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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.

Announcing Creative Suite 6


Adobe Education Webinar Series

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.

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.

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.

New Adobe K-12 Enterprise Agreement Webinar


Join Johann Zimmern, Adobe Worldwide K-12 Education Director, to learn how the Adobe K-12 EA (Enterprise Agreement) term-based license agreement minimizes the costs and complexity of deploying Creative Suite 6 district wide.

Adobe Education Leader Spotlight Series: The Adobe Creative Road Trip – Turbo-charge your projects using the Adobe Creative Suite


Learn from Dan Armstrong how to create awesome projects in Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, and Illustrator and roundtrip them into Adobe InDesign. This exciting presentation will teach you tips, tricks, and workflows that will save you time and boost your creativity.

What's New in Illustrator CS6


Illustrator CS6 will let you work with work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files—powered by the new Adobe Mercury Performance System. A modern interface streamlines daily tasks while you take advantage of new pattern tools, image tracing, and gradients on strokes. Attend this online event to see for yourself how Illustrator CS6 will let you spend less time waiting, more time creating.

Creativity: Put Your Finger on the Intangibles


Find out how to radically change your marketing creativity level and turn the key towards growth.

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.

Learning Strategies for a Transparent World: Achieving Results with Virtual and Social Learning


Join author Cynthia Clay to learn the secrets and strategies to make the virtual classroom as exciting, meaningful, and relevant as the face-to-face classroom.

Tying Citizen Engagement to Your Agency's Bottom Line


Tying Citizen Engagement to Your Agency's Bottom Line

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
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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
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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.

    Learn How to Use Adobe Shadow and See Where the Product is Headed


    Come to this Ask-a-Pro session to learn about Adobe Shadow, a new preview and inspection tool for web designers and developers who care about how their sites look on devices. See a demo of Shadow in action, and take the opportunity to ask questions of the Shadow team, and hear where the team is headed with future versions of Shadow.

    Web Experience Management for Government


    Join us for a live webinar to learn how the Adobe Web Experience Management solution enables agencies to effectively provide information and services to citizens by ensuring the broadest access to all across web, mobile and social channels.

    Powering Adobe WEM is the newly released Adobe CQ 5.5, a recognized industry leader in web content management software. It not only offers agencies the ability to deliver personalized online experiences based on citizen need, but also provide insight into the effectiveness of services delivery through integrated web analytics. Agencies can quickly roll out new program initiatives online and measure the effectiveness of the digital channels as a means of citizen access to information and benefits.

    Attend the webinar to learn how you can: - Build citizen trust by creating engaging and easy-to-understand experiences with one simple-to-use tool - Transform and extend access to all through effective outreach campaigns across web, mobile web and mobile apps - Decrease time to market of critical programs by rolling out targeted communication campaigns - Increase participation through your digital channels faster with integrated content management and actionable analytics

    Developing Digital Publishing Suite Content for the New iPad


    Have 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.He will cover:oLayout design for flexible publishingoHandling interactive content for two resolutionsoBuilding folios for "renditions".

    Train, Learn and Communicate Instantly


    Join this webinar to learn how Adobe Connect allows agencies to train and collaborate instantly.

    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.

    Introducing Adobe CQ5.5 - Key Innovations for Next-Gen Web Experience Management


    Find out how innovations in Adobe CQ5.5 can help your organization drive engagement by delivering consistent, contextually relevant experiences across web, mobile, and social media - converting visitors to buyers and accelerating business growth.

    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
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    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.

    Secrets of B2B Lead Generation webinars


    Secrets of B2B Lead Generation webinars

    The Role of Flash in Higher Education


    The Role of Flash in Higher Education

    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.

    “Sneak Peek” -Web Experience Management, powered by Adobe CQ5.5


    Join us for this live webinar and get a sneak peek into the new Adobe Web Experience Management solution. Discover how it will help your organization build brand more effectively, extend your marketing reach, and drive increased demand and revenue.

    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.

    Accelerate your RED workflow with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5


    Adobe and RED have collaborated to bring a truly native, color-rich, 4K tapeless workflow to Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5. Join this webinar to learn how you can enable a robust workflow for editing, grading, and delivering native R3D footage in real time using Premiere Pro. See Wes Howell and Ted Shilowitz step through the RED editing workflow in Premiere Pro, including selecting RED sequence presets, quickly importing clips without transcoding or rewrapping, switching playback resolutions to meet the performance and image quality needs of every post-production task, adjusting the look of your sequence through extensive controls for RED RAW footage, and outputting it to virtually any format.

    Virtual Training in the World of Multitasking


    Join Dr. Carmen Taran as she illustrates how to approach the wondrous capabilities of multitasking as well as its fascinating limitations. Learn how to address current multitasking challenges that are impacting the way you design and deliver training.

    Key Take Aways:
    * Benefit from implementing four training techniques to minimize the temptation to multitask.
    * Use four tools to design sessions that send viewers where they will be multitasking anyway, but in an instructionally-enhancing and engaging way (e.g. using text, email, and social networking to solve a real-life problem).
    * View practical example to learn how to address current multitasking challenges that are impacting the way you design and deliver training.

    Great Webinars: Crossing the Chasm to High-Performance Virtual Delivery


    Join author, Cynthia Clay, to learn the secrets and strategies to make the virtual classroom as exciting, meaningful, and relevant as the face-to-face classroom.

    Key Take Aways:
    * Avoid the 3 most common errors that make webinars dull
    * Apply 5 techniques to transform your virtual classroom
    * Adopt 3 practices to reduce the impact of technology snafus
    * Take away a white paper describing the competencies of a skilled virtual trainer.

    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.

    Transforming digital business with Digital Publishing Suite


    Please join us to see how you can leverage Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create, distribute, monetize, and optimize content across devices. Expand your brand's reach by tapping into the expanding universe of tablets—such as the iPad®, BlackBerry® PlayBook®, and Android™ devices—to attract and retain high-value customers across a broad array of mobile marketplaces.
    Attend and learn about:
    • The existing digital publishing market
    • Developing interactive branded content by utilizing existing tools and skill sets
    • Measuring audience behavior through their interaction with branded applications
    • Creating unique communication assets to improve engagement

    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.

    Creating a Killer Online Presentation, Not a Deadly One


    Guns and PowerPoint don't kill. Bullets do. They can kill your message, your brand and -- worst of all -- your audience.
    Join speaker Shelley Ryan, founder of Killer Webinars, who will share best practices and guidelines for converting a dying presentation into a killer presentation.

    Key Take Aways:
    * Four steps for developing attention-grabbing content
    * Ways to maintain your branding style without a corporate template
    * How to use bullets without using bullets
    * Tips for using stock images purposefully and effectively

    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
    • 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

    Dynamic Duo: Photoshop and Illustrator Part 2


    Mike Skocko and Rob Schwartz team up again to bring you another exciting adventure in the world of teaching digital art to students in Public High Schools. Learn not just the technical tips they'll share in photoshop and Illustrator, but the approach to the classroom that has proven so successful in generating a positive, cooperative atmosphere with the students. Rob and Mike have different approaches to the same philosophy- that teaching should be a fun, exciting, transformitive, and engaging experience for both student and teacher in their quest to 'fight the insidious forces of apathy and wasted potential'.

    Improving Your Online Presentation Skills


    Learn tips to help you become a more effective online speaker – including how to prepare a presentation that complements the web environment and how to deliver it with confidence and professionalism.

    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.

    Top 10 key trends shaping the Technical Communication industry of tomorrow: An industry research


    An increasingly global economy. Pressing localization needs. Demand for rich media and interactivity. Device explosion necessitating multiscreen publishing. Highly personalized, easily searchable content. Collaboration needs in a multiauthor environment. Social content. ROI-driven content. And much more…

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Christian Gravelle, Senior Technical Analyst at the Branham Group Inc. <www.branhamgroup.com> for an interactive webinar as they discuss the findings of an independent research conducted by the Branham Group on “what’s going to matter and what’s not” for tomorrow’s technical communicators.

    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.

    Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 4 (Adding Sound with Audition)


    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 and or acquiring audio effects that may be used to reinforce the overall navigation and user interface in your projects. Examples will use Adobe Audition CS 5.5 & Adobe Captivate 5.5.

    Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 3 (Photoshop CS 5.5 Basics)


    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.

    Training: Import/Export workflows in Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about different import/export workflows available in Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this session, they will show you how to export project captions, preferences, object styles, etc. They will also share some best practices related to these workflows.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending the session, you will be able to:

    • Export preferences, project captions and object styles
    • Import the modified preferences, project captions and object styles
    • Export project to Flash CS 5.5
    • Export to XML and import it back
    • Import Question Pools
    • Import External Library

    How Adobe Production Premium CS 5.5 handled the cutting edge demands of Vincent Laforet's short film Möbius


    Writer, producer and vfx artist Jon Carr presented how his team leveraged the capabilities of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium to help complete the short film Möbius edited by Vashi Nedomansky and directed by Vincent LaFloret. Möbius was shot using a prototype of the new Canon EOS C300 camera and was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro with effects shots produced using Adobe After Effects. Also integral to post production process were Adobe Story, Adobe Photoshop Extended and Adobe Media Encoder.

    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.

    How Adobe RoboHelp 9 delivers rich interactive help and policy content that is shaped by multiple authors (including end users), personalized for relevance, optimized for searchability, and always available (on multiple screens)


    Struggling with you current Help Authoring Tool? Looking to “switch” to a tried-and-tested tool? Adobe has the answer…and the perfect reasons too!

    Switch from MadCap Flare, Author-it, or Doc-To-Help Enterprise or Doc-To-Help for Word and save 40% off Adobe RoboHelp 9!

    Time frame: October 17th 2011 through February 16th 2012.

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, for an interactive and informative webinar, where Tom will discuss the top benefits of switching to Adobe RoboHelp 9 from MadCap Flare, Author-it, or Doc-To-Help. Also find out about the great resources that Adobe has made available to ‘enable’ the switching process and help maintain business continuity through the transition phase.

    Caching support in ColdFusion


    This e-seminar will walk you through the basics of Caching including the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of Caching. The e-seminar will then focus how caching in ColdFusion will affect the performance of your apps including the latest functionality available for Caching in ColdFusion 9.

    Speaker: Chandan Kumar (chkumar@adobe.com)

    Just Enough Content Management – Best Practices for Enterprises


    There is a familiar pattern to many Content Management (CM) projects. Initial investments are directed towards the selection and deployment of a CM System (CMS). Then the real work begins on delivering new information products and realizing all the savings that were promised when justifying the CMS acquisition. Unfortunately, in all too many cases the initial outlays on the CMS are so great and the team learning curve so steep that moving onto the second step of delivering new information products and concrete savings proves to be exceedingly challenging. The spike in initial expenditures is noticeable enough to management that the project is forced to focus almost all its efforts on realizing cost savings and this works against the effort to realize the new products. Eventually someone else in management, and typically someone higher up in management, notices that there have been outlays and disruptions and asks the awkward question about what benefit all this has been for the customer.

    Now fortunately, CM projects do not have to follow this path. Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Joe Gollner (www.gollner.ca), Director of Gnostyx Research (www.gnostyx.com) for an engaging and interactive webinar where they will explore one such alternative called Just Enough Content Management. Under this model, projects are encouraged to look for specific content scenarios that can be improved and accelerated using new techniques and then focusing efforts on making tactical changes. Through a cycle of these investments, these projects build up a library of new capabilities that combine together to demonstrate how the organization will need to handle content in the future. At this point, it also becomes very clear exactly what CM services are really needed and these can often be added without necessarily acquiring a full CMS. At the end of the day, the Just Enough Content Management approach is all about focusing your investments on areas that will deliver the greatest benefits – for your customers, users and managers – and then adding the essential elements of management control to protect and promote those benefits.

    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!

    Creating Scenario-based Courses with Adobe Presenter


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create scenarios using branched navigation in Microsoft PowerPoint and publish using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will also share some tips and tricks of designing user interface and graphics for scenario-based courses.

    Competing on the Edge with a Successful Strategy for Structured and Unstructured Content


    Join us for an exciting and informative webinar introducing tips, tools and insight on how to provide customers with high quality content in every language and optimizing information for a global marketplace with industry experts, Maxwell Hoffman, Jennifer Beaupre, and Tom Aldous. This group draws from several years of publishing challenging, multi-lingual projects and will share some highly innovative solutions that were developed to dramatically automate multi-lingual publishing. They will discuss how tools and processes can automate and improve a number of publishing steps including: 

    • Unstructured and Structured Authoring
    • Document integrity
    • Quality management
    • Processes for multi-channel, multi-language delivery
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    Presenters:

    • Tom Aldous, Technical Communication Evangelist, Adobe Systems Inc.
    • Jennifer Beaupre, VP Global Marketing, Acrolinx
    • Max Hoffman, Director, Multilingual Document Globalization Practice, Globalization Partners International Inc.

    Enhance your Help Systems and Documents with Simulations – Easily and Quickly!


    Why stop at help systems that contain only static text and images when you can make them so much more useful by adding simulations? Help system users are looking for...well, HELP! Are you creating user guides, manuals, or other documentation for employees, clients and others? They all want one thing: to get the information they need as quickly and efficiently as possible. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good simulation can be worth ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million! But how can you include simulations in your documents and help systems seamlessly and quickly? That's where Adobe Captivate comes to the fore!

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Adobe Partner Joseph Ganci, widely acknowledged as an eLearning guru, for an interactive session where you will learn how to easily and quickly create software simulations in Captivate to include in your help systems. We will also discuss how you can also create soft skills simulations and other types of movies to include in your help systems and documents to make them more interactive and engaging. Experience the power of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5, which includes both RoboHelp 9 (the default standard for over 20 years in creating help systems, policies and procedures and professional knowledgebases) and Captivate 5.5 (the industry leading eLearning content authoring tool)!

    Deep Dive: Effective Soft Skills Training in Adobe Captivate: Part 3


    Join Dr. Allen Partridge for part 3 of 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.

    Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 2 (Understanding Navigation)


    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 the principles and methodology of UI design to optimize navigation, prepare navigational elements for ADA / 508 compliance and users will learn how to implement navigation that complements their interface design.

    Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 1 (Understanding Layout)


    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 composition and layout. This session will provide a foundation for the principles discussed in those sessions that follow.

    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.

    Leveraging FrameMaker Server 10: How to automate publishing tasks/jobs, and publish your content to multiple channels and devices


    Do you know how Adobe® FrameMaker® Server 10 software extends the power of Adobe FrameMaker 10 software in an automated, server-based environment? Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) for an interactive eSeminar, where he will demonstrate how to:

    • Set up and start using FrameMaker Server 10
    • Leverage the seamless integration with leading content management systems (Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum) to use them as sources or destinations
    • Configure, customize, and schedule publishing tasks
    • Publish unstructured and structured content (including XML and DITA content) to multiple channels such as PDF, HTML, WebHelp, Adobe AIR®, Adobe FlashHelp®, electronic publishing (EPUB), JavaHelp, EclipseHelp, and OracleHelp for Java™, as well as multiple devices (mobiles, eBook readers and tablets)
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    Why upgrade from older versions of FrameMaker (7.X, 8 or 9) to FrameMaker 10? What is the value proposition for your business?


    Thinking about upgrading from older versions of FrameMaker (7.X, 8 or 9) to FrameMaker 10? Is it worth the investment?

    Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) for an interactive eSeminar, where he will demonstrate what additional business value FrameMaker 10 brings to the table in terms of the following functional areas:

    • Unstructured and Structured Authoring
    • Multimedia/Rich Media Support
    • Productivity Enhancements (Time-Saving Features)
    • Review and Collaboration Workflows
    • Publishing Capabilities
    • Developer Support (including Automation)
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    San Diego County - Case Study on Increased Efficiency


    Join Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government to hear how the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office improved their case load management to get running at optimum efficiency.

    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.

    XML Document Best Practices


    When creating an XML workflow, solid groundwork and detailed planning are essential. Many of us may think that picking a ‘standard’ eliminates most of the hard decisions. However, there’s more to it!

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, for an interactive eSeminar where we will be discussing the XML BEST PRACTICES. The areas on which Tom will be focusing, include:

    • Elements versus Attributes
    • Absolute versus Relative Paths
    • Searchable Text
    • Language Translation Considerations
    • Application Processing Instructions - Good or Bad
    • DOCTYPE - Public versus System IDs
    • Entity Definitions - Statement Embedded versus DTD Defined
    • Graphic Callout Handling
    • Nested Elements versus Flat Structure

    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.

    S1000D Customer Success Story with Adobe FrameMaker & Mekon Eclipse


    Battling with the steep learning curve of S1000D? Making costly mistakes with your content storage? Struggling to print?

    Let the Experts help.
    Join Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist Tom Aldous and S1000D experts Mekon for an eSeminar series which will address the challenges of creating, managing and delivering this specialised content for print, interactive PDF and IETP.

    Publishing to Mobile Devices Taught by the University of Oregon


    Hear how Ed Madison, Graduate Teaching Fellow from University of Oregon, uses the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite as part of his curriculum to teach students how to publish to tablet devices and other mobile devices. This technology is relevant for various majors, ranging from design and photography to journalism and public relations.

    Dynamic Duo: Photoshop and Illustrator for K-12


    Join an exploration of the glorious wonderfulness of the Dynamic Duo of Photoshop and Illustrator with Adobe Education Leader co-presenters, Rob Schwartz and Mike Skocko. Follow tutorials and tips on how to create your own lessons using a web-delivered format. This lively session will examine successful ways to engage and inspire students.

    Powerful Creation and Versatile Management of XML and DITA


    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Chip Gettinger, VP of XML Solutions at SDL, a leading Component Content Management provider, for an engaging and interactive eSeminar to learn how Adobe FrameMaker and SDL Trisoft integrate seamlessly to produce accurate and up-to-date information on a range of products across global markets.

    In this session, we’ll demonstrate how a content creator can interact with SDL Trisoft directly from within FrameMaker. In addition to the power and ease of use provided by Adobe FrameMaker, Chip will show how the integration of SDL Trisoft adds the benefits of managed content reuse, easier versioning capabilities and increased productivity.

    Building Great Mobile Web Experiences


    Discover how to build mobile web experiences that not only deliver personalized content but data that has been optimized for a specific device. Adobe Web Experience Management (WEM) delivers mobile web experiences as well as native mobile application authoring and editing for feature phones, smartphones and tablets. For native applications, Adobe WEM detects device capabilities that enable additional support such as geo-location services. Learn new tips for developing apps in this booming market.

    Mura CMS & ColdFusion — A Robust Ecosystem


    In this e-seminar, we'll explore the robust ecosystem found within the Mura CMS & ColdFusion community. With plugins available for ecommerce, forums, slideshows, SEO, group collaboration and more, organizations large and small are taking advantage of the opportunities the Mura CMS ecosystem and Adobe ColdFusion provide. In addition, we'll show you how Adobe ColdFusion makes it easy to go beyond default Mura CMS functionality by easily customizing and extending Mura CMS, as well as using ColdFusion to integrate your Mura CMS website with external systems.

    Training: Instant eLearning with 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 show you how you can transform drab presentations into interactive multimedia experiences with narration, animations, quizzes, and simulations.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending the session, you will be able to:

    • Create an eLearning course using Adobe Presenter
    • Change settings and manage slide information
    • Add audio
    • Insert video to the slides/sidebar
    • Insert animations to the slides/sidebar
    • Include quizzes
    • Enable reporting
    • Publish the course

    Hands-on Training: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5 (Part 2)


    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

    Ensuring Engagement through Online Learning


    Join us for this webinar as we share a special program to help you keep your learners in step with your virtual training. This webinar will feature a panel of presenters who will interact with you as they share information on best practices, tools, ideas and inspirations to help you make your virtual training hit the highest marks for your organization.

    Mastering the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline Panel<---OnDemand!--->


    The timeline panel in Adobe Premiere Pro is where the story comes together. Sure there's standard operations like Insert and Overwrite as well as the ability to Ripple and Roll. But once you dig in, you'll find much more. In this session you'll learn both essential operations and advanced features like replace edit, creating custom transitions, and using Adobe Dynamic Link to exchange files with Adobe After Effects and Audition. The class is taught by Richard Harrington of RHED Pixel.

    Make Your Mobile Experience Come Alive


    Join us for this live webinar and hear from experts at Adobe and SapientNitro, a leading technology services firm, on how to deliver exceptional digital marketing experiences in today's multi-screen world.

    Delivering S1000D Data with Adobe FrameMaker & Mekon Eclipse


    Battling with the steep learning curve of S1000D? Making costly mistakes with your content storage? Struggling to print?

    Let the Experts help.
    Join Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist Tom Aldous and S1000D experts Mekon for an eSeminar series which will address the challenges of creating, managing and delivering this specialised content for print, interactive PDF and IETP.

    eLearning, the Public Sector & the Age of Austerity


    The public sector is harnessing the power of eLearning technology to reduce costs and improve learning outcomes for both citizens and staff. Is this an immediate response to budget cuts or the shape of digital learning to come? Join Mike Brook of HMRC, Paul McElvaney of Learning Pool and Keith Quinn of Scottish Social Services Council to debate this important topic.

    Leveraging RoboHelp Server 9: How to enhance, manage, track and optimize your Online Help Systems and Knowledgebases


    Do you know how Adobe® RoboHelp® Server 9 software extends the managing and tracking capabilities of Adobe RoboHelp 9 software? Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) for an interactive eSeminar, where he will demonstrate how to:

    • Set up and start using RoboHelp Server 9
    • Automatically build multiple sections of a project, and then publish as a unified online information system
    • Manage user rights and security, and take advantage of simplified deployment and content configuration
    • Track and analyze data navigation patterns and repeated search requests to optimize help content and enable powerful searches based on a wide range of variables

    True Round-tripping in Action: Review and Approval Features in Adobe Technical Communication Suite


    Review and approval can be the most tedious part of the document lifecycle. Especially when dealing with multiple reviewers, the process of soliciting feedback from multiple reviewers is often tedious and time-consuming. Incorporating reviewer feedback is a manual, error-prone process.

    This process need not be so tedious. Adobe Technical Communication Suite provides amazing capabilities for streamlining the review and approval workflow. Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) and Alan Houser (Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the technical communication space) for an interactive eSeminar, where we will demonstrate:

    • Shared PDF reviews in Acrobat.com
    • Round-trip review in Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe RoboHelp
    • Adobe Captivate Reviewer Tool

    These capabilities allow multiple reviewers to work concurrently. Reviewers can see the comments of other reviewers, allowing them to avoid duplicating feedback. You can automatically import review comments into Adobe FrameMaker or RoboHelp source files.

    These features are all included in Adobe Technical Communication Suite and can serve to smooth your review and approval workflow!

    About Alan Houser

    Alan Houser is an Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the fields of XML, XML technologies, publishing workflows, and authoring and publishing tools. Alan is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, and a popular presenter at technical communication conferences. He is currently serving as Vice President of the Society for Technical Communication, 2011-2012. Read more about Alan at Group Wellesley, Inc.

    Super-charge your content: Ten ways to deliver smarter content to your global customers


    Join Acrolinx and Adobe in the first of three webinars designed to help you with tips & tricks and best practices on how to deliver better content for a global audience.  Learn which tools are necessary to create and deliver useful, usable content for your global audiences, when and where they need it most. Understand what the future holds and learn how to improve your content and information creation practices to meet challenges in content delivery.

    Tom and Jennifer will layout ten useful tips including:

    • Making content more effective with images
    • How to reduce editing and review time
    • Managing SEO keywords in content to rank better with search engines
    • How to implement a successful content strategy
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    Presenters:

    • Tom Aldous, Technical Communication Evangelist, Adobe Systems Inc.
    • Jennifer Beaupre, VP Global Marketing, Acrolinx

    Creating, Managing & Delivering S1000D Content for Print, Interactive PDF and IETP


    Battling with the steep learning curve of S1000D? Making costly mistakes with your content storage? Struggling to print?

    Let the Experts help.
    Join Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist Tom Aldous and S1000D experts Mekon for an eSeminar series which will address the challenges of creating, managing and delivering this specialised content for print, interactive PDF and IETP.

    How to Improve Your Agency’s Citizen Engagement and Web Experience


    Join GovLoop and Adobe to see firsthand how government agencies are improving the web experience of their users through better content/data management, improved presentation and the incorporation of mobile strategies.

    Attend the training session and you will learn:

  • Strategies your government peers are implementing
  • Lessons learned and next steps for increased Citizen Engagement
  • Available industry solutions

    • Breaking Down the Walls of the Physical Classroom


    In this exclusive webinar, Martyn Lewis, Principal at 3g Selling, will explore key societal and learning trends that have fundamentally changed the way training experiences must be designed and delivered. Martyn Lewis will provide a pragmatic perspective on today's numerous learning modalities and which work best for different learners.

    WEM Development Project Best Practices


    Any large development project can benefit from solid project management and some hidden best practices.  Bring your questions and horror stories as our experts outline their top 10 tips, including how to prepare for a worst-case content migration, setting up workflows, designing the UGC strategy, and more.

    Ask a DV Pro: Color Correction and Grading in Production Premium<---!OnDemand--->


    Color correction and color grading are key steps to truly finishing any project. In this eSeminar learn about the powerful tools in Production Premium that all you not to only fix problematic shots but also allow you to develop a look and feel to your projects.

    Adobe Certified Associate Certifications and Your School K-12 eseminar


    Join Lori Cullen, Web Design Teacher, Natick Public Schools as she shares her experiences taking the ACA exam and how she prepares her students for success. Hear how the students' success with the exam has made an impact at the school, district, and community level.

    Cool “New” Tools for the Classroom - PEPE 10 K-12 eSeminar


    Please join Leslie Fisher, popular technology presenter and Adobe advocate, to learn about the brand new easy-to-learn versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10. New easy-to-use automated tools give students the means to visually express what they’ve learned and observed.

    In-Person and Virtual Presentations: Master Your Approach for Each


    Congratulations! You know your subject material, but are you ready to give your presentation in the most effective manner for your setting? Join speaker Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, who will share best practices and guidelines for fine tuning your presentation to match the unique requirements of your venue.

    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.

    Let’s Explore the Branching View in Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to use the Branching panel effectively in Adobe Captivate 5.5.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending the session, you will be able to:

    • Work with the Branching panel panes.
    • Edit the links between the slides.
    • Group slides using the Branching view
    • Export the Branching view.

    Using Adobe RoboHelp 9 to Deliver Role-Based Content


    Join Adobe Evangelist, Tom Aldous and Adobe Partner, Joan Lasselle from Lasselle-Ramsay, Inc. (www.lr.com), for an interactive and engaging eSeminar, where they discuss how to leverage the amazing new capabilities of Adobe RoboHelp 9 to deliver role-based content.

    This presentation gives step-by-step information on how to use work models developed through personas to focus your help content to meet specific needs of the individual users.  You are now able to deliver user-centric, role-based help.  The presentation gives a short review of personas and then shows you how to use such new features of Adobe RoboHelp 9 as ‘content categories’ to dynamically deliver information.

    Flex 4.5 with ColdFusion


    In this session Raymond will give the audience a brief introduction to Flex 4.5 and talk about how ColdFusion can act as a backend to both Flex browser apps, AIR desktop apps, and mobile applications.

    $200 off on Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5


    Adobe Captivate customers can get $200 off when they upgrade to Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5.

    This is a limited period upgrade offer that will run from Sept 1st to Nov 30th 2011.

    Join Dr Allen Partridge, eLearning evangelist to learn more about why Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 is a must-have suite for eLearning professionals and even more for Adobe Captivate customers because of its ability to create dynamic, engaging and productive eLearning courses with ease.

    Terms and Conditions apply.

    Building PHP Applications for Today's Mobile Devices


    Learn how the open source Flex framework can enable you to build mobile PHP applications that run on iOS, Android, and Blackberry Tablet OS devices – all from a single code base.

    Creative Suite 5.5 and MS Office Integration


    Discover why organizations like yours have upgraded to Creative Suite 5. Now is the time to discover how CS5 can help your organization differentiate its brand, increase efficiencies, extend the reach of its content across multiple screens, and optimize that content for any audience. Join Adobe experts to learn how Adobe Creative Suite 5 can seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Office products. See the best ways to create an editorial workflow with your colleagues who use Word and how to keep Excel Documents linked to tables in Adobe InDesign CS5. You’ll also learn best practices for creating graphics for your work colleagues to insert into Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

    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.

    Your First FrameMaker EDD


    The FrameMaker Element Definition Document (EDD) is a critical component of the Structured FrameMaker template. The FrameMaker EDD specifies both document structure and element formatting. You can derive a FrameMaker EDD from an existing DTD or Schema, or you can create an EDD from scratch.

    Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) and Alan Houser (Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the technical communication space) for an interactive eSeminar, where we will take you through the steps to create, modify, and test a simple FrameMaker EDD. After this webinar, you will understand the structure of a FrameMaker EDD and the role of the EDD in Structured FrameMaker authoring and publishing. You will be on well your way to creating your own EDDs, and understanding even the most complex EDDs!

    About Alan Houser

    Alan Houser is an Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the fields of XML, XML technologies, publishing workflows, and authoring and publishing tools. Alan is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, and a popular presenter at technical communication conferences. He is currently serving as Vice President of the Society for Technical Communication, 2011-2012. Read more about Alan at Group Wellesley, Inc.

    Adobe Photoshop for Adobe Captivate users: Part 2


    Join RJ Jacquez, Senior eLearning Evangelist, in part 2 of getting started with Photoshop for Adobe Captivate users and lear more techniques about how to enhance the development of eLearning project using the power of Adobe Photoshop. In this eSeminar will learn important techniques on how to make selections in Photoshop and how to work more effectively with Layers and Blending modes.

    Publishing to Mobile Using Adobe RoboHelp 9


    Thinking about putting your online help and documentation on mobile devices to support readers in the field, but not sure how to go about it? Don’t know what format to use? Nervous about buying and learning expensive new software, only to find out that it wasn’t what you wanted?

    There’s an easier way! Use Adobe RoboHelp 9 (or 8) to convert your online documentation to a mobile format, specifically an eBook using an industry standard format called ePub. The resulting “book” will run on almost any eBook reader or a mobile device with ePub viewer software. The result can be read anywhere – at your desk, in a car, or at the top of a telephone pole while splicing a line. Help documentation truly where and when you need it!

    Creating eBooks with RoboHelp is quite straightforward. Where things can get tricky is in the design and control of the content, such as selecting what content to hide or show in mobile form, controlling the formatting by making full use of CSS features, and more.

    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 summarizes the types of mobile formats and how RoboHelp can create two of them – eBooks and web sites. We’ll then look at the specific features in RoboHelp that support eBook creation and some tools that let us view them.

    About Neil Perlin

    Neil Perlin is an internationally known consultant, strategist, trainer, and developer for online help and documentation.

    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.

    Fast and Easy Assessments with Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms Distributed Through Acrobat.com


    See how easy it is to create a form in Acrobat Pro X, distribute it through Acrobat.com and use Acrobat Pro’s Tracker to compile and view responses. Learn how to use PDF forms to pre-assess workshop attendees or students and then gauge their experience levels and background in advance. Participants will see an authentic example of tracking and compiling responses, including exporting the responses to a spreadsheet.

    Secrets of Persuasive Communication in the Virtual Classroom


    Given the rapid pace of business, which often requires us to change direction on the fly, how do you craft a message quickly to persuade others to act differently or believe in something? Even more challenging…how do you communicate persuasively when people cannot even see you? The purpose of this session is to show you how to achieve maximum persuasive impact with your words.

    Accelerating large-scale web development with Adobe ColdFusion and Mura CMS


    ColdFusion's rapid development times and enterprise-level features make it a great platform for developing robust, highly-scalable Web applications. In this seminar, Blue River Interactive Group will show why they chose Adobe ColdFusion for the creation of Mura CMS, and how it enables the rapid development cycles for continual improvement of Mura CMS.

    Developing your first application using ColdFusion 9 and ORM


    Learn how to build database-independent applications using object-relational mapping (ORM) based on the open source Hibernate library. Save time and manage database logic and connectivity without writing any SQL. Use the ORM Application Wizard in ColdFusion Builder to generate ColdFusion components (CFCs) for logic and connectivity without writing a single line of code.

    Accelerate Your ERP Without Replacing It


    Why should your users wait years for streamlined systems when you can cut their task time in half without changing anything on the back end?

    Rich Internet Application (RIA) are actively being deployed across the Department of Defense as a means to address the complex challenges and changes occurring as a result of the legacy ERP transition. Requiring nothing more than a standard web browser already on agency gold disks, RIA’s deliver:

    • Effective and efficient solutions for delivering engaging applications regardless of the platform, device or ERP system
    • Visually rich, user friendly applications that require minimal user training
    • Intuitive interfaces that mask the complexity of information stored across a variety of disparate legacy systems
    • Persistent, ever ready front-end applications that ease the pain of transitioning back-end ERP systems

    Attend this webinar from Adobe on September 27th and learn how RIAs can make a difference for your command.

    Visualizing Complex Enterprise Data in a Tablet World


    Tablet computers are quickly becoming the tool of choice for visualizing complex data. Combining traditional visual charting with the interactivity made possible by the multi-touch/gesture capabilities in modern tablets, data visualization now turns into true data exploration. In this session, we explore several possibilities for presenting data in a highly interactive and intuitive interface including the handling of large data sets, real-time data feeds and unstructured data.

    Deep Dive: Effective Soft Skills Training in Adobe Captivate: Part 2


    Join Dr. Allen Partridge for part 2 of 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.

    Understanding Adobe Captivate for Total Beginners: Part 4


    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.

    ColdFusion 9:  Ridiculously Easy:  Web Applications


    If you understand the basics of application development but are new to ColdFusion, this session is for you:  in this session, you'll learn how ColdFusion Builder 2 allows you to create ColdFusion 9 web applications ridiculously easily and how, in conjunction with Flash Builder 4.5, you can easily take your Rich Internet Application development to the next level.

    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.

    Making Virtual Instruction Work


    Join us for this webinar presented by industry thought leaders Bob Mosher and Conrad Gottfredson. During the webinar, Bob and Conrad will use innovative Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) technologies to teach participants VILT best practices that achieve outcomes that can far surpass traditional face-to-face training.

    Unforgettable: Making Marketing Webinars More Memorable


    Join this session to learn actionable strategies that will transform your marketing webinars so they get noticed and remembered. Come and learn about the latest research findings on what an audience finds memorable, what they act on, and what this means to the design of your business content.

    Connecting the Academy of Art Campus with Adobe Connect


    How does Academy of Art University connect their campus? They use Adobe Connect. Not only does Adobe Connect help with online classes and training, but it also helps with student and faculty reviews, campus expansion, Town Hall meetings, admissions interviews and showcasing student portfolios. Join us for a Connect session where Jason Schaeffer, Director of Online from Academy of Art University, will show you how his institution uses Adobe Connect for online courses, giving students easy access to renowned degree and certificate programs.

    Tips for Working with the Document Services Trial


    Get tips and tricks for setting up a trial of ADEP Document Services.

    ColdFusion and Mobile - Browser-Based Applications Made Easy


    Mobile development is a largely moving target. New devices and device sizes are appearing almost daily. This makes application development for mobile devices difficult. This is where mobile browsers come in to save the day. This session will focus on creating browser based apps for virtually any mobile device. This session will show you how to create a basic browser based application. Then, utilizing ColdFusion, we will enhance the features of the application.

    Bringing ColdFusion to 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. And creating a REST services that can render a .cfm page or return .JSON, .XML or .AMF data to a RIA application.

    Make Your Site Searchable with Solr


    Solr, an open source, enterprise search platform from Apache, is becoming the standard search engine for use with ColdFusion. In this session, we will discuss how to set up Solr collections, index collections and run searches against those collections and some of the differences between Solr and Verity.

    Yikes! My Online Help and Documentation Project’s Gone Off the Rails! Now What?


    Even with the best of planning, large and complex online Help and documentation projects can go off the rails. Conditional build tags may not return the results you expect. Links may break. Bulleted lists in legacy projects may suddenly seem to break when you import the projects into RoboHelp 8 or 9. And so on. What’s going on and what can you do about it?

    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 discusses what to look for when projects go bad and how to fix some major problems in two categories – technical and design. We’ll look at things like how to unfreeze ‘frozen’ projects by deleting the XPJ and CPD files, how to fix broken links, how to use the report generator to isolate different types of problems, what to look for when a project just never seems to finish loading, how to fix misbehaving bullets from pre-RoboHelp 8 projects, getting conditions under control in heavily conditionalized projects, and more as time permits. This webinar perhaps won’t fix all the problems you might be having, but it should help fix a lot of them!

    About Neil Perlin

    Neil Perlin is an internationally known consultant, strategist, trainer, and developer for online help and documentation.

    Content Strategy: Its Importance Across the Organisation


    A recent Twitter chat simultaneously highlighted the perceived chasm between content strategists who are focused on the web and largely marketing materials and others who see content strategy as being about many channels (print, web, mobile) and across many information types (technical communication, learning, digital publishing). Is it about the channel? Is it about the type of content? Is it a process? Is it a best practice? Can these diverse areas come together to ensure the delivery of a cohesive content strategy for the entire organisation, which includes Marketing, Technical Documentation, learning and more? Join this eSeminar to hear distinguished industry experts debate this topic: Colum McAndrew, Senior Technical Writer, IDBS; Lise Bissonnette Janody, Owner and Content Consultant, Dot-Connection; Clare O'Brien, Managing Director, CDA; Ann Rockley, President, The Rockley Group, and Bill Swallow, Manager of Content Solutions, LinguaLinx.

    Securing your ColdFusion Applications


    In this session you will learn about the various threats that all web applications face, and how to defend your ColdFusion applications from these threats. Once aware of these threats and how to deal with them you can build applications that keep you and your clients much more secure.

    Accessing ColdFusion Services From Flex Applications


    ColdFusion offers an impressive range of tags and functions designed to enhance the development of applications and improve workflow. Since ColdFusion 9 we have been able to share some of these features with other languages and developers by using the powerful ColdFusion as a Service tools. This session by Matt Gifford (aka coldfumonkeh) will discuss and showcase the CFaaS features and show real-world examples of implementing them into a Flex/AIR application. Harness the power of ColdFusion without having to write any ColdFusion code.

    Become ColdFusion Empowered in Under an Hour


    Attend this session to learn the basics of ColdFusion and how to apply CF concepts to web applications. You will need no ColdFusion experience to attend this session. We will build an application and show how to use ColdFusion variables, learn about ColdFusion data types, and see how to apply conditional logic with ColdFusion. You will also learn how CF custom tags allow for reusable UI components, watch the ColdFusion application framework in action which allows you handle key events, populate and persist a web form using ORM (Hibernate) and create a ColdFusion component which will enable a master/detail page.

    Speed Up Your Apps with Caching in ColdFusion


    This session will walk you through the basics of Caching including the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of Caching. The session will then focus how caching in ColdFusion will affect the performance of your apps including the latest functionality available for Caching in ColdFusion 9.

    CF Developer Week - Developing Your First Application Using ColdFusion 9 and ORM


    We've all heard the buzz about CF9's ORM integration, but exactly what is it, and how can I 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.

    CF Developer Week - Expand Functionality with ColdFusion Builder Extensions


    With the introduction of ColdFusion builder, more control of the IDE is being given to the developers. No longer are we tied down to pre packaged functionality but with the use of ColdFusion Builder Extensions we can now expand our IDE to do what we need it to do. In this session we will review everything you need to know about extensions and will go through the process of creating and packaging one. By the end of the session you will no longer be grumbling about the lack of functionality you have access to, instead you will be adding everything you need.

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


    ColdFusion Builder is becoming the IDE of choice for ColdFusion development. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE and it extends the capabilities of the Eclipse platform. It comes packed with several features such as syntax highlighting, code assist, customizable keyboard shortcuts, extensions and many more. This session would focus on how one can get started with using ColdFusion Builder and also on few advanced features that makes ColdFusion application development fast and easier.

    Adobe eLearning Master Class: Cathy Moore chats with Allen Partridge on Saving the World from Boring eLearning


    Award-winning instructional designer, Cathy Moore will sit down with Adobe eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge on Tuesday, September 7th at 8AM US Pacific (11 AM US Eastern, 4PM London) for an Internet broadcast discussion on Creating Effective & Engaging eLearning. Cathy is an extraordinary force in the eLearning community who's dedicated to saving the world from boring eLearning. She's the creator Action Mapping, a visual system for designing lively instructional materials that support business strategy. Cathy designs eLearning for Fortune Global 500 organizations, helps clients improve their own design skills, and presents at international conferences.

    Hands-on: Working with Project Templates and Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to use project templates and master slides to give a consistent look and feel to your projects and templatize the slides you frequently use in Adobe Captivate 5.5 courses.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending the session, you will be able to:

    • View master slide
    • Add a master slide
    • Add objects to master slides
    • Edit master slides
    • Reuse master slides
    • Create project templates
    • Create projects from project templates
    • Add master slide in project template
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    Using Personas to develop Role based Content


    Technology makes content accessible, but it doesn’t always tell you what individual users need to know to do their job proficiently. By understanding better how users work and how they use information, you can develop content that is role- and task-based to target the individual needs of the users. They learn only what they need to know to do their job.

    Join Adobe Evangelist, Tom Aldous and Adobe Partner, Joan Lasselle from Lasselle-Ramsay, Inc. (www.lr.com), for an interactive and engaging eSeminar. This presentation gives a step-by-step approach to developing in-depth models of how your users work and how they use/search for/consume information. Drawing on techniques from qualitative research, software development, and learning – this approach to developing a complete understanding of users’ work model can be directly linked to your help content.

    The session will provide processes, tools, and examples of:

    • Interview techniques
    • Scenarios and task analysis
    • User stories and use cases
    • Requirements matrix

    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

    CF Developer Week - Understanding and Using the ColdFusion Server Monitor


    If you run ColdFusion 8 or 9 Enterprise, or the free Developer edition, you have access to a powerful tool, the Server Monitor, which can help find and resolve problems in ways never available before. Still, some have come to regard the Monitor as sometimes itself a cause of problems (which is often not the case at all). When can you use it? What features should you be careful about? How does it help you when your server is unresponsive, or after it crashes? What happens when you close the monitor? How has it changed in ColdFusion 9 Update 1? In this whirlwind tour of the Server Monitor, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will share his experience of helping people use it and similar CF monitoring tools every day.

    Building Platform and RIA Composite Applications


    This session includes the following: Overview of Composite Application Framework; Overview of ADEP tooling for Flash Builder 4.5; Creation of a Flex project for ADEP-Experience Services; Creation of a Composite Application within the ADEP project; Exploration and implementation of inter-tile communicaton and persistence; Creation of a Composite Application Framework that uses Data Services; Testing, debugging and deploying a Composite Application

    CF 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 Developer Week - Improve Your ColdFusion Code 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 philosophy and dive into getting setup and writing and running unit tests. We will walk through installing the MXUnit framework and Eclipse plug-in, and then quickly start writing and running unit tests for your ColdFusion code. You will learn the basics of MXUnit and see a number of useful unit testing examples.

    Collect Data Quickly and Easily by Creating Fillable PDF Forms


    Learn the basics of forms creation, best practices, and tips & tricks so that you can streamline data collection in your organization. Convert paper and Word documents to electronic forms. Ensure clean data by adding validation, formatting and required fields. Add calculations to forms. Enable form-fill for free Reader users.

    Intro to Solr


    This session will help you learn how ColdFusion's built-in Solr support makes it easy to add powerful, intelligent search to your web sites. No previous experience required but familiarity with ColdFusion and databases is recommended.

    CF Developer Week - Introduction to ColdFusion Components (CFCs)


    In this session Raymond Camden will discuss the basics of ColdFusion Components (CFCs). He will discuss the basic syntax as well as provide plenty of examples on how to use them. CFCs are not just for the experts!

    CF Developer Week - Working with PDFs Made Easy with ColdFusion


    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 will show 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 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, and why so many ColdFusion developers are passionate about this tool.

    Tips for Setting Up an ADEP Trial


    The best way to see the ground-breaking improvements in the new ADEP product is to try it for yourself. Join us for tips and tricks in setting up a trial.

    Understanding Adobe Captivate for Total Beginners: Part 3


    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.

    Create Winning Digital Experiences with Integrated Content Management and Actionable Analytics


    Join Adobe Systems for this exclusive on-demand webinar to learn how a combination of content management and actionable analytics can enable a true creative optimization cycle to convert website visitors to customers.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 7: Save As XML, Now What?


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the seventh 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 seventh eSeminar of the series –Now that we have converted your content to DITA XML from Unstructured, what can we do with it? In this eSeminar Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will demonstrate to you how Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe Technical Communication Suite are the lowest cost of ownership solutions for your DITA XML workflow.

    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

    Unifed Communications and VTC for Government Agencies


    Integrate with any audio conferencing system Bridging the gap between VoIP and the telephone Integrate with Video Conferencing Start meetings from Microsoft Communicator Integrate with Single Sign on systems Bring external XMPP chat into your meeting

    Partnering for success when it comes to enterprise licensing—a CIO perspective


    Enterprise licensing agreements are often seen as a competition between vendor and customer, yet both parties have similar goals. Join James Haggard, Deputy Chief Information Officer, City University of New York, as he discusses how he partnered with Adobe to provide comprehensive and cost-effective access to the ultimate digital communications portfolio for faculty, staff, and students. James will discuss the importance of partnerships when it comes choosing an enterprise licensing vendor that best suits your needs.

    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.

    Hands-on: Enhancing Adobe Captivate Content with Audio


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a hands-on session on using audio in Adobe Captivate. They will take you through different options to add, edit, and record audio to either slides or to the entire project. They will also show you how to add Text to Speech voices.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending this session, you will be able to:

    • Add audio to slides
    • Distribute audio across slides
    • Edit slide/slides audio
    • Add Text to speech voices

    Choosing between Structured and Unstructured FrameMaker


    You can use Adobe FrameMaker in either of two modes: Unstructured or Structured. Both modes provide rich capabilities for technical communicators. Both provide template-based authoring and publishing. But how do they differ? What are the benefits of each mode? And which should you choose based on your documentation objectives?

    Unstructured FrameMaker provides automated formatting through paragraph and character formats. Structured FrameMaker supports elements, attributes, hierarchical document structures, and what Adobe calls ‘guided editing’. If you need to work with XML, you will almost certainly want to use FrameMaker in the Structured mode.

    Join Tom Aldous (Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist) and Alan Houser (Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the technical communication space) for an interactive eSeminar, where we will consider the strengths of Unstructured and Structured FrameMaker. We will help you to decide which is more appropriate for your particular business and customer requirements.

    About Alan Houser

    Alan Houser is an Adobe Partner and a distinguished consultant and trainer in the fields of XML, XML technologies, publishing workflows, and authoring and publishing tools. Alan is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, and a popular presenter at technical communication conferences. He is currently serving as Vice President of the Society for Technical Communication, 2011-2012. Read more about Alan at Group Wellesley, Inc.

    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.

    Murdoch University Gains Deeper Insight into Online Presence


    Learn how Murdoch University improves its efficiency and responsiveness by having a single, integrated measurement platform for optimization, natural and paid search, campaign activity, testing, targeting, and e-mail. Murdoch University selected the Adobe Online Marketing Suite as a fully integrated marketing solution for its online optimization efforts.

    Transform Print Publications for Tablet Devices


    Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a complete solution that lets enterprise publishers create, distribute, monetize, and optimize publications for tablet devices. In this webinar you’ll learn how to . . .



    • Deliver engaging, company-branded reading experiences on an array of mobile devices — including Apple iPad, Android™, and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.
    • Efficiently author publications and documents using familiar Adobe Creative Suite® 5.5 tools.
    • Provide free or paid applications through app marketplaces
    • Understand customer usage patterns and optimize advertising with robust analytics based on the Adobe Online Marketing Suite, powered by Omniture®.

    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.

    Working with Documents made easy in ColdFusion 9


    Learn how to easily generate office documents for reporting, decision making, and presentations. Read, create, and update spreadsheets using the new CFSPREADSHEET tag. Programmatically generate PDF files from Microsoft PowerPoint and Word files. Dynamically produce presentations in HTML or SWF from PowerPoint presentations directly on the server.

    S1000D Publishing with Adobe FrameMaker 10


    Adobe FrameMaker 10 provides top quality S1000D compliance. Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, and Ian Proudfoot, an Adobe Partner, for an interactive eSeminar where they explain why S1000D is now an unavoidable fact of life for many in the Aerospace and Defence sectors.

    S1000D formalises many of the processes that have always been a part of the technical documentation lifecycle. Ian introduces each of the major building blocks of S1000D and demonstrates how FrameMaker 10 provides its innovative support.

    Ian Proudfoot is an Adobe Community Champion,  the owner-operator of FrameMaker and XML consultancy iTP-X (www.itp-x.co.uk) and a member of the S1000D Electronic Publications Working Group. Ian has been in the aerospace technical publications business for over 30 years. He developed the first commercial S1000D publishing package in 1995.

    Hands-on: Using Objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for a hands-on session on how to add standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5. They will also discuss the best practices of using these objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5.

    What’s in it for you?
    • After attending this session, you will be able to add:
    • Text captions and rollover captions
    • Images and rollover images
    • Animations and animated text
    • Click boxes and text entry boxes
    • Buttons
    • Mouse pointers
    • Zoom areas
    • Rollover slidelets
    • Highlight boxes
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    Video Integration in Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn more on video integration in Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this session, they will show different ways to insert video in Captivate and use them as an object or slide video. They will also demonstrate how to distribute the video to multiple slides as well as how to add video to TOC.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending this session, you will be able to:

    • Insert video as an object.
    • Insert video as a slide video.
    • Edit the timing of the slide video.
    • Add video to TOC
    • Add closed captions for videos

    Leveraging the Adobe Technical Communication Suite to the maximum: Integrating eLearning with Adobe FrameMaker


    Interactive PDFs are all the rage these days.

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Product Evangelist, and Kevin Siegel, Adobe Partner and founder/president of IconLogic, Inc., for this interactive and engaging eSeminar and learn how to create highly interactive eLearning videos using Adobe Captivate. Discover the ideal setting for integrating the eLearning videos with Adobe FrameMaker. Finally, learn how to create conditions in Adobe FrameMaker, that will allow you to produce two distinct versions of a document: one for print (that would not include the eLearning videos) and one for PDF distribution (that would include the eLearning videos).

    True single-sourcing with just a few clicks of your mouse using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite!

    About Kevin Siegel, IconLogic, Inc.

    Kevin Siegel is the founder and president of IconLogic, Inc. He has written more than 100 step-by-step computer training books, including Essentials of Adobe Captivate 5, Adobe Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4, Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 2, Essentials of Macromedia Captivate, Essentials of RoboDemo 5, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 9, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 8, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7, Essentials of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, QuarkXPress 8: The Basics, Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS3.

    Producing Accessible and Usable Documentation with the Adobe Technical Communication Suite


    Producing both accessible and usable technical documentation can be a minefield. Karen Mardahl, Technical Writer at G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration in Denmark and AccessAbility SIG Manager for the Society for Technical Communication for the past 5 years, will join Tom Aldous, Evangelist for the Adobe Technical Communication Suite, for an interview where she will discuss both why and how technical documentation can be made more accessible and usable.

    Help 2.0: Understanding The Role Technical Support Content Plays In Developing Meaningful Customer Experiences


    When we started our well-intentioned move from providing users with paper-based documentation to providing them with electronic access to technical support content, we used the web as just another channel: Help 1.0. We populated websites with digital copies of printed documentation—downloadable, keyword-searchable PDF files. And, we repurposed content from printed manuals, pushing it to other digital formats (e.g., online help, CD, DVD). While these were all steps in the right direction, and at the time, the best methods for helping customers find information they need, they are no longer acceptable support solutions.

    During this Adobe eSeminar, TCS Evangelist Thomas Aldous will interview content strategist Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, about Help 2.0. You'll learn how letting go of old school, preconceived notions about technical support have helped some of the world's biggest brands create engaging customer experiences. You'll find out how leveraging the knowledge of the crowd is helping users find the right information quickly and easily, regardless of who created the content. And, perhaps most importantly, you'll discover how adopting a Help 2.0 approach helps these organizations increase sales, reduce customer frustration and build meaningful customer relationships.

    About Scott Abel

    Scott Abel, aka The Content Wrangler, is an internationally-recognized content management strategist and social networking choreographer 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.

    Web Experience Management, CQ5, and the Adobe Online Marketing Suite


    Get a technical introduction of Web Experience Management and its integration with CQ5, SiteCatalyst, Test&Target, Search&Promote, Survey and Scene 7.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 6: Structure Applications and What Is Necessary and How To Create


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the sixth 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 sixth eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will show you how to use the Structured Application Wizard to build a XML Structure Application. He will also walk you through the back-end process that is being used by Adobe FrameMaker 10 when opening and saving an XML Statement. We will finish by saving our Structured Document to DITA 1.2 XML, opening it and then editing it also.

    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.

    The Moment of Truth: Automating Customer Processes


    Today’s perpetually online, socially connected customer has a whole new set of expectations that demand technology that simply works, where they want it, when they want it. Companies can deliver great customer interactions and meet the business needs, by removing communication silos, extending the existing infrastructure and reducing the total cost of ownership while enabling the business the flexibility to meet the market needs.

    View this webcast to see examples of automating customer processes beyond the traditional boundaries of your organization to help you better address those moments of truth that will help you turn prospects into customers & customers into loyal advocates!

    Secrets to Success: Best Practices for Increasing Agency Online Performance


    Between clunky tools and a wild west approach to integrating and developing the online presence, the ability for a government agency to effectively, and completely, analyze their business and communications activities across the digital domain has remained the elusive Holy Grail. Between advances in online analytics tools, and the systematic adoption of smart, repeatable best practice techniques, government agencies are realizing the true power of an online presence. The result is a complete picture of an agency’s online presence, increased constituent satisfaction and a dramatically lower cost of service delivery.

    Attend this free webinar to understand how other agencies are measuring and improving their online services and review their best practices.

    Print Worfklows and Beyond with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard


    Join Adobe experts to learn how to leverage what you already know in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator and output to the latest digital media! Learn how to create beautifully designed eBooks, dynamic presentations, the web and interactive digital documents with the all the quality of traditional print.

    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

    eLearning Solutions for Government Agencies


    How to use Adobe Connect for training in state and local government agencies.

    Programmatic Invocation of Services and Processes


    Learn the steps to programmatically communicate with the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP). Adobe Sr. Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull will show the steps to set up the development environment, import and reference the core SDK’s, identify the services required and write Java code to invoke the services and processes. The key takeaway will be a better understanding of integrating into ADEP from other Java environments.

    Experiencing the Health Insurance Exchange: Make. Manage. Measure.


    The health insurance exchange will be a central online marketplaces for small businesses and individuals to research, compare, and enroll in health benefits and other services. In order to be successful, health insurance exchanges will need to provide applicants with consistent experiences, regardless of their eligibility determination, device of choice, or mode of communication. Conditioned by online retail interactions, today's consumers will expect a modern and intuitive online experience. Join us to learn how Adobe can help you deliver consistent customer experiences effectively engage people anywhere, anytime.

    Understanding Adobe Captivate for Total Beginners: Part 1


    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 and will gently guide you to a stronger understanding of how to use Adobe Captivate to create basic eLearning content.

    PDF Advantage: PDF Creation and Assembly on the Desktop or Server


    PDF Advantage: PDF Creation and Assembly on the Desktop or Server

    • With PDF ubiquitous in the enterprise, IT staff often needs to find creative ways to deliver PDF creation and assembly to users and the best way to integrate applications.

    • In this educational eSeminar, Adobe experts will discuss the best scenarios for using desktop tools like Adobe Acrobat or Adobe’s server-based PDF solution, Adobe® LiveCycle® PDF Generator ES2.

    Making Your Marketing Webinars More Interactive and Engaging


    Find out how to make your webinars more compelling, interesting, and enjoyable to attend by improving your presentation style and use of interactive web conferencing features.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 5: Creating your Structured Template from an Unstructured One


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the fifth 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 fifth eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will show you how to create a Structured Template from an Unstructured one. This template will be used to give the converted Structured Document the same “look and feel” as the original Unstructured one. It will also be used in the next session “Structure Applications And What Is Necessary And How To Create”.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 4: Element Definition Document (EDD) - Home Grown or a Standard


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the fourth 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 fourth eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will start by explaining what an Element Definition Document (EDD) is and where it fits in the overall XML Workflow. We will quickly move to key concepts and “how to’s”. The final product will be imported into the Structured Document that was created in the prior session.

    Hands-on: Adding Assessment to Your Courses with Adobe Captivate 5.5


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for a hands-on session on adding assessments to your eLearning courses with Adobe Captivate 5.5. Learn how to use the newly added quiz templates in Adobe Captivate 5.5 to create your assessments.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending this session, you will be able to:

    • Set quiz preferences
    • Create a quiz using the quiz templates
    • Add various types of questions
    • Edit question screens
    • Enable the quiz for reporting
    • Publish the quiz

    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.

    Amazing Image Slideshows with Adobe Captivate 5


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about creating good looking image slide shows. They will also discuss about adding audio to these image slides to make the content enjoyable.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending this session, you will be able to:

    • Create image slide show projects
    • Edit the images to fit it into the project
    • Add audio to the image slides
    • Preview and publish project

    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

    Brainstorming Actions and Interactions: Part 2


    Join Dr. Allen Partridge for part 2 of 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.

    Demystifying DITA to PDF publishing


    When you implement a DITA-based workflow, you face myriad new challenges, such as getting accustomed to topic-based writing, exploring reuse strategies, and specialization. The most difficult technical obstacle is usually setting up a PDF/print publishing workflow. 

    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and Sarah S. O'Keefe, Founder and President of Scriptorium Publishing (http://www.scriptorium.com/), for an interactive eSeminar. In this webcast, Sarah will explore the advantages and disadvantages of various PDF-generation options, including Adobe InDesign, the DITA Open Toolkit, and Adobe FrameMaker 10.

    This session is intended for individuals who are considering a DITA implementation and expect to need PDF output. Basic familiarity with DITA, XML, and related technologies is helpful but not required.

     

    Reduce Risk and Protect Documents using Adobe® Acrobat® X


    Reduce risk and protect your documents from unintended access and use—from simple password protection to digital signatures and digital rights management. Join Adobe experts for an overview and demonstration of Acrobat X security features.

    Anatomy of an Enterprise Mobile Application Built with Flex 4.5


    Explore enterprise use cases for Flex mobile applications. We will show examples that illustrate how Flex 4.5 can be used for enterprise applications.

    Creating Performant Skins and Item Renderers for Mobile Applications


    Dive deep into skinning mobile components. We will demo creating a skin that looks like a native iOS component.

    Maximizing Flex Application Performance (Mobile and Desktop)


    Learn tips and tricks to improve performance when building mobile applications.

    How to Be a Presentation God


    Join author and presentation expert, Scott Schwertly, as he explains how to deliver a presentation that will have your audience hanging on your every word.

    Building Data Driven Flex And ColdFusion Applications


    Learn the basics of building your first ColdFusion powered Flex application, and discover how the streamlined integration makes this so incredibly quick and efficient.

    Flex and BlazeDS Integration with Spring


    See how you can build and integrate a Flex application with a Java server using the Spring framework. We will cover how you can easily build a robust enterprise class Flex application.

    Building Data Driven Flex and Java Applications


    Learn the basics of building your first Flex application with a Java server side component to interact with data.

    Next Generation Application Development for the Enterprise


    Join us for a sneak preview into next generation application development capabilities with Adobe's Customer Experience Management solutions. Learn how you can make the most of all the latest advances to build better apps more rapidly and consistently across multiple channels and devices.

    Coding Productivity Features in Flash Builder 4.5


    Flash Builder 4.5 adds a wealth of new coding features that make Flex and ActionScript developers more productive than ever before. Join Paul Robertson, Adobe Community Professional, as he demonstrates his favorite coding features and shares hints and tips to get the most out of Flash Builder 4.5

    Building Mobile Applications for BlackBerry Playbook


    Learn how you can build applications for BlackBerry Playbook. We will cover how development for this platform is similar to other platforms and what the differences are.

    Creating Expressive Applications with Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst


    See how developers are playing double duty as the UI designer can utilize the designer/developer workflow with Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst to layout and skin their apps.

    Migrating from Flex 3 to Flex 4.5: Understanding Changes from Halo to Spark


    Learn how you can make the leap to building applications with Flex 4.5. We will cover the advantages of Spark architecture and how it differs from MX. We will also discuss when it makes sense to migrate an existing application to Spark.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 2: Creating A FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 1


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the second 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 second eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will explain what a FrameMaker Conversion Table is, outline the key concepts, and walk you through the steps (LIVE) to create a FrameMaker Conversion Table using the Unstructured Document from the first eSeminar in the series.

    Different Types of Slides in Adobe Captivate


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to use different types of slides in Adobe Captivate 5.

    What’s in it for you?

    After attending this session, you will be able to:

    •  Insert a new/blank slide
    • Insert a recording slide
    • Insert a PowerPoint slide
    • Insert a question slide
    • Insert an image slide
    • Delete and edit slides
    • Copy slides from other projects
    • Duplicate slides
    • Preview and publish the project

    Building ColdFusion Powered Mobile Applications


    Learn how ColdFusion and Adobe AIR are designed to work together to facilitate taking your apps with you, wherever you go, including taking data offline using Flex and AIR's integrated SQLite database.

    Multi-Density and Multi-Platform Authoring for Smart Phones and Tablets With Flex 4.5 SDK


    Learn what multi-density on devices means, why it is important and how to leverage the support available in Flex 4.5 to address the challenges.

    Architecting Flex Applications For Re-Use Across Web, Desktop and Mobile


    Explore the architectural considerations and best practices for building applications for devices and the Web. We will show how you can maximize code reuse by creating proper project structures, separating business logic from UI layer and using the design view to see the layout on different devices. You will also discover how to target different mobile and tablet screen resolutions using adaptive and dynamic layouts.

    Build Your First Mobile Application With Flex 4.5


    Learn how to build a simple mobile application running on multiple mobile platforms with Flex 4.5 from scratch. You do not need to have prior Flex experience to take advantage of this session.

    New Features in Flash Builder 4.5


    Hear the Flash Builder product manager walk through new features in Flash Builder 4.5. Specific focus of this session will be on new mobile authoring capabilities and productivity enhancements. We will also cover how Flash Builder 4.5 can be used with Flex 3 and Flex 4.

    Next Generation Application Development: Introducing the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform


    Get a demo and an in-depth look at the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP). Marcel Boucher, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, shows you the new architecture based on OSGI, JCR and Sling which can run directly in a Java virtual machine. This architecture supports the development of content-centric Rich Internet Applications with easy integration into back-end systems, makes installation and deployment easy, simplifies third party integration, and positions you to meet the web-scale needs of Customer Experience Solutions.

    Developer Week: Flex and PHP Integrated Development with Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP


    Explore the new Flex and PHP workflows included with Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP. We will use a mobile application example to walk through the content.

    Flex and PHP Integrated Development with Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP


    Explore the new Flex and PHP workflows included with Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP. We will use a mobile application example to walk through the content.

    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.

    The Experience Factor: Delivering Great Customer Experience Across Channels


    Learn how Adobe web experience management solutions helped transform the University of Oklahoma (OU) online experience at every stage of interaction of the student lifecycle, from prospect to enrollee to alum by enabling OU to:

  • Create a seamless online student experience with advanced, high-impact features
  • Enhance communications with students and alumni with social media
  • Enable more than 200 active authors to update content in a timely fashion

    • What’s new in Flex 4.5


    Hear the Flex product manager explain what is different in Flex 4.5 from Flex 3 and Flex 4. After attending this session, you will learn how to take advantage of the new capabilities in Flex 4.5.

    Introduction to Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5


    Learn the basics of Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5. In this session, we will cover the types of applications where Flex is really effective and walk through the basics of how you can deploy applications on mobile devices and desktops using a single code base.

    Introducing Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform


    In this webcast, we will introduce you the new Adobe Digital Experience Platform (ADEP) and its top 10 features.

    Introducing Customer Experience Solutions


    Introducing Adobe Customer Experience Solutions — a unified set of solutions for managing compelling multi-channel digital experiences that transforms how enterprises attract, engage, and service today's digitally immersed customer.

    Watch this on-demand webcast and hear from industry veteran Kevin Cochrane, chief experience officer at Adobe, how you can:

  • Transform digital experience at every customer interaction
  • Attract, engage and convert your visitors to buyers
  • Leverage your customers as your biggest brand advocates

    • How Penn State Uses Adobe Connect to Sustain Communities


    View this webinar, hosted by Adobe and the Chronicle of Higher Education, to hear how Pennsylvania State uses Connect to sustain communities on-campus as well as implement eLearning at their institution. This session is presented by John Harwood, Associate Vice Provost, Information Technology Service, from Pennsylvania State University.

    Pushing the Boundaries of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in Academia


    You may already be familiar with eMagazines on the iPad, but there are exciting developments in academic publishing as well. In this session, we will show you periodical and research-oriented projects initiated at Case Western Reserve and Indiana University that use Adobe DPS for publishing scholarly information to the next generation of tablet devices. Learn about the unique requirements and challenges of publishing these kinds of documents. See how to make the best use of the multimedia and interactive design. Explore how to employ the analytic features supported by the DPS platform for conveying complex information.

    Unstructured To XML Workflow Series Part 1: Analyzing Your Unstructured Document - Preprocess Steps


    Join us for an engaging and interactive eSeminar (the first 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 first eSeminar of the series – Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, will both import an MSWord document and open an Unstructured FrameMaker Document. Tom will walk you through the steps required to prepare your content before conversion. You will also be shown the common issues with some unstructured documents that need to be considered at this stage.

    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

    Tomorrow’s Digital Customer Communication Today: Improving Service Levels and Loyalty


    Each correspondence interaction with your customer is an opportunity to improve loyalty or drive additional revenue. Yet, in this age of social media and constant connectivity, customers expect rich, useful, and personalized communication. This means that companies must meet these expectations with each customer communication or risk losing customers to companies that can.

    Join Adobe and Forrester Research’s Principal Analyst, Craig Le Clair to explore the trends, opportunities, and techniques for enabling tomorrow’s digital customer communications capabilities today.

    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

     

    Essentials of Topic-Based Authoring


    Topic-based authoring is a technique for writing content as discrete, stand-alone pieces (“topics”) that can be combined and reused in different ways. Using a topic-based approach can improve consistency and usability of information, and can make it easier to reuse topics in different contexts. It can also simplify maintenance, speed up the review process, and facilitate shared authoring. You don't have to use DITA or any other structured technology to get benefits from using a topic-based approach.

    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 the essentials of topic-based authoring, and learn how to get started with developing a topic-based information model that fits your content.

    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.

     

    Dynamic User-Centric Content in Adobe RoboHelp 9 and Powerful Analytics in Adobe RoboHelp Server 9


    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, for an interactive and engaging eSeminar where he will be showing you how to build an Adobe AIR Application that leverages the conditional text in Adobe FrameMaker 10 to create Dynamic User-Centric Content (DUCC) output filtering in Adobe RoboHelp 9. Tom will also walk you through the powerful analytical capabilities of Adobe RoboHelp Server 9.

    That Adobe Technical Communications Suite 3 is great “value for money” is common knowledge. But do you know how the seamless integration between the best-in-class components in the suite (especially Adobe FrameMaker 10, Adobe RoboHelp 9 and Adobe Acrobat X Pro) can streamline your technical communication workflows and boost productivity?


    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, for an interactive eSeminar, where Tom will demonstrate how to leverage your existing content using Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3 to produce gorgeous outputs, including EPUB files for your mobile devices (smartphones, eBook readers, tablets). For those of you authoring DITA XML content, see how you can publish directly from FrameMaker and create all the RoboHelp content for various applications, with a couple of clicks of a mouse.

    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’.

    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.

    Optimize Your Agency’s Multi-Channel Content


    Join Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government for a live, interactive webinar that will discuss and demonstrate how to deliver what citizens want, when they want it, to the channel of their choice, while lowering the cost of providing services.

    7 Creative Techniques for Designing and Delivering Results-Producing Webinars


    Join training and development specialist, Becky Pluth, to discover or rediscover techniques that will make the driest material come to life on the screen and over the phone.

    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.

    Adobe FrameMaker 10 and ExtendScript Automation


    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist and Rick Quatro, a leading FrameMaker scripting expert with Carmen Publishing Inc., for an interactive and engaging eSeminar where they show how to automate your Adobe FrameMaker workflows with FrameMaker 10's built-in ExtendScript scripting environment. Learn to use ExtendScript to automate repetitive, error-prone tasks, and to enhance FrameMaker's functionality. See real-world, production scripts in action, and get a good look at the ExtendScript language and scripting interface.

    Brainstorming Actions and Interactions


    Join Dr. Allen Partridge on his search for awesome interactions and activities for eLearning. How do you design great interactions that really promote knowledge transfer? How do you easily implement those interactions and activities? How do you know what kind of interactions are most likely to both appeal to the learners and to create a winning result in terms of learner benefits and benefits to the company or institution? Dr. Partridge will trace the story of his investigation thus far, he’ll show you so cool examples, look to members of the community for advice and strategies, and help us all focus a little on snagging this goal in our own projects.

    Using Object Styles and Effects in Adobe Captivate 5


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to add some style to the eLearning content by using object styles and object effects in Adobe Captivate 5 projects. They will discuss how to create, apply, edit, export, import and delete object styles. They will also show you how to apply various effects to objects like rotation, emphasis, filters and motion path.

    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.

     

    Effectively using Acrobat.com with Adobe Captivate 5 for Tracking Learners’ Quiz Results


    Join RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist for Adobe eLearning, for an in-depth view of how to effectively use the free services of Acrobat.com for Reporting and Tracking Quiz results from your learners at no additional cost to you or to your Learners. In this session, you will learn how Adobe Captivate 5 includes everything you need to develop, deploy and analyze your Quiz results without needing a Learning Management System.

    Advantages of Adobe RoboHelp 9 for Today’s Policy and Procedure Documentation


    Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and experts from Lightext (http://www.lightext.com/), a leading provider of training and documentation services for the financial services industry, for an engaging and interactive eSeminar to learn how the ‘hot’ new features in Adobe RoboHelp 9 can be used to facilitate approval of procedures,  filter content for specific users, enhance the usability of your policy and procedure library and more!  Together with experts from Lightext and Adobe, find out how the new functionality in Adobe RoboHelp 9 can provide maximum benefit to your end-users in the policy and procedure world.

    Working with Project Templates and Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5


    Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to use project templates and master slides to give a consistent look and feel to your projects and templatize the slides you frequently use in Adobe Captivate 5 courses.

    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.

    Benefits of Structured Authoring


    Join Adobe Product Evangelist, Tom Aldous, and Lynne A. Price, Text Structure Consulting, Inc., for an interactive and engaging eSeminar on the productivity benefits of structured authoring. This session explains in detail the differences in the document models underlying structured and unstructured FrameMaker. Our experts discuss the advantages of structured documents independently of DITA and XML, and then relate those standards to the structured model.

    Adding Assessment to Your Courses with Adobe Captivate 5


    Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about creating quizzes, adding various types of questions, editing question screens, enabling the quiz for reporting and publishing the quiz.

    Rapid Animation Generation for Avatar Personalization in Adobe Captivate 5 Projects


    Avatars and Personal Learning Agents are all the rage in eLearning today, but it can be costly and confusing to create them. In this 1 hour session Dr. Allen Partridge will show you how to use free animation tools to rapidly create, record, and integrate animated Avatars and Personal Learning Agents into your Adobe Captivate 5 projects.

    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.

    What’s New In Dita 1.2? Why Would An Enterprise Want To Implement It?


    Attend this free eSeminar featuring Tom Aldous, Adobe Product Evangelist, and Noz Urbina, Congility 2011 Conference Chair & DITA Expert, for this engaging and interactive eSeminar, as they walk you through DITA 1.2, which includes significantly more features than DITA 1.1.

    Global enterprises, both large and small, want to know more about these new features and why they are critical to content structure success.  

    Tom and Noz will give a high-level view of the information deployment challenges currently facing enterprises. Although DITA 1.1 helped revolutionize the world of documentation, we will talk about its deficiencies and how DITA 1.2 effectively fills these gaps.

    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.

    Migrating from a Presenter Workflow to an Adobe Captivate 5 Workflow; The how and why.


    Working with Adobe Presenter from within PowerPoint was a natural progression a few years ago. Now many eLearning developers are desperate for more than Presenter can offer. Learn how to accomplish all the same tasks in less time and with greater potential using Adobe Captivate 5 alone.

    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

    Creating College and Career Readiness


    Learn how Dunbar High School in Florida has created a unique technology education program that uses Adobe Creative Suite software and certification to enhance career preparation and academic performance. Find out how industry certification in this program redefined the high school experience for its stakeholders and has transformed the learning community.

    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.

    Adobe RoboHelp as the tool of choice for Policy & Procedure Documentation


    Learn how Adobe RoboHelp has become the tool of choice for Policy & Procedure documentation in most domains, including Financial Services. Together with experts from Lightext and Adobe, find out how to overcome barriers such as Project Management, Search & Retrieval, Creating Consistency, Content Reuse etc.

    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.

    Moving from Physical to Virtual Classrooms: Tips & Tricks for Setting Up & Delivering Courses


    Learn tips & tricks for keeping students interested by making the virtual classroom experience fun and collaborative.

    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.
     

    Debate the Topic eSeminar Series: How Can Technical Communicators use Social Media to Connect with Customers


    Social Media has evolved to the point where Technical Communicators can now consider incorporating it into an overall information platform which integrates content from various sources and delivers it through various channels.

    Join Gordon McLean, Technical Information Manager and blogger, and RJ Jacquez, for a discussion of how Technical Communicators can use Social Media to connect with their organisations’ customers, raising their own profile and establishing critical relationships.

    Debate the Topic eSeminar Series: How can Social Media create a Super-Role for Technical Communicators


    A recent survey conducted on behalf of Tech Guys showed that 7 out of 10 respondents did not get the full use of their technical devices because the language used in the instruction manual is too difficult to understand. For a Technical Communicator, this is a strong wake-up-call.

    Join Noz Urbina and David Farbey for a discussion on how Social Media can breach the divide between customer and information, creating a new super—role for Technical Communicators.

    The Impact and Trends of Rapid eLearnling in Content Development


    Have you heard the term “Rapid eLearning” but weren’t too sure what it meant? Here’s your chance to find out about this learning content creation approach and hear how it is saving companies money and allowing them to produce more content. Join Claire Schooley, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research as she demystifies Rapid eLearning and discusses its use in corporate learning.Claire will talk about:

  • The meaning of Rapid eLearning in a learning and development context
  • The Adobe commissioned Rapid eLearning study data results from 103 users in the US
  • The current use, impact, and long-term benefits of Rapid eLearning tools for corporations
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  • The future state for corporate content development with Rapid eLearning.

    • On Scorm, Captivate, Assessment & Beyond


    A look at the assessment space - with a particular eye to the future. Discussion of Moodle (Scorm compatible) LMS integration as well as an overview / discussion about alternative assessment models used to complement formal assessment.

    Using Captivate and Moodle together


    A step by step introduction to the basic concepts and procedures used to create and deploy Captivate soft skills and simulation training and eLearning content on a Moodle LMS.

    Using the right tool in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 for the Job


    The Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 software includes 6 full-featured and tightly integrated applications, and the key to getting the most out of the Suite is to use the right tool for the job.

    In this eSeminar, we will cover each application and provide best practices and examples for when to use each application, in order to single-source and multi-channel publish truly interactive Technical Documentation.

    Benefits of Adobe FrameMaker for MS Word Users


    Join us for this free seminar on the benefits of Adobe FrameMaker for MS Word users, and learn about the functionality and reasons why Documentation and Training authoring teams continue to migrate to Adobe.

    Acrobat 9 Creating and Distributing Forms


    This educational eSeminar will cover the PDF forms creation tools in Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Standard (also available in Pro and Pro Extended) and much more!

    PDF-based Documentation Reviews for Technical Communicators


    Learn how Technical Communicators and Reviewers can leverage the ubiquity of the free Adobe PDF Reader for conducting PDF-based reviews of Technical Documentation. One of the most exciting and innovative new features in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 is the ability to initiate PDF-based Reviews from Adobe FrameMaker, and with the help and integration of Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and the free services of the Acrobat.com Cloud, the Suite now provides and end-to-end solution for initiating, distributing, reviewing and approving comments, which can be imported back into the source FrameMaker documents.

    Is it really time for mobile eLearning?


    mLearning; Beyond the Hype. A discussion of deeper issues relative to mobile delivery and eLearning. What is the critical tipping point? An examination of the mobile environment demographics and fiscal motives. A quest to find and share information about successful, and unsuccessful attempts at eLearning with mobile delivery.

    How do I make eLearning mobile?


    A step by step walk through of producing mobile eLearning content with Captivate and the eLearning Suite.

    Advanced: 21st Century Skills and Adobe eLearning Suite


    There is no end of buzz today about Digital Literacy, Interactive Communications Technologies, and 21st Century Skill sets for students. Isn’t it time that we start identifying practical methods and tools to facilitate knowledge and skill development in this arena? And who better than Adobe to provide the tools that guide students to mastery in visualization, creative problem solving, interactive communications and media literacy? Dr. Allen Partridge frames these questions against the newly released Adobe eLearning Suite and explains how this powerful combination of tools has the potential to transform schools and students throughout the coming years.

    Introduction-Advanced 21st. Century Skills and Adobe eLearning Suite


    This is the first few minutes (Introduction) of the Advanced session on 21st. Century eLearning.

    There is no end of buzz today about Digital Literacy, Interactive Communications Technologies, and 21st Century Skill sets for students. Isn’t it time that we start identifying practical methods and tools to facilitate knowledge and skill development in this arena? And who better than Adobe to provide the tools that guide students to mastery in visualization, creative problem solving, interactive communications and media literacy? Dr. Allen Partridge frames these questions against the newly released Adobe eLearning Suite and explains how this powerful combination of tools has the potential to transform schools and students throughout the coming years.

    Basics: 21st Century Skills & Adobe eLearning Suite


    Need a reliable educational solution that enables knowledge transfer, training, or general education in your institution? Why not empower everyone to rapidly document, explain, and develop rich, interactive, pedagogically sound educational resources? Dr. Allen Partridge hosts an entry level overview of Adobe’s E-Learning Development and Management Tools. Focus is on the Adobe eLearning Suite as a powerful productivity aid for all your education needs.

    Adobe AIR 101 for Technical Communicators


    In this free Seminar, you will learn the ABCs of Adobe AIR and the reasons why AIR is the ultimate platform for Technical Documentation. We will also go over the reasons why leading companies like the New York Times, eBay and TweetDeck are building powerful applications on Adobe AIR. And finally how Adobe is using AIR to deliver cutting edge Web 2.0 Community Help for our Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 customers.

    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.

    Benefits of Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users


    The Adobe eLearning Suite was built around Adobe Captivate, as a way of providing eLearning Professionals with highly specialized rich-media editing tools for developing truly rich, interactive and engaging learning experiences. In this onDemand event, specifically designed for Adobe Captivate users, we explore the long list of benefits the Adobe eLearning Suite brings to your existing Adobe Captivate workflows, including: * Using Adobe Soundbooth for recording and editing pristine audio for inclusion in Adobe Captivate projects * Leveraging the power of Adobe Flash for supplementing Adobe Captivate projects with animations, as well as for creating and customizing existing Flash Widgets * Designing in Adobe Photoshop for including high-impact layered images in Adobe Captivate projects * Using the Emulator in Device Central for testing mobile learning projects developed in Adobe Captivate * Supplementing informational-based eLearning in Adobe Presenter with Adobe Captivate content * Expand your eLearning delivery options using Adobe Acrobat and Dreamweaver

    Adding a Text Panel in Adobe Captivate using Photoshop


    In this short how-to video, quickly learn how Adobe Captivate and Photoshop can be used together and this also session includes an example of using one of Photoshop's included actions to quickly add a Text Panel in a Captivate project.

    Creating a hybrid PDF from Captivate Simulations


    In this short tutorial, learn how you can quickly create a hybrid PDF document from a Captivate Simulation, which includes both a procedural list of steps, and the Captivate Simulation in Adobe Flash format.

    Replacing Text with Variables in Captivate 4


    Watch this short advanced tutorial for quick tips on how you can replace frequently used text with variables while creating your eLearning courses using Adobe Captivate 4.

    Editing Full Motion using Adobe Captivate 4 FMREditor


    Watch this short tutorial to quickly learn how you can perform basic editing to full motion recording slides within Adobe Captivate 4.

    Advanced Captivate 4 Tutorial: Variables and RDLs


    In this short advanced tutorial, learn how you can use the variables and customize automatic text captions and personlize your learning experience with Adobe Captivate 4.

    Adobe Captivate 4 in Spanish for Latin America


    Join us for this free eSeminar, specifically designed for Spanish users of Adobe Captivate 4, where you will acquire the knowledge you need for getting started using Adobe Captivate 4. Please be noted that this session is in Spanish.

    Using Adobe RoboHelp 8 for Knowledge base solutions and Policies and Procedures


    In this free eSeminar, we will explore how to easily leverage your existing MS Word content for creating powerful online information systems, that are searchable and easily accessed by anyone using a simply web browser. We will also discuss how the new cross-platform Adobe AIR technology can be used as the ultimate delivery system for knowledge base solutions and Policies and Procedures.

    Adobe eLearning Suite: Creating Engaging eLearning – the Adobe way


    In this free eSeminar, we will explore how you can leverage each of the 9 major Adobe applications in the eLearning Suite for rapid eLearning, courseware authoring, simulations, and media editing.

    Maximizing your Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 investment


    In this free eSeminar, we will explore all the applications in the Technial Communication Suite and how each application contributes toward taking your documentation to the next level by building interactive documents that are aligned with today’s Web 2.0 user experiences. We will also talk about how the innovations in version 2 of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite can help you increase your value to your employer.

    Migrating to and Benefiting from Structured Authoring using Adobe FrameMaker 9


    In this free eSeminar, we will explore the differences between unstructured and structured documents, and the overall process of using conversion tables in Adobe FrameMaker 9 for wrapping unstructured styles into structured elements, as well as basic DITA concepts in FrameMaker.

    Adobe Captivate 4 for New Users


    Join us for this free On-demand eSeminar, specifically designed for new users of Adobe Captivate 4, as well as trial users, where you will acquire the knowledge you need for getting started using Adobe Captivate 4. In this 90 minute interactive session, you will learn about the different types of eLearning projects you can create in the product, including software simulations, scenario-based training, quizzes and others.

    Building Animations in Flash CS4 for Adobe Captivate 4 Learning Projects


    In this short recording, go over the fundamentals of how to successfully develop animations in Adobe Flash CS4 for inclusion in Captivate 4 projects, and how to make sure they are fully compatible with you projects, including Actionscript version, Frame Per Second (FPS) and Project Size. In addition, the recording provides tips and best practices for how to use a Photoshop file as a background for the animation, and finally how to make sure you only publish the animation you need as a SWF.

    Getting Started with Adobe Director 11.5


    Allen Partridge, Adobe Director evangelist, discusses the exciting new features in the latest release of Adobe Director 11.5.

    Linking FM9 Books in RH8 via Tech Comm Suite - Part 2 of 2


    Learn how you can effectively integrate and link FrameMaker 9 Books in RoboHelp 8 via Technical Communication Suite 2. This is the 2nd part of the series of 2 sessions.

    Linking FM9 Books in RH8 via Tech Comm Suite 2 - Part 1 of 2


    Learn how you can effectively integrate and link FrameMaker 9 Books in RoboHelp 8 via Technical Communication Suite 2. This is the 1st part of the series of 2 sessions.

    Building Web 2.0 Help using Adobe AIR and RoboHelp 8


    Attend this session to know how you can build Web 2.0 Help using Adobe AIR and Adobe RoboHelp 8.

    Getting Started with the new FrameMaker 9 User Interface


    Attend this session to thoroughly understand the new FramMaker 9 User Interface.

    Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 4 New Features


    A comprehensive tour of the Captivate 4 new features and how you can benefit from them.

    What's New in Adobe Captivate 4


    Learn how you can leverage the new exciting features in Captivate 4

    Introducing the Adobe eLearning Suite


    Attend this session to understand the exciting features in the all new eLearning Suite

    Technical Communications: Bring your Style Guide to Life and Create High-Quality Content from within Adobe FrameMaker 9


    Discover how you can write high-quality, consistent content from within your Adobe FrameMaker environment with the help of the SDL AuthorAssistant client. Please note that you will be re-directed to our partner's site for registration before you attend this session.

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