Today I received notice of approval to start up the Bloomington/Normal Illinois Rich Internet Applications Adobe user group! If you are a Central Illinois Web designer or developer, then we are inviting you to join, discuss, and network with us.
We also want to reach out to recruiters and businesses who would like to publish design and development positions to a group of professional designers and developers. Your positions would directly reach professionals within the Central Illinois Area and would be published in several social media platforms.
The user’s group is located in Bloomington/Normal, IL, establishing a Central Illinois Adobe platform developer point of presence, community, networking, and social hub which centers on Rich Internet Application development using Adobe tools. We discuss Flex, ColdFusion, Flash, JavaScript, IDEs (e.g. FlashBuilder, Flash, TextMate, DreamWeaver, etc…), along with topics of developer collaboration and project management, which includes discussions of Version Control, RAD development, and team managment tools.
To establish a group that will allow networking of local developers, increase local awareness of Adobe technologies, and provide a Web and social-networking presence which is managed by member volunteers. To reach out to local businesses and recruiting companies to provide employment/contract assistance to community developers/designers. To provide a place where developers can come to discuss problems and solutions, establish and maintain contacts and friendships in a relaxed social atmosphere. To have some fun in all these processes.
Our next steps are to contact local universities and colleges in an effort to obtain a venue for monthly meetings. Additionally, we are working to obtain relationships with recruiters and businesses who wish to network design and development positions with our group. We are going to continue to “get the word out” and let people know about the new Adobe group. We will be working social networking on a continuous basis.
Absolutely! We need your help in letting people know about the group and where they can join. Let your friends and colleagues know about us, tweet about us and share our links amongst your social networks. If you are a Central Illinois designer or developer, recruiter or business, come join us!
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Very recently, myself and family relocated from the Portland, OR area to Bloomington/Normal, IL. As a result, we needed to decide what we wanted to do with the consultancy. I decided that Douglas Reynolds Consulting should live on, should continue to provide service to our existing clients, and continue to develop new clients. Since, to a great degree, our services are provided remotely, we feel quite confident that we'll be able to continue on with business as usual. We've been spending much of our time getting networked into the new location, communicating with our clients, developing leads for new clients, and managing account changes, etc... We have much to do yet, amounting to a task list with over 150 items resulting from relocating. We are very excited about opportunities that are present in Illinois and prospecting is going well. Certainly, we are interested in your inquiries for RIA, Business Systems, and Executive Administration services, regardless of location, so feel free to contact us to discuss your needs.
We have big, no, huge community goals this year in our new location. We will be contributing to the community of developer's in the Bloomington/Normal area. I have already begun this process by submitting an application to start an Adobe Community RIA group with the hopes of bringing developers in this area together to network, share information, assist one-another with troubleshooting problems, and have a place to "get their geek on" and have fun. Additionally, we wish to bring area business and education (we have Illinois State University and Illinois Wesleyan University here) awareness of the local developers and Adobe platform solutions with the hopes of strengthening the Adobe community and resources available to those businesses and institutions. We're going for Adobe community with all of our resources.
We are going to be adding a series of 'Kit' solution packages. We are currently breaking down all of the services which we provide, discerning which ones are most in demand, and which ones best compliment one-another. We will then be putting together a standardized set of packages and pricing. Of course, any Kit may be customized to fit individual client's needs, but we will be able to provide a series of entry points, better communicating initial project budget and needs requirements. We believe this will simplify the process of providing for client needs, as well as to create a degree of self-service that potential clients may use in comparing various solutions.
In order to assist with the new Kit structure, brand awareness, and sales/retention, we are going to be adding a new internal position, Director of Evangelism. Our new Director, to be named in the next couple of weeks, will aide in Kit development, marketing and sales, and evangelism of Douglas Reynolds Consulting services.
Within our Adobe platform development, we will be implementing Flex 4 for all future developments, unless otherwise specified by client requirements. ColdFusion will continue to be our server-side platform solution in all cases where possible, falling back on PHP as needed. We intend to incorporate allot more JS jQuery into our maintenance and future projects. We have been so stoked with the UX design results we've achieved, in such a light-weight library, that jQuery has won our hearts and minds.
We will be coming up with more business/platform development ideas along the way, because, well, that is what we do. Thank you to all of our clients for making it possible for us to do what we love...Develop.
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