Okay, we’re looking at a possible date in late October. We’re coordinating this year’s plans with a group of folks on Oahu. Of course they have bigger plans than we’ve discussed including a Podcamp integration. Maybe with their support we can coordinate something larger than we could have by ourselves.

We’re gathering subscribers. So if you’re interested in helping on a committee or just subscribing to the mailing list, please shoot me a note or use the form below. Indicate your level of interest and whether you want to receive project updates during the planning stages of the event.

Three organizational bullets on our end so far:

• Possible live component between islands -not yet proposed to Oahu group
• Acrobat (Breeze) Connection from UHH/HCC or HICH
• Idea for a inter-island raffle

June 19th, 2008
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The next meeting of the Big Island Adobe User Group will focus on plans to host a WordCamp Hawaii Conference.

• Date
• Location
• Planning committee
• Agenda / Oahu

Learn more about WordCamp and WordPress here to speed up the dialog.

Come join the discussion at the next meeting.

Update 6-13-08:
Collection of WordCamp Hawaii discussions (sorry for no descriptions -plesae fel free to register and I’ll give you access to make any edits.)

• http://tinyurl.com/52n8pl
• http://tinyurl.com/596xws
• http://tinyurl.com/3j9usr
• http://tinyurl.com/4z2hbw
• http://tinyurl.com/3lgexu
• http://tinyurl.com/4hfxb5

Bottom Line: Lots of discussion, haven’t seen any dates yet.

June 7th, 2008
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Watch what you want, when you want

The only thing Adobe has been missing is a universal media player. With over a year of testing and conspiring to become the uber player in the market, the Adobe Media Player is certainly worth some attention, once again.

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May 27th, 2008
Categories: Announcements . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

Please click “Next Meeting” link at top for details.

April 26th, 2008
Categories: Announcements, Web Design Help . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

Hele Mai, Sustainable Web Design Meeting of the Minds. At this week’s Big Island Adobe User Group meeting, we’ll be holding our first of a series of sustainable web design discussions.

Specifically we’ll be addressing the following questions:

• What is sustainable web design?
• What makes a website sustainable?
• How can you create a website that is sustainable?
• How can you use a sustainable web design to sustain yourself using the web as a platform?

All these question and more will be addressed at the meeting on Tuesday at 5:30. Click the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page for more details.

Immediately following the Big Island Adobe User Group meeting there will be a Blogging Class for Big Island Blog Network Members. The class is free to Big Island Blog Network Members. All others pay $25 bucks. Online pre-registration for the blog class, aka Sustainable Web Design is required. Click here to pre-register at Green Collar Technologies.

For meeting details, please call Brent Norris 896-7656.

See you there!

April 13th, 2008
Categories: Announcements, Events and Conferences . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: 4 Comments

If you’re not familiar with Total Training, they provide solid training from experts. I used Total Training when I got my Adobe Production Studio a couple years ago and it helped bring me up to speed quickly using Audition. I got this email the other day that reads in part,

I saw that you were the User Group Manager for the Hawaii AUG and I wanted to let you & your group know about a special offer that Total Training has going on right now. If you’re not familiar with us, Total Training is the premier, award-winning provider of video software training for Adobe.

If your members visit this site: http://www.totaltraining.com/adobe7, they’ll have a 7 day FREE all-access Adobe Essentials pass, as well as a 15% off coupon if they are interested in any of our products.

April 10th, 2008
Categories: Announcements . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: 2 Comments

http://www.viddler.com/explore/jpozadzides/videos/71/

April 8th, 2008
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Moving to the Boston area?

A friend just sent these two job openings, fyi…

1. Web Application Developer: (http://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/Job-6257-Web-Services-Developer-Product-to-Web-Integration.html) Salary Range= 74K to 94K

2. Web Services Developer: (http://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/Job-6259-Web-Application-Developer.html) Salary Range= 74K to 94K

This is an extremely employee friendly company. They provide great Training and Benefits for all employees. They actually walk the walk as well as talking about it! The only down size is you will put on at least ten pounds because of all the food, although they provide a great gym on site for their employees. Do you know any good websites or journals that I can find such people?

Got a similar job opening here on Hawai`i Island?

March 31st, 2008
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Much better coverage than I could offer, over at CNET.

February 25th, 2008
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Upcoming Technology Events on Hawai`i Island (aka Big Island)

• Big Island Adobe User Group Meeting - The Third Tuesday of each month January 15th at 5:30pm - 7:30pm Brent Norris will be presenting an update on Adobe products with an online review of recent product releases. Everyone that attends will get free Adobe swag. Everyone is welcome and your Adobe product questions will be answered. Uhm, check this site for more info!

• The Hilo MySQL Meetup Group - Wed Jan 16th at 6pm – 7pm
  John will present a pre-owned open-source Ruby on Rails application for B&B business, and discuss his customization issues. For full details, including the address, and to RSVP see:
  http://mysql.meetup.com/208/calendar/6823013/

• The Hawaii Mac Nuts User Group - Thursday Jan 17th at 5:30pm - website
  Meeting at the Keaau Youth Business Center in Keaau Town Center. (the old Wiki Wiki Mart, between McDonald and Ace Hardware) the entrance is on the Ace Hardware side of the building. Directions to mtg location.

• Hawai`i United Industries - Tuesday Jan 22nd at 5:30pm - 7:30pm
  Lots of creatives getting together to build something bigger. There will be a presentation  on why this might be a good idea for you. Joining the  HUI (Hawai`i United Industries) means saving money on marketing, getting higher paid gigs and working less at finding better jobs. Employers, contractors and educators will all be present.
  Mtg to be held at the High Technology Development Corporation in Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 (Downtown across from Bear’s Coffee)

• Web 2.0 Digital Design and eMarketing Seminar / Conference - Thursday March 22nd all day
  For details, contact Brent (at) brent.fm

January 14th, 2008
Categories: Announcements, Events and Conferences . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

I just received an email about some upcoming Adobe Seminars in San Francisco, Miami, and online. Check it out, and maybe learn a little more about CS3 in the process!

December 6th, 2007
Categories: Events and Conferences . Author: Chris Runnells . Comments: No Comments

November 16th, 2007
Categories: Announcements . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

Compilation of Resources
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/508confusion.html

Cynthia Tester
http://www.contentquality.com/org/cynthiatested.htm

Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in wikipedia

Joomla themes
http://www.rockettheme.com/blogcategory/Joomla_Templates/
http://www.joomla24.com/index.php
http://www.toolboxcreations.com/

October 26th, 2007
Categories: Web Design Help . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

Get details of the Next Meeting by clicking this link.

It’s going to be a good one. Lots of new product demos and video from the Adobe MAX Conference. A short  (15 minute) Dreamweaver tutorial will follow the meeting. If time permits, we’ll also do a quick Fireworks tutorial.

Everyone that attends will get some free Adobe stuffs. Next Meeting details…

October 13th, 2007
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aloha, here’s a quick message from an email I received earlier. If anyone is interested in this offer from Eltima, please register and comment below or send me an email brent at biaug.com and I’ll coordinate. Mahalo

We are very interested in cooperation with you and would be happy to offer different discounts for our software products to users of your group. We also would like to offer you a free licenses of any our product for a testing among Adobe users of your group and placing information (review or article) about it at your User Group  site. We would appreciate having an opportunity for our products and services to be discussed and evaluated by high-skilled experts of your Adobe User Group.

If you have some ideas or suggestions towards our mutual beneficial cooperation don’t hesitate to contact me personally.

The full list of our Flash products for Windows, please visit our product list: http://www.eltima.com/products/multimedia/http://mac.eltima.com/ Flash Decompiler Trillix page: http://www.flash-decompiler.com/
and for Apple Macintosh:

Home: http://www.eltima.com
Blog: http://blog.eltima.com

October 4th, 2007
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Just a reminder, if you would like anything or any information in particular from the Adobe Max Conference, please let me know. Mahalo, -Brent

September 26th, 2007
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More details on the “Next Meeting” link…

Hope to see you there!

September 18th, 2007
Categories: Announcements . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

This September we here at MDM are going to offer all Flash and Flex User Group members 50% off our flagship title, Zinc v2.5!

The offer ends 5pm (EST) on the 30^th September, so if you could let all your members know ASAP, that would be great!

To claim the discount, your members need to email me directly at this address with their orders. They will then receive a special discount code that allows them to purchase the software online at half price! They can also pay by Purchase Order (if they are purchasing for a company).

You can read more about how Zinc, Flash and Flex work together on our website www.multidmedia.com and in articles such as http://www.multidmedia.com/support/developers/articles/?action=show&id=9 .

Hope to hear from you all soon!

Best regards,
Paul Tunnicliffe
New Business and Sales Executive
Multidmedia Limited (MDM)
www.multidmedia.com
TEL: +44 (0) 1902 837402
FAX: +44 (0) 1902 837401

September 12th, 2007
Categories: User Group Benefits . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments

Aloha Workshops will be offering a free blogging class on August 30th at Hawai`i Community College in the Hale Aloha Conference room. Directions to to Hale Aloha Conference room.

What you’ll learn:

• What blogs are (what they’re not)
• What is blogging? (who are bloggers)
• Why blogs are effective marketing tools.
• How to use blogs for business.
• Why blogs are important to the Big Island

Aloha Workshops will present a free blogging class for beginners. Expert bloggers will also benefit as advanced search engine optimization techniques for your blog will be shared. Any and all questions are always welcomed.

Step by step instructions will be part of the presentation so bring your laptop. If you do not have a blog, a blog will be given to you to use during the class. We want you to know how to post in a blog before you leave. If you bring your laptop you’ll have that post done before you leave.

All attendees of the class will qualify for a free blog website and comprehensive web hosting for one year from Aloha Workshops. Inspired Big Islanders may want to join the Big Island Blog Network. http://big-island-blog-network.com

Call Brent Norris for more details.
(808) 896-7656
or email brent (at) brent.fm

Mahalo University of Hawai`i Hilo Conference Center for providing meeting space for this event.

August 30th, 2007
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Biaug August Meeting
Agenda

Adobe News

Max Coming Up - http://adobemax2007.com

WOW/Biaug involvement at max this year

Creative license podcast series:

http://creativesuitepodcast.com/

Adobe Captivate Available for trial download

http://labs.adobe.com

http://bigisland.ning.com
a new social network for the Big Island

Aloha Workshops

Internships

Program details

http://alohaworkshops.com/interns/

What it’s about.

Who can apply.

Who should apply.

Requirements.

Start anytime (basically)

Next Free Blog Class

August 30th at Hale Aloha at 5:30pm

Show sitemap integration at biaug site

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Sitemap Generator

Onyx Video Mixing Demo

Latest Web 2.0
Tools Discussion

Collboration - Mind meister - demo

http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/1617525

TokBox (tokbox.com) - try it on biaug.com
site

PRLeap.com - press release 2.0

Mogulus.com - world news

Twitter.com - one to many

deviantart.com - 1.0 but still way kewl

linkedin.com - business myspace (kinda)

mybloglog.com - business myspace (kinda but more
fun??)

vflyer.com - update content across multiple sites
like craigslist

edgio.com - classifieds 2.0

seomoz.com - sem analysis

webbuildsites.com - sem analysis

zazzle.com - printing 2.0

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August 17th, 2007
Categories: general discussion . Author: Brent Norris . Comments: No Comments