Anne-Marie Concepción

Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepción is a digital publishing expert. She owns Chicago-based Seneca Design & Training, a cross-media publication and production design studio. Anne-Marie is one of the nation’s premiere independent Adobe Certified Instructors, teaching hands-on classes at client sites and conferences 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, the Mayo Clinic, Penn State University, Abbott Laboratories, McDougal Littell, American Library Association, the City of Chicago, Northwestern University Press, Macmillan Publishing, 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 (PEPCON, pepconference.com) attended by over 400 publishing professionals from around the world. She and David also own and manage related industry portals EPUBSecrets.com, InCopySecrets.com, and DesignGeek.com.

Besides her books and magazine articles, Anne-Marie 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 CS6 New Features; Acrobat X Essential Training; Twitter for Business; and InDesign and InCopy Collaborative Workflows. 

You can follow Anne-Marie on Twitter at @amarie. She invites you to visit (and Like!) any of the Facebook pages she runs, including http://facebook.com/senecadesign, http://facebook.com/designgeek,

http://facebook.com/indesignsecrets, and http://facebook.com/socialmediamktg