Public Seminars

Public seminars from Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción

Are you putting together a conference or event? Are you looking for a organized, informative and entertaining seminar that will please almost any audience? Anne-Marie can help. As demonstrated in her past seminars, she is a witty and knowledgable speaker who can customize her presentations to fit almost any event.

Past seminars (all of which can be adapted to your event) include:

• "Marketing Your Creative Business Online" (The Chicago Creative Coalition)
• "Ten Steps to Problem-Free Digital Files" (Chicago Press Corporation customer seminar)
• "Social Media Marketing: Business Essentials" and "Social Media Marketing: Extending Your Business Reach" (Institute of Graphics and Imaging)
• "XPress Style Sheet Secrets" (ThunderLizard QuarkXPress Seminars)
• "Social Marketing and Publicity" "InDesign and InCopy" and "InDesign to EPUB" (PubWest Conference)
• "Principles of Page Layout" and "Marketing Your Creative Business Online" (Mac Design Conference)
• "100 Photoshop Tips in 45 Minutes" and "Fixing Scans from Hell" (Minnesota Free Press Association)
• "Web Site Development: Essential Pre-Design Steps" and "Maintaining and Marketing Your Web Site" (Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Annual Directors Meeting)

She can present one of her fine-tuned presentations or develop a seminar on a different topic. Call Anne-Marie at 312-946-1100 or e-mail her to discuss how she can help make your next event a memorable success.

Why Anne-Marie? Her Fans speak. . .

Anne-Marie,
If you are not a god, you are an angel! I attended your seminar today and asked about the effects not printing to our proofer through the oris rip. Couldn't wait to try your suggestion, ran into work and it printed beautifully. You saved me hours of trial and error (more importantly, we can now move forward to InDesign3). Hope you are around when we go to 4! Thank you sincerely,

Barbara H.
-via the internet

Dear Anne-Marie,
I had the fabulous opportunity to attend your InCopy session at the InDesign Conf/CS Conf here in Chicago this past May. I think you are an excellent speaker and I look forward to your newsletter every single time! I have recently forwarded your site to my colleagues in the office to share the "geekness" with them. Not only have I learned a lot from you and your newsletters and podcast (yes, sometimes I think I'm a geek too, as I listen to your and David's podcast while cleaning the house on Saturday AMs), but I have enjoyed the comical approach to your style of conveying information. You ROCK! Keep it up.

Thank you,
Cindi G.,

Anne-Marie,
Best Points of the InCopy Seminar-
You differentiated
1. Layout-based workflow
2. Assignment-based workflow
That was brilliant.

Back-and-forths between ID/IC showed similarities and important differences.

You clearly explained layout, story, and galley views.

Your bulleted PowerPoint-style pages were genuinely helpful (can't say that about most PP stuff!)

Matthew T.,
Editor