Check out the seminar page at MOGO Media for all the nitty-gritty information and to register. Registration links will be added soon.

I hope you’ll join me at Boulder Digital Arts on July 14th for this all-day in-depth seminar. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions you might have. Seating at BDA is very limited, so don’t wait!

If you’re in the Toronto, ON area, we’ve also just added a stop in your city! Visit the MOGO Media site for more information.

I am a speaker, trainer, and fan of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Apple Keynote (to name a few). An Adobe Certified Expert, I conduct training for corporations onsite, as well as hold open training classes for anyone that wants to learn. Based between Denver and Boulder, Colorado, I am available for training and speaking throughout the Rocky Mountain West, and beyond.

My classes run from 3-hour introductory evening classes to my 2-day intensive InDesign training. I’m currently presenting the “InDesign to ePub Seminar” across the country. If you don’t see your city listed, be sure to cast a vote for a visit to your city! In the near future, I will be expanding my class offerings to include, among other titles, What’s New: InDesign CSx, InDesign for Non-Designers, and The Delicate Art of Working with a Print Provider.

In the meantime, check out my Current Training, and feel free to email me (using the Contact Me link to the right) to be added to the class mailing list, get info, or just say, “Hi!” Thanks for stopping by and come back soon! ]]> http://www.ericagamet.com/about-erica-gamet/feed/ 0 http://www.ericagamet.com/about-erica-gamet/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EricaGamet/~3/YyxUlNnO6jM/ http://www.ericagamet.com/off-and-running-in-2011/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:00:49 +0000 Erica http://www.ericagamet.com/?p=522 Well…it’s 2011 and it looks to be a very busy, productive, and exciting year! I hope you’ve all set some great goals for the year and are excited as I am for what lies ahead. A new year always gets my creative juices flowing and I can’t seem to write down my new ideas quick enough.

One of the biggest things I’m very excited about in 2011 is a new seminar I’ll be conducting with MOGO Media: The InDesign to ePUB Seminar. This 8-city tour kicks off late February in New York City and will look at what processes you need to master in InDesign to create an ePUB file and what tools and skills you’ll need to turn that file into a well-crafted final product that’s ready to share with the world. Check out the whole seminar session info over at MOGO Media’s website and sign up soon to get early-bird pricing. I hope to see you at one of the ePUB seminars!

MOGO Media is also offering their InDesign Seminar Tour again this year…I’ll be presenting this full-day seminar here in Denver, and the tour runs throughout the country and throughout 2011. Check out the InDesign Seminar Tour page here.

I will also be doing a lot of InDesign training right here in Colorado, of course…starting out with my Intro to InDesign series for Boulder Digital Arts. You can read all about these classes at BDA’s site. While you’re there, be sure to check out all the benefits you can take advantage of if you become a member…lots of discounts, free events, and member-only benefits. Also, if you’re looking for a cool co-working space, BDA’s new open plan co-working venue will be open in February. Check out their site for all the details: you can lease an office with a door, have an assigned desk with locking cabinet, or just use the space on a drop-in basis. The space will have communal areas as well, giving freelancers and other independent workers the chance to gather around the proverbial water cooler.

Finally, I’ll continue to lead the Denver chapter of the Adobe InDesign User Group – known as IDUG Denver – as I’ve done for the past 4 years. It’s a lot of fun, meeting with other InDesign users – both beginner and advanced – and talking about our favorite program. If you haven’t attended a meeting, yet, I hope you can make it to one or several this coming year: It’s free to join and free to attend. We meet the first Tuesday of even-numbered months (February 1st will be the first in 2011) at Front Range Community College in Westminster. Check out our site for all the details…and I hope you’ll join us!.

Well…after looking at this list, looks like I’ve got a lot of work to do to prepare for the year. Be sure to check back here often for everything I’m up to…and keep an eye on the calendar to the right that lists all of my events. I wish each of you and extraordinary 2011 and hope to see many of you along the way.

Happy New Year and Have a Wonderful 2011!

As a small, local, independent trainer, I hope that none of my students walk away feeling unsatisfied with what was learned in my class. The only “more” I want them yearning for is how to do more cool stuff in their particular software.

Does this mean that all national or large training companies are bad? Absolutely not. I just think that you get a few extra perks – warm fuzzies – when you choose an independent trainer.

For instance, my classes tend to be smaller, not so much of the “herding cattle” approach. This allows me to give each student a little personalized attention, if that’s what’s needed. I can also customize and tweak class content on-the-fly if the group is gravitating a particular way.

I am also able to make myself available to participants outside of class. This might be answering questions about the workbook or topics ahead of time, or follow-up questions emailed to me after the class. And, since I offer post-training consultation, I am able to continue working with a participant and, possibly, to follow up on any issues right in their working environment.

There are a lot of small, independent trainers offering high quality instruction just about everywhere. Here in the Denver area, there are several and I’m lucky to be good friends with some of the best. While we independent trainers might not offer “one-stop shopping” for all of your training needs, chances are that we’ll know someone that teaches just what you’re looking for. All you have to do is ask us.

Don’t forget to check out my Current Training page to see what classes I’m currently offering.

Lots of sites (like ericagamet.com) are using WordPress at their core. You’d be surprised that many of them don’t look like blogs…because they’re not! With a little bit of tweaking and re-arranging, a WordPress site can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) to look just like a “regular” website.

Come to my free hour-long seminar to find out what WordPress is, how people are using it beyond blogging, and ways to customize a WordPress site to your liking. I won’t be getting all technical at this seminar…don’t want to scare anyone away. I hope you’ll join me for my casual chat about WordPress.

Location: Buzz Coffee – Longmont
Date: 11-18-2009
Time: 7:00 pm