Anne-Marie Concepcion
President, Seneca Design & Training, Inc.

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Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepción owns Chicago-based Seneca Design & Training, a cross-media publication design and production studio. She is one of the nation’s premiere independent Adobe Certified Instructors, teaching hands-on classes at client sites around the world and consulting with publishers to make a smooth transition to the latest software and workflows. Her clients include the American Bar Association, Harvard Magazine, World Book Publishing, Johnson Publishing, Playboy Enterprises, the MacArthur Foundation, Penn State University, Abbott Laboratories, McDougal Littell, American Library Association, the City of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and she’s still trying for the Chicago White Sox.

Anne-Marie is the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com, “The World’s #1 Resource for All Things InDesign,” which she and partner David Blatner founded in 2006. She co-hosts their blog, podcast, and videocast, and co-produces their annual Print & ePublishing Conference, attended by over 400 publishing professionals from around the world. She founded and runs a sister site, InCopySecrets.com, which is a blog and newsletter (CopyFlow) for designers and editors who are using the collaborative InDesign and InCopy workflow.

Besides her books and magazine articles, she loves authoring and recording hands-on video tutorials for Lynda.com, the creative industry’s most widely respected provider of online video training. Her most recent titles at Lynda.com include InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the IPad; InDesign CS5 New Features; Acrobat X Essential Training; Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter; and InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 Collaborative Workflows.

Anne-Marie’s favorite creative outlet is DesignGeek, her free tips and techniques ezine, which she has published since 2003 and is enjoyed by over 8,500 designers, publishers and pre-press professionals around the world.