United States of AmericaThe Glenn Group Offices (Reno)
Event DetailsOur May 7th InDesigh User Group meeting, hosted once again by The Glenn Group, proved to be one of our best. Jennifer Norland and Mile Wilhelm from The Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) inspired us with some powerful interactive communication examples.
Jennifer led off with some practical and engaging PDF documents, which displayed both her gifts as a graphic artist and her commitment to the goals of the organization. Her understanding of the distribution options for PDF forms was apparent while she detailed her layout process.
Mike followed up with an informative explanation of how CASAT is describing their services and measuring the response to their efforts using PDF forms and the data-collection options available at Acrobat.com. He displayed his creative flair by showing how he incorporated a Flash experience into a database e-mail campaign.
After the break, chairperson Jim Cooper from Apsiva showed us how we can enhance our conventional layouts with interactive PDF features. As promised in the invitation, he stepped us through some basic button options and behaviors, with the help of Zak, his little photogenic friend.
Overall, Jim showed how easily we can start creating our own "signature" documents, while Mike and Jennifer demonstrated how they are gaining a competitive edge by coupling their creativity with some unique Reno User Group knowledge exchange.
We concluded with another spirited raffle, with all proceeds again devoted to the continuing work of the Bring Bri Justice foundation.
ABOUT CASAT (http://casat.unr.edu):
The Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies provides training, technical assistance, evaluation, research, and other services to support prevention, treatment and recovery from alcohol and drug addictions. CASAT is part of the Division of Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno and houses two major substance abuse disorder national programs: (MWATTC) and (WCAPT).
ABOUT THE GLENN GROUP (www.theglenngroup.com):
Nevada’s third largest marketing communications firm was recently recognized as one of the "Best Green Buildings" in the Reno News & Review readers poll, and is working to achieve a LEED silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
ABOUT APSIVA (www.apsiva.com): Apsiva develops user-friendly, web-based content repositories that can be shared by marketing, editorial and graphic departments. Apsiva’s PRINTsource, WEBsource and CDsource products deliver unprecedented publishing efficiency for traditional formats, along with PDF, OnDemand and Mobile media.
THANKS ...
... to Adobe for their continued support of the User Group, along with our gracious cousin groups in Indianapolis and Puerto Rico. Special thanks to Apsiva, who have through the years devoted countless hours to the success of our meetings.
