Webinars

Getting Started with Adobe Connect - Online Training Webinar Series

May 24, 2013 - June 07, 2013: Friday, May 24,2013; Tuesday, May 28,2013; Wednesday, May 29,2013; Thursday, May 30,2013; Friday, May 31,2013; 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™

Security Best Practices for ColdFusion

June 11, 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

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

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.