In Acrobat.com’s file organizer is a section in the left pane called “Tags”. This is the capability formerly known as “Collections”. “Why change the name?”, you may ask. Well, user feedback is a wonderful agent of change, and that was the case here. Tags act as a meta-organizer for all of your files: you may assign one or more tags to a document in order to associate it with a certain searchable category. Tags are meant to be personal, and allow you to focus on the right files and information. They are unique to you and your Acrobat.com account. So feel free to use whatever and as many tags as you feel necessary. Let’s explore how they can work for you…
Rick Treitman – Director of Product Management for Acrobat.com and Entrepreneur in Residence at Adobe – introduces us to the latest upgrade to Acrobat.com with Workspaces
Years ago, when we first started working on Buzzword, I was interviewing a high school English teacher. I asked her if she shared documents with her colleagues and whether or not most of that sharing occurred in her e-mail. Her response was, “You should see my inbox, it’s nothing but paper clips.”
Our goal is to help you get more done faster by moving collaboration out of your e-mail and into an Acrobat.com Shared Workspace. Sorting your inbox on date to find the latest version of a co-authored document is not ideal. E-mail was never intended to be a content management system, but for most of us, it’s certainly being pressed into that role.
With Acrobat.com, we’ve been concentrating on helping individuals work together: I invite you to my document. But, of course, most of us work not with one or two others, but with groups or teams. So Workspaces are for helping groups of people share groups of documents. Now, by creating a Workspace, you and your extended team can share and collaborate on a set of project files rather than sharing them one-by-one.
We are excited to release Acrobat.com Workspaces to you, along with other updates and enhancements to our online services. They are all available right now from your Acrobat.com Organizer. Read on to find out more…
We wanted to let you know in advance that Acrobat.com services (including Share, Create PDF, Buzzword, Tables, Presentations, Acrobat 9 Shared Reviews using Acrobat.com and Acrobat 9 Forms Data Collection using Acrobat.com) will be unavailable on Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 1pm Pacific Time to 5pm Pacific Time for some important maintenance and upgrades. This does not affect ConnectNow – online meetings will still be available when accessed via their meeting room web addresses during this time.
Please plan accordingly, and remember to save any documents you are working on before 1pm PT on Saturday. You can check health.acrobat.com for any updates. Otherwise, be sure to come back and see what we’ve done to help you share and collaborate even better than before. Thanks for your patience this weekend.