Getting Started with Brainshark

These presentations cover everything from Brainshark Best Practices, to uploading your content, adding audio and adjusting presentation settings, through sharing your presentation and tracking viewing results. In under an hour, you can learn about the features and functionality in the Brainshark Presentations^TM application and how Brainshark can help you quickly and easily create, edit, share and track your communications.

We recommend you bookmark this handy Quick Reference Guide and refer to it while you use Brainshark!

Best Practices for Creating Content

Creating content for delivery in Brainshark takes a different approach than creating content for delivery to audiences where there is open dialogue between the listeners and the presenter. This tutorial covers our recommended Best Practices so you deliver content that will keep your audience engaged and paying attention to the Brainshark Presentations you create!

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Ready, Set, Brainshark!

Once you have your content, it's time to upload it to Brainshark! This tutorial will show you how to get your content into Brainshark and then discuss the options you have for incorporating supportive content, polling or exam questions, a guestbook for tracking, your presenter’s credentials, and most importantly, AUDIO.

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Step-by-Step Guidance

Upload from Presentations Application
Upload from Content Portal

Adding and Managing Audio

The right audio can make or break the success of your presentation. Knowing the best way to reach your audience with audio will make your presentation most effective. This tutorial covers the different methods available for adding audio and points you to the step-by-step process for getting it done.

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Step-by-Step Guidance

Adding Audio with a Telephone
Adding Audio with a Microphone

Adding and Managing Content

Leverage the content you already have and incorporate it in your Brainshark presentation without having to recreate it from scratch. This tutorial discusses the options available to you.

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Adjust Presentation Settings

You’ve worked hard to get the right content into your presentation; you’ve followed best practices and incorporated audio and the right complement of supportive content so that your audience gets what they need from your presentation. Now it’s time to adjust the settings on your presentation so that you get the reporting data you need. This tutorial reviews the available options.

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Sharing Options

Once you have created your content, you want to get it out to your viewers in a way that will get you the best results. Brainshark offers a variety of distribution methods, giving you the ability to reach your viewers in the way that works best for them. This tutorial reviews the Sharing Options for your content.

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Measure your Results

No matter what type of communication you are sending, you’ll need to determine whether or not it was successful. Brainshark reporting can help you show everything from total number of views to attained score. You’ll get the information you need to justify ROI, and satisfy any compliance requirements you might have. This tutorial covers the available Brainshark report options.

View Concept Tutorial Duration 7:29 | Download Process Doc

Step-by-Step Guidance

Reporting Basics
Customizing Reports: Report Options
Scheduled Reports and Report Templates

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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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