This is the must-attend user group meeting of the year. The Adobe User Group and the Sustainable Web Community will be combined. We’ll get started at 6pm. We’ll feature an Introduction to WordPress (6:00pm) for beginners and an advanced marketing and design class for experts (7:00pm).  Bring your laptops for the step by step portions [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

Here’s something I got in my inbox a couple of weeks ago, and lost in the shuffle. Adobe is offering some free online eSeminars for Web Professionals that you can sign up for on their web site. They’ve also got eSeminars for Video Professionals if that’s more along the lines of your interest.

The Keaau Youth Business Center had it’s Grand Opening on Saturday. Something like five bands helped kick it off. Kepono Kekuewa was there from Apple’s Hawaii HiEd and of course Moon Brown, one of the creators of the program was there -playing saxophone. Funded by grant money and powered by aloha, the Keaau Youth Business Center [...]

Bill Cullifer and I met John Blumhardt from the Honolulu Community College Educational Media Center at Windward Community College for a day of Tech Talk (Event PDF). Our presentations focused on Technology Eduation in Hawai`i. My presentation focused on the changing roles and responsibilities associated with web 2.0. Mahalo Kepono (Apple, Inc.), great presentation! Many mahalos to [...]

I’ll have plenty of information for anyone interested at the next meeting. We’ve also got some Action Script 3 DOM posters coming from our fearless leaders at Adobe. Thanks again Ed and Christine for being great hosts. The Community forum you put together was a great time and insightful to say the least. Great Big [...]