If you have a lobby where your attendees are waiting before your session starts, you can play music by loading an MP3 into a Share Pod. But what if you want to have your attendees choose their own waiting music. Here we describe how you can do this using just PowerPoint and some .wav music […]
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Workarounds for PowerPoint slides advancing on their own
Unfortunately, in Connect 11 there is a known issue where PowerPoint slides can advance on their own. The Connect team is aware and working on this, but in the meantime, there are some workarounds. What is Happening? – The slides are essentially ‘playing’ in the mode of an Adobe Presenter presentation. To be clear, this […]
What is happening when I see ‘tunneling’ during a screen-share?
Well the first thing to do is show you what this means. See figure 1 below. You might call this an ‘infinity view’, or a more common example might be when you have a bathroom mirror in front of you and you use another mirror to see the back of your head…makes you dizzy! Figure […]
Managing Connect Performance in Lower Bandwidth Situations
With the advent of COVID-19 and the vert significant changes it has made to the way we communicate, the loading on local internet connectivity and the wider loading on servers is unprecedented. This post is intended to give Connect presenter ad hosts some guidelines that can make the difference between a successful session and a […]
Top Best Practices for Content and Sharing in Adobe Connect
There are a few relatively simple things that you can do in your Connect room to improve the experience and efficiency of your sessions. A few of the best practices that have the best ‘return on investment’ are below.’ In any of the scenarios below, take the time to click on the green bars to […]
Creating Interactive PowerPoint Decks for Connect
Not everyone is aware that you can take a PowerPoint deck into your Connect room and sophisticated animations and hyperlinks (interactive buttons) will work very well. In this Blog Post I walk through some of the techniques you can use to make your regular PowerPoint files both engaging and interactive in your meeting rooms and […]
Troubleshooting PowerPoint conversions in Connect Meeting Rooms
I seem to hear this as a challenge a few times from clients, so I though I should outline my process when I come up against PowerPoint challenges in Connect Meeting Rooms. EMERGENCY!? – If you are reading this because you are in a Connect Meeting Room with the hot, insistent breath of your manager […]