Hi. I wanted to take a second to introduce myself and to tell you about my role here at Macromedia. I am Matt Brown and I am the new Community Manager for the Dream Products here at Macromedia. The Dream Products group at Macromedia is responsible for Dreamweaver, ColdFusion Studio, UltraDev, HomeSite, Fireworks and JRun Studio. What is the role of the Community Manager and why should you care? The primary goal of the Community Manager and the Designer and Developer Marketing organization to which I report is to build, grow, and nurture an enthusiastic designer and developer community. A strong developer and designer community is a community that feels empowered, respected, heard and involved. Our mission is to provide the mechanisms to educate, create awareness, inform, and capture feedback that will drive our company towards superior products and programs for the developer and designer community. (That was from the groups charter... I don't talk like that... honest.) To make that work I am going to be working with a team creating programs here at Macromedia to take in your feedback and get that to the development and marketing teams for the various products. I am very excited about this new role and to be working here with you all to make something very special happen with this community. You can reach me by posting here and adding "attn CM" to the beginning of your subject lines to make it easier to find your posts. You are also welcome to mail me directly at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the same "attn CM" at the beginning of your subject line. You can also call me at my desk at (650) 481-4525. If you need to, you can call me on my cell phone as well. About me. I have been here at Macromedia for just under six years. I have managed partner relations for Dreamweaver and UltraDev for the last 3 or so years and before that I was on the QA team for Dreamweaver, Backstage and xRes. Before I came to Macromedia, I was the Mac support lead for Photoshop at Adobe and at the very beginning of time I was at Ashton Tate working on their graphics products as a production artist in their documentation group. At Adobe I was active in many community building roles on line at AOL and in person so I am especially looking forward to being back to working directly with our designers and developers. I have technical edited a bunch of Photoshop, HTML, and Illustrator books. I was on the faculty of the San Francisco State University's MultiMedia Studies program for a couple years and taught at Foothill College on the Peninsula for a couple of years. I have spoken on various Dreamweaver related subjects at Thunder Lizard conferences, UCONs, Internet World, Seybold, MacWorld, WWDC and user groups of all sorts. My actual degree is in Soviet East European Studies, so a rousing discussion of the First Five Year Plan or Rural Electrification would be most welcome and given the subject matter so far on the list probably fairly likely to happen. I make furniture in my spare time. I make wine with a group every harvest and I have been dabbling in making beer (ales) and distilling eau d'vie. I also like cooking and sea kayaking although not at the same time. _________________________________________________________ Matt Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dream Products Community Manager Macromedia (650) 481-4525 cell (415) 706-6543 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
