http://www.aaronwest.net/blog/index.cfm The Personal Blog of Aaron West. en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:05:01 -0400 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:24:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss trajik210@gmail.com trajik210@gmail.com trajik210@gmail.com http://www.aaronwest.net/blog/index.cfm no http://www.aaronwest.net/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/18/The-Adobe-Community-Expert-Program-is-Back-With-a-New-Name A few hours ago Liz Frederick, manager of the Adobe Community Expert program, <a href="http://lizfrederick.blogspot.com/2010/01/adobe-community-professionals.html">announced</a> the program name has been changed to Adobe Community Professionals. The history behind the original name and why it has been changed might not be interesting to you, but I'm proud that I was part of the process to help choose a new name. In fact, the entire Adobe Community Experts group was responsible with coming up with candidate program names that were ultimately submitted to Adobe for final approval. I'm quite happy with the new name as I believe it reflects more on what we are tasked to do. Which is... <blockquote> The Adobe Community <strike>Experts</strike> Professionals Program is a community based program made up of Adobe customers who share their product expertise with the world-wide Adobe community. The Adobe Community <strike>Experts'</strike> Professional mission is to provide high caliber peer-to-peer communication educating and improving the product skills of Adobe customers worldwide. </blockquote> Being an <em>expert</em> in anything is immensely tough to do. In fact, I often argue that there aren't any experts, there are simply people at different stages of understanding and learning. At the moment you consider yourself an expert you're likely to stop working hard, stop investigating, learning, and growing in your field, and ultimately stop being an <em>expert</em>. Being an Adobe Community Professional on the other hand still means you work hard at what you do, you serve as a leader in your online community, and you help others learn and become more skilled by sharing your expertise. I welcome the switch from expert to professional and am extremely happy to report that my request to stay with the program in 2010 has been accepted. This marks my eighth consecutive year in a program that has gone from Team Macromedia, to Adobe Community Experts, to Adobe Community Professionals. A big "shout out" and thanks to <a href="http://lizfrederick.blogspot.com/">Liz Frederick (Adobe Community Professional Manager)</a>, <a href="http://adrocknaphobia.com/">Adam Lehman (ColdFusion Product Manager)</a>, <a href="http://www.rluxemburg.com/">Rachel Luxemburg</a>, and the entire <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion">ColdFusion</a> team for allowing me to serve the ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex communities yet again. I also want to send out a hearty welcome to new members of the program! I went through <a href="http://lizfrederick.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-acps-for-2010.html">Liz's list</a> and picked out names I a) recognized and b) were new to the program. [More] ColdFusion Adobe Community Professionals Adobe Community Experts Flex Flash Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:24:00 -0400 http://www.aaronwest.net/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/18/The-Adobe-Community-Expert-Program-is-Back-With-a-New-Name