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Come join the webqem team at this month’s ACUGA meeting. For the October ACUGA meeting we will be joined by Adobe Connect Pro Technician, Ryan Monger.  Ryan will be taking us through the audio best practices for Connect Pro Meetings. Some of the topics we are covering are:

• Tips and Tricks for creating a great VoIP experience
• Deciding between Integrated Teleconferencing and VoIP
• How to create a blended environment using both teleconferencing and VoIP
• Audio considerations for meeting recordings
• And more…

The online meeting is being held on Tuesday 27th October at 11.00am Sydney time. Make sure you register and we hope to see you there – and don’t forget to join the ACUGA user group.

ACUGA is short for the Adobe Connect Users Group Asia-Pacific

webqem is launching maxoom in Malaysia this October with a free seminar showcasing maxoom. Operations Director, Larry, will be flying to Kuala Lumpur to join webqem Asia Business Development Manager, Daniel Ong, who will be presenting for this launch seminar. The seminar will demonstrate the key functionality of maxoom with some excellent examples, such as the ability to instantly create multiple images sizes from the single master image.

The seminar will be running next week on Wednesday 28th Oct, from 10am to 11.30am. It is being held at: The Royale Bintang Kuala Lumpur, 17-21 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 855100 Kuala Lumpur. If you would like to attend, please reserve your place by calling us on +65 9179 9527 or send an email to danielo@webqem.com. This seminar is coinciding with the connect pro seminar which is running the day before, so why not come to both.

webqem is hosting more Connect Pro seminars next week, this time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is a great opportunity for webqem as it marks the first seminar to be held in Malaysia. The free 90 minute seminar will demonstrate to people for all sectors, whether corporate, government, not for profit and education, how Connect Pro can drive out cost in collaboration and be using for elearning and conferencing purposes.

The seminar will be running next week on Tuesday 27th Oct, from 10am to 11.30am. It is being held at: The Royale Bintang Kuala Lumpur, 17-21 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur. If you would like to attend, please reserve your place by calling us on +65 9179 9527 or send an email to danielo@webqem.com.

webqem & Adobe teamed up to host a 90 minute seminar on shortening sales cycles and lowering selling costs via Adobe Connect Pro. Larry was the primary speaker at this free seminar and took sales and marketing people through the many ways that Connect Pro can benefit an organisation. Some of these benefits were: dramatically reducing sales and marketing costs, how to qualifying prospects quicker, and speeding up the sales process through frequent meetings.

Like the other seminar held by webqem that week, this one was successful and webqem is likely to be holding more seminars like this one in Hong Kong. Keep eye out on this blog for upcoming seminars.

In Hong Kong last week, webqem and Asiasoft hosted a free seminar on Adobe Connect Pro . IT directors from companies in Hong Kong were invited to join webqem Operations Director, Larry, for a 90 minute seminar on driving down costs in eLearning and conference using Adobe’s Acrobat Connect Pro. All attendees were shown how they can securely stay connected to people from all over the globe, as well as communicate with greater frequency and higher quality.

The seminar was very successful and webqem is likely to run similar seminars next year, so be sure to keep an eye out.

The thought of being able to hold a Connect Pro meeting in the palm of your hand is hard to believe. Well not anymore, as Adobe has unveiled its plans to release a new flash based application for mobile devices. In a recent post on the webqem blog, it was revealed that this kind of application would not be far away as the new Flash CS5 will enables developers to export their applications from Flash to the iPhone – but we didn’t expect it to be this close!

It not just the iPhone that will be benefit from this: Google Android, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian OS, and RIM with their Blackberry OS, will also be able to run a connect meeting from their phones.

For more information, visit the Connect Pro User Group, where there is also is a really good tutorial and a cool interactive demo.

Good news from the Adobe MAX conference – Adobe is now closer than ever to running Flash on the Apple iPhone. At Adobe MAX, the company’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe announced that the new Flash Professional CS5 software will enable developers the ability to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new functionality opens iPhone development to millions of designers and developers who currently use Adobe’s popular Flash authoring tools. Adobe already has some examples of Flash applications available on the Adobe Labs site.

Flash is an integral part of many webqem projects, so we are very excited to hear this news. However, we are still holding out to witness a Connect Meeting on our iPhones – we hear that Adobe is not far off, so let us wait in anticipation!

webqem have long been supporters of the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation, and several staff attended the 2009 Pink Ribbon Ball on Saturday 26th September in the ballroom of the Westin Hotel, Sydney.

The theme was black tie with a touch of crystal, and the event was MC’d by Charlotte Dawson, with entertainment from comedian Julia Morris, Diesel, dancers from The Australian Ballet and the dance band Suite Az.

Aragon was the raffle winner of $1000 worth of Jimmy Choo shoes, and was swamped by female admirers soon after. Chris and Les had the winning auction bid for the Marrakesh Date Night.

Luckily there is no footage available of the moves on the dance floor, but the following photos show a great time was had by all.

For all of the K-12 schools out there, Adobe has a great offer for their Creative Suite 4 software. From now until the end of the year, all K-12 schools that purchase a brand new Adobe CS4 site license will receive a 35% discount. To be eligible for this promotion all you need is a previous version of Adobe or Macromedia K-12 school site license and must be K-12 school in Australia. Its that easy.

The Adobe K-12 School Site Licenses allow installation rights for a massive 250 or 500 school-owned or school-leased computers regardless of school enrolment size. K-12 school site licenses also come with valuable DVDs of curriculum and training materials to help educators implement career and technical education programs around design, web, and video programs.

The Adobe K-12 school site licenses are available for the following Creative Suite 4 products:

• Production Premium
• Design Premium
• Design Standard
• Web Premium
• Web Standard

Take advantage of this great offer now and contact us here at webqem.

Adobe has released version 8 of its Photoshop Elements image-editing software and Premiere Elements video-editing software. The bundle offers the most complete photo and video solution by integrating two powerful, yet easy-to-use, products.

With this release, Adobe gives users a completely enhanced ‘Organizer’, which serves as a feature-rich media hub for user’s photos and videos. From the Organizer, user can easily launch directly into Photoshop Elements 8 to create extraordinary photos or Premiere Elements 8 to effortlessly make movies with new, automated features.

Photoshop Elements comes in both Windows and Mac versions, however Premiere Elements is windows only. These new pieces of software are a step down from their Photoshop & Premiere Pro CS4 versions, but still offer lots for your money. For more information please visit the software page of our website.