Joy and Tim recently presented at the Chicago Area Adobe User Group monthly meetup on the topic of transition from print to web and digital design, an intimidating prospect for many print-based designers.

Showcasing techniques and lessons learned from past Mightybytes projects, they provided valuable insights to a packed house of enthusiastic art directors, designers, and other industry pros at Ascend Training’s downtown location. Here are some of the take-aways from that presentation.

Last week I attended Bridgeline Digital’s “Content Revolution Tour” and learned how to build a better content strategy. Here are three key take-aways.

Bridgeline Digital, the host of the Content Revolution Tour, invited people to join Content Marketing Experts Ann Handley (Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs) and Becki Dilworth (Vice President of Digital Strategy at Bridgeline Digital) for a one-hour breakfast strategy jam session. The goal: learn to build a successful content marketing program.

Marya Hornbacher says she'll start tweeting when she can fit a Russian novel into 140 characters. The Pulitzer and Pushcart-nominated author and I sat down to discuss new work, social media, the collapse of publishing, and writing to your passions.

I first met Marya Hornbacher in 2008 when I interviewed her for Bookstream just before her third book, Madness: A Bipolar Life, was released. We had a great rapport in the interview, found we have a lot in common, and have since kept in touch. I was thrilled to learn that she is currently in Chicago a few days per week teaching at Northwestern University and will be reading almost entirely new work at Women and Children First bookstore on Friday, February 25th. We sat down in her room at the Dana Hotel for a quick chat between meetings and classes.

Author Tim Frick shares an exclusive ‘10 Tips for Increasing Online Engagement’ list on the Return on Engagement page on Amazon.com.

Tim shares starting points to help you build credibility and ultimately foster engagement with customers, connections, and community members.

The tip list topics include:

Where do developers go to drool over new features and swap sci-fi stories? DrupalCon of course.

Steve and James attended DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco and here are the top five things they found most impressive: