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United States of America

Washington, D.C. InDesign User Group

Adobe and the Mobile Design Revolution

Thu, February 9, 2012, 6:00 PM

U.S. Naval Heritage Center—Burke Theatre

701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

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Event Details

6:00 pm — Registration Opens
6:00 - 7:00 pm — Networking, Pizza, Drinks and other snacks
7:00 - 9:00 pm — Presentations
The best way to arrive is via Metro. Just get off at the aptly named Navy Memorial/Archives station. Building garage parking is available at a discount rate after 5:00 pm. The entrance is on D Street near 7th. The garage is open until 11:00 pm. Parking meter enforcement goes until 10:00 pm, so street parking is not recommended.


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Agenda
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Our meeting will begin with the usual array of pizza, fruit, cookies, soft drinks and water. Plenty to snack on while you chat with your friends and InDesign User colleagues.

Promptly at 7:00 P.M., our presentation will start in the auditorium.

Speaker: Jerry Silverman, Adobe Systems

Description: 60% of US consumers will purchase an e-reader or tablet device in the next 3 years, and 40 hours of video are published to YouTube every minute. The opportunity for publishers to reach new audiences and evolve closer relationships with their customers is unprecedented. Attend this action-packed session to learn how Adobe's latest tools can position your organization to succeed in this ever-changing environment. On the agenda for this session:

1) HTML5, CSS3 and Adobe's Commitment to Web Standards
2) Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge: Tooling for Designers, by Designers
3) Mobile Inspiration with Adobe's Touch Apps and the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Speaker Bio: Jerry Silverman is a Senior Solutions Consultant at Adobe Systems. With over a decade of experience producing applications, publications and videos for a diverse body of corporate, broadcast, retail, e-learning and sales training companies, Jerry is currently an evangelist and instructor of Adobe's desktop tools in the Government market, sharing his expertise and passion for technology with knowledge workers and educators across the public sector in North America. He is a frequent presenter at Adobe customer events and industry conferences, offering demonstrations and tutorials to designers, developers, IT managers, and professional trainers and coaches.

We’ll conclude the meeting with our usual raffle for books, software, training certificates and a copy of InDesign CS5.5.

HELP WANTED
Your InDesign User Group is looking for volunteers to fill two specific roles:
Photographer, someone who will take pictures at the meeting and prepare them for uploading to the site.

Wrap-Up Writer, which is someone who can write up 2-4 interesting paragraphs about what happened at the meeting for the wrap-up message.

Please take this opportunity to give back to the group. Interested parties should contact Ken Chaletzky (ken@copygeneral.com ).