Check out the new blog post by Adobe Digital Publishing discussing new publishing technologies that will debut on Adobe Labs later this summer! Main components: InDesign CS5 + Digital Content Bundler + .issue format + Digital Content Viewer! Extend your staffs’ existing skill sets and plan a new publishing strategy by migrating your print to ePub! Amazon announces digital books have just surpassed the sales of traditional books for the first time!

Join us for a great evening!
An overview of Creative Suite 5 on Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m., with Tom Petrillo from Adobe Systems.
Reminder: membership is free, simply register with the Indianapolis InDesign User Group!

Details:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance
225 South East Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46203

A great big thank you to my hosts, the Fraternity Communications Association, for having me down to New Orleans to present at their annual conference — a great group of dedicated people. Together we explored the Future of Print, Self Service Marketing and the Digital Divide. All presentations can be found at Slideshare.net. We hope you found the presentations useful! We certainly enjoyed your company!

Check out Creative Suite 5, announced just today! Tighter integration with Flash, expanded Flash tools, some initial Omniture integration with analytics, a suite of free online services called CS Live, and Business Catalyst a new web content management platform for quickly building business websites. Loads of new features everywhere you look! For a quick overview, visit Adobe TV for the launch of CS5!

I always talk about downstream process when I work with clients on their workflow: from concept to production, in forward motion, paying attention to bottlenecks and reverses in the workflow. But what does that really mean?

If you’ve ever spent any time in lean manufacturing principles you learn faster isn’t necessarily better. In fact, steady wins the race in terms of completed, successful product. Continue Reading

Forwarded by a former trainee & friend!

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation has combined their Tech Fund and SEF grants together to offer funding to Indiana companies and incumbent workers for training. The combined fund will continue under the name SEF, Skills Enhancement Fund. To find out how you can take advantage of DesktopMedia training and SEF funding, contact us today.

We’re launching another site, and this time, much smoother having recently brought desktopmedia-training.com online, utilizing the same developers. We can’t say enough about Wordpress. The more we use it, the more we appreciate what’s under the hood. We are moving from an old Mambo site, dm-corp.com, and have used the following tools:

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