Here's the PDF from my Social Media Presentation given at last month's meeting. Please feel free to use it for personal use ONLY.

Ross Kimbarovsky is the co-founder of crowdSPRING, a community of 43,000+ graphic designers that helps small businesses from around the world with graphic design needs. You can follow Ross on Twitter @rosskimbarovsky and @crowdSPRING.

Capacity – especially to plan and execute effective marketing strategies – is a big challenge for every small business. In this post, I’ll offer 10 suggestions for how small businesses can supercharge their marketing efforts by leveraging social media. For each suggestion, I will discuss a basic strategy – for those who simply want to get their toes wet, as well as an advanced strategy – for those who want to spend a bit more time and go a bit deeper in their social media marketing efforts. These tips are based on my experience leveraging social media marketing for my company, crowdSPRING.

Read the rest of the article containing the tips and hints n using each of the big social media apps at Mashable

20 ways businesses use Twitter from Businessweek

Just added another Photoshop tutorial onmy blog. This is for beginners and was done in CS4.

http://www.solsistershandbags.com/2009/10/tutorial-dull-color-fix-with-duck-girl.html

August VegasPUG & VegasAUG Meeting 1

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Event posted Aug 03 by John J Olson in Event Calendar 

"Create a Quick Interactive Portfolio Using InDesign"

InDesign CS4 provides new interactive buttons, hyperlinks  and page transitions to quickly provide pizzazz  to your print documents.  Great fix for non-Flash developers.

Presenter: Deb Havre 

"Staying in form-ation using InDesign and Acrobat Pro"

No one likes forms and we like them even less when they must be filled out by hand and then deciphered by some unlucky data entry person. Learn how to create an attractive form in InDesign then convert it in Acrobat Pro to a fillable form that can be emailed out, filled in by your customers electronically and then emailed back to you. End Users only need the free acrobat reader to open and fill out the form. You'll also learn how to replace pages in your form and set up or change fields.

Presenter: Krystal Hosmer

"Create Quick Image & Video SlideShows with SlideShowPro"

Use SlideShowPro to quickly place images or videos online.  SlideShowPro is a flash-based slideshow application that requires very little setup to create slideshows with images or video.  It is very customizable and can work with Flash, Lightroom or just Dreamweaver.  

Presenter: John Olson

Hi everyone,

I'm teaching a 3 hour workshop on understanding and using the CURVES command in Adobe Photoshop through UNLV Educational Outreach next Saturday, July 18th. There is still space available. You can register here.

Workshop Description

Curves (when used with adjustment layers and masks) are the most powerful and flexible, but least understood, editing feature in Photoshop. By the end of this workshop, you will understand exactly what the lines mean and how to analyze a photo to create a curve to fix common photos issues such as underexposure, color casts, dull color, washed out skies, faces in shadow, and a myriad of other problems in a few clicks.

THIS IS NOT A FREE WORKSHOP.

Also Coming up:

Manufacturing Beauty with Martin Lapid

Into to Lightroom with Nate Ludens

Our Dreamweaver Group Co-Manager Jill Merk is also offering a workshop this summer.

Designing a Website from Concept to Completion Workshop

Semi-Annual VEGAS USER GROUP joint meeting.
Come join all 4 Vegas Groups June 15, 2009 @ 7:00-9:00PM.

VegasPUG - Photoshop & Print User Group
VegasAUG - Adobe User Group with Video & Design
VegasFLEX - Flex, Flash, Flash Catalyst & Rich Internet Application User Group
VegasDUG - Dreamweaver & Web User Group

Located at the UNLV Paradise Campus
851 E. Tropicana Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89119

FREE Pizza!  FREE Soda! 

Come. Eat. and Enjoy the Raffle for 4 FREE Adobe CS4 Packages!
FREE Linda.com Accounts! FREE Tshirts, Pens, Stickers, and more!!

Join the groups. Bring a friend. Bring a co-worker.

Spread the word and we will see you there!

My name is Jamie Lea Braithwaite {{jamieBEE}}. I was born & raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I now serve as the Manager of the Adobe Las Vegas Photoshop (& Print) User Group {{VegasPUG.org}}. All my hopes and dreams are to share techno-geek skills with the world!

I started my graphic design career at the age of 7 making birthday cards, posters, and flyers on our Apple IIe and dot-matrix printer. I have always been “that girl” that can help get something done on the computer.