Sharing? Buzzing? Filing? Acrobat.com
Greetings, blog readers. Over the past few weeks, I've been deeply involved in prepping for a series of CS4 tours across the Nordics, and in the process, I've been collaborating with my colleagues on all kinds of things. Everything from sending assets back and forth, writing up how-to documents, waiting to receive files, etc. And beyond that, I've often needed a place to simply store my files, whilst I was waiting to upload/share new ones with the gang.
Enter Acrobat.com. Now, many of you may have heard about Acrobat.com and simply dismissed it as some kind of PDF-Mecca. But in fact, it's much, much more. There are 5 basic elements that make up Acrobat.com, and I'll talk to you about 3 of them that have truly become life-savers, but more importantly: they've changed the way I collaborate with my colleagues; a little something I like to call...
Cross-Continental Colleague Collaboration
If you've ever attended one of my Production Premium seminars, you've probably heard me talk about the benefits of Adobe Clip Notes. This amazing, revolutionary technology allows Premere Pro and After Effects users to create PDF documents from timelines/sequences, embedding (or streaming) video, and let's them email said docs to their client for frame-accurate commentary (using the standard Acrobat 'notes'). It's brilliant, it's truly unique, and it's (once again) become an integral part of my workflow. And when I talk about this, I always refer to it as the following...(and this leads directly into how I'm using Acrobat.com)...
Cross-Continental Client Collaboration
This is where SHARE and BUZZWORD® come into play. In short, SHARE enables you to send files to others for easy access while *you* maintain control. By sending URLs instead of e-mailing large attachments, you and your team can access files from any computer in the office or on the road. You can even 'share' the same files with multiple people at once (without flooding inboxes with massive attachments). I've been 'sharing' for some time now, and it's been a real life saver (particularly because I don't have an FTP).
The second element of the collaboration involves Adobe BUZZWORD®. Here, you're able to write and collaborate on documents, anywhere, anytime. People can simply access your docs online, make comments, add content, images, etc. Again, like Share, you've got control over 'how much' a particular user can modify a doc. This is how we evangelists do our own 'group reports', enabling us to work on the same document without having to actually send separate PDFs or DOCs back and forth, and *then* compile together.
And the third piece of my collaborative puzzle is My Files. Here you can store your files online for easy access from anywhere. Acrobat.com provides an intuitive interface to help you easily organize all the files you share online, including Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and images.
As mentioned, there are two additional parts of Acrobat.com, Adobe ConnectNow and Create PDF. To learn more about the benefits of Acrobat.com, check out Rufus' Complete Blog Post on this topic.
Hope to see you sharing, buzzing and filing in the near future!
Until next time,
Blog on.
