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10 Tips for a Better Acrobat Connect Meeting
by Kim Cavanaugh - 15-Feb-08
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Adobe Acrobat Connect, formerly known as Macromedia Breeze Meeting, is a terrific application when you need to span distance and time and have a live online meeting with anyone anywhere. Since Acrobat Connect runs on any computer that has the Flash Player installed, just about anyone can easily log-in, watch a presentation, view live video and hear audio, and interact through chat, file sharing and live polling. Now in the sixth full release of the software, Acrobat Connect is used by schools, universities, private businesses, and government agencies all over the world. There's even a chance that you've participated in a Connect meeting yourself. If you were fortunate enough to have the meeting conducted by an experienced Connect presenter, you probably had a great experience. Because even though an Acrobat Connect meeting is easy and fun to participate in, the best presentations are done by those who know their way around the interface and have learned the tricks to having better online meetings. In this article you'll learn some of those tips so you too can conduct a more professional and relaxed Connect meeting.
Creating Polls and Surveys in Breeze Presenter
by Kim Cavanaugh - 15-Mar-06
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Online polls are a terrific way to get information from a wide range of people. After all, who doesn't enjoy the opportunity to tell someone else their opinion?
The only problem is, unless you are adept at doing the database programming needed to build an online survey, have a budget to pay for a service that will host it for you, or are willing to accept the limitations of a free service, getting your surveys out there can be a bit frustrating.
That doesn't have to be the case, especially if you have a copy of Breeze Presenter and your own Breeze account. Using Breeze Presenter almost anyone can create and publish their own online surveys. Since most of the work is done directly in PowerPoint and the Breeze Quiz Manager, the process is easy and accessible to anyone who has even basic PowerPoint skills. Combine that with the automation that Breeze provides for the creation of the URL that you need to make your survey available online and the ability to easily examine the responses from the people who take your poll, almost anyone can be up and running and gathering information in no time.
In this series of four Captivate video tutorials you'll learn how to set up the Breeze Quiz Manager environment for creating surveys, how to insert questions, how to publish your files, and how to examine the results as the responses begin pouring in. In all this tutorial provides you with approximately 18 minutes of video instruction on how to create your own surveys using PowerPoint and Breeze presenter.
Podcasting With Breeze Presenter
by Kim Cavanaugh - 24-Feb-06
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With the introduction of Breeze 5 an important new feature was added to the capabilities of Breeze Presenter—the ability to publish a Breeze presentation directly to your computer. In previous versions of Breeze all presentations were published to a Breeze server which could be your own server or a hosted service where you stored your files. While this was a perfectly good way to publish your presentation for online viewing, you were limited if you did not have a Breeze server or if you wanted to make your presentation available for offline viewing by a download or on a CD. Breeze 5 changed this dynamic by making it possible to save your files directly to your computer with all the associated support files that made the presentation possible.
After playing with this capability a little bit I also discovered a very important hidden feature. When you publish a Breeze presentation to your local computer Breeze produces a series of audio files to go along with each slide in your presentation. Since these files are created in an MP3 format they can be played back as you would any audio file. And of course, that fact got me to thinking that those files could be repurposed and published with an entirely different publishing format, the now ubiquitous podcast.
Approximate download size: 18MB
An Introduction to Breeze Presenter
by Kim Cavanaugh - 01-Nov-05
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With so much going on in the world of Flash-based eLearning content, it's easy to overlook one of the little gems now available for those who need to deliver learning content online. If you think that delivering eLearning content is too hard, or too technically difficult for the people in your organization, then you haven't met Macromedia Breeze Presenter.
Breeze Presenter delivers Flash-based eLearning in the same method that its sibling Breeze Live does—via the ubiquitous Flash Player. But unlike Breeze Live, Breeze Presenter is a product firmly entertwined with the one tool that almost all trainers are familiar with--PowerPoint. This marriage between the familiar PowerPoint interface and the world of eLearning makes for a powerful combination.
Breeze Gets an Update: Breeze Presenter
by Tom Green - 19-May-05
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Though all of the buzz may be around Breeze Meeting, Breeze Presenter is the engine that makes it happen and it is a hit.
Breeze Gets an Update
by Tom Green - 09-May-05
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Macromedia shines up its brass knuckles and goes into "Street Fighter" mode with the release of Breeze 5. In this article, I review some of the major features of the Breeze Meeting 5 which, in many respects, is the "Crown Jewel" of the release.
Breezin' Through Breeze: Taking it Live!
by Tom Green - 22-Apr-05
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When the School of Media Studies at Humber Institute of Technology and Learning in Toronto decided to "take it to the students", the platform chosen was BreezeLive. As the faculty guy charged with making it happen, I will have to admit that turning me loose with this technology was like handing a 10 year-old a Wal-Mart shopping cart and giving the child 20 minutes in a Candy Bar factory to fill the cart. I could hardly wait to get going.
Breezin' with Breeze - Part 3: The Captivate Connection
by Tom Green - 25-Mar-05
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It isn't only PowerPoint that can be used to create Breeze content. A direct upload to Breeze from Captivate is dead simple to accomplish and adds a whole new level of interactivity to your Breeze efforts.
Breezin' Through Breeze: Part 2 - The PowerPoint to Breeze Connection
by Tom Green - 14-Mar-05
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In Part 1 of this series I introduced you to Breeze. In this second installment we explore the nuances of how a PowerPoint Presentation is converted to a Breeze presentation.
Breezin' Through Breeze - Part 1
by Tom Green - 28-Feb-05
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You get an email from the "IT" boys telling you that you now have a Breeze Account. Your next question is, most likely, "Now what do I do?". Read on...
