Daily Archive for August 24th, 2007

Did You Know: Large-file sharing with Connect

Ever needed to share a very large file with someone inside or outside of your organization, and been unable to do so through email due to file-size limitations?  Acrobat Connect solves this problem, and adds some compelling document collaboration capabilities at the same time.  Here’s how:

  1. Create a meeting room and use a custom URL to make it easy to remember (/yourname, or /files, …)
  2. Add a fileshare pod to your layout.  At this point, you’ve got everything you need to upload and share files with others.  You can leave the room "open to anyone who has the URL," or lock it and require login, depending on what files you want to share.
  3. If you’d like to do more with Acrobat Connect, you can also add note pods, chat pods, etc… and add more collaborative context to your filesharing.

There’s one additional benefit:  you also have automatic tracking and reporting of who has entered your room and viewed or downloaded the content…

 

 


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