Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

It’s been a great year for 3rd party acknowledgement of what we’ve accomplished with Connect Pro, with another outstanding analyst review. InfoTech Research Group recently published “Vendor Landscape: Web Conferencing; Show Me, Don’t Just Tell Me” on December 17th giving Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro top honors in all four evaluation categories (see page 6 to see for yourself).

Connect Pro was singled out as an optimal choice for eLearning applications, conferencing needs which center around business document collaboration, and sales & marketing presentations and demos. ConnectNow, our entry-level solution, was also highlighted for novice users.

This is on the heels of similar honors from Gartner Research putting Connect Pro in the “Leaders” quadrant for the second year in a row, the Software & Information Industry Association's 2008 CODIE Award for Best Collaboration Solution, PC Magazine’s Editor’s 2008 Choice award for web conferencing, and Training Media Review’s recent 4-star assessment, all in 2008!

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Earlier this week I attended the Masie Learning 2008 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along with just over 1800 other learning professionals across all manner of industries, I did my best to both soak up and contribute to the wealth of knowledge, rich in this community of people passionate about learning. I believe this annual conference is beneficial to the learning professional who resides in the spectrum between the pure HR performance management role, and a technical learning systems or content implementation role.

My own personal takeaways from attendance and participation as a session presenter are these:

Continue reading "Review of Masie Learning 2008" »

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A recent review of Adobe Presenter 7 was posted on the Digital Inspiration blog. Among the soundbites:

"Other than slides, you can add audio narrations, record webcam video or import existing video clips into your presentations. It supports almost every video format from MOV to AVI to 3GB and encodes them internally to Flash video using the On2 FLV encoder."

"[I]f you aren’t too happy with the default factory settings, no worries - almost everything inside Presenter can be easily customized and branded included the color schemes, fonts, layout, logos and so on.”

"Overall, to call Adobe Presenter as a 'PowerPoint add-in' doesn’t do enough justice to the program. It is extremely capable, requires no training and brings Flash output to your existing PowerPoint..."

Check out the full review here:
http://www.labnol.org/software/adobe-presenter-for-powerpoint-review/4438/

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Recently the Gartner 2008 Web Conferencing Magic Quadrant report was released and for the second year in a row Adobe is in the “leadership” quadrant…the most prestigious ranking possible.
The key strengths mention in the report include:

• Based on Adobe Flash, the company's Web-conferencing offering can be deployed easily. It has resizable screen displays for users, authoring capabilities and less intensive bandwidth requirements for video.
• Native integration with Adobe Acrobat enables document-centric real-time collaboration with Web conferencing from within the document.
• Adobe's product provides compliance features, with logging and tracking of use and communications.

The Connect Pro team is very proud of this achievement as we pride ourselves on maintaining our reputation as the most visionary and robust web conferencing product on the market. Along with our recent wins at the Software & Information Industry Association's CODIE Award for Best Collaboration Solution, PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award for web conferencing, and Training Media Review’s recent 4-star assessment, it’s been a very good year!

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