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During this presentation you will learn, in a fun and interactive way, about project management and how it can be used in everyday life. Learn some ideas, skills, tools and techniques to help improve aspects of your life. Plus you may even gain some ideas on how to apply this information to your workday.

The evening will include:

• What is Project Management?
• Defining a Project
• Defining the Lifecycle
• The International Standard – An Overview to Consider
• The 5 process groups
• The 9 Knowledge areas
• Applying the standard – Tools & Techniques for everyone
• A High Level Review of Project Management Software Tools

Speaker bio: Nathaniel J. Quintana is an entrepreneur and the Director of Chaos He brings close to a decade of portfolio, program and project management plus more than five years of teaching/training experience.  He has consulted and worked in an array of industries such as the Department of Defense, Civil Government, Aerospace, at Harvest PM. Manufacturing, Convention Services, Call Centers and Education. Mr. Quintana was selected as a member of the 2009 Denver Business Journal’s list of 40 under forty.  You can also find him educating and entertaining audiences on the internet with his netcast show Entertainment for the Rest of Us.

Come join us for a wonderful evening on Project Management.  Learn everything you ever wanted on the subject and meet and mingle with like minded industry colleagues.

The evening will include:

        What is Project Management?

• Defining a Project
• Defining the Lifecycle

The International Standard – An Overview to Consider

• The 5 process groups
• The 9 Knowledge areas

Applying the standard – Tools & Techniques for everyone

A High Level Review of Project Management Software Tools

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Questions and Answers

Design to Print Denver Media Group is off for the summer.  No meetings scheduled for July and August.

Please join us on September 16th for a session on “Project Management”.

seOverflow, a local search engine optimization company, will present to you everything you need to know about the hot new trends on the internet.  This presentation on Social Media will include why every business needs to be doing it, and how you can get started off on the right foot.

Join us and learn how to enhance your business marketing and networking use of:

• Blogging
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• and Facebook

About the presenter:

Reid Fenlaw is Director of Link Building at seOverflow, a Denver based search engine optimization firm.  Reid has been with seOverflow since its inception and oversees “offpage” optimization for seOverflow’s clients, spanning a wide range of industries and professions.  Reid’s study of traditional link building practices, as well as Social Media, plays a large role in his clients’ successes online.

Most people send either application or PDF files for output. This course describes the pros and cons of each. PDF is fast becoming the defacto standard for digital document exchange in print production environments. This course is designed to help you avoid costly mistakes associated with problems associated with application files and pdf files that result in higher costs for output. To create a good PDF file, first you have to create a good application file. Therefore the seminar starts by describing how to create good application files by avoiding the two greatest problems fonts and file formats and continues to talk about unique problems with specific applications. After talking about application files we talk different creation strategies, which work, which do not and how to insure that you create a good PDF file

You will learn:

~      How to create, preflight and print  “perfect” PDF files
~      The evolution of font and  PDF issues as well as different solutions
~      Why to use application files PDF and PostScript?
~      Integrated vs. “Do it Yourself” PDF workflows
~      Issues of font embedding and subsetting fonts
~      Problems and solutions with the transparency features
~      How a PDF file/workflow can streamline production
~      How to use smooth shading and idiom recognition to eliminate banding
~      How to preview and flatten transparency issues
~      The “must-have” pdf tools for preflighting and editing pdf files
~      Strategies to encourage your customers to preflight their files
~      How PDF files and soft proofing can help cut costs
~      Application-specific problems: (Quark, Indesign, Powerpoint, etc)

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who sends application (Indesign, Word, XPress, Illustrator, Freehand) or PDF files for output from high resolution output devices. This includes designers, illustrators, photographers, copywriters, in-house staff and at home desktop publishers. This is filled with so many hints and tips it is also used by the sales, customer service and prepress staff in service providers.

• Discover new animation, video, and 3D design tools – all within a comprehensive, integrated design environment.
• Learn to use existing skills to try new creative possibilities.
• Explore new, simpler ways of working that let you do more in less time.
• Learn how to work interactively with clients and colleagues, sharing screens and hosting live reviews across the hall or around the world.

Mark your calendar, and don’t miss this opportunity to express yourself in exciting, new ways.

Attendees will be entered to win Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, but you must be present to win.

• Discover new animation, video, and 3D design tools – all within a comprehensive, integrated design environment.
• Learn to use existing skills to try new creative possibilities.
• Explore new, simpler ways of working that let you do more in less time.
• Learn how to work interactively with clients and colleagues, sharing screens and hosting live reviews across the hall or around the world.

Mark your calendar, and don’t miss this opportunity to express yourself in exciting, new ways.

Attendees will be entered to win Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, but you must be present to win.

Design to Print Denver Media Group proudly presents on March 18th

Adobe CS4

More information to come.