Today we announced Acrobat.com Presentations, a new beta service on http://labs.acrobat.com. Imagine the beauty, power and collaboration of Buzzword, only for presentations. I think Anthony Ha at Venture Beat said it pretty well in the first blog posting we saw in the wild, “…there’s a solid core for Adobe to build around…genuinely beautiful…the key feature of Acrobat.com is the collaboration it allows…”
You asked. We listened. Today, we’re announcing Acrobat.com Presentations.
This is a Labs Preview of our latest application – Presentations. It’s an exciting, new product and we want you to give it a spin!
Our new presentation tool joins Buzzword in the growing ranks of our online collaborative offerings. You can try the public beta version on our site (http://labs.acrobat.com). If you already have an Acrobat.com account, you can just sign in. Or, there’s free sign up for new users. UPDATE: Nov 2009 – Presentations is now live on the regular Acrobat.com site!
Will social networking and instant messages replace the standard business phone call, the client lunch and the handshake? The Acrobat.com team recently completed a survey with Directions Research, Inc. that points toward an evolution in office workplace culture, including the changing ways white-collar workers are interacting and coordinating their tasks, and how business will be conducted in the social media-rich environment of the 21st century.
Fred Bayles, a Professor at Boston University School of Journalism, is a hard man to talk to. Not because he’s unfriendly or isn’t interested in talking, but he’s got other priorities. During the semester, he’s generally got a desk phone attached to one ear, a cell phone on the other and his fingers on a keyboard. At the other end of the phones and on his email are his students who are on Beacon Hill (Boston) staffing BU’s Statehouse Program. They’re reporters covering government and politics for a dozen local newspapers, websites, and radio stations around the state. And Bayles is their editor/teacher/mentor.
