December 17, 2007 - Due to the cold weather and wind we're supposed to get tonight, I don't think anyone really wants to drive out to the meeting, so we'll just meet up again in January! If you have topic ideas, please let Misty know! Have a safe and fun holiday!
December 11, 2007 - Our next meeting will be held this upcoming Monday evening (12/17), please don't miss out as we plan our topics for the upcoming year. If there is a topic you would like covered, please be sure to email Misty at mdunaway@umich.edu
November 26, 2007 - This is just a reminder that tonight is our monthly meeting for FlashFocused, the Ann Arbor Adobe User Group.
The meeting begins at 6 PM and the topic will be Intro to using Photoshop. If you have any photoshop projects or questions, please let me know right away and I can incorporate it into tonight's presentation. The meeting location is BE 270 at WCC and maps and other information are on the website at www.flashfocused.org.
Also, The organizing committee of MFF08 (Michigan Flash Festival) is seeking individuals to help plan and market the 2008 event.
If you are interested in helping with Marketing, Web site design, graphic design, Outreach or any other capacity please email mffinfo@miflashfest.org!
See you all tonight!
October 22, 2007 - Please join us next Monday evening at 6:00 p.m. for our next meeting. Also, be sure to attend Michigan Flash Fest 2007! If you would like to volunteer for this event, contact Misty at mdunaway@umich.edu so you can receive a registration code.
September 24, 2007 - MEETING TONIGHT!!! Please be sure to come, it will be tons of fun (as always) and quite informative! The more, the merrier
August 2007 - Angie was on vacation and didn't update the site... ;)
July 26, 2007 - This is a reminder that on MONDAY, JULY 30TH, we are having our monthly meeting. Please RSVP if you will be in attendance or not. This is an important meeting as we will be discussing our October FlashFest event. If you have anything to discuss at the meeting, any topic ideas or any problems you need help with, please let me know! See you there!
June 26, 2007 - Make sure to mark your calendars for upcoming meetings! We need more of us to be at the monthly meetings!!!! They are most typically held the last Monday of every month, so the next one will be July 30th.
This month, we viewed www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/, which was very helpful! Be sure to check out old resources and a list of future meetings in our Meeting Archive. an easy click to see when the meetings are coming up and to review what we've covered in past years!
June 13, 2007 - Be sure to join us on the 25th! If you're interested in the Adobe CS3 Conference, just question Misty or Angie, they'll be glad to fill you in on what they learned and the upcoming treats Adobe's releasing.
May 1, 2007 - HUGE congratulations go to Cynthia Enoch, the lucky winner of the CS3 Web Premium drawing!! For those of you who were unable to attend, a link to the presentation is available on the meeting archives page. This month (it is May already!), we'll be meeting a week earlier, due to Memorial Day.
Please send all topic recommendations to Misty and we'll incorporate them into future meetings.
On Wednesday, May 16th, Adobe will be holding a CS3 one-day conference in Chicago. There's no registration deadline, but space is limited.
Also, we are working with SEMAFX to hold a Flash conference in the area. We'll share more details as they are made available.
March 28, 2007 - Thank you to all who were able to make it to our joint meeting with SEMAFX, it was very interesting! Our next meeting with be on April 30th, room BE150 at Washtenaw Community College. Be sure to attend as we'll have great Adobe giveaways!!
March 26, 2007 - We're still celebrating the launch of CS3 and will still have prizes (must be present to win). However, this meeting will be held in conjunction with SEMAFX at Schoolcraft College. They have been able to secure speaker, James Mohler for this event and have invited us to join them. Please come out and join us!
March 19, 2007 - Our next meeting will be held next TUESDAY, March 27th. NOTE the DATE CHANGE! We will be celebrating the launch of CS3 with fantastic prizes (must be present to win) and refreshments. Please plan on attending this much anticipated event.
February 21, 2007 - Here's hoping everyone's hanging in there after Fat Tuesday. We will be meeting next Monday evening with a topic to be determined. Past meetings have showcased the use of Photoshop and different techniques one can use to create excellent graphic images. Show up this month and see what other exciting options are available!
If there is a topic you would like covered, email the Group Manager, Misty, at mdunaway@umich.edu, she's always willing to listen to ideas for upcoming presentations. If there's someone you would like to speak to the group, let her know that, too! The more suggestions, the better our group can be.
December 29, 2006 - Wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! This upcoming year looks to be a fantastic one. We all look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting. Be sure to send any ideas to Misty at mdunaway@umich.edu or get on the Yahoo! group or the Flash Focused blog to put info online.
December 12, 2006 - Email Misty at mdunaway@umich.edu to RSVP for the December meeting. If we can't get enough to confirm they will attend, we will cancel until January.
October 24, 2006 - Next week our speaker will be Calvin Zirk, who will talk on Flash Video. Join our spooky bunch to learn more!
September 1, 2006 - Let's have a big congrats to our raffle winner MONTE! (YAY!) If anyone has a specific topic they'd like covered during any upcoming meetings, please let Misty know offlist at mdunaway@umich.edu.
Here are links mentioned during the meeting:
The Making of Flash 8
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/video/team/
Flash Developer Interviews (good info!)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_anniversary.html
Flash Designer Interviews (GOOD tips and tricks in these!)
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/flash_anniversary/
Free Eseminar series!
http://www.adobe.com/go/studio8_live_seminars
including:
Introduction to Studio 8
Introduction to Dreamweaver 8
Best Practices: A Closer Look at CSS and XML in Dreamweaver 8
Introduction to Flash Professional 8
Video Made Easy with Flash Professional 8 and Dreamweaver 8
Illustrator Breeze Presentation
http://seminars.adobe.breezecentral.com/p97471727/
Illustrator CS2 Walkthrough tour
http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/vector/movie.html
Photoshop CS2 Walkthrough tour
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/vector/pscs2_movie.html
August 24, 2006 - We will be celebrating Flash's 10th birthday at our next meeting (Monday, 8/28). Be sure to come, as we'll be giving a GREAT prize away and also reviewing Adobe products.
August 1, 2006 - It's almost time to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! On August 9, 2006, Flash turns 10! We will be doing something special for this, stay tuned for details!
August 1 - Thank you for everyone who showed up for the July meeting! As you know, Misty Mills is now our Group Manager. Our next meeting is slated to be August 28, 2006.
July 14 - There are some exciting changes going on in the Ann Arbor Flash Focused User Group. Watch this space for further information!
April 10 - Our next meeting will focus on Adobe Certification and the different certifications available. We'll talk about the product certification tracks and the benefit from certification. If you've ever wondered what certification was all about or how to get certified, definitely come on out on April 24th.
If you're already certified in any technical product or specialty, come on out and share your experience.
Adobe has donated a free exam voucher to be raffled off at this meeting. ($150 value)
Hope to see you there!
February 22 - Great turnout for the Creative Congress 2006
... and a winner!!
Congrats go out once again to the winner of our Flash 8 Professional raffle, Erin Zurney!
Overall it was a great turnout and a successful visit for our User Group. We had 75 people enter into the raffle for Flash 8. It was great meeting everyone and very nice talking with all the creative industry folk that showed up. I love meeting with people who are just a passionate about their career or hobby as I am.. it's always interesting conversation and I usually end up learning more than a thing or two through the exchange.
A big thanks to Misty and Angie, for help with getting everything together
for the event, I couldn't have done it without them.
For those who may not know Misty or Angie, Misty is the User Group Marketing Coordinator and Angie is our User Group Webmaster.
I will definitely be looking for more events like this one which gives us a chance to get out the word about our group and meet more great people!
January 19 - The 15th Flashforward Conference & Film Festival will take place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, 2/27 – 3/1.
Flashforward will host exhibits, over 60 workshops and sessions, and the 15th Flashforward Film Festival, and covers topics such as Flex, ActionScript, motion graphics, Adobe integration, and Flash video. Sign up now and take advantage of early-bird discounts which ends January 20th. Buy tickets at http://www.flashforwardconference.com/register or call toll free at 1-877-4-FLASH-4 (1-877-435-2744).
Use Discount Code ADMUGSEA06 and receive $100 discount!
About Flashforward
Flashforward is the world’s first, largest and most renowned conference focusing on Flash, recently acquired by Adobe Systems. Since its inception 6 years ago, more than 20,000 professionals in the industries of design, interactivity, animation, video, and motion graphics have attended 14 events in cities such as San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, and London. The Flashforward Film Festival takes place in conjunction with the conference, and showcases the most innovative and cutting-edge Flash techniques throughout the world.
January 18 - We are now Flash Focused! Beginning in 2006, the A3MUG will cover topics related to Flash. We are also blogging at http://blog.flashfocused.org/, so feel free to come over there and read what's going on!
We're really looking forward to the new format. Look for more updates and a reworked site in the near future!
November 30 - ANNOUNCEMENT! The Ann Arbor Area Macromedia Users Group is going to focus its attentions to become more Flash focused. We will basically now be the Ann Arbor Area Flash Users Group (new name, etc. to be determined at a later date and time). Stay tuned!!
November 14 - Be sure to subscribe to the A3MUG yahoo group so you can participate in the current online poll.
The next meeting is coming up on November 29th at our regularly scheduled time, you don't to miss it!
October 26 - We had a great meeting last night, here's the link to the recorded presentation: http://mmusergroup.breezecentral.com/p51847569/
We'll be using Breeze more often for future presentations!
September 28 - Be sure to check the meeting archives page for information presented in last night's meeting. We're looking to get a speaker for the meeting on October 25th. Check for updates here.
The Making of Flash 8
This is a very cool video produced by Macromedia. A behind the scenes look at the development team and some of the processes just before the release of Flash 8.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/video/team/
July 27 - Thanks to all who came out to last night's meeting, it was a lot of fun! To recap - the plan was to install Suse 9.1, Apache, MySQL and BlueDragon Server on to a machine and then raffle it off. Well - we accomplished the first of those tasks. =)
We did successfully install Suse 9.1 and then ran into an error when trying to compile Apache. I've since found this post that will help anyone wanting to continue the experiment at home.
http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.aspx?catid=82&threadid=80147&enterthread=y
Basically - just grab the rpm file of GCC and install it using Yast. You can grab the rpm here:
http://www.trilithium.com/software/misc/
You should then be able to install Apache using the instructions found here.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/install.html
You can find the resource links for last night's meeting here:
http://www.a3mug.com/files/july_2005.xls
We will have another session in the very near future that will cover BlueDragon and the different versions of the server that are available.
July 19 - Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the a3mug group:
Will you be attending the July Meeting?
o Yes
o No
To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/a3mug/surveys?id=1904939
You must be a member of the A3MUG Yahoo! Group in order to submit your entry, join today and get all the latest updates!
June 28 - CONGRATULATIONS go out to Misty Mills, the winner of the Stuido MX with Flash Pro. She's bound to create wonderful things with that.
Files from Chris Cote's presentation (thank you, Chris) on Flash Basics are available in the archives. Please visit there and check it out!
Next month will be really exciting! We will be offering a bunch of books to raffle as well as a computer we set up with Linux, Apache, MySQL and Blue Dragon Server. Be sure to attend!
May 24 - COOL NEWS! Our illustrious Kevin Phillips has accepted the role of co-manager for the A3MUG! Kevin has been a very active member of the user group since its inception. In his first official duty, he'll be representing the A3MUG at the Spring <BR> Conference in Athens, OH this Thursday (5/26). We can look forward to hearing how the conference went at this month's meeting.
May 3 - Our April meeting went well, be sure to check out the meeting archives page to view the information presented. NOTE: From this day forth, meetings will take place on the last Tuesday of the month (unless otherwise noted) from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
April 14 - Thank you to all who attended last month's meeting. Our next meeting is on the 28th and will cover Dreamweaver. Be sure to invite those you think would be interested in attending! The more members we have, the better. We will be voting on an official A3MUG logo as well. Be sure to attend to get your voice heard.
March 18 - First and foremost, we promise to notify everyone of social events in a more advanced fashion than the last one, sorry folks! On a happier note, those who did make it had a great time. We'll be sure to have an event again soon.
Our next meeting is on March 31st, the last day of the month. Our topics will be of interest to everyone, even those of you who already know a bit about the topics to be discussed. Share your expertise! Remember, if you present topics, you get extra raffle points!!!
February 25 - Meet the A3MUG! We will be having a social / introduction to A3MUG meeting on March 17th. As of today, it will be held at Katie's in Dexter. We will let you know if the location changes. Please tell anyone you know who does anything with websites, etc, we would like any professionals who use Macromedia products to attend!
February 17 - BREAKING NEWS!
Beginning with the 2/24 meeting , A3MUG members will be able to obtain
entries to raffle for a copy of Studio MX 2004 w/ Flash Professional to be
given away in June!
To earn raffle entries:
1 Entry
- Attend the monthly UG Meeting: 1 entry
- Complete a book review: 1 entry
- Bring a friend to a meeting: 1 entry per friend, per meeting (no using the
same friend 4 times... sorry.)
- Suggest a specific topic for a meeting and have it chosen (eg: "Using
the new Flash Form features within CFMX 7", generic topics such as "Flash"
won't count)
2 Entries
- Secure a speaker for a monthly meeting
3 Entries
- Present a topic at the UG Meeting
We will be putting a page up to track entries into the raffle. The top three with the most entries will also get prizes.
February 15 - The meeting for February will take place as scheduled, topic to be announced in the near future.
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