I want you to know about upcoming seminars and webinars I’ll be doing or that I’m involved with, covering InDesign, Acrobat/PDF, and other goodies.

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InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars
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David Blatner (my partner in InDesignSecrets.com) and I have been enjoying doing one-day traveling seminars on InDesign around the country for the past year, with the main topic being “Tips and Techniques for Getting the Most Out of InDesign.”  We even made a web site just for our live events, with a page devoted to the traveling seminars:

Hi people …

Pardon my dust, I'm making this site go live even though it's not quite ready for prime time!

We'll be working on this site during the month of August. For now, all that's here are the articles from the past issues of DesignGeek, my e-zine.  Click the categories on the left to see the articles.

Thanks, more to come soon!

A few months ago my friends at Coe-Truman Technologies (a bunch of database/XML publishing brainiacs) in Chicago invited me over to take a peek at a new InDesign plug-in they were about to offer to their customers. My jaw dropped, it was one of the coolest things ever … and this from a company who is not really that into InDesign! They come at it from the other end. Coe-Truman helps clients's marketing departments create, manage, and publish their databases to the web and to print, instead of fighting with IT over it. That web-based software is called Catapult Manage:more >

This is coming up quickly, so I wanted to lead off with this news.

InDesign Troubleshooting and Repair
A one-hour webinar
May 21, 2009 10:00a ˆ 11:00a PST
Register: http://idrepair.eventbrite.com/
*Early bird pricing ends midnight Friday, May 15*

Yes, I'm a twittering fool. If you'd like to follow my occasional tweets, follow me:

http://twitter.com/amarie

If you're an InDesign user, I also contribute to the InDesignSecrets.com Twitter feed. I and my fellow blog contributors post InDesign tips that we can fit into Twitter's 140 character limit, including our initials in brackets at the end.

http://twitter.com/indesignsecrets

Okay, so since I had spent so much time learning the ins and outs of InDesign CS4 and InCopy CS4, why not do some new tutorial videos for lynda.com? I had nothing but time, right? So I did two titles, and each one took up about a solid month of my time (prepping sample files, outlines, testing, and then traveling to Lynda.com in Ventura, California to do the actual recording). But I'm really happy with how they came out.

While all the above was happening, I thought, hey, I'm not busy enough — let's agree to do a bunch of all-day seminars for the design and pre-press clients at Rogers Printing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

They have a neat thing going on there — Rogers charges their designer/clients (actually, the designer's employer) a reasonable amount to attend the seminar, but the full fee can be deducted from their next print job. I thought that was pretty clever!

Faithful readers of DesignGeek might remember that in a recent issue's "Upcoming Events" article, I mentioned that I was doing a presentation for a local arts group I belong to, the Chicago Creative Coalition. Its members are mainly freelancers and small-business owners in the arts: Graphic designers, web site developers (including a strong contingent of database gurus), photographers, fine artists, writers and illustrators.

I'm doing a lot of speaking at upcoming conferences. If you'll be there, please be sure and come up and introduce yourself — I love meeting DesignGeek readers!

It's not often that I get to teach an open-to-the-public, hands-on class in Adobe InDesign; in fact I can't remember the last time I did one. (Almost all my training is customized to a single company and done on-site.)