Adobe Education Leader and classroom teacher Nicole Dalesio discusses how she has built her brand as an educator and the many benefits she had enjoyed as a result. This segment is part of the free online professional development workshop, "Build Your Brand: Getting Started" available on the Adobe Education Exchange.

See how Adobe Muse makes it easier to create optimal and memorable experiences for your website visitors. Now visitors will be able to sign up for newsletters, register for events, and view photos and other content, all using built-in tools that can be configured and styled to look like the rest of your site design. In this session, Adobe Evangelist Terry White will demonstrate how to add rich interactivity to:• Keep your content organized with custom navigation, tabs, and accordions• Add interactive slide shows, lightboxes, and contact forms• Embed arbitrary HTML to add maps, videos, social media buttons, and feeds.

Learn how social technology is transforming the shape of design and culture for more and more people, and what it can mean for you. Dylan Roscover, founder of The Experiential Company, will share insights on this growing phenomenon, the toolset he uses, and a few key techniques you can employ to stand out from the crowd creatively.In this session, you'll learn:• The effects of social technology on user and client expectations• Tools and workflows that harmonize with these new expectations• Techniques that alleviate technical stress and yield greater creativity

Bonairean youth are often stereotyped as just hang out either looking for trouble or not doing anything productive. The truth is that the majority of Bonairean young people want to make their dreams become a reality but for some, it is a struggle. Unfortunately, many have given up. But the good news is that we can do something about that. We can make the youth's voice and dreams be heard. We can empower the youth in our communities by providing them with the skills they need to effect change on Bonaire. The we set-up a town-hall meeting in each town where the youth can share their vision for their own town. Their solutions should be in the following areas: - closing the culture gap (help prevent differences between cultures in their town and stimulate mutual understanding) - strengthen the intergenerational infrastructure (bringing seniors and youth together) The ideas need to be narrowed down the top 3 best ideas for each area. After this the youth should brainstorm on activities for the two areas. Finally the youth should implement the ideas themselves using youth media, social media and music.

In a social media tech class, Community School South students define and bring light to stereotypes. 16 students explore the positives and negatives of stereotypes.

YES film project designed by youth group of Shilpa Sayura Foundation to create Child Solder 90m film by up-scaling the Child Solder short created for Adobe Aspire Awards 2013 as a collaborative project between Kandy and Lahugala youth who live 250km apart. The project aims to provide a solution to Youth Employment while addressing the issue of social acceptance of child soldiers returning to civil society after rehabilitation. The YES film project plans to setup a youth social media enterprice, provide education, training and employment for youth to produce digital films on social issues and to become new genertion social film makers to make digital revenu and employment. The project hopes to become sustainable by creating revenue from community and business media services and providing media education setting up a mobile film school to reach under-served youth with creative talents to help them develop digital media skills to be employed in creative fields. This project addressing youth issues in education, training, employment and a globally important social issue of child soldiers shall be completed in one year with the guidance of AYV Lead educators and Film Industry professionals. Uniqness of YES Film Project is that it develops youth, produces a tangible social good and address a global issue concerned with global youth to make positive impact in Society.

The object of FotoSynthesis is to create a self-sustaining education program to connect middle school students in the DC area with middle schools students from around the world through a combination of social media and photography. Students will share photographs online to establish communications, practice a new art form, and learn the importance of social media. The curriculum will also include reflective writing prompts which will meet national 6th grade writing and reading standards. By combining education, photography, and social media, we seek to emphasize the equal worth of different cultures by highlighting similarities and fostering respect for differences.

This project was created during an "upstanding" assignment where students where asked to use multi-media to convey a message about an important social issue. Dhenzel chose homelessness and used his animation narrative approach to see allow viewers to see through the eyes of a victim.

Eternal Scroll depicts the all too common issue of procrastination and easily accessible social media. Inspired by Strawberry Bootlaces, Eternal Scroll demonstrates the issue through a narrow yet generic perspective of an average student caught between the immediate entertainment of Tumblr and the long term benefits of academic excellence. The storyline directly involves the viewer allowing the audience to directly relate to the issue presented. Eternal Scroll combines animation and video footage and is presented in an exaggerated manner that is humorous and memorable thereby spreading awareness of the issue in a simple yet entertaining way.

Adobe Social has the tools, data, insights, and expertise to crack the code of social. We'll show you what's working, how it's working, and what you need to do to get even better results across all your social media investment.

Learn all about how Adobe Experience Manager helps you organize and manage the delivery of creative assets and other content across your digital marketing channels. Including web, mobile, email, social media, and video.

Watch 5 marketing experts debate if marketing is B.S. They discuss Twitter and Facebook, what influence really is, and why brands need to rely on a complete marketing mix. The panel is moderated by Todd Wasserman (Mashable business editor) and includes B.J. Mendelson (author), Thor Muller (co-founder of Get Satisfaction), Christian Waitzinger (executive creative director, SapientNitro) and Jeff Feldman (director of strategy, Adobe).

Do you know what your social media activities are actually doing for your business?

Adobe Youth Voices is the signature philanthropic effort of the Adobe Foundation intended to empower youth and educators through media making experiences that promote social change. As a part of this effort, the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards celebrates the extraordinary work of young media artists from around the world by recognizing top talent in media production.

Learn how Sony Electronics uses Adobe Social to measure its social activity in real time, and ties social media to results.

Think there's no ROI on social media?

If Facebook users don't love ads, how should advertisers approach social media? What is the opportunity there for brands?

At our Digital Marketing meetup in London a few weeks ago, we got talking to our community about the value of social media for businesses - from measuring ROI to developing a strategy. Check out what they had to say (and see if you can spot yourself!). Learn more about Adobe Social: http://adobe.ly/LikeSocial

So many of us are on social networks, following our favorite brands and companies. We know what we get out of it (offers, coupons and news), but what do the companies get out of it? Adobe Social can help prove the value of social media.

See how to use Adobe Social to manage sponsored stories ads on Facebook. Sponsored stories enable advertisers to amplify their messages to the right audience - friends and fans, and even friends of fans.

Use Adobe Social to monitor social media conversations and see how they affect your company's bottom line. Use keywords to gather qualitative data, such as sentiment, and quantitative data such as number of mentions and audience size. Work with Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to get insight into how these social media conversations affect business objectives, like revenue.

Going beyong engagement metrics with Adobe Social to determine business value from your social media strategies.

Watch how Adobe Social shows how social media is driving people to your company's web site and interact with your business. The Social Intelligence area shows the conversations and who is talking, so you can determine social influencers. Using Adobe Social with the full Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, you can use see how social media mentions and conversations affect revenue.

Working on social media campaigns across a global company can be complicated. Adobe Social helps social media marketers create a worldwide structure with a local focus.

How to use Adobe Social App Builder functionality to create Facebook apps that call your community into action. Watch Jeff Jordan show how easy it is to create a sweepstakes app from the built-in templates.

Adobe Social combines the social marketing stack into a single workflow. Watch Jeff Jordan, product manager, demo various aspects such as app builder and moderation.

The New Yorker was released on the iPhone on August 7, 2012. This video walks through the reader experience, including an intuitive information architecture that allows readers to navigate through sections and articles. It also provides "drawers" that include interactive and supplemental content, as well as share articles through social media.

Adobe updated the components of the Digital Publishing Suite in May 2012. This video provides an overview of sharing in DPS apps, controling what is shared and paywall setup, and how sharing works from an iPad.

Learn how to spread the word about your web portfolio by adding social media and optimizing your portfolio for search engines to find you. Then publish your portfolio and make sure to keep it fresh with new content that promotes the work you're doing. Utilize the example web portfolio assets to finish and publish your own web portfolio.

Part two of the presentation from Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group about the 7 types of social data companies can track and measure.

Part one of the presentation from Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group about the 7 types of social data companies can track and measure.

Part two of the presentation from Susan Etlinger of Altimeter Group about how to pull ROI from social media metrics.

Part one of the presentation from Susan Etlinger of Altimeter Group about how to pull ROI from social media metrics.

John Yi and Marianne Llewellyn present on how businesses succeed when connecting with fans and followers, and how best to analyze and measure those relationships.

Ann Lewnes, SVP of Global Marketing at Adobe, discusses Social media and brands, why data is important and how "marketing is the new finance"

Adobe hosted the first day of Social Media Week 2012 with the focus on data, analytics and ROI. See what some attendees had to say about the day.

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite features the internationally known ASOS digital publication. ASOS is the UK's largest fashion design and beauty store, with publications tailored for both men and women. The publication combines social media, e-commerce through in-app merchandising, and trendsetting editorial.

An original short bilingual spoken word video that discusses community, identity and social issues.

DoD social media practitioners discuss their challenges at this Adobe-sponsored event.

Come see how a few simple UX design patterns can facilitate a shared, social learning experience that blurs the boundaries between inspiration and instruction, as well as between content and community. Three trends are currently sweeping digital media: Tablets are moving from content consumption to creation, social features are increasingly pervasive, and everything is shifting to the cloud. Join us to explore how this trifecta creates exciting opportunities for designers and developers, and to examine our own promising effort at taking advantage of these trends.

Join experts from Adobe and the Amazon Web Services team to discover how to leverage the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) running Adobe Flash Media Server on AWS. Flash Media Server on AWS can be used for high- or low-volume media streaming and social applications such as video chat or multiplayer games. Learn how to configure the Flash Media Server AMI for HTTP video streaming and connect to the Amazon CloudFront CDN. Hear about the options available, tips and tricks from the experts, and new features and functions that will be available later in 2011.

See how to engage customers with content through social media, websites, smartphones, and tablets, whenever or wherever it is convenient to them. Learn how to combine physical and virtual events to create relevant experiences that connect with diverse audiences and then measure the impact on enrollment. Hear how Murdoch University uses these techniques with Adobe Online Marketing Suite to engage potential students and lead them to enroll in university programs that produce additional tuition revenue.

Join Randy Ksar, Motorola Mobility Community Manager for MOTODEV, on best practices to get your app discovered in the marketplace. Randy will cover how to optimize your Android Market listing, utilize social media as a marketing and customer feedback tool, leverage testing to improve your customer ratings, and introduce new marketing opportunities to get your app featured on Motorola Mobility smartphones and tablets.

Change the way you think about live video and social media to drive your business with the new P2P options available in the Adobe Flash Platform. Discover how the new P2P protocols (RTMFP) in Flash Player 10.1 can open new doors for video in your applicat

Join Randy Ksar, Motorola Mobility Community Manager for MOTODEV, on best practices to get your app discovered in the marketplace. Randy will cover how to optimize your Android Market listing, utilize social media as a marketing and customer feedback tool, leverage testing to improve your customer ratings, and introduce new marketing opportunities to get your app featured on Motorola Mobility smartphones and tablets.

Studio H is a public high school curriculum in Bertie County, NC, that sparks rural community development through locally responsive, socially transformative architecture projects designed and built by students.

In "Intercultural Gardens," CCA Community Arts faculty Susanne Cockrell and an interdisciplinary group of students collaborated with 4th grade students at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland to research, design and install an orchard and outdoor garden classroom, supplied and supported by Alameda-based Ploughshares Nursery.

In "Designing Ecologies," CCA Ceramics chair Nathan Lynch and his students collaborated with Oikonos eco-science nonprofit and REBAR art, design, and social activism group to design nesting modules to be adopted and protected to the currently threatened rhinoceros aucklet birds living on Año Nuevo Island.

Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director, welcomes visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art of the Americas Wing’s 53 new galleries, inviting them to share in the wonder of art spanning three millennia and a whole continent.

In 2010, San Francisco was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts’ Mayors Institute of City Design grant for The ARTery Project, a proposal to jumpstart Mid-Market revitalization between UN Plaza and 6th Street, through short term expanded arts programming and long term investment in the arts organizations that make Mid-Market their home. As the signature initiative of The ARTery Project, Lights on Market Street marks the gateways to Mid-Market with three large-scale public lighting installations. The interactive nature of the site-specific light installations encourages passersby to see the neighborhood in a new light. Along with The ARTery Project’s yearlong calendar of arts and cultural public events, visitors are inspired to return again and again to the district.

Jane Urban made “Moonsong,” a stop motion video showing the connection between nature, humans and art, for Fast Forward, an Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston program in which teens create new media work for critique, presentation and distribution.

YBCA:YOU pilot participants discuss the impact of YBCA’s innovative, personalized approach to experiencing art. The program deepened their appreciation of contemporary art as well as their connection to the YBCA community, their own creativity, and the aesthetics of the world around them. 

In "826 Valencia Book Project," CCA Writing and Literature chair Aimee Phan and students collaborated with 826 Valencia to mentor high school students in essay writing, in preparation for a book release.

Add embedded HTML, such as arbitrary code snippets from sources such as Google Maps and YouTube. Use this same feature to add social media buttons and feeds from social media properties and much more.

The Adobe Foundation hosted in 2009 the first Adobe Youth Voices Summit, a three-day digital media immersion event for 100 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) and educators, held at Stanford University. The summit, took place July 30 - Aug. 1, 2009, and brought together youth from undeserved communities around the world for creative workshops focused on all aspects of digital media, including film making, photography, animation and design. The first-of-its-kind summit was designed to empower youth to create media for social change and foster a deeper sense of social and civic engagement.

Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 software offers more options to develop and distribute attractive eLearning content. Add gradients and shadows and easily rotate objects. Create eye-catching quizzes with new out-of the-box templates. Evaluate quiz results more conveniently using the improved quiz review area. Publish in the MP4 format and deliver your content via YouTube and iOS devices. Reach out to Adobe teams and social media forums from within Adobe Captivate.

Turn your productions into $$ by understanding who is accessing your content, whether they are referring it to friends, and what they are saying about it in social communities. Adobe's Online Marketing technologies combine your art with the science of optimized marketing. Join this engaging session to learn more!

How are companies in China and Japan dealing with the boom in online marketing, social media and e-retail? Alex Barron of VCC, an Adobe Omniture partner, shares his experiences.

Change the way you think about live video and social media to drive your business with the new P2P options available in the Adobe Flash Platform. Discover how the new P2P protocols (RTMFP) in Flash Player 10.1 can open new doors for video in your applications while significantly reducing your bandwidth costs. This advanced deep-dive session will guide you through the development process for integrating RTMFP Groups and Multicast technology. Topics will include ActionScript development techniques with Adobe Flash Builder, protocol (RTMP/RTMFP) connection failover, video publishing, and managing the peers within the group.

Ben Watson, Kevin Cochrane, Anthony Franco, Megan Burns, Steven Webster, Joe Sanfilippo, Pierre van Aswegen

Find out how P2P technology (RTMFP) and the Adobe Flash Platform can help create new business opportunities and drive viewership and interactivity to your online application. You'll learn the building blocks of development with RTMFP and how you can leverage it in your applications to add real-time video, voice, and data flow with minimal cost. Get inspired by seeing how customers are using P2P today in their applications, and learn how you can employ them in your online experience.

SmallWorlds.com combines the best of online gaming, social networking, and digital media to deliver an engaging, 3D online social community. The application was developed using Adobe Flex 3, Acrobat Connect Pro, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

Find out how P2P technology (RTMFP) and the Adobe Flash Platform can help create new business opportunities and drive viewership and interactivity to your online application. You'll learn the building blocks of development with RTMFP.

Take a hands-on tour of the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service. In this session, you will learn your way around the available APIs from a Flex application coder's perspective. We'll start by exploring out-of-the-box components...

Explore how advertising and publishing businesses are being affected by emerging Internet trends, such as the rise of social media and the explosive growth of mobile devices.

Learn how to create compelling applications that engage your users. Increasingly, people are connecting with their friends on social networks and spending time on social networking sites.

Get an overview of the latest developments in the Flash Platform relevant to casual and social gaming. You will get a firsthand look at some fun and innovative games from top publishers as well as insight into how these games were made.

Discover how interactive live streaming experiences change the way we think about live video online. High-definition video is used for broadcast, social media, and the enterprise. This session will focus on the live publishing workflow,

Learn everything you need to know to get up and running with the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service, a powerful way to add real-time social features to your Flex applications, such as live audio/video/data streaming...

Hear an introduction to peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), used to create real-time social media applications that leverage the Adobe Flash Platform. Learn how the technology works from the engineers.

Join Nigel Pegg as he shows us how to build your first multiuser Adobe AIR application using the new Cocomo Flex SDK.

Join Jake Hilton as he discusses how to keep your audience engaged with real-time applications using social network APIs.