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Adobe Connect 15 Tips and Tricks in 30 Minutes
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Agenda
• Enhanced Participant Rights • Prepare Mode • Using Notes and Chat pods effectively • PPT tips • Screen resolution • Mapping layouts to the agenda • Cleaning house • Extensions • Using pictures • Lobby ideas • Room background • Q&A vs Chat • Polls on separate layouts • Interaction timing • Connectusers.com
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Enhanced Participant Rights
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Give access to the tools you want your attendees to use during your presentation
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Prepare Mode
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Be Sneaky!
Adobe Connect offers a Prepare Mode so you can go behind the scenes during a live event and make changes without anyone knowing!
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Use Note pods effectively
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Display audio conference number
Insert agenda
Assign someone to take notes
Email notes from Adobe Connect meeting room
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Create a powerful PowerPoint
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Best practices for creating an effective presentation:
Compress graphics
Keep animations simple
Use standard fonts, not smaller than 18 pt
Keep text brief
The more slides the better
Save your PowerPoint in ppt format
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Screen Resolution
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Adjust your screen resolution: If you have an extra large monitor, go to your Control Panel and adjust your screen resolution, if you plan to screen share during your meeting.
For extra large monitors, set your monitor to
1024 x 768 if you plan on screen sharing
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Map layouts to event agenda
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Customize each layout according to what you’re doing at that point in the meeting
Organize the layouts in order of your planned agenda
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Clean house
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Keeping a room clean
Renaming pods
Deleting unused pods
Clearing out chat and Q&A
Double-click on a pod name to rename it
Use Manage Pods to clean up your pods
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Extensions
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Liven things up!
Connect Exchange
Visit and download maps, games & interactive tools:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?from=2&event=ductHome&exc=14
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Interact every 5-7 minutes
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Use Pictures
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Make your lobby interesting and fun!
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Spice up your room background!
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Chat vs Q&A
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Polls on their own layout
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Next Steps
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To Learn More about Connect http://www.adobe.com/ducts/acrobatconnect/
Have an Adobe Representative Contact Me http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/acrobatconnect/index.cfm?event=lead
30-day Free Trial
http://www.adobe.com/ducts/acrobatconnect/trial/
Connect User Community http://www.connectusers.com
Connect Exchange http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=ductHome&exc=14&loc=en_us
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