If you use your Connect meeting room in conference rooms, auditoriums or venues where the sound system and microphones are professional grade it can often be a challenge to get the XLR standard audio connectors into your computer; unless you have a true desktop with a solid sound card, as laptops are usually all Firewire and USB.
Ryan Monger at Adobe just put this great article up at ConnectUsers.com on the X2u XLR-USB Signal Adapter for getting that great quality audio down from those XLR systems into the USB connection on your laptop without requiring a dedicated sound card.
Check out the article and all of the ConnectUsers.com website as it has tons of resources around Adobe Connect Pro.
Just wanted to make a quick mention of the Adobe Learning Summit that takes place in San Jose, CA on November 9th at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel. Welcome and opening comments by Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, Inc. is just the beginning.
As Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is a huge part of Adobe’s elearning strategy this conference is a great opportunity to meet Adobe product team members, industry experts and peers using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro and many other Adobe tools and solutions. There are a number of sessions around Connect Pro and how to get the most out of the solution. The opportunity to network and meet others using Connect Pro for communication, collaboration and eLearning is truly outstanding.
You can get more details and register here.
I just came across a relatively new resource for developers integrating Connect Pro with various systems via the XML Web Services that have been in Connect Pro for a long time. In response to a number of questions on connectusers.com about integration examples, this site was created to focus on providing clear examples of uses of the APIs. For anyone beginning to wrap their heads around these services, I would definitely recommend following the blog. You can reach it here: http://www.connectbyexample.com/blog/
If you are interested in learning more about the technology under the hood of LiveCycle Collaboration Service, I’d suggest reviewing this presentation by Ryan Stewart from Adobe:
http://max.adobe.com/online/session/272
Just wanted to put a few quick comments up here on this newest development from Adobe regarding the Adobe Connect Platform. These are exciting times. I remember years ago first seeing “skunk works” projects, if you will, of getting limited Adobe Connect functionality on certain specific mobile device that used very specific versions of the Windows mobile platform. Now getting some of the best parts of Adobe Connect Pro collaboration on an iPhone – Wow!
The definitive article on this from Alistair Lee at Adobe systems can be found here at the Connectusers.com.
Connect Pro Mobile for the Apple iPhone
I hope this is just the beginning of such developments and innovations around the Connect platform enabling users to communicate, collaborate and even learn in the mobile manner that best suits their needs.
These efforts truly go a long way toward making Adobe Connect Pro the tool of mass instruction and collaboration.
As I am a Blackberry user and not an iPhone user this does make me consider purchasing one or at the very least borrowing my wife’s iPhone and trying out Connect Pro Mobile once Adobe makes it available to the public.
I am sure as this effort moves forward more Connect Pro features and enhancements will be made available on this mobile platform. The mere idea that I can be involved in a Connect Pro meeting from my phone; in addition to my Mac, my tablet and Windows PC , just makes me smile. Having to cart around all these other much larger devices is not all the much fun. Besides, I always have my phone with me and it starts up a whole quicker than my computer too.
Connect Pro Mobile for the Apple iPhone
There are a number of exciting announcements happening at Adobe MAX this year, but one that is near and dear to ConnectSolutions is focused on Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service. LiveCycle Collaboration Service is the new name for what was once Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (and for early followers, CoCoMo), and with today’s announcements, it is now commercially available in two forms:
Using the Adobe® LiveCycle® Collaboration Service, organizations can easily build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) that include real-time, multiuser collaboration tools. This means that your organization can explore opportunities to:
- Easily integrate text chat, whiteboard, webcam, and VoIP functionality.
- Rapidly build and deploy applications with the complete SDK.
- Manage user and session data.
- Host applications in a managed environment.
A datasheet is available here from Adobe on the overall capabilities of LiveCycle Collaboration Service.
