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Brainshark Launches SlideShark Team Edition

New Version of SlideShark App, Which Solved PowerPoint-on-iPad Problem, Features Powerful, Multi-User Functionality to Support Teams Within Organizations

WALTHAM, Mass. — February 1, 2012 — Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile presentations, today announced the availability of SlideShark Team Edition. Building on the capabilities of the free SlideShark iPad app for individuals, SlideShark Team Edition provides organizations with powerful, multi-user functionality – including centralized content administration, team-wide access to content and valuable usage analytics.

Launched in October 2011, SlideShark solved what had been a critical problem for millions of iPad users around the world: how to properly play PowerPoints on the device. No more flattening presentations into PDFs or toiling with conversion techniques that garble fonts, colors, animations and graphics – SlideShark lets mobile professionals view and show PowerPoint presentations on the iPad the way they were meant to be seen. Since its launch, SlideShark has seen a groundswell of demand – including two downloads per minute, 24x7, and a consistent ranking among the top productivity apps in Apple’s App Store.

Now, with SlideShark Team Edition, groups within organizations – such as sales teams – can apply SlideShark’s functionality on a wider scale and take advantage of new features that support centralized, secure content management.

“SlideShark Team Edition represents the next, natural evolution of our product and comes in response to user demand,” said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. “With SlideShark Team Edition, we now look forward to helping teams better access and manage their PowerPoint content – and, of course, view or present it properly anytime, on-the-go on their iPads.”

SlideShark Team Edition includes the following features:

Shared team content – Users can securely access, view and present PowerPoints that authorized administrators and team members have uploaded and designated for shared use.
Personal user content – Individual team members can upload their own PowerPoint decks to SlideShark and convert them to an iPad-ready format for their own personal access and viewing.
Central management – Team account administrators have the ability to add or remove users, change user permissions, manage billing centrally and assign administrative controls.
Usage analytics – Account administrators can view online and download reports that show which users are accessing and viewing content, and which presentations are most and least popular.
Team storage – Teams benefit from plenty of space for shared team content and personal user content, with 5GB of total storage plus more as required.
Reliability and security – As with SlideShark, SlideShark Team Edition users take advantage of Brainshark’s highly secure, reliable and scalable enterprise-class cloud computing infrastructure.

Interested users can sign up for a SlideShark Team Edition 60-day free trial. SlideShark Team Edition is priced at $149 per user per year.

“As the enterprise workforce continues to ‘go mobile,’ the need for applications like SlideShark Team Edition continues to grow,” said Ira M. Weinstein, senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research. “SlideShark Team Edition solves two common road-warrior problems – the need to easily view PowerPoint presentations on a personal or corporate-issued iPad, and the need for centralized management and controlled access to corporate content. SlideShark has earned its place on my iPad’s home page.”

For more information and to download SlideShark or SlideShark Team Edition, please visit www.slideshark.com.

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based software for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations. With Brainshark, businesspeople can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand. Customers can also obtain extensive viewing details, enabling them to measure the effectiveness of their content and follow up accordingly. Thousands of companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. For more information, visit www.brainshark.com

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Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based software for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations.

With Brainshark, you can easily transform static content, such as PowerPoint® documents, into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand. You can also obtain extensive viewing details, enabling you to measure the effectiveness of your content so you can follow up accordingly.

Who Uses Brainshark?

Thousands of companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – and hundreds of thousands of individuals rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications.

• Sales and marketing professionals use Brainshark to produce engaging content to generate leads, communicate important information to prospects and customers, and gauge audience interest. • Trainers and HR professionals use Brainshark to share knowledge, deliver interactive eLearning content and measure student retention and participation. • Anyone – executives, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, product managers, sales reps, channel managers – can use Brainshark to quickly get their message in front of their most important audiences in a compelling way and to know if, when, how and where it’s being consumed.

Create

Creating Brainshark presentations is quick and simple to do. Once you’ve prepared your content – PowerPoints, documents, photos or video clips – simply log in to your Brainshark account over the web, upload the content and then optionally add audio by phone, microphone or MP3 upload. The patented system guides you through a step-by-step process, allowing you to instantly transform your content into voice-enriched video presentations.

Share

Your content is only valuable, of course, if you share it! Presentations can be shared as links in an email, posted to social media sites or embedded in blogs or websites. They can also be delivered securely via Brainshark login or from your own portal or learning management system (LMS). Because your presentations are hosted by Brainshark, they can then be accessed by your audiences anytime, on-demand from desktop or mobile devices.

Track

Once your presentations are viewed, you can track the viewing details, including who viewed, what they viewed, when they viewed and even where they viewed. You can receive email alerts with the viewing data or log in to your Brainshark account to access online dashboards and reports. Brainshark’s powerful tracking capabilities enable you to measure the effectiveness of your communications and prioritize follow-up activity with viewers.

Enrich

With Brainshark, you can update and enrich your presentations at any time – extending the value and benefits of each communication.

You can easily add to an existing presentation by uploading additional PowerPoints, documents, video clips or photos within the same presentation or by including live web pages right into a presentation. You can also enrich presentations by attaching files/documents that viewers can download, inserting interactive questions (polls, surveys or test questions), adding background music, and more.

Manage

As a Brainshark enterprise customer, you can collaborate with others on content production by copying or merging content between presentations, inviting “guests” to add their voice or slides to your presentation, or personalizing presentations by adding or substituting your own custom opening or closing slides.

Brainshark enterprise features also provide numerous security options so you can ensure your content is accessed only by your intended audience. Features like password-protection, login access requirements, IP range restrictions, expiration dates and SSL encryption are all available.

Mobile

With Brainshark, you can create and share your video presentations knowing that your audiences can not only view your presentations on a desktop or laptop computer, but also on mobile devices. With more and more people accessing web-based information from their smartphones and tablet computers, you want to ensure your message is received whenever and wherever it is most convenient. Brainshark Mobile – included with all Brainshark solutions – provides this flexibility.

Brainshark…Leading the Way

The core functionality to create, share, track, enrich and manage online and mobile video presentations is provided the Brainshark CST Platform™, the foundation for Brainshark’s products and solutions for enterprises and individuals. Learn more at www.brainshark.com.

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