Author Archive: Lisa Underkoffler

Thank you – Your Ideas Made a Difference

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (0)

The Team here at Acrobat.com sends you all a big thank you for the ideas, comments, and votes. The old Africa proverb says “It Takes a Village.” In our case, it takes a community of interested, bright users to help make Acrobat.com even better.

The Acrobat.com Ideas site has been up for almost 2 years and we’ve valued all of your input. At last count, about 60 ideas made their way into the services. The ideas ranged from small (but important) tweaks to an entirely new product – Tables.

At the end of November, the Ideas site will be taking a break. But please, keep those ideas coming. You can always send us feedback or go to the Acrobat.com forums:

Forum for Acrobat.com Ideas

Forum for CreatePDF Ideas

Forum for SendNow Ideas

Again, many thanks to the many contributors.

PS: We’d also like to thank our partner, BrightIdea, who provided the WebStorm software, and for their invaluable guidance.

Unity – Bringing it all together

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (0)

It’s been 2 years since the Virtual Ubiquity team joined Adobe and Acrobat.com. And we’re marking the anniversary with our most ambitious release to date. Adobe veterans and the former Virtual Ubiquity team have brought their technologies together to merge our online services into a much more cohesive whole. And we think you’ll be pleased with the result. We’re bringing it all together.

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Stay Tuned — Good Things Are Coming

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (0)

You may have seen some early press about our new Acrobat.com release. The team will be taking down Buzzword, Presentations and Tables at 6:00 PM Eastern time today (Friday, 11/20/09.) Share and CreatePDF will go offline at 8:00 PM Eastern time. ConnectNow will be up and running throughout the update window. All of the services will be up and running again by 11:00 PM Eastern time and open for business.

The new look and changes in Acrobat.com are starting to get some good reviews. We invite you to come and check it out later today.

Your Ideas At Work

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (0)

Adobe Acrobat.com Ideas & BrightIdea are finalists in the Forrester Groundswell Awards. We’re delighted on several levels. The Ideas site has contributed a lot of great ideas, inspiration and the site has helped us in setting priorities for the upcoming release of Acrobat.com. And, it’s great to be voted a finalist for the Forrester Research award. The Acrobat.com Ideas site is powered by Brightidea’s Webstorm technology.

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Saving Time, Saving Money – Government Style

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (0)

In a conversation with one of the Adobe staff in the UK, an inspiring although not surprising story was told. He works frequently with a number of departments in the UK Government, and knows quite well that it is typically a long process when updating any sort of policy or procedure, even for minor updates. And so, here’s the story… and perhaps a good example for others who may find themselves in the same position.

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Shared Tables for Shared Data – New on Acrobat.com Labs

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (7)

Announcing today – Tables on Acrobat.com Labs. Tables is the most recent addition to Acrobat.com, and joins Presentations and Buzzword. And it’s pretty amazing, if we do say so ourselves. Check it out: http://labs.acrobat.com. And don’t miss the Crash Course. You’ll see what we mean when you open your first table.

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It’s show time. Presentations from Adobe!

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (3)

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!

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The Wisdom of Crowds

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (2)

From wikipedia:
“The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations … is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.”

The Acrobat.com Ideas site (http://ideas.acrobat.com) is available now for YOUR ideas, your comments and, very importantly, your VOTES. This is an experiment for us: a new way of gathering ideas, getting feedback on the ideas, and letting you tell us which are the ideas most important to you. Will this be effective? Inspirational? Yes. Absolutely. Please help us explore by adding your ideas. And vote early and often.

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What’s the Diff?

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (10)

The Latest Release of Buzzword – Check It Out!

The Buzzword team is excited about our latest release. There are some terrific new features that many of you have requested – seeing the differences between versions of a document, justified text, and the ability to export to EPUB, for eBook publishing to devices like the iPhone with Stanza, Sony Reader and Adobe Digital Editions! And for our Macintosh users, there’s support for Safari 4 (beta.) Read more about this release via a Buzzword Open Access document. There’s no need to sign in to Buzzword (or even to have an account, for that matter) to read the document. So, feel free to pass the link along to colleagues and friends.

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14 and Counting – New Release! New Stuff!

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Lisa Underkoffler | Comments (6)

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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