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Marit Fratelli, Content Marketing Manager, Brainshark, Inc.
June 19, 2013 09:28 AM
I remember sitting in my high school French class and really wanting to speak, but also equally not wanting to make a fool of myself. It would have been great to use a free tool to record myself speaking a script I wrote in French (in the privacy of my Leonardo DiCaprio-covered bedroom) and then send it online to Monsieur Lanciaux for review. But at the time, Al Gore had only just invented the Internet and that kind of technology wasn’t available.
Fast-forward to today, where we now have...
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audio, eLearning & training, myBrainshark
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Andy Zimmerman, Chief Marketing Officer, Brainshark, Inc.
June 17, 2013 03:28 PM
The mobile business productivity space continues to expand! On Friday, June 14th, Microsoft launched Office Mobile for the iPhone, an app that allows you to view, create or edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents and view or edit (at a very basic level) PowerPoint files on the iPhone. The app is free but available only to existing Microsoft Office 365 subscribers.
With this product announcement, Microsoft recognizes that PowerPoint continues to be the dominant present...
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iPhone, iPad, mobile, SlideShark
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Pat Kelly, Director, Customer Experience, Brainshark
June 14, 2013 09:53 AM
I recently read a great article in the McKinsey Quarterly called Givers Take All by Adam Grant. The article discusses a team of Harvard psychologists that studied the U.S. intelligence system to determine what makes a unit effective.
They studied 64 groups and ranked them from best to worst based on a comprehensive list of factors that drive effectiveness. What they found was that the single most important factor driving the effectiveness of a given unit was not even one they ha...
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Marit Fratelli, Content Marketing Manager, Brainshark, Inc.
June 11, 2013 02:20 PM
This month’s edition of the Brainshark newsletter highlights upcoming webinars and events. There’s fresh content in the Sales Enablement Webinar Series, a Brainshark customer discount for the Marketing & Sales Alignment Conference, and on-demand replays of the Video Marketing PowerPoint University Webinar Series.
You’ll also find information on SlideShark Team Edition’s broadcasting capabilities and to brighten your day, take a look at our latest video, If Onl...
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Mike Davis, Customer Experience Manager, Brainshark, Inc.
June 03, 2013 09:29 AM
We are not always aware of it, but there are many things we underutilize in our daily lives.
There’s that decked-out V8 SUV that seats 12 and can pull a boat, yet you only drive it to work and to get groceries. Or what about that nifty spreadsheet application called Excel? If you only use it to create mailing lists, then you’re only scratching the surface of what it can do. And let’s not even get started on your smartphone!
Brainshark is no different. While many of our...
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Brainshark Tips, external communications, internal communications