Archive for December, 2008

Full Screen Buzzword is Magic

I have to write documents frequently in both my professional and personal life. One thing I share in common with the rest of the Buzzword staff (and Adobe, for that matter) is a true love for crafting a really good document. What can I say, I’m a bit of a word processing nerd. When I have something really interesting to write, I look forward to the process. I really look forward to writing in Buzzword because it is so easy to produce a fabulous document. Today I want to talk about a little trick that lets you totally forget about the outside world and focus on the subject at hand – your writing.

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Buzzword Documents for the Whole World

Here at Buzzword Central, we’re really excited about the extended sharing capability we added in the latest release. In case you haven’t heard, Buzzword now enables its authors to make their documents accessible by anyone, with or without a Buzzword account, whether or not the others have signed in.

We call these open access documents, and we hope it will not only make Buzzword documents more ubiquitous, but will make sharing of documents easier. Especially in those cases where you have 20 or more people with whom you want to share a document (and the contents aren’t particularly sensitive), you can now just send them the URL to an open access doc and they can read it directly.

So here’s a little experiment in which you can view this blog entry in Buzzword…

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14 and Counting – New Release! New Stuff!

The Buzzword team updated our servers today with our 14th release. And, the theme of this version is Easier Document Sharing.

We get a lot of feedback from our users, and at the top of the list has been the request to make our document sharing easier, and more public. So we’ve tackled both problems. Now it’s not only easier to share documents with teams but also publish to the whole world.

Here’s a sample (this blog entry) as a Buzzword open access document.

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