July 01, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 02:46 PM
Yesterday Karen Tomlinson, our ConnectNow product manager, wrote an excellent post on the functionality and value of our new web conferencing application.
Today, Karen followed up by delivering our weekly seminar - again, focused on ConnectNow. For those interested who couldn't make it, we recorded the session using ConnectPro. You can view the seminar by going to the recorded session here. It's 43 minutes long, and definitely worth the time. Everyone who has seen ConnectNow in action has been really impressed; Karen's session will show you what everyone's been so excited about.
We're holding these seminars weekly all summer, every Tuesday at 11:30 EDT, 8:30 PDT. Next week, we'll be focusing on a more technical subject: Fang Chang, product manager for our developer tools and document APIs, will provide an in-depth view at the ways that developers can make use of our platform to build rich collaboration capabilities into their own applications.
For more information on the seminars, including the schedule and the logisitics for these seminars, follow this link to the posting on our forum.
June 30, 2008
Posted by Karen Tomlinson at 09:52 AM
Today's Workplace Challenges
These days it's becoming much more common for people to work with other people who aren't in the same location. There are many challenges that come with this. You no longer have the luxury of walking over to someone's office or cube and having a face-to-face conversation. You no longer have team meetings in the same room where you can gauge people's reactions to what you are saying, see if they are following along, or brainstorm new ideas on a white board. You can't help feeling one step removed from the people you are meeting with when all you hear is their voice and try to follow along with what people are talking about.
So what can you do to improve the quality of your day-to-day interactions and meetings? That's where using web conferencing comes in. It can dramatically improve your meetings and ad hoc collaboration by providing a visual representation of what you are talking about, bring the physical presence of the people to the meeting with web cams, and provide a place to capture meeting notes, share files and brainstorm ideas. With ConnectNow, web conferencing is now accessible to anyone. It's free, sign up now!
For a hands-on look at ConnectNow, join me tomorrow for a live seminar at 11:30 EDT, 8:30 PDT. See our forum for session details.
Here are a few ideas on how you can make the most of your real-time collaboration sessions using ConnectNow.
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June 28, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Staley at 10:51 AM
As a recent addition to the Buzzword team, it's become part of my task to do some research about good document design and what it means for a document to look good. To that end, this blog will be the sometimes venue of a few document-crafting ideas that we run into. These posts could be design-related findings in areas we think are important (such as online readability, layout or issues related to font choices, etc.) or they could be ideas for how to use Buzzword tools to make super good-looking documents.
There will also be a case study or two—that is, we'll bring up a few examples of documents made with Buzzword and walk through the creation process with an eye towards Buzzword's role in the work flow, from inception to finished product.
For now, to whet everyone's appetite for document aesthetics, here are a few innocent diversions to get you thinking about the visual elements of a page:
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June 23, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 07:43 PM
I got together recently with David Coletta - Buzzword developer and Flex blogger - to record a conversation on Buzzword and Acrobat.com. We thought that delivering regular 30 minute podcasts might be another useful way to get caught up with what we're doing with Acrobat.com - good for long commutes, or working out on a treadmill.
The podcast can be heard or downloaded here.
The topics included in this week's installment are shown below.
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June 20, 2008
Posted by Amy Poling at 09:44 AM
Welcome to acrobat.com! As the designers on acrobat.com, we’ve been very busy crafting a new kind of web experience for you to enjoy!
You will see that we've tried some new concepts that we think you may love... and we've got some great enhancements coming soon for the things that you may not love so much yet :-) We keep ourselves busy every day by thinking of how we can make your experience better and by working together to create those solutions. We want you to have a great experience but we want to be different. We think you'll love us even more for that.
The core project team for acrobat.com includes three interaction designers: Amy Poling, Marissa Dulaney and Robby Shaver. We also have Josh Fleetwood on the team, he’s our visual designer and prototyper. Craig Scull is responsible for all of our user research and Marie Scanlon provides us with our on screen content. Finally, we have Dan Cooney who is our design manager on the project.
You will hear from all of us over the next few months as we continue to work on the next great ideas for acrobat.com. We will need your input!
We would love to hear from you too, please take a moment to tell us about yourself in a comment.