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ConnectNow Seminar - Watch It Now!

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.

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Effective Real-Time Collaboration in Today's Workplace Using ConnectNow

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.

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Document Aesthetics

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. 

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JMS re: Acrobat.com podcast

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.

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Welcome to Acrobat.com, from the designers

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. 

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Buzzword: Looking Ahead

The Web is a wonderful place; it never stops. Buzzword continues to do frequent releases. The challenge is to keep up with the many and varied requests we receive. The team truly likes to hear from our users - your comments and ideas keep us focused on what's important and give us new points of view.

Buzzword has come a long way since we first launched the Preview. And there's still a lot we want to do. Here's a look at some of the features that are on the drawing board - some are ideas that came from many of you (thank you!)

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Document Collaboration

If you've been following the Acrobat.com press, or reading our marketing materials, or checking our blog and forum, you've seen that we are very focused on enabling collaboration - especially when documents are involved. Here's a quick look at the ways we enable collaboration. 

Collaboration in Authoring The story begins with document authoring, and in Buzzword we've heard countless people indicate that Buzzword is the finest online writing experience currently available. Many have told us they've even abandoned Word - some use the expression "liberated" - in favor of Buzzword as their primary writing environment.

Buzzword is indeed a simple and elegant word processor, but it really differentiates from Word and other desktop applications when you want to collaborate with others in the writing process. Instead of pushing documents out to others via email, you simply invite your collaborators to the only instance of the document, online, where they can contribute content or just add comments.

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Work Together with Acrobat.com

We are incredibly excited about the path we've started down with today's beta launch of Acrobat.com. Our goal for the next few years is big but simple: we want to change the way the world works together on documents, for the better. We’ll keep you up to date on our thoughts and progress through frequent (and usually shorter ;-) postings to this blog.

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