I've been doing a lot of work with Adobe Bridge lately, mostly because I had to do a live, hour-long e-seminar about it ("Adobe Bridge: Your Creative Hub") for Adobe a couple weeks ago. They recorded the Breeze-based presentation and as soon as it's publicly available on their site I'll let you know.

In the meantime, though, you might be interested in listening to the podcast I did answering some of the questions that the seminar attendees (over 450 people! — luckily all on mute) entered in the Chat window during the live seminar. The "Special Edition" podcast I did about it, episode 12, has a specific focus on how InDesign and Bridge work together, since it's part of David Blatner's and my InDesign Secrets podcast:
http://www.indesignsecrets.com/podcast.html

While researching Bridge and any Bridge information on the web in preparation for the seminar, I ran across a couple of newish whitepapers on Adobe's site. One is on using Bridge and Version Cue, and the other explains the concept and use of metadata/XMP for creative professionals. I put links to these on my Adobe Bridge resources page:
http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/bridge.html

But after all my online research, my favorite find was stumbling across Gunar Penikis' blog:
http://blogs.adobe.com/bridge/

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Gunar's Blog
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Gunar is the Product Manager for Adobe Bridge. Can't get any more direct-from-the-source than that! He and Arno Gourdol (Bridge Engineering Manager) just started posting tips and inside information about Bridge to their blog.

Tips such as:

• How to manually edit keywords in a text editor and make them available to Bridge. (So much faster than clicking those little "New Keyword" and "New Set" buttons at the bottom of Bridge's Keywords panel!) With this method you could make one master set of keywords and standardize them across your workgroup.
  
• How to add a "Reveal in Bridge" context menu entry in the Finder or Windows Explorer.
  
• New Bridge features available only to Adobe Production Studio users, such as animated GIF previews for animation presets and templates.

I didn't talk about Gunar's blog nor any of these tips during the e-seminar or the podcast, since you really need to be a somewhat experienced Bridge user to appreciate their worth. DesignGeek subscribers, on the other hand, are a savvy bunch, and the Bridge users among you will probably be jumping to Gunar's blog before finishing this issue, assuming you've stuck around long enough to reach this paragraph. ;-)

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