Elearning! Media Group, the industry voice of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market has announced their Best of Elearning! 2011 award-winners. Recipients are chosen by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines’ reader community.  To read the entire press release by PRWeb, please click on this link.

Please also visit the Adobe Blog for more information.

• New layout bar to easily manage and switch between meeting layouts
• Presenter Only Area Q&A pod
• Support for 200 people split into 20 break-out rooms
• Support for playback of H264 video
• Ability to create screen-sharing black list

 
A new Adobe Connect Meeting add-in is required for SP1. It will install automatically the first time you join an Adobe Connect 8 SP1 meeting. If you are in a locked down environment, you will need to pre-install the add-in using the links provided here.

Note: These installers, updated on March 21, 2011 to Adobe Connect 8 SP1, are only required for organizations that thatdo not allow their end-users to install the Adobe Connect add-in via lightning download from the Adobe.com website.
 

For more information, please go to the Adobe Connect 8 Migration Center.

Go to Learning Solutions for the complete article.

November 1, 2010 

GetConnect announced today it will support the next major version of Adobe’s enterprise web conferencing solution, Adobe® Connect™ 8.

Key features of Adobe Connect 8 include a new, more intuitive user interface, improved collaboration capabilities, expanded audio/video integration, improved access and extensibility, and increased security and enterprise support. With these new features, Adobe Connect 8 makes web meetings, online training, and webinars more efficient, effective, and engaging than ever.

”GetConnect’s deep knowledge of Adobe Connect for remote collaboration and eLearning is a strong asset to our customers,” said Michael Londgren, director of product marketing, Adobe Connect. “We’re excited for users to experience the many new and enhanced capabilities of Adobe Connect 8, and are confident they will benefit from the added value of GetConnect’s technical expertise.”

Adobe Connect is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning and webinars used by leading enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions. Based on Adobe Flash® technology, it enables organizations to provide rich interactions, while ensuring easy meeting entry. 

Adobe Connect significantly improves collaboration in the enterprise.  It provides the capabilities to easily create and deliver self-paced online courses, conduct highly interactive virtual classes and efficiently manage training programs.  Adobe Connect also enables organizations to increase attendance, boost attendance rates and generate more interest through rich and engaging, highly interactive and impactful webinars.

About GetConnect
 

GetConnect is an Adobe Authorized Gold Solution Partner.  Adobe Connect is our background and the foundation of everything we do. Our understanding of Adobe Connect is unique, our product knowledge, technical depth, best practices know-how and understanding of Adobe operations makes dealing with GetConnect a great experience for all of our clients in all business sectors.  To learn more about Adobe Connect 8 please contact us at 888-200-1831 or reach us at getinfo@getconnect.com.

For more information on Adobe Connect 8, visit the Adobe web site.

Podium 2 has compelling new features in the following areas:

• Announcements
• Scatchpad
• Video Responses
• Podium Event Guides

Additional new features include:

• Moderated Q&A
• Public Chat
• Native Facebook Webcasting Application

Podium 2 breaks out of the pre-set template of traditional webcasting and adds a new creative look and feel for viewers.  It presents a fresh and engaging business communication experience.

ConnectSolutions has also rolled out a new pricing model that enables it to be widely used across many departments.

Please visit connectsolutions for the complete news release.

Please visit the Alaska Airlines Magazine Link to view the entire article. (See Page 111)

Experience the five faces of rapid eLearning with a single feature-packed application that combines authoring, multimedia, collaboration, and tracking functionalities.  Contact GetConnect today for Captivate 5!  It is a great addition to creating Adobe Connect presentations.

• Rapidly create interactive eLearning content without programming thanks to an optimized user interface with a Property inspector and personalized workspaces.
• Rapidly enrich your courses using rich animation effects, video synchronized with selected slides, and a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, and images.
• Rapidly collaborate with team members.
• Rapidly deliver content to your learners virtually anywhere, and evaluate their progress with built-in tracking and reporting.
• Rapidly update training materials using Object Styles and Master Slides.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             If a customer has upgrade protection and is wondering about how to get their upgrade: Contact GetConnect for more information.