Barbara Binder, InDesign trainer and owner of Rocky Mountain Training, your online Adobe training source, will be giving our opening presentation. Sure you know how to create paragraph rules above and below a paragraph (right?), but now let’s make them fun! Check out some creative uses of the Paragraph Rules dialog box and walk away with some new ideas to spice up your documents.

After the break, we’ll have our live auction. Don’t forget to check our auction website (auction.idugdenver.net) about a week before the meeting to see what will be up for auction. More information on how the auction works is also on the site.

The second presentation, “Best Features You’re Not Using,” presented by Erica Gamet (IDUG Co-Chair) will focus on some of the hidden gems of InDesign CS4. Some of the best new features in a software release don’t get the attention they deserve. We’ll shed a little light on a few of these.

REMEMBER: You need to be a member (which is free) and register ahead of time for the meeting at the Adobe site by clicking here. We hope to see all of you on Tuesday, February 2nd!

At the meeting on Dec. 1, we played a game we like to call “Jeop-ID” that tested our members’ knowledge of InDesign. We went without buzzers or noisemakers this year and assigned silly sounds to them as their buzz-in noise. Our five brave contestants did well, won a few prizes, and, I hope, that everyone enjoyed it. Some of us were just glad that we weren’t standing up in front of the group trying to answer the questions…they weren’t always easy!

We held our auction in silent format this time around. Several of you put bids in on items and we cleared out our 2009 inventory. Thanks to everyone who bid. Remember, if you have suggestions for future items that we could feasibly have donated, please let us know and we’ll see what we can do.

Our next meeting is going to be on February 2nd, at the usual time of 6 p.m. Remember, we do a networking/meet and greet segment from 6-6:30, with the meeting itself getting started promptly at 6:30. To register (and join, both free), please use the Adobe InDesign User Group website.

Mogo Media’s InDesign Seminar Tour is coming to Denver on February 11th. I will be the featured speaker at the event, so if you haven’t had your fill of me talking about InDesign, please consider attending. More info can be found on the Mogo website. I believe there will be an IDUG discount, but I’ll have details on that soon.

Let’s kick off 2010 just right and make a resolution to learn more about InDesign, meet others in our creative communities, and have fun!

I’ve been given a couple of job opportunities to mention…and sometimes it would be too late to wait to announce them at the meeting. We still have our old forums online, but I thought we might list job opps here on this site, as well. The only issue is…you will have to email me with the opps (if you have them).

Speaking of forums…what are your preferences for member-to-member communications? We could revive our old phpBB forums, ramp up our sadly neglected Facebook page, our Linkedin page. Something else?

Let us hear, either in the comments or via email, what you’d like to see. Or come talk to me at the next meeting. Thanks, in advance, for your input!

Thank you, also, to our wonderful members. Without you guys, Brian and I…well, we’d be talking to the walls for one thing! And it wouldn’t be any fun without the wonderful energy our members bring to the meetings.

As always, please feel free to e-mail us with any questions, comments, or concerns…and we’ll see you at the next IDUG meeting in December!

1)  A folder that could be used for either the Maintenance Facility or the Training center
2) A tri-fold brochure on the Maintenance Facility
3) A brochure (possibly more than one) on the Training Center

The Maintenance Facility and the Training Center are located on the same campus, but the targeted audience would be very different from one another. We’d love to drive a lot of people to our web site (we haven’t built up pages on them yet), but then have the traditional marketing materials for individuals truly interested in renting out the site or contracting our mechanics for services.

We were hoping to get started on this project in November - and if possible, complete it by the end of the year.

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT:
Wendy Forbes, Public Information Officer
North Metro Fire Rescue District
303.252.3017
Email: WForbes@northmetrofire.org

We will be getting those up very soon. Seems October is a very busy time for all of our members and volunteers. That’s a good thing…unless, of course, you’re waiting for the wrap-up notes.

Watch this space!

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Agenda
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6:00 Networking and Help Desk
6:30 Chapter Business
6:45 Design Deconstruction
7:45 Break
7:55 Auction
8:10 Design Deconstruction cont.
8:55 Wrap Up

We hope to see you all there on the 6th. Remember, you must register (and become a member, if you haven’t already) on the Adobe webite.

Jeff Gamet talked about “The Secret Lives of Fonts.” He gaves us a brief history of fonts on the computer, discussed font management and where fonts “live” on your computer, and gave us links to some little font goodies. The Font Location chart he showed is on the last page of the Meeting Wrap Up Notes. After that, we had our “Panel of InDesign Experts,” which consisted of Jeff Gamet, Barb Binder, and Erica Gamet. We ended up talking about what we like about InDesign, cool tips, favorite new features, and what advice to give someone just starting out in InDesign. It was a fun, casual exchange between the panel and the group. If you liked this format, please let us know and we will do more of them (maybe even with different people!).

We changed up the items auction a little this time and raffled off InDesign and a few other prizes in our “Economy Busting Raffle.” In the end, the copy of InDesign went for a mere $2 raffle ticket (now referred to as the “Golden Ticket”). We’re pleased so many people were able to participate.

Please download the meeting wrap-up notes, or view them on the Adobe site. Also, items that were not auctioned are up for online bidding at the IDUG Denver auction site.

Please join us on October 6th for the next IDUG Denver meeting. We also hope to have some news about our next “Off Month” training session. Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting and we’ll see you in October!

We will have our auction, as usual, but with a small twist for this one meeting only. We will sell raffle tickets for $2 each or 3 for $5. These will be used to raffle off the meeting’s copy of Adobe InDesign CS4. This will give those who have not been able to participate in the auction a chance to win “The Big One.”

We hope you’ll join us for our upcoming meeting. As a reminder, you’ll need to register (and become a member, if you’re not already) on the Official Adobe site. It’s free to join and free to attend, so what are you waiting for? See you there!

We auctioned off the Creative Suite, did some mixing and mingling, learned some stuff, and had a little fun to kick off the summer. Please download the meeting wrap-up notes, or view them on the Adobe site. Also, items that were not auctioned will be up for online bidding soon at the IDUG Denver auction site.

Please join us on August 4th for the next IDUG Denver meeting…and keep an eye out here for the announcement about our next “Off Month” training session. Until next time…