May 2009 Archives

We've gotten a lot of good feedback on our earlier post about Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and US President Barack Obama using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for public-facing web events. Several recordings of these sessions are available on the US Department of State’s YouTube and Facebook accounts (never knew your US Federal bureaucracies were so with it, eh?) that you can check out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CONXSeetheWorld
http://www.facebook.com/pages/CoNx-See-the-World/26365096875

President Obama even has a live event scheduled on Connect Pro for next week on June 4th, live from Egypt in which he will deliver a speech on the future of Muslim/U.S. relations:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/CoNx-See-the-World/26365096875#/event.php?eid=83280027170 (requires Facebook login)

The US Department of State uses one of our partners, ConnectSolutions, to manage their implementation (aka managed services), and seem to be using the product with great effect.

In mid-June, Adobe will be releasing Service Pack 3 for Connect Pro 7. This is a maintenance release that includes several bug fixes across all Connect Pro application modules including Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting, Training, Events, and Server.

Visit ConnectUsers.com to learn more about what is in SP3.
http://www.connectusers.com/news/index.php?cmd=display_news&id=2688

Adobe just released a preview of Acrobat.com Presentations, a new online service that lets people easily create and collaborate on presentations. Just like Adobe Buzzword has changed the way the industry thinks of word processing online, Presentations will likewise transform how presentations are authored and shared.

The Acrobat.com Presentations service is available for free sign-up as public beta on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/presentations.

We are pleased to announce that Adobe is now offering regular, online training sessions for Connect Pro users of all levels. You can attend these free sessions to grow your own product knowledge or make them available to your user communities to help them become more proficient with the product. There are three different training sessions offered at different frequencies.

It's official, Adobe Captivate, the award winning demonstration and simulation authoring environment is coming to the Mac. This has been a long standing request of Captivate (and RoboDemo) users and now its becoming a reality.

The Captivate team is looking for beta testers interested in demoing the Mac version. To learn more and to apply for the beta, visit the Captivate team blog:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/05/the_beta_for_captivate_on_mac.html