the benefits you can deliver to your customers by using the SDL AuthorAssistant plug-in for Adobe FrameMaker 10 to create high quality and consistent content that adheres to your style, grammar, terminology and language guidelines. Combining these technologies with the DITA framework contributes not only to consistency and efficiency gains, but to an overall improved global customer experience.

Navigating the LMS Maze

Join Dr. Allen Partridge and guest Captivate Engineers as they take a deeper dive into the Learning Management System integration potential of Adobe Captivate 5. Topics include all forms of LMS integration as well as setting the various properties for Captivate to LMS communication.

Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on customizing the table of contents, playbar and the appearance of the final SWF. They will also touch upon the playbar widgets available with Captivate 5.

Publishing Options in Adobe Captivate 5

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Publishing options in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about various publishing options like, SWF, F4V, EXE and APP for Mac. They will also discuss about publishing the course to Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, uploading the course directly to FTP and printing course handouts.

Enhancing Existing Documentation with Adobe Technical Communication Suite

IDBS, a UK-based supplier of solutions for the scientific industry, used the Adobe Technical Communication Suite to completely reinvent its help documentation, as well as to support creation and delivery of training materials. Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Evangelist for Technical Communications, as he interviews Colum McAndrew, Senior Technical Writer at IDBS, to learn how IDBS were able to accomplish this transformation.

Enhancing Adobe Captivate Content with Audio - Part 2

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for an introduction to audio in Captivate 5, where they will discuss various methods to add audio: record, text-to-speech and import. They will also touch upon the ways to edit the audio.

PowerPoint workflows in Adobe Captivate 5

In this eSeminar, Adobe eLearning Senior Product Evangelist, RJ Jacquez, will discuss and demonstrate best practices for linking, reusing and customizing PowerPoint content for inclusion in Adobe Captivate 5 Projects.

Enhancing Adobe Captivate Content with Audio - Part 1

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for an introduction to audio in Captivate 5, where they will discuss various methods to add audio: record, text-to-speech and import. They will also touch upon the ways to edit the audio.

Adding Interactivity to eLearning Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5. They will also discuss the best practices of using objects in Adobe Captivate 5.

Creating a self-guided Knowledge-based Training Solution in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a Step by Step Guide to creating a knowledge-based self-guided training solution in Adobe Captivate 5.

Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

In this training session, we will focus on converting the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. We will also discuss how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with the Captivate project and enhance the course by adding animations/interactivity to it.

Adding Spice to Compliance Training with Adobe Captivate 5

Compliance training can all too often be dry as toast. Dr. Allen Partridge will demonstrate and define approaches that can add some flair to your compliance training. He will explain how to improve ROI by ensuring that the focus of your compliance training (changing behaviors) is actually accomplished.

Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5 - Part 2

One of the major workflows in Adobe Captivate 5 is Capture workflow. We use capture workflows to do Software Simulations, Product demos etc., During this session, we will discuss Different Recording options available for us including Automatic and Manual recording of either screen area or an application. Session also focuses on different Preview/Publish options available catering to Web Distribution or Stand-alone distribution.

Integrating Adobe FrameMaker 10 with Documentum to maximize content reuse with Linked2

Join Adobe Product Evangelist Tom Aldous and Adobe Partner Jim Fettes from Millennium Consultants, Inc. for an interactive and engaging eSeminar – where they demonstrate LIVE and explain the connectivity between Adobe FrameMaker 10 and EMC Documentum to optimize the reuse of content across locations and formats via Linked2.
Find out how to overcome barriers such as content reuse, search & retrieval, making reusable objects, legacy conversion, authoring, etc.

Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5

One of the major workflows in Adobe Captivate 5 is Capture workflow. We use capture workflows to do Software Simulations, Product demos etc., During this session, we will discuss Different Recording options available for us including Automatic and Manual recording of either screen area or an application. Session also focuses on different Preview/Publish options available catering to Web Distribution or Stand-alone distribution.

Captivate 5 Beginner Tips: How to Avoid the Common Mistakes when using Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist will explain the most common errors made by beginners who are just learning to work with Adobe Captivate 5. He'll give you examples of ways to avoid these common issues and explain the fundamentals of the Adobe Captivate Workflow.

Creating your first Application Capture Training with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a Step by Step Guide to creating your first Screen / Application Training Solution with Adobe Captivate 5

Integrating Adobe FrameMaker 10 and Adobe InDesign CS5 with SCHEMA ST 4

Are you struggling with XML Content Reuse? Do your internal processes require controlled update or variants management? Already working with FrameMaker or InDesign CS5?
Join us for an eSeminar featuring experts from Adobe and SCHEMA to learn how you can manage all of this, plus cross-media publishing, with your existing implementation of Adobe FrameMaker or Adobe InDesign CS5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 10: Individual Differences

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Individual Differences Principle, which suggests that design effects are stronger for low-knowledge learners than for high knowledge learners, and for high-spatial learners rather than for low-spatial learners. Examples will focus on the use of Advanced Actions, ADA/508 Compliance, Closed Captions, Localization, Video Closed Caption, Branching and User Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.

Discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in Adobe RoboHelp 9

Join RJ Jacquez (Senior Product Evangelist, Adobe Technical Communication Group) for this interactive eSeminar to discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in the much-improved Adobe RoboHelp 9.
Find out how you can:
Author optimized content that conforms to organizational and industry standards for versatile help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledge bases
Implement efficient workflow with collaborative reviews, shared reusable assets and multichannel, multi device publishing options
Offer contemporary end-user experience with personalized filtering, dynamic user-centric content, external web and user-generated content, and shared commenting

Discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in Adobe FrameMaker 10

Join RJ Jacquez (Senior Product Evangelist, Adobe Technical Communication Group) for this interactive eSeminar to discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in the much-improved Adobe FrameMaker 10.
Find out how you can:
Deliver assured standards-compliant XML and DITA content leveraging the out-of-the-box advanced templates and tools
Bring unprecedented efficiency to the entire authoring chain - review, manage, and repurpose existing content - with seamless connectivity to leading content management systems
Dramatically improve the ease of publishing to multiple formats from a single source with enhanced high-volume publishing

Discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3

Join RJ Jacquez (Senior Product Evangelist, Adobe Technical Communication Group) for this interactive eSeminar to discover the amazing new capabilities you can expect in the much improved Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.
Find out how you can:
  Accelerate productivity and create content for multiple needs without leaving the native authoring environment thanks to enhanced single-sourcing capabilities
Collaborate and review faster and smarter with roundtrip review workflows
Engage your audiences by easily adding multimedia and interactivity using advanced image and video editing tools
  Radically expand your outreach with versatile, dynamic ‘single click’ publishing to take your content to multiple channels and devices

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 9: Pre-Training

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as pre-training, which suggests that elearning content authors should first build up basic information about essential elements which are pre-requisites to understanding the larger concepts. Examples will focus on the use of Quizzes, the Quiz Results Analyzer and the Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 8: Segmenting

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Segmenting Principle, which suggests that authors of eLearning content should break content up into small pieces or chunks in order to help avoid cognitive overload for the learners. Examples will focus on the use of Slide Paradigm, Object Styles & PPT Import in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 7 : Coherence

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Coherence, which suggests that off topic ancillary material can distract from learning. This theory stands in opposition to arousal theory, providing research based evidence that when stimulating animation or any form of non-relevant information is provided, it can actually decrease the efficacy of the instruction. Examples will focus on the use of Templates, Master Slides & Object Styles in Adobe Captivate 5.

Publishing Technical Communication to EPUB for Mobile Devices has never been this Easy!

In this interactive eSeminar, RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist from the Technical Communication Group in Adobe Systems, will present on the EPUB (short for electronic publication) open e-book standard and guide attendees (via live demonstration) through the process of publishing Technical Communication for Mobile Devices, including the Nook, the Droid and the iPad. In this session, you will also learn best practices for taking your existing Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe RoboHelp content and easily publishing it to this exciting open standard format.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 6: Redundancy

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Redundancy, which suggests that presenting symbols via both text and aural channels is less effective than presenting via only one. Examples will focus on the use of Audio Editing & Text in Adobe Captivate 5.

S1000D Support in Adobe FrameMaker

How well does Adobe FrameMaker support authors working to the ASD S1000D specification? Join this eSeminar to see how Adobe FrameMaker makes the job of authoring in S1000D easy and hassle-free.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 5: Contiguity

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content, specifically on the Contiguity Principle, which indicates that the spatial relationship (proximity) of symbols (like text) to analogous images (things that look like the subject of the learning) is significant, and plays a key role in how effectively we learn. This session will explain the overall concept and demonstrate how this concept can be applied with particular focus on the following features in Adobe Captivate; Position, Resize, Transform, Align, Pan, Zoom, Auto-Captions, Rollover.

Working with Widgets, Part 2: Beyond the Basics

Widget developer Tristan Ward joins Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a second adventure in vicarious eLearning. Tristan will again teach Allen Widget creation basics (using the Widget Factory) of widget Development for Adobe Captivate. This time the duo will forge beyond the basic building blocks of widgets and create a more sophisticated widget. Explores basic widget concepts and provides examples of implementation. This session is appropriate for intermediate and advanced users of Adobe Captivate & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Adding Drag and Drop Questions to Adobe Captivate 5 with the 'Infosemantics' Drag and Drop Widget

Special Guest Tristan Ward (creator of the Widget Factory) will join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist to host a special session focused on the new Drag and Drop Widget from Infosemantics, and on the significance of drag and drop questions as a tool for developing interactive eLearning content. This session is appropriate for all users of Adobe Captivate & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Creating effective eLearning Multimedia with Adobe Captivate 5

This one hour session will focus on creating eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5. The session will center on the Multimedia Principle (the importance of combining images & text) of eLearning Design. It will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, and is intended for all users of Adobe Captivate, eLearning Professionals, Academicians and Training Professionals. Examples for this session will focus on the use of Adobe Captivate 5 images, shapes, Photoshop Integration, captions and rich animation effects.

Using Adobe RoboHelp Server Analytics for Improving Content

Help Authors have long wanted to know: "Am I being helpful?" Adobe RoboHelp Server 8 helps answer that question.

Adobe RoboHelp Server is a powerful option used with the RoboHelp authoring tool. Join Adobe Partners and Experts for this interactive eSeminar to receive practical tips on how to configure and publish RoboHelp projects to the RoboHelp Server and to generate user feedback reports.
John Daigle will be your guide for this eSeminar. John is an Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate instructor (ACP) and has consulted on Adobe RoboHelp Server since its inception.

What Content Consumers are doing Online today and Why it matters in Technical Communication

In this interactive eSeminar, RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist from the Technical Communication Group in Adobe Systems, will present key trends in online content consumption (both technical communication and non-technical communication), as well as explore practical ideas for leveraging these trends and for delivering engaging experiences that consumers expect from everything they do in today’s world, including the way they consume technical documentation.

Applying Personalization to eLearning with Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Personalization, which suggests that people learn more effectively when conversational styles and or learning agents are used to enhance the social aspects of the experience. Examples will focus on slide video, flash animation, Widgets, Advanced Actions and the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget.

Balancing cognitive load in eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Personalization, which suggests that people learn more effectively when conversational styles and or learning agents are used to enhance the social aspects of the experience. Examples will focus on slide video, flash animation, Widgets, Advanced Actions and the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget.

Customizing Adobe FrameMaker for DITA Authoring

When using Adobe FrameMaker to publish DITA, many questions exist about customization of the template. In this eSeminar, Adobe Partner Bernard Aschwanden of Publishing Smarter will demonstrate how to customize the workspace to take advantage of existing templates.
Join Adobe Partners and Experts to learn:
How your content can be published, as DITA, using existing templates
How to apply headings, bullets and numbers, table formats, custom cross-reference tags and more
About the best practices related to the use of your templates with DITA content
About tips and tricks to ensure your content converts cleanly to structure
How to reduce the time, effort and cost associated with conversion and publishing of legacy files

Making your documentation more social with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2.5

Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2.5 keeps you in contact with your audience like never before.
Learn from Adobe eLearning and Technical Communication experts. Among the topics discussed:
Strategies for using embedded 3D and simulations for both print and electronic delivery
Using the Adobe cloud (Acrobat.com) to collect quiz information
Delivering your documentation as AIR files, allowing: Local installation of Help application, Automatic push of updated information, User customization of content, Blog-like commenting and internet-enabled search of content etc.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules

This one hour session will focus on a meta-level restructuring of Clark, Mayer et. al, principles of multimedia eLearning - specifically via evidence from educational psychology. It will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist and is intended for all users of Adobe Captivate, eLearning Professionals, Academics, and Training Professionals. This session will provide a foundation in multimedia design concepts for eLearning, and help you understand the reasons / rationale behind many of the eLearning strategies you see implemented today.

Dramatically reduce Multilingual Publishing and Translation costs by upgrading to FrameMaker 9 with DITA

Many people pay more than they should for post-translation DTP because their content is in Word or in inconsistently formatted older versions of FrameMaker. Inconsistent document structure and formatting exceptions can cause costly problems, even in English source files.
Find out how the experts at localization agency Globalization Partners International eliminated unnecessary DTP steps and solved several critical challenges in English, and 27 target languages for a major medical device manufacturer with >200 page manuals with Adobe FrameMaker 9.
New custom FrameMaker 9 workflow saves files in native XML format, erases “illegal” format overrides on save and ensures all external cross-references open error-free after translation
One template controls all formatting, including font changes and language specific prefixes like “Table” and “Figure”, for 27 target languages
Learn how to convert an unstructured Quark manual (neither index markers nor cross references) to FrameMaker and how to convert to DITA structure with working indexterms and crossrefs
Learn how to ensure that structured DITA files from FrameMaker 9 achieve maximum leveraging from old “unstructured” Translation Memory created from older projects
This webinar is co-hosted with the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), www.gala-global.org

Moving Word Content to FrameMaker XML - Yes it can be automated

Are you using MSWord to develop your content and think it is just too hard to move to a more automated FrameMaker XML workflow? Are you authoring your content in FrameMaker XML and would like to help your co-workers move their MSWord content to XML? Are you using unstructured FrameMaker and want to move your content to an XML workflow?
Join Adobe Partners and Experts for this interactive eSeminar to find out how your XML dreams can come true, and learn how this MSWord to FrameMaker XML conversion process can be easily automated.

Mastering Audio and Video with Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2 for Advanced Users

This one hour session intended for Advanced users of Adobe Captivate will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist. The eSeminar will focus on challenges and opportunities involving video and audio in online eLearning, specifically regarding the use of audio and video with Adobe Captivate 5. The new full project workflows for sound and video will be examined in detail.

Adobe Captivate 5 for University Students

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the rapid adoption of Adobe Captivate among University students and examine the key motivators for students adopting Adobe Captivate. Studies indicate a rise in adoption of rapid eLearning tools over traditional slide creation tools among university students. What is motivating this trend?

Is Rapid eLearning Right for me - A Beginners Guide to eLearning

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the decision to use Rapid eLearning for your institution. While cost savings are clear, there is still a lot of discussion about the eventual efficacy of Rapid eLearning in spite of strong numbers supporting its use. Partridge will discuss the importance of solid Multimedia eLearning and Instructional Design principles in the development of Rapid eLearning in order to maximize efficacy and minimizethe likelihood of ineffective course creation.

Advanced Actions & Widgets with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe Captivate 5 for Advanced Users

This one hour session for Advanced Adobe Captivate users will be centered on the development of complex navigation, interaction & general application behavior by using the tools provided in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 (as part of Adobe eLearning Suite 2) and Adobe Captivate 5. The session will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist.

Understanding the Adobe eLearning Suite Workflow

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for intermediate users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The core issue will be expediting eLearning development with the complete toolset provided in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.

Adobe FrameMaker 9 and Alfresco Community Edition Open Source CMS: Seamless Integration, Free Version Control and More

Did you know that FrameMaker 9 has built-in integration with fully compliant WebDav Content Management and Version Control Systems? Hence, if you are looking to manage your FrameMaker unstructured, structured and XML content but do not have a budget at present, you can download and install the Community Edition of Alfresco or any other fully WebDav compliant Content Management System. FrameMaker 9 will communicate directly with the WebDav Server and manage check in, check out and dependent links. FrameMaker 9 and Alfresco community Edition can be your Content Transition Management System also. FrameMaker 9 supports mixed unstructured, structured and XML content in books along with WebDav as a protocol. Put this all together and you have a free unstructured FrameMaker to XML Content Transition Management System (CTMS).

Adobe Captivate 5 for University Educators

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on making the transition to asynchronous and synchronous online education & distance learning for university faculty and instructional design support personnel. The session will examine the specific needs of higher education with regard to online education and will demonstrate solutions using Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2.

Communicating Policies and Procedures for the 21st Century Organization

Are your organization’s policies and procedures (P&P) out of date, unclear or inconsistent? Are you still reading and writing P&P in paragraphs with academic outlines accessible in dusty binders or in PDFs?
This presentation introduces you to P&P communication as a body of knowledge, while exploring the latest trends and best practices for developing and managing P&P systems and information -- thus transforming performance for the 21st Century organization. Led by a leading expert in P&P communication, this highly engaging presentation is filled with insights, anecdotes, resources and examples on and about policies and procedures.

Advanced Interaction Development for Adobe Captivate 5 for Advanced Users

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the differences and similarities between Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Captivate 5 during this one hour session intended for people with experience using prior versions of Adobe Captivate.

Integrating Adobe FrameMaker 9 and Vasont Content Management Software to maximize XML content reuse

Learn how to take advantage of the seamless integration between Adobe FrameMaker 9 and Vasont content management software to optimize the reuse of content. Together with experts from Vasont Systems and Adobe, find out how to overcome barriers such as Content Reuse, Search & Retrieval, Creating Reusable Objects, Project Management etc.

Comparing Adobe Captivate 4 to Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the differences and similarities between Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Captivate 5 during this one hour session intended for people with experience using prior versions of Adobe Captivate.

Leveraging Legacy PowerPoint Training with Adobe Captivate 5 for Beginners

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, is intended for Trainers,eLearning Professionals and members of the Academic community who want to learn how to migrate their legacy slide decks to more engaging interactive online content.

Sense out of Confusion-Streamline your Technical Authoring Process by Transitioning from Unstructured Documentation to DITA XML

Learn how to take advantage of FrameMaker's seamless integration with the SiberSafe
content management system to streamline and simplify the use of the DITA XML
structure for your technical authoring team.

Together with experts from SiberLogic find out how to overcome barriers such as Legacy
Conversion, Topic Authoring, Project Management, Publishing etc.

Integrating Adobe FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication Suite 2 to Documentum to maximize content reuse with Linked2

Learn how to take advantage of the seamless integration between Linked2, Documentum and Adobe FrameMaker 9/Technical Communication Suite 2 to optimize the reuse of content across locations and formats

Together with experts from Integrated Technologies Inc. and Millennium Consultants, Inc., find out how to overcome barriers such as Content Reuse, Search & retrieval, making reusable objects Legacy Conversion, Authoring, Project Management, Publishing etc.

eBooks Everywhere-Engaging readers with the Adobe eBook platform

Discover how the Adobe eBook platform enables reader engagement through its streamlined workflow for authoring, protecting and delivering digital books. This on demand eSeminar shows publishers, content distributors, libraries, and book retailers how to enable a seamless reading experience across multiple screen types and why an open, interoperable eBook platform serves readers best.

In this session, you'll discover:

How to author, protect and deliver content using the Adobe eBook platform.

How to maximize content interoperability across devices using the EPUB file format.

How Adobe ecosystem partners enhance the platform's reach.

How publishers, libraries and content aggregators can securely distribute eBooks.

Why an open eBook ecosystem serves consumers and publishers best.

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