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Connect Pro Best Practices User Group
The Connect Pro Best Practices User Group was created by Adobe as a way to facilitate the sharing of product usage and implementation information to help our user community maximize product knoweldge and ensure Connect Pro implementation success. This is an online only user group as we wanted to make sure that user group meetings were available to as many members as possible. If you cannot attend our meetings live, a meeting recording will be made available within a few days of the meeting.
User Group Leader: Alistair Lee
User Group Email: bestpractices@connectusers.com
Meetings Held: Online
Upcoming Meetings
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Previous Meetings
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Adobe Captivate Best Practices
The August Best Practices session features RJ Jacquez - Senior Product Evangelist for Adobe Captivate. In this session, RJ will introduce Captivate for those who aren't familiar with it and show how users can get the most out of this amazing product. RJ will also demonstrate how to best integrate your Captivate projects with Acrobat Connect Pro.
Creative Techniques for Compelling and Persuasive Presentations
Acrobat Connect Pro enables you to share multimedia content -- including streaming audio, video and software simulations. Join us for this free, 60 minute session in which Adam Kranitz, Interactive Marketing Manager for Avid, will present the creative techniques his team has learned and applied when presenting complex software/hardware demos to prospective customers during live webinars. Learn how to tell your story with a different perspective and keep your audience engaged using creative camera placements, split screen demos, video interstitials, and much more. Special emphasis on tips and tricks for capturing pristine video and audio during your live webinar session.
Getting Started with the CollaborationBuilder SDK
In this session, Adobe's Alistair Lee presented on Getting Started with the Collaboration Builder SDK, the interface that allows you to build custom Flash applications for use in your Connect Pro meetings. Find out about some of our favorite Collaboration Builder SDK applications and learn how you can get started building custom collaborative applications of you own.
Using Breakout Rooms in Connect Pro
In this 60 minute session, Sr. Product Manager Randah McKinnie presented on best practices for using Breakout Rooms in Connect Pro. View this recording to learn when to use the breakout rooms feature, how to prep your content to ensure a smooth transition, check in with individual groups, and more.
Audio Best Practices in Connect Pro Meetings
Join us for this free, online user group meeting. In this session we will be discussing Audio Best Practices in Connect Pro Meetings. Among the topics we will cover are:
- Tips and Tricks for creating a great VoIP experience
- Deciding between Integrated Teleconferencing and VoIP
- How to create a blended environment using both teleconferencing and VoIP
- Audio considerations for meeting recordings
- And more
Video Best Practices in Connect Pro, Part 2
Join us for this free, online user group meeting. As follow up to our February meeting, Peter Ryce will be joining us again to talk about more Video Best Practices with Connect Pro. Specifically we will be talking about tips and tricks for encoding video for use in Connect Pro meetings, working with meeting recordings, and more. http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/connectusers
Best Practices for Delivering Engaging Virtual Classrooms
Are your online learners falling asleep? Do you have the right content and flow to facilitate interactivity and engagement? In this meeting Sr. Product Manager Randah McKinnie went over how to engage your online learners in lively, two-way interactive Virtual Classroom sessions, that help learners better retain knowledge and skills. This session covered:
- Practical skills for engaging learners in virtual classrooms
- How to increase learner participation and feedback
- How to increase interactivity among learners
- How to track and measure knowledge retention
Video Best Practices in Connect Pro
In the next meeting of the Connect Pro Best Practices User Group, Peter Ryce, Connect Pro Evangelist, will be presenting on Video Best Practices in Connect Pro. Date: Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Time: 3 PM Eastern / 12 PM Pacific Where: http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/connectusers/ The meeting room will be open about 15 minutes prior to the meeting and if you are unable to attend, a meeting recording will be posted to the User Group homepage a few days after the session: http://www.connectusers.com/groups/bestpractices/ INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN USER GROUP MEETINGS: 1. Run through the test to make sure your computer is set up to participate in a Connect Pro Meeting: http://www.adobe.com/go/meeting_test 2. Prior to the seminar start time, enter the meeting room by clicking here: http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/connectusers/ 3. On the Acrobat Connect Professional login page, login by typing your FIRST and LAST name in the field marked "GUEST", then click "ENTER". AUDIO INFORMATION: In order to access the AUDIO portion of the meeting, you can listen through your speakers as we will be using Voice Over IP.
Interactivity in the Virtual Classroom
RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist for Adobe Technical Communication Suite and Adobe eLearning Solutions, walks you through some tips and tricks for how to keep your learners engaged by making your virtual classrooms interactive.
Rolling out Connect Pro Meeting at Adobe
UPDATED WITH INFO ABOUT HOW TO ATTEND BELOW MEETING TIME IS 12 PM PACIFIC. Lessons Learned - Rolling out Connect Pro Meeting at Adobe Speaker: Eric Lerner, Adobe Systems In this free 60 minute eSeminar, Eric Lerner will share the lessons he learned while managing the enterprise-wide rollout of Connect Pro to Adobe after the merger with Macromedia. Topics will include: * Identifying the key stakeholders who need to get on board * How to phase rollout to maximize its effectiveness * Figuring out an internal support model * Training end users to ensure success INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE EVENT: 1. Conduct a test to ensure your computer is set up with the appropriate tools to participate in a Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Meeting. To do this, click on the Test Meeting Connection URL located here: http://adobe.breezecentral.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm 2. 15 minutes prior to the seminar start time, click on the "Go to" URL listed below. Go to http://seminars.adobe.acrobat.com/connectusers 3. On the Acrobat Connect Pro login screen, type in your FIRST and LAST name in the field marked "GUEST", then click "ENTER". NOTE: Meeting audio will be conducted using Voice-over-IP and telephone conference. If you wish to attend via telephone, first login to the meeting where dial-in info will be provided. ------------------------------------------ If you want to keep informed about our meetings, join the Best Practices User Group. To join the Best Practices User Group, login and click Manage My Memberships on your member page. Then select the Connect Pro Best Practices Group and Save Changes.
The Connect Pro Best Practices User Group was created by Adobe as a way to facilitate the sharing of product usage and implementation information to help our user community maximize product knoweldge and ensure Connect Pro implementation success. This is an online only user group as we wanted to make sure that user group meetings were available to as many members as possible. If you cannot attend our meetings live, a meeting recording will be made available within a few days of the meeting.
To join the Best Practices User Group and get notified of our future meetings, login and click Manage My Memberships on your member page. Then select the Connect Pro Best Practices Group and Save Changes.
Past Meetings
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| July 7, 2009 | Creative Techniques for Compelling and Persuasive Presentations In this session, Adam Kranitz from Avid showed some fantastic creative techniques you can employ to create engaging web sessions. Adam examines audio, lighting, video and more in this event. |
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| June 3, 2009 | Getting Started with the Collaboration Builder SDK In this session, Adobe's Alistair Lee presented on Getting Started with the Collaboration Builder SDK, the interface that allows you to build custom Flash applications for use in your Connect Pro meetings. |
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| May 6, 2009 | Breakout Room Best Practices In this meeting, Sr. Product Manager Randah McKinnie presenting on best practices for using Breakout Rooms in Connect Pro. Watch the replay to learn more when to use the breakout rooms feature, how to prep your content to ensure a smooth transition, check in with individual groups, and more. View Randah's Slides >>
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| April 1, 2009 | Audio Best Practices Connect Pro Meetings In this meeting, Ryan Monger, of Adobe's Internal Conferencing Services Team presented on Audio Best Practices in Connect Pro including VoIP, Integrated/Non-Integrated Teleconferencing, and Blended approach. View Ryan's Slides >>
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| March 3, 2009 | Video Best Practices in Connect Pro, Part 2 This meeting was a follow up to the session we held in January. Peter Ryce, Connect Pro Evangelist, presented on Video Best Practices in Connect Pro focusing mostly on using pre-recorded video for use in the Share Pod. Download Encoding Best Practices Visual Quick Start Guide >>
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| February 3, 2009 | Best Practices for Delivering Engaging Virtual Classrooms Are your online learners falling asleep? Do you have the right content and flow to facilitate interactivity and engagement? In this meeting Sr. Product Manager Randah McKinnie will teach you how to engage your online learners in lively, two-way interactive Virtual Classroom sessions, that help learners better retain knowledge and skills.
Download Best Practices for Virtual Classrooms Whitepaper >>
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| Jaunary 6, 2009 | Video Best Practices in Connect Pro, Part 1 In this meeting Peter Ryce, Connect Pro Evangelist, presented on Video Best Practices in Connect Pro focusing mostly on the Camera & Voice Pod. We will be scheduling a follow up session to this meeting soon with part two, where additional topics we did not have time to cover will be discussed including Best Practices for capturing and encoding video for playback in Connect Pro meetings, working with meeting recordings, and more. View Peter's Slides >>
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| October 30, 2008 | Rolling out Connect Pro at Adobe Eric Lerner shared the lessons learned while managing the enterprise-wide rollout of Connect Pro to Adobe after the merger with Macromedia. Topics included:
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