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The Catalyst Commitment – Weeks 1 and 2

Week 1 June 1 Brainstormed some ideas of where I could start looking for resources. Decided I wanted to focus on the social channels, where the information would be brought directly to me, along with online video training via Adobe TV and Lynda.com. June 2 Went to Facebook and Twitter and subscribed to the Flash

The Catalyst Commitment – Weeks 1 and 22010-06-17T15:21:09-05:00

How Twitter Saves Me Time…Really

Recently I received an email from the marketing folks wondering what it was that made me bookmark sites, and what it was about my home page that made me set it. I had never really thought about how I used bookmarks before, and definitely not why I set my homepage, I just used them.

How Twitter Saves Me Time…Really2010-05-28T07:05:16-05:00

The Flash Catalyst Commitment

Since the Adobe Max Conference in 2008, and the buzz around a product code-named “Thermo,” I have been intrigued with the possibility of creating interactive designs with the click of a mouse. This May, with the launch of Adobe’s Creative Suite CS5, the pipe-dream once known as Thermo, was released to the public as Flash

The Flash Catalyst Commitment2010-05-27T21:03:05-05:00

A Designers Creative Toolbox

I recently had an old friend ask me if I still did graphic design. After a little discussion, a simple question was asked… “So what software do you use to do your designs?” Instinctively I started to rattle off a list of the software I use, pretty much as I would answer a twitter feed with a fellow tech geek. I assumed a sentence explaining what I did in each one would suffice, but quickly realized that it takes a lot more thought to really explain it. Just because it's second nature to me doesn’t mean someone else will “get it.” There is a reason, after all, that they asked the question in the first place. About half-way through the explanation, and with this epiphany fresh in my mind, I just stopped and asked him if I could get his email address so I could put some links together for him. Little did he know he just gave me the material for my next blog entry...

A Designers Creative Toolbox2010-11-17T21:58:02-06:00