April 1-April 3, 2014 from 9AM to 5PM (CT)
OIT Building, Room 103

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Adobe® PhoneGap™ , the popular open source mobile app development framework, released PhoneGap 3.0 today at the 3rd annual PhoneGap Day in Portland, Oregon. PhoneGap allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. With PhoneGap, you can re-use your existing web developer skills and use the PhoneGap API to gain access to native features that aren’t accessible in mobile browsers.

Did you miss out on going to MAX this year? Well, now you're in luck because our friends at Adobe have posted most of the sessions online for you to view at you leisure and for free! ;-)

Visit: http://max.adobe.com/sessions/online.html

Mark Bransby is arranging to have a conference room (112 Duncan Hall) where people can get together to watch they keynote presentations live and discuss them. If you are interested in joining this group, he asks that you RSVP so they will know how many people to expect. Thanks. 

If you would prefer to watch the keynotes on your own, visit the Adobe site to sign up. 

Keynote Schedule:
Monday, May 6, 11:30-1:30 p.m. CDT
A Creative Evolution
The process of where and how we create is dramatically changing thanks to major advancements in technology, and there has never been a more exciting time. Join Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Adobe's SVP and GM of Digital Media David Wadhwani, and a collection of Adobe visionaries across digital photography, web design, illustration, video and more as we unveil brand new creative workflows and capabilities. We'll take a look at the present and set our sights on the endless possibilities in our creative future.
Tuesday, May 7, 12-1:30 p.m. CDT
Community Inspires Creativity
Join David Wadhwani, Adobe's SVP and GM of Digital Media, as he welcomes four incredibly creative minds to explore how they foster creativity and approach their work. You will hear from Rob Legato, an Oscar winning visual effects supervisor; Paula Scher, an iconic graphic designer and illustrator; Erik Johansson, an up and coming photographer and retouch artist; and Phil Hansen, a constraint-based artist that believes limitations drive creativity. We think you'll leave with more than a few new ideas to incorporate in your next creative project.

Join us for our next meeting Thursday morning, April, 18th @ 10:00AM, in Duncan Hall Conference Room. See you there!

The Adobe MAX Conference in LA is rapidly approaching! If you are going, or would like to, please come to the meeting and we can fill you in on the details. There is a educational discounted price, and an awesome student discount price, plus, for every 2 people that register we can register another person for free. Although there would still be lodging and transportation cost for that person. Also, as if the training, experience, and fun of the conference were not enough, everyone who attends the conference gets a 1 year free subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud!

To celebrate the Faking It exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Adobe invites you to show off your own photo manipulation skills.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 9:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. CST

Location: AU OIT Building, Room #103
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AU-OIT is currently investigating the possibility of having an enterprise agreement with Adobe! To this end, representatives from Adobe will be on campus to give an overview of how Adobe works with education to help students, administration, and brand. Due to the overwhelming response from the Auburn community, they have had to split up the presentation into multiple sessions and are asking everyone to sign up for the session time you would like to attend. I'd highly recommend going if you can and we can talk all about it at our next AMMUG meeting, which is Thursday at 10:00AM in the Duncan Hall conference room. See you there!

Using mobile sites, apps, and emerging technologies to get ahead

The proliferation of mobile devices and tablets continues to rise. In 2011, smartphone adoption alone reached 38% in the United States and is projected to grow to 48% in 20121. Mobile has become a long-term initiative for businesses, yet marketers are still finding their way on how to define, implement, and optimize their mobile marketing strategies. Results from the Adobe 2012 Mobile Consumer Survey show that consumers are using their smartphones and tablet devices to connect with brands in a variety of ways, but there is significant room for improvement in the user experience.

There's an interesting article in InDesign Magazine about using the liquid layout in InDesign CS6. This sort of reminds me of the fluid grids in Dreamweaver CS6. I also like the way they created the navigation in this PDF file. Pretty cool.

http://www.creativepro.com/files/downloads/20120716-Liquid_Layout_Excerpt.pdf