Adobe Connect Blog

Here’s a posting from one of our most active internal Connect pros here at Adobe..Ryan Monger from our conferencing services group…
When I first started working with Acrobat Connect Professional (formerly Breeze Meeting) I was blown away by the ability to dynamically create different layouts during a meeting. This feature is powerful because it not only allows you to stage content in different layouts, but it also puts a marker in the recording when the layout gets changed. This allows me to create a “Table of Contents” for a recording when I have multiple presentations and content. For example, our eSeminars consist of multiple layouts: Lobby, Intro Polls, Presentation, Demo, Exit Polls, and Q&A. Instead of being constrained to one layout, I am able to prepare a layout depending on the content or pods I am trying to share.
Creating layouts is easy. Either click on the “Plus” sign at then end of your listed layouts, or go to Layout>New Layout… You will be given an option to create a new blank layout, or duplicate an existing one. The feature I use the most is the “Duplicate the selected layout”. Obviously, duplicating a layout will copy everything from the previous layout, but more importantly, it also copies the content in the previous layout. I can have multiple layouts with the same set of slides but change the size and position of the pods on new layouts. This way, every time the slide changes in the original layout, it also changes in the copied layouts.
Another great way to use the duplicate layout feature is to make changes to a layout but still have a backup incase you didn’t like the changes you made.
-RM

A couple of months ago we saw this posting about logging into an Adobe Connect meeting from a Nintendo Wii
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatconnect/2007/01/web_conferencing_on_the_wii.html
And here’s a picture I took last year when I was logged into a meeting using my Pocket PC.
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/meetingppc/
For fun, we’re setting out to see how many devices support the Adobe Connect meeting experience. Since we only need Flash Player to attend a meeting – it’s easy to see why “it just works”. There’s no need for Java or custom applications to be installed. And there aren’t any permissions problems because the Flash Player is pre-installed on so many operating systems that it is already there when you need it.
Last week I was talking to a friend of mine at Sony and asked him to log into my meeting – from his Sony PlayStation 3 – and it worked! Here’s a link to the photo he took while we were whiteboarding on an image. My video camera was live at the time.
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/connectps3/
Now does anyone have an Xbox to try?

We’d love to hear about how you, our users, are using the product in your work/play/etc… Please feel free to provide your experiences in the comments!
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This is a reminder for any licensed (on-premise) customers of Connect or Breeze: please see the following Adobe Technote for instructions on how to update your server to address the changes in DST this year:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=kb400581

All hosted customer accounts are being addressed by Adobe, and no further action is required.

The PDF Conference, hosted by Carl Young, is embracing Adobe Connect to reach a larger audience this year for its upcoming conference.
“By moving to an online event, I can offer the same great PDF insights to more people at a lower cost,” says Young.
You can read more about the upcoming event here