The Workflow Network is the brain child of Pariah S. Burke. Pariah is a 20-year veteran of graphic design, publishing, illustration, packaging, and prepress who is largely self-taught because, when he started out, PostScript and DTP were a fad and there was no Internet.

After teaching Adobe's Technical Support agents to use Adobe software, and helping them help Adobe customers, Pariah realized that too many people creative professionals don't have easy access to information vital to their designs, their businesses, and their community.

Consequently, after leaving Adobe in early 2004, Pariah refocused his entire career toward the simple goal of empowering, informing, and connecting every creative professional he can possibly reach.

That year, in addition to writing his first book about Adobe Illustrator, Pariah simultaneously launched the Design Weblog, the Magazine Design Weblog, and the Unofficial Photoshop Weblog for Weblogs, Inc., Quark VS InDesign.com on his own, took over management duties of the Yahoo! Forums-based Graphic Designers Resource Group, and his private creative pro training and consulting service, Workflow: Creative. Pariah's Websites were among the first design-related blogs and independently published sites, achieving global popularity among creative pros, and laid the foundation on which many other creative pro blogs and sites would be based. In 2005 he launched Designorati with an international group of writers and editors, followed by GurusUnleashed.com in 2008, and, in 2009 WorkflowFreelance.com, Design Talk Live!, Design Jobs LIVE!, CreativesAre.com, and several others.

The Websites and publications Pariah built soon became so numerous that a simple sidebar listing of "check out my other sites!" wouldn't cut it any more. Thus the Workflow Network was founded.

Make contact with the Workflow Network by reaching Pariah through his numerous means.

The Workflow Network is an inter-connected collection of Websites, services, and communities that empower, inform, and connect creative professionals. The Websites in the Network cover a broad range of topics, services, and functions for creative professionals of many industries.

Empower yourself and your creative career with the Get Empowered channel's creative software and process training and workflow consultation. Find the perfect creative job or freelance project with the Jobs LIVE! Websites, which maintain the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute creative job listings in North America.

From original content online magazines to content aggretagion services that cut through the clutter of the Internet and put at your fingertips all the information, tutorials, tricks, and resources that are most important to you and your work, the Get Informed channel of the Network contains the best--and by far the most--creative professional information in the world.

Whether freelancing or working in-house, design can be a lonely vocation. But you don't have to be alone! There are hundreds of thousands of other creative professionals online. The Get Connected channel is focused on connecting you with them, on building community among designers, and on helping everyone succeed by easily finding and sharing resources, opinions, and experiences. From conversation aggregators that help you find and participate in discussions happening on hundreds of Websites right now, to full-fledged social media services built specifically for creative pro interests, the Network will help you connect and collaborate. You need never feel alone in design again.

In addition to the above, the Network has an additional 2-10 Websites and services in the incubator at any given moment. Want to know when the Network expands with another site or service to empower, inform, and/or connect creative pros? Follow Pariah on Twitter or sign-up for e-mail updates!