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LA Web Professionals Group March 2010 Meeting - Search Engine Optimization - SEO from a web...
Event posted on Feb 25 by Daniel Kramer

Bernard May is President of National Positions, listed 112 on the Inc 500 list. National Positions is an Internet Marketing company headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA. The company has over 400 employees around the world and specializes in Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Advertising and Conversion Optimization. Bernard has more than 20 years’ experience in Marketing and Advertising in the high tech industry. Before founding National Positions in early 2004, Bernard served as Vice President Marketing at First Advantage Corp (NASDAQ: FADV), where he led the marketing team. Prior to that, May worked at US Search.com as Vice President (NASDAQ: SRCH), where he was responsible for the Internet Marketing. Bernard also worked at Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) as Senior Product Manager where he managed the Gateway Norton Anti-Virus and Internet Security product lines.

LA Web Professionals Group April 2010 Meeting - Coding in CSS / AJAX / Flash Builder / Flex / Cold...
Event posted on Mar 22 by Daniel Kramer

Terry Ryan is a Flash Platform Evangelist for Adobe. He specializes in ColdFusion. Previously he was a ColdFusion developer for over 10 years, working at the Wharton School of Business.  He’s been blogging about ColdFusion since 2004 at both Aarrgghh and TerrenceRyan.com.  He’s started and contributed to several open source projects on RIAForge.com. When’s he’s not traveling the world touting the advantages of ColdFusion and the rest of the Flash Platform, you can find him in his home office in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

LA Web Professionals Group March 2012 Meeting - Social Media Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Web Designers featuring Serena Ehrlich
Event posted on Feb 13 by Daniel Kramer

Over the last 20 years, Serena Ehrlich has worked closely with public and private companies providing guidance on investor and public relation trends. Serena has implemented local, national and international social media campaigns for a wide range of brands including Kraft, Scion, Kohl's, Avon, Mattel and more.

Serena started her career in advertising where she developed an understanding of branding from a large scale perspective, but it was her 14 years in the newswire industry that placed her squarely at the forefront of a technical, sociological and influential revolution changing the face of customer communications. In 1994, Serena was part of a small team who introduced the communications industry to the internet via a series of first-ever conferences, Her love of technology based communications hasn’t stopped since.

Currently, Serena participates in and oversees the creation and implementation of strategies designed to meet a wide-range of customer goals, from brand awareness to customer appreciation and service, to driving potential new fans into the marketing funnel.  Serena creates relationships within core and affinity audiences to create 360 degree awareness for brands.

As the director of Marketing for Mogreet, Serena has a unique perspective on the future of mobile marketing (and it ain't plain text). In addition, Serena serves as the Corporate Secretary of the international Social Media Club board of directors, as well as an At Large director of the National Investor Relations Institutes' Los Angeles chapter. She can be found on Twitter (@serena) as well as a wide range of emerging platforms.

Beyond Website Architecture - The Next Evolution of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) post Panda and Penguin
Event posted on Sep 25 by Daniel Kramer

LA Web Professionals Group November 2011 Meeting - From Design to Device with Fireworks and Dreamweaver featuring Anissa Thompson
Event posted on Oct 31 by Daniel Kramer

LA Web Professionals Group May Meeting - Composite Realities: Blending images in Photoshop CS6 for Realism and Art featuring Scott Valentine | Win Adobe Creative Suite 6!!!
Event posted on Apr 19 by Daniel Kramer

LA Web Professionals Group February 2010 Meeting - Dreamweaver CS4 with Janine Warner
Event posted on Jan 25 by Daniel Kramer

Janine Warner is an author, journalist, and partner in the Internet consulting firm Artesian Media, Inc. Her best-selling books and videos on web design have won her an international following and earned her speaking and consulting engagements around the world.

Since 1996, she has authored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including her latest, Web Sites Do-It-Yoursef For Dummies and the best-selling Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its 8th edition). She's also the host of a series of Web design videos for Total Training. Highlights of her videos are featured on both the Microsoft and Adobe web sites. She’s also the creator of www.DigitalFamily.com, which offers many free tutorials in web design, as well as information about her books and videos.

An award-winning journalist, her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper. She is also a regular columnist for Layers Magazine.

Janine has been a part-time faculty member at both the University of Miami and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. She has also developed online training programs for the Western Knight Center, a joint project of USC and UC Berkeley funded by the Knight Foundation.

From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, Beth’s Desserts, and many other small and medium-size businesses.

In 1998, she joined The Miami Herald as their Online Managing Editor. A year later, she was promoted to Director of New Media and managed a team of designers, programmers, journalists, and marketing staff who produced the Web sites for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Miami.com. She left that position to serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company.

Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She is a popular speaker at conferences and events throughout the United States, and her fluency in Spanish has led to many speaking engagements in Latin America and Spain. She served as a judge for the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet awards from 2001 to 2005. As part of that project, she helped to create an Internet literacy program for students in Central America called Operación Red (Operation Network).

Janine earned a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and spent the first several years of her career in Northern California as a reporter and editor where she began her career as a reporter for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper in 1990. She was also managing editor of Vision Latina, a bilingual (Spanish-English) newspaper in Northern California until she turned her attention to the Interent in 1994. She is fluent Spanish and conversational in Portuguese. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.

To learn more about Janine, visit www.JCWarner.com

LA Web Design Camp - featuring Brian Wood, Lee Varis &amp; Chana Messer
Event posted on Oct 16 by Daniel Kramer

SPEAKER BIOS:

Brian Wood

Brian Wood is a web developer, an Adobe certified instructor in Acrobat X Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, the author of 6 books including InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training, Illustrator CS6 CIB, Adobe Muse CIB (published by Peachpit Press), and the author of numerous training DVDs including Muse, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat 8, Acrobat 9, Acrobat forms, and more.
In addition to training many clients, including Nordstrom, REI, Boeing, Costco, DDB Seattle, Starbucks, Nintendo, NBBJ and many, many others, Brian speaks regularly at national conferences, such as Adobe MAX, Getting Started with Dreamweaver and CSS, The InDesign Conference, The Web Design Conference, The Creative Suite Conference, as well as events hosted by AIGA and other industry organizations.
Brian has a youtube channel at:http://www.youtube.com/user/askbrianwood , and a video learning site at: http://www.askbrianwood.com/ 

Lee Varis

Lee Varis is a leading author and the industry’s foremost expert on digital photography. Starting his career as a commercial photographer he segued into photo illustration creating album covers for music giants Warner Bros. Records and Sony Music, as well as advertising and key art for major motion pictures studios Paramount Studios, Fox, MGM and Sega, and national publications National Geographic and Newsweek. 

Early on Lee led training activities and imaging seminars on a nationwide traveling tour for Apple Computers. As an expert in color theory, Lee embraces the use of imaging software and technology to create digital images that transcend the original source materials. Over the past 20 years Lee has developed his skills as an award winning photographer but also has mastered the use of photoshop, lighting, special effects and color management. 

He has authored three books, "Digital Photography for Creative Professionals, detailing the basics of the use of new technology and software in digital photography, and a second best-seller, Skin: The Complete Guide to Digital Lighting, Photography and Retouching Faces and Bodies – now in a 2nd edition, as well as "Mastering Exposure and the Zone System for Digital Photographers". Each of these books have helped guide the pathway for many professional photographers working today. Lee is a member of APA, ASMP, NAPP, DIMA/PMA and LADIG and currently is actively involved in seminars for Julia Dean Photographic Workshops and Light Photographic Workshops, as well as contributing articles to various publications such as Design Graphics, PEI, PC Photo, Rangefinder and Digital Photo Pro.

Chana Messer

Chana Messer Fine Artist, Designer, Trainer and Software Evangelist
Teaching at the university level for 25+ years in the fields of Fine Art, Digital Imaging in the Departments of Visual Arts at UCLA. Lead Instructor at the Walt Disney Company.
She is an Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe Partner, Adobe Community Professional, part of the Adobe Professional Freelance Team, and an Adobe User Group Manager. As such she has been invited to present at Adobe events at Mac World and AIGA, Adobe MAX and other events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, New York and Tel Aviv.
www.chanamesser.com 

LA Web Professionals Group July 2012 Meeting - Creating CSS Layouts with Dreamweaver CS6 featuring: Janine Warner
Event posted on Jun 11 by Daniel Kramer

Speaker Bio:Janine Warner is a web designer, award-winning video trainer, and the author of more than 25 books about the Internet, including Web Sites DIY For Dummies, Mobile Web Design For Dummies, and every edition of Dreamweaver For Dummies. She’s also created more than 50 hours of training videos about web design, CSS, and social media. Janine runs a full-service interactive agency that offers web design, video production, content strategy, iPad and Mobile design, and internet marketing services. Her experience includes serving as Director of New Media for The Miami Herald and judging the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet Awards. She is fluent in English and Spanish. Learn more at DigitalFamily.com or JanineWarner.com. Twitter: @janinewarner  &  Facebook.com/janine.warner

LA Web Professionals Group April 2012 Meeting - WordPress for Web Designers featuring Justin Seeley
Event posted on Mar 15 by Daniel Kramer

Justin Seeley is a renowned software trainer and graphic designer with nearly a decade’s worth of experience in the creative media industry. His podcasts consistently rank among the top software how-to podcasts on the iTunes Store and his techniques have been featured on a variety of internet shows and digital publications. To date Justin has authored over 50 hours of instructional content on a variety of digital imaging and design related topics for companies like Total Training, Ten Ton Books, and most recently Lynda.com and CreativeLIVE.

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