In this tutorial you can see how I use the free service from Adobe called Acrobat ConnectNow, to share my screen with other collaborators or clients.

You can find out more about this service at ConnectNow

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Welcome to Bluefx.net! My name is Gyorfi, and in this short tutorial, I will demonstrate another tool I use for communicating with clients – it’s called Acrobat Connect Now. You can share your screen with this free service. Let me show you how it works.

Sign into Acrobat Connect Now, and hit Share My Computer Screen. You can select the first monitor, second monitor, and application, so the client only sees the application you’re working on. Let’s say I select my second monitor – I hit Share, hit OK, and I can invite other people to join. Hit Invite, and you’ll get a link, which you can send to the client, who opens the link. He won’t need to create an account – he just enters his name and joins the meeting. Once the client enters, a small screen appears that asks if I accept or decline his invitation to join – I’ll Accept. Now, the client will see my screen. If I open the document, or open the browser, this is what he’ll see. This tool has a couple interesting options: You can chat directly with the client, and you can invite more people to join, up to three in the free version, and if you upgrade you can have more participants. You can chat with the participants here, and you have another interesting option: Annotation. Hit Start, and your screen will freeze, and you can make annotations. Let’s say you want to point to a certain location – telling the client to type something in this field, for instance. You can also enter text, and the client sees it. Then you can stop annotation, and everything disappears.

The client can also show his screen; for example, if he pushes this button, Share My Computer Screen, his screen will be shared, so you can see his desktop. And now I have a very interesting option: if I go down here, to Request Control of User’s Computer, and the client accepts, I now have control over his desktop. I can move windows, as you can see, I can open folders, and to stop controlling his desktop, go up here and click Release Control.

Acrobat Connect Now can be very useful, and it was useful for me. I had to work with clients who didn’t know how to set up an FTP account, or I had to show them my designs for quick feedback, and it made my job so much easier. You can sign up to Connect Now if you go to http://www.acrobat.com, go here to sign up. I have already signed in. You just go here, to Meeting, and go to Meeting Room, and now the Acrobat Connect Now application will appear. Again, you can send this link to participants, and they can jump in.

That’s all! You can find out more about this service from Adobe if you go to this link, under the video. In this short tutorial from Adobe, you can find out more about the product. Thanks for your patience! This was Gyorfi, from Bluefx.net.

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