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Asynchronous Collaboration Made Easy

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Have you ever wanted to have productive meetings online?

Maybe use screen sharing, chat, audio and or video to conduct meetings or even instruct courses?

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What IS Adobe Connect?

Adobe Connect is a software that allows you to create instant, collaborative meetings with just a web browser and the Adobe Flash® Player!

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Lets Talk Web Conference!

Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet. In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet. This can be either a downloaded application on each of the attendees' computers or a web-based application where the attendees access the meeting by clicking on a link distributed by e-mail (meeting invitation) to enter the conference.

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For interactive online workshops web conferences are complemented by electronic meeting systems (EMS) which provide a range of online facilitation tools such as brainstorming and categorization, a range of voting methods or structured discussions, typically with optional anonymity. Typically, EMS do not provide core web conferencing functionality such as screen sharing or voice conferencing though some EMS can control web conferencing sessions.

In the early years of the Internet, the terms "web conferencing" was often used to describe a group discussion in a message board and therefore not live. The term has evolved to refer specifically to live or "synchronous" meetings.

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Development

Intended Audience- EducatorsTrainersGovernmentPrivate Industry

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Production Manufacturee Package

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Commercialization

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Evolution Timeline

1999 2001 2003 2006 2007

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The Evolution of Adobe Connect begins with Presida

1999

Who is Presedia and what do they do?Presedia is a leading provider of online presentation and e-learning solutions for online training, sales, marketing, and corporate communications. Privately-held Presedia was founded in 1999 and is based in Sunnyvale, Calif.

http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/presedia/faq.html

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Before Adobe Connect – it was a Breeze!

2001In a previous life, Breeze was called Presedia Producer. Sometime in 2001, I did a full page review on Presedia - I wanted to replace that review with the Breeze review since it's essentially the same product - but there have been so many improvements since then and I thought the Presedia review might be of archival interest to some of you.

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  2003

San Francisco—January 16, 2003—Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the acquisition of privately-held Presedia, Inc., a leading provider of online presentation and e-learning solutions for sales, marketing, corporate communications, and online training. With the addition of Presedia's flagship product, Express, Macromedia extends its leadership in the online presentation, training, and e-learning market to address a burgeoning audience of business users looking to easily and cost-effectively create, deliver, and manage online presentations and learning content. The Express hosted and licensed offering will immediately be sold and supported by Macromedia.

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What is Breeze

Breeze is one such solution - rather it is a solution that creates Flash based rich media content from your PowerPoint presentations. Such rich media content can be delivered online to audiences along with several niceties like password protection, reporting, search, quizzes, etc. All put together, Breeze provides an easy and elegant solution to quickly inform, educate and train anyone - be it your partner, colleague, client, customer or student. Let's now look at Breeze from a more enhanced point of view.

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Adobe Connect is Born

September 2006

Prior to September 2006 when Macromedia products were added to the Acrobat product line, Adobe Connect was Macromedia Breeze. [1] It was renamed subsequent to Adobe's purchase of former competitor Macromedia. The rebranded Breeze products are as follows:

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This is a GREAT comparison chart that I’m having trouble copying- so here is the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software

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The Three levels of collaborationGroupware can be divided into three categories depending on the level of collaboration: (1) communication tools, (2) conferencing tools and (3) collaborative management (Co-ordination) tools.[7]

Communication can be thought of as unstructured interchange of information. A phone call or an IM Chat discussion are examples of this. Conferencing (or collaboration level, as it is called in the academic papers that discuss these levels) refers to interactive work toward a shared goal. Brainstorming or voting are examples of this. Co-ordination refers to complex interdependent work toward a shared goal. A good metaphor for understanding this is to think about a sports team; everyone has to contribute the right play at the right time as well as adjust their play to the unfolding situation - but everyone is doing something different - in order for the team to win. That is complex interdependent work toward a shared goal: collaborative management.

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the next best thing to meeting in person!

Benefits

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/

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References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat_Connect