What's new at Newmedia Services 
Jim Babbage selected as Adobe Community Expert
For quite some time, Jim has acted as a Team Macromedia Volunteer, actively participating in the Macromedia user forums by helping users of products such as Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
With the aquisition of Macromedia by Adobe Systems, some things were bound to change, and one of those is the designation for Macromedia Volunteers.
The
new designation is Adobe Community Expert (ACE). The goals of Adobe and
this group of volunteers remain the same: to be helpful and supportive
of the users of Adobe products. Jim's areas of specialty are Fireworks,
Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
A New Year and New Projects
Newmedia Services has recently started work on the Syndicate Canada web site. A conference dedicated to exploring the challenges and models for content syndication. The site is live and if you're interested in RSS, it would be worth checking out.
Flickr Gallery
Make sure to drop by our FYI page for a visual treat. Jim Babbage has recently started posting his landscape images on flickr.com. In our FYI page, you can view an animated Flash slide show of the images.
Latest CMX Articles
One of Community MX's database gurus - Tom Muck - has built a great little JavaScript live news feeder for the partners. Listed below are the last 5 articles written by Jim, for CMX.
NMS hired to build & maintain two new conference web sites
Over the past few months, Newmedia Services has been working on two new projects: LinuxWorld/NetworkWorld Canada conference and Expo web site, Linux On Tour web site. Working in conjunction with Line of Sight Design (graphic designers for the conference print work) and Paragon Visuals (Coldfusion back end developer), both sites feature similar yet updated looks from previous years, as well as a full-fledged back-end for the conference administrators, Exhibitors and - new this year - conference faculty.
Both sites are designed and laid out using CSS-P, which can improve accessibility, decrease site bandwidth and enable easier site maintenance.
Jim Babbage featured speaker at DesignFest '05
In October of this year, Toronto played host to the first - and we trust not the last - DesignFest, a new media festival. Featuring speakers from across North America, this one-day event was well attended and drew high praise from visitors. Jim Babbage's seminar focused on the latest version of Fireworks (Version 8), demonstrating some of the new features in FW 8, but primarily delving deeply into creative masking techniques.
New Wallpaper in FYI
We've added five new wallpapers to our FYI gallery. Make sure to check them out and download your favourites.
TODCON a worthwhile investment
Jim Babbage has returned from his speaking engagement at TODCON Vegas. Aside talking about the creative power of Macromedia Fireworks, it was also a chance to catch up with old friends and network with potential clients and suppliers. In fact, Jim returned with a project or two under his arm.
For a taste of TODCON, check out Jim's blog at Community
MX.
Naturally, he took many photos while in Vegas. For a glimpse of Las Vegas, check out the postcard pics.
The Wonderful World of Linux
Plum Communications contracted NMS for digital coverage of LinuxWorld Canada and NetworkWorld Expo conference and trade shows. These two well attended events, held concurrently from April 18 - April 20, 2005. While on-site, we also created a few 360 degree panoramics.
Look for samples of these pano's soon on our site.
Large as life - well, almost!
Over the past two years, NMS has been photographing sunroom installations for Four Seasons Sunrooms Toronto. This April, many of our images will be gracing the Four Seasons exhibit booth at the Spring Home Show in Toronto, Ontario. The marketing team at Four Seasons has selected 20 photos for reproduction as 20x24 inch Dura-trans (backlit) images.
Photography project promotes student life at Centennial College
NMS recently created a series of images to enhance the web site for The Centre for Creative Communications 
at Centennial College. Using college
students from the Advertising program, we set up a variety of scenes around
the campus. Some examples of the shoot are in our portfolio section, or
you can visit the
centre and see the images in action.
Exciting new service now offered by NMS - Immersive Imaging
We're very pleased to announce the addition of Virtual Tour creation and 360 degree interactive panoramas to our line of imaging and web services. Photographed with state of the art digital cameras and authored in leading-edge software, our virtual tours and panoramas yield outstanding quality and excellent bandwidth.
We recently completed a series of panoramas for one of our clients, Four Seasons Sunrooms Toronto showing the various furnished sunroom models in their huge indoor showroom.
NMS would also like to welcome back Four Seasons Sunrooms Toronto as one of our longest standing and loyal customers. This year, we continue to maintain their web site as well as handle all their location photography requirements.
For for examples of our work from past photo shoots, visit our portfolio section.