Congratulations to our 2013 Sharkie Award winners! To check out all Sharkie-winning presentations from this year and years’ past, please go to www.brainshark.com/sharkies.

For more information about events like this, email events@brainshark.com.

Categories

• My first presentation
• Mobile optimized presentation (presentation that looks great on a smartphone)
• Short presentation (less than 90 seconds)
• Marketing
• Marketing for lead generation*
• Training for internal audiences (i.e. employees, compliance)
• Training for external audiences (i.e. customers, partners)
• Corporate communications (i.e. PR, benefits enrollment, executive messaging)
• Foreign language (non-English)
• Charitable cause presentation (by or for a non-profit organization)
• Voiceless presentation (no narration)
• Creative expression (most impactful use of multimedia, video, animations, audio, and/or integration into a website/portal)
• Humorous presentation*
• SlideShark presentation*(Brainshark's newest product. Use the share feature in your SlideShark account to submit the presentation URL)

*New Category

Category Sponsors

Criteria

Judging will be based on the same criteria that the Brainshark Customer Success team uses to provide presentation feedback to customers. Criteria include a clear and concise introduction, quality of the script, length of audio per slide, the table of contents, incorporating Brainshark features, slide visuals, use of animations, audio quality and presentation style, and the call to action.

Prizes

The top three Brainsharks from each category will be recognized in our live online Sharkie Awards ceremony to be held on April 3, 2013. The winner in each category will receive a beautiful glass Sharkie trophy and be eligible for “Presentation of the Year” honors. The Presentation of the Year winner will receive a grand prize (such as a trip, team outing, iPads) valued at $2,000 in total. Second and third place finishers will also win valuable prizes valued at $1,000 and $500 respectively.

If the prize winners cannot accept gifts per company policy, their organization has the alternative options of having Brainshark make a donation to a charity in their honor or applying 2x the value of each prize towards Brainshark Professional Services.

Guidelines

1. Presentations must have been created between January 1, 2012 and February 8, 2013.
2. Each presentation may be submitted in up to two categories.
3. Winner publicity – Only presentations that can be shown on www.brainshark.com/sharkies can be a Sharkie category winner. Your winning presentation can be displayed in either its entirety or excerpted. Company names may be used in our publicity. Brainshark will seek approval from category finalists prior to the judging for each category.
4. Presentations created by Brainshark Professional Services are not eligible.
5. myBrainshark users and myBrainshark Learning Providers may submit in the relevant categories. (See above for list).
6. Agencies may submit on behalf of the agency or their clients in the relevant categories.

Judging

• Brainshark chooses the top 8 category winning presentations for semi-final voting by customers.
• A panel of industry thought leaders will choose the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners.

Email confirmations will be sent upon submission. Questions can be sent to sharkies@brainshark.com.