) November 19, 2008 - Articulate, the leader in rapid e-learning software, announced today its Articulate Guru Awards 2009 Contest. Users of Articulate's products will have the opportunity to compete for cash and other prizes by submitting their best work between now and the February 18, 2009 contest deadline. The winners and other exemplary entries will be shared with Articulate users as e-learning best practices examples on the company's website.

Articulate Guru Awards 2009

Rapid Intake's e-learning software, ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio, is a finalist again in the same award contest where it took first place in 2008, beating out rivals Articulate and Captivate.

Momindum of France, a software designer, has launched Momindum Studio 1.2, a software suite that enables users to automate the production of rich-media presentations thanks to unique speech indexation and synchronisation technology.
Momindum Studio 1.2, along with its accompanying software package, Momindum Timecoder, automatically extracts slides and keywords, as well as existing PowerPoint presentation outlines, including timing-related data. It uses deep-tagging technology to index speech and enables direct access, at the appropriate time, to an audio or video file, whether online or on CD.

) October 15, 2009 -- Rapid Intake, a collaborative rapid e-learning software company, based in Provo, Utah, has announced a nation-wide academic grant program for K-12 and higher-education institutions.

) November 3, 2008 -- Broadcasters and production professionals understand the power of video. Now there's a unique website that uses video to better inform them on higher-end HD cameras, lenses, and accessories. The new site (www.HDCameraGuide.com) contains exclusive video interviews, product introduction videos, a video-rich educational Learning Center, an Interactive Lens Selector that lets you choose the right HD lens for your camera and application, and many other features.

HDCAMERAGUIDE.COM

) December 2, 2008 -- User experience research and design have recently become absolutely critical to creating powerful and engaging web sites and software applications. But according to Charles L. Mauro, founder and CEO of a leading user experience research and design firm, MauroNewMedia, "There is minimal critical analysis and timely commentary available on this important new field of research and design."

To address this need, MauroNewMedia has launched Pulse>UX, a new blog whose mission is to "provide the professional fields of user experience research and design with a voice for critical analysis and commentary. We strive to create an active and articulate view on issues of the interface between customers and technology"

Rapid Intake (http://www.rapidintake.com) announced today that it has added SWiSH, an easy-to-use rapid Flash animation tool, to its award-winning e-learning software ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio.

) October 1, 2009 -- Creative strategic consultancy Sense Worldwide has taken the lead again, this time in starting an open conversation around co-creation - the latest business buzzword which is sparking debate across industry and sector boundaries, yet raising eye brows with some who see it as just more hype and unnecessary jargon.

SyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the LMS industry, today announces the next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, about a term used in e-Learning theory, "branching."

) October 6, 2008 -- Just log in through any browser and create interactive Flash-based courses online -- it's that easy. Do it as an individual, or collaboratively work as teams. That's the promise of the Rapid Intake (www.rapidintake.com) technology that recently won one of the e-learning industry's most prestigious awards.

) October 9, 2008 -- DVDVideoSoft announces a release of Free Studio, a unique up-to-date application, which combines several multimedia audio and video programs. The application is the result of mutual cooperation of DVDVideoSoft Ltd and its users within two years.

Free Studio is a single package which bundles 15 updated and greatly improved existent tools from DVDVideoSoft to work with video and audio files and five absolutely new ones: Free Audio Converter, Free Disc Burner, Free DVD Video Burner, Free Audio CD Burner, Free Video to DVD.

) January 29, 2009 -- Learning Evolution, a leading provider of eLearning content creation for enterprise companies, announces today its alliance with Flypaper Studio, creator of the first Flash Content Management Platform. The strategic alliance will leverage the expertise of both organizations to help customers create, manage and track high impact, Web-based Flash content for e-Learning and performance management solutions. As part of the partnership, Learning Evolution will also be an authorized reseller of the Flypaper solution to enterprise clients.

Learning Evolution

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) November 14, 2008 - Trivantis Corporation®, the leader in publishing software for the FORTUNE 1000, today announced the release of Lectora® Version 9. Major new enhancements include:

) January 6, 2009 -- Pixarra today introduced TwistedBrush Open Studio, a free digital paint and photo editing Windows software package built from the powerful and easy to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio platform. TwistedBrush Open Studio is released as free software that will not expire and is not crippled. Based off of TwistedBrush Pro Studio, most all the features of the Pro Studio version are included in Open Studio with the exception of features that allow for modification of brushes.

) December 12, 2008 - Atlantic Link held their first ever user group meeting on Thursday , October 9th 2008. A large group of over 50 users attended the event on location at the Atlantic Link UK headquarters in Nottingham.

DigitByte Studio has released Open Video Joiner v3.2.1 for all Windows pc users, which is an easy-to-use video joiner to join all kinds of video files into one large avi file with transition effects, even these video files have different frame rate, frame size and encoding parameters.
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) May 20, 2009 -- Although military veterans leaving the service possess a multitude of specialized skills and experience, they often find the transition to civilian employment a daunting task. The Bureau of Labor Statisticsreports that the national unemployment rate is currently at 8.9 percent; however, according to RecruitMilitary - a company owned and operated by veterans to help military members find civilian jobs - the veteran unemployment rate is even higher and hovers at approximate 11.9 percent.

Rapid Intake, the leader in rapid interactive e-learning course development, announced today that ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio has been named a finalist in the Best of 2008 Elearning! awards in the Course Authoring category. (PRWeb Nov 21, 2008)

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SyberWorks, Inc., a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System industry, announces the next episode in their e-Learning Podcast Series: “Capturing e-Learning Audio."

SyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System (LMS) industry, announces the next episode in the e-Learning Podcast Series.

) January 16, 2009 -- Improved Experience, the parent company behind HR Technology products, Make Better HiresTM and Get Better HiresTM, is focusing on decreasing company costs during this difficult economic time. A move they say is getting them in the door with customers.

Improved Experience Logo

“Our products serve as a mirror or a dashboard of company performance in recruiting, hiring and onboarding,” said founding partner and CEO Claudia Faust, a 15-year industry veteran, who has developed the core products based on her own frustrations with poor HR Metrics and Reporting.

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) September 8, 2009 -- SyberWorks, Inc., a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System (LMS) industry, today announces an article available in the SyberWorks Online Media Center: "e-Learning in 'the Cloud'" by Stuart Campbell, Director of Software Development for SyberWorks, Inc.

Mary Kay Lofurno, Director of Marketing at SyberWorks, states: "This article discusses 'Cloud Computing,' in which applications are run on remote servers instead of being hosted on a user's own hard drive. The article looks at both the advantages and disadvantages of this type of computing."

) August 26, 2009 -- HairLoss.com, the world's largest online social network community dedicated to all things hair loss has announced its first annual video contest organized to help raise public awareness about hair loss issues.

"This is a call out to all filmmakers -- amateur or professional -- for a highly worthy cause," said Michael Garcia, spokesman for HairLoss.com. Not that this is a charitable contest. We will be offering some substantial prizes."

Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., the provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, has announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS). [Gartner, Inc. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems, Carol Rozwell and Jim Lundy, 30 June 2008]. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.
According to the Gartner, Inc. report, Leaders must not only meet the market's current requirements, which are continually changing, but also anticipate future requirements. Also fundamental is the ability to articulate how they will address these requirements as part of a vision for an expanded CLS.

) December 17, 2008 -- Splash Media LP (www.splashmedia.com), an Emmy Award winning innovator of digital video publishing, today announced that it is working with McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) to create and distribute a full scale video based e-learning (VBE) platform for McAfee's enterprise level security software clients.

Splash Media is a digital video IPTV publisher of TV network quality training and communication solutions. McAfee, Inc. recently chose Splash Media to be its exclusive partner to develop a feature rich and easy to use e-learning tool that will provide their enterprise level clients with compliant technical training and testing required for McAfee's enterprise security products.

) May 9, 2009 -- Stonecreek Partners (www.stonecreekllc.com) has launched a Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/Don_Bredberg) to cover the fusion of retail, resort, and themed entertainment sensibilities and topics that contribute to making great places, interesting placemaking, and the operation of compelling destination gathering places. The Twitter feed will follow from the company's Managing Director at "Don_Bredberg".

) November 12, 2008 -- Just in time for the holiday season, Hallmark Software announces the availability of the newest versions of the best-selling Hallmark Card Studio software. Hallmark Card Studio 2009 and Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe include more customizable Hallmark greeting cards and projects than ever before, new designs and premium art images, transforming the PC into an all-in-one creative design center.

) January 28, 2009 -- A new version of Composica (http://www.composica.com), the leading web-based e-Learning authoring system, was launched today.

Composica provides e-Learning authors with the ability to collaboratively create highly rich, interactive content.

Composica 4.0 now empowers authors to take full advantage of social media tools to create a learning community around each course. Courses then become both formal and social by nature - learners can share knowledge with others, learn from each other, comment on anything, rate everything and more - all while browsing a course, without ever leaving the learning environment.

Composica 4.0 empowers authors to:

) March 30, 2009 -- Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc. (KMSI) a leader in Web-Based Training and eLearning Technologies announced that Version 5.3 of its' KMx - Advanced Distributed Learning Platform provides development and delivery of eLearning courseware, knowledge management and collaboration tools for mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone and Microsoft Windows CE devices with full conformance to the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) standard.

Rapid Intake is supplying their award-winning, web-based e-learning software, Unison, to two hundred schools for the purpose of creating online learning courses.

) November 6, 2008 -- In its first 4 weeks, 500,000 visitors have visited five million pages. 11,000 users have submitted questions or answers. Despite attempts to whip up controversy by the right-wing Daily Mail, it seems that even the majority of their conservative readers seem to understand that the project meets a real need for frank, unpatronizing sexual advice: http://blogs.channel4.com/thetvshow/2008/09/18/up-front-and-personal/

Gardena, CA TMPG, Inc. (www.tmpg-inc.com), the company that makes digital video easy, is introducing German language versions of TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 and the latest TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress update. The new German language software is now available at the www.tmpg-inc.com Deutsch language site.
Our software is popular throughout Europe. We have had many requests for a German version of our new updated TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress encoder for its additional high definition video and Blu-ray functionality. TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 has also been in demand worldwide. We are pleased to offer both of these programs to our German speaking customers, stated Kimi Matsuki, TMPG CEO.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Update Features
AVCHD Format - Input Support

SyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the LMS industry, announces an episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, on a tool used in e-learning development, "Section 508."

) December 1, 2008 -- The DiSTI Corporation, a global leader in Human Machine Interface (HMI) development, today announced the development of a new product called the DiSTI Data Director. The Data Director is an ideal tool for the Human Factors and Prototyping communities who wish to quickly connect instrumentation to physical data models in an easy to use GUI environment. The technology originated as part of DiSTI's virtual maintenance trainer production cycle to manage data assets. Development into this commercial product has been driven by the automotive industry where there is a need to seamlessly connect multiple data sources, such as math models or simulation data to user interface objects, with no programming.

) August 19, 2009 -- SyberWorks, Inc., a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System (LMS) industry, today announces an article available in the SyberWorks Online Media Center: "Make the Most of the Existing Tools," by Steve Pena, Instructional Designer and Implementation Consultant for SyberWorks, Inc.

Mary Kay Lofurno, Director of Marketing at SyberWorks, states: "In this article, Steve Pena discusses the next generation of e-Learning users. He talks about various technological tools, such as active images, web demonstrations, and Flash activities, as well as how they can be used to engage these new young learners."

) September 26, 2008 --
Flypaper
Studio, Inc., founded by the team that developed ACT! and SalesLogix®
CRM, announces they have won the Silver Award for Best innovation in
Learning Technology presented by Brandon
Hall Research.

CEO of Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) – prominently featured in novel – available to reveal Noetics link to book’s clues; explain the history and science of Noetics, reveal Noetic research experiments in the IONS “Cube.” Note to press: We can arrange a phone or in-person interview with Dr. Schlitz at the Institute of Noetic Science (cited by Brown as one of the real organizations included in the book), a two hundred-acre campus in Petaluma, Calif. and the home of the real-life “Cube.” She is an articulate, knowledgeable, and warm subject who’s been interviewed by many national media outlets interested in the “compassionate intention” experiments and other mind-body-spirit research conducted by IONS.

) September 26, 2008 --
Flypaper
Studio, Inc., founded by the team that developed ACT! and SalesLogix®
CRM, announces they have won the Silver Award for Best innovation in
Learning Technology presented by Brandon
Hall Research.