Miss the October meeting? You can watch it!
Next meeting: November 8, 2011, 1-4 PM Note: This is NOT the first Tuesday in November.
Marlboro College Graduate Center
Brattleboro, VT
- Lunch provided by our sponsors
- Raffle for free book drawing and Adobe schwag. Books courtesy of sponsoring publishers.
- As always, there is no admission fee to attend our meetings.
directions
November 8, 2011 - The Twitterverse / eBook Publishing
(NOTE: This is NOT the first Tuesday in November. When I spoke with Adrian, he was only available on November 8th. Please mark your calendars and help spread the word.)
1:00 Adrian Segar, conferencesthatwork.com
Adrian Segar will tell the story of how he got involved with Twitter and how, to his surprise, it turned out to be transformational for his conference consulting and design work.
He’ll talk about aspects of using Twitter including Twitter chats and using Twitter appropriately to make fruitful connections with others.
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Adrian Segar has designed, organized, and facilitated conferences for thirty years. He has been designing participant-driven and participation-rich events, commonly known as unconferences, since 1992. His book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love, published in November 2009, has been described as "THE how-to manual" on creating events that truly engage and capitalize on attendees' collective wisdom and experience. Adrian blogs regularly on event design, logistics, presentations, and many other related topics at www.conferencesthatwork.com. His next book will be on participation techniques you can use to enhance your meeting sessions.
Adrian is an acknowledged innovator and speaker on participant-driven event design. In May 2011, BizBash Magazine named him as one of "The 68 Most Innovative Event Professionals".
Adrian has a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics, owned a solar energy manufacturing company, taught college level computer science for ten years, and was an independent information technology consultant for over twenty years. He lives in Marlboro, Vermont, is the president of two non-profits, and loves to sing and dance.
Adrian Segar can be contacted at 001-802-254-3566,
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, on Twitter: @ASegar, or via his website: www.conferencesthatwork.com.
2:30: Andreas deDanaan on developing ebooks with InDesign!
Resources to download:
InDesign to eBook Workflow (pdf)
InDesign to eBook Workflow (epub)
Exporting to ePub (pdf)
The eBook has seen skyrocketing consumer sales recently. Although the ePUB format has been around for years, it hasn’t gotten much attention until recently, and now that attention is intense. If you want to self-publish or do some marketing with content that you own, the ePUB is a great format to publish in.
Andreas deDanaan will present the nutshell version of creating eBooks with Adobe InDesign. InDesign is the industry standard for traditional printed-book design and production. It has some excellent features for exporting a book design to the ePUB format, but the resulting file may leave you quite unsatisfied. Controlling this ePUB export and cleaning it up for public consumption can be quite a challenge. If your intent is to sell on Amazon, Apple’s iBookstore, or Barnes & Noble, you’ll have to create an ePUB or MOBI file that validates to the ePUB standard and hopefully has some typographic polish to it.
Whether you have an existing book that you need to convert or content that you would like to publish directly to ePUB, this talk is for you. Andreas will discuss strategies involving both Adobe InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 and even Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Inexpensive or free software resources are available to help with the editing of ePUB files after export, and these will be touched on as well. Put your HTML/CSS hat on if you have one; the ePUB is built on these markup languages plus XML. You’ll see a little bit of code in this presentation.
Andreas has designed and produced traditional print books for 15 years. He has worked for a number of publishers in the San Francisco Bay Area including Peachpit Press, Weldon Owen, Inc., and Lonely Planet Publishing among others. He has recently converted books for local publishers including Bauhan Publishing.
Andreas is currently a Web Designer and Developer for New Chapter, Inc and is completing a degree in Internet technologies at Marlboro College Graduate School. He can be contacted at
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. His Web site is www.deDanaanDesign.com.
December 6, 2011 -- NOTE: We're back to the First Tuesday!
BIG ADOBE SOFTWARE GIVEAWAY TO ONE LUCKY USER GROUP MEMBER!
Everybody's a winner with our Book Swap -- bring a book, take home a different one!
Matt Nelson on Word Press eCommerce solutions
Kevin VanderWoude on AJAX
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