Adobe in Technical Communication and eLearning

By RJ Jacquez. Follow him on Twitter in English @rjacquez and in Spanish @rjacquezEspanol, for real-time announcements, tips & tricks, how-to tutorials, Did You Know's, best practices, Adobe-branded giveaways and more.

News, Announcements, Tutorials and Reviews:

• [Adobe Acrobat.com News] "Acrobat.com Moves out of Beta with Free and Paid Subscription Offerings" http://bit.ly/KxaGW11:14 PM Jun 14th from TweetDeck
• [Adobe Captivate 4 News] If Updater is disabled for security reasons, Patch is now available for download http://bit.ly/1acIZO9:26 AM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
• MAX 2009 Registration Now Open, http://www.max.adobe.com/11:32 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• Jacquelin Vanderwood from Designer Today Reviews Adobe Captivate 4, http://bit.ly/lAmKY12:08 AM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
• [eSeminar] Will deliver eSeminar en Español on Adobe Captivate 4, July 9th, 9am PST for Latin America, http://bit.ly/C07giabout 7 hours ago from TweetDeck

Useful Resources:

• Screenshot of how Adobe RoboHelp could use BrowserLab for comparing Help topics in multiple browsers and OSes http://bit.ly/lswQi11:31 AM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
• Check out this Post by our Adobe AIR team "Adobe AIR now installed over 200 million times" - http://bit.ly/LZ2rD7:21 PM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
• In case you need to generate Eclipse Help, Adobe RoboHelp 8 has a Script. You need the free Eclipse plug-ins, http://bit.ly/2WMyxb2:24 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• "Soon Kodak will name a chief listening officer..." Article "Kodak Turns to Twitter for Easy Sharing" http://bit.ly/28yEoS11:47 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck

FAQs, Tips and Tricks, Did You Know:

• When adding Captivate movies to your Blog, disable ''Auto Play" in Preferences. Here's example, http://bit.ly/KxaGW10:42 AM Jun 20th from TweetDeck
• [Adobe Captivate 4 Tip] Getting unexpected Quiz Results? press F9 for a complete view of Scorable Objects. Change as needed9:22 AM Jun 20th from TweetDeck
• [Did You Know?] Apps in both Adobe eLearning & Tech Comm Suites have Screen-Sharing built-in? Movie at bottom of post, http://bit.ly/KxaGW10:50 AM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
• In case you need to generate Eclipse Help, Adobe RoboHelp 8 has a Script. You need the free Eclipse plug-ins, http://bit.ly/2WMyxb2:24 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• @aprilh1974 Here you go: $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ of $$rdinfoSlideCount$$ This gives you the 'current slide' of 'slide total' (e.g. 1 of 20)3:02 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck in reply to aprilh1974
• [Did You Know] In Adobe eLearning Suite, Captivate integrates with Device Central for Previewing projects on Flash Lite Mobile devices5:47 PM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
• Doing Booth duty. FAQ: What happens to a Captivate file in a Connect Pro recording? It's Preserved! Example: http://bit.ly/QWLHu12:46 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• If you are having problems installing Adobe eLearning Suite on Vista, you need Service Pack 1 (SP1). Same for TCS12:55 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• [Adobe Captivate 4 Tip] It's good to right-click inside the Library > "Select Unused Items" and Delete them, smaller projects!2:19 PM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• Captivate 4 has Text-To-Speech, you may not know that Adobe Soundbooth CS4 has Speech-to-Text-metadata http://bit.ly/mQEaj12:11 PM Jun 19th from TweetDeck

Compelling ReTweets (RTs) and @replies:

• RT @scottabel: “Or, we could agree that MadCap has never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” -Author-it blog http://bit.ly/58RkS8:39 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• RT @acro_dave: Excellent video on why Harry Hemus Projects uses PDF Portfolios. Click #Acrobat spotlight on right: http://bit.ly/5zXRn7:40 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• Yes Indeed! RT @trondk: Watching Flash Catalyst Beta Preview training @lynda.com. This will be a great tool for elearning developers!11:37 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• @devlearn Yes, Flash Catalyst is available for both PC and Mac, download link: http://bit.ly/T2xkH11:50 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck in reply to devlearn
• RT @russellyblood: Need to learn Adobe Flash CS4 fast? will be teaching two day class in Atlanta next week. http://tinyurl.com/b3arpw8:03 AM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• @scottabel Thanks for recommending me to @MrTweet , very much appreciated!9:22 AM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
• RT @Stevehoward999: New Lynda.com tutorial on Captivate 4 http://bit.ly/19tjK211:21 AM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
• @rachelhpeters All Adobe teams use FrameMaker for PDF/Print & RoboHelp for all things Online. Goal is deploy AIR Help like Captivate 4 Help12:28 PM Jun 19th from TweetDeck in reply to rachelhpeters

Personal Observations

• With 200 Million installations of Adobe AIR, I'm hoping more RoboHelp 8 users create AIR-based Help. Here's a how-to: http://bit.ly/EvH1b10:11 AM Jun 20th from TweetDeck
• At #devcon09, "Interactivity in eLearning" is a hot topic, no surprise. Similarly why not more "interactive docs" in Tech Communication?9:09 AM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
• Liking the new TweetDeck v0.26 desktop version, especially the FROM feature for updating multiple accounts. Updated @rjacquezEspanol9:46 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• Watching 'Better Off Ted' and all I can say is that you liked 'Arrested Development' you'll love this one, too. Simply Hilarious!9:54 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
• Attended a great session at #devcon09 by Fran Keefe on "Instructional Design Concepts for PPT to eLearning." Fran did a fantastic job!6:04 PM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
• A hot topic at the #devcon09 conference is Flash Basics, the BYOL (..own laptop) was packed, obviously there's a need for this in eL6:07 PM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
• Feeling the #FF love today, thanks @StubbornlyWrite , @mgharavi, @MariaOD, @briandusablon, @tompsk. Following and recommending you, too!12:35 PM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
• It doesn't get any better than being a Father, it's a true blessing and I'm thankful for it! Happy Father's Day!10:08 AM Jun 21st from web

 

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