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NewProducts: Collaboration them by recording videos or taking photos and sharing it with other users instantly. On the administration side, Upside2Go has a fully enabled engine to generate exhaustive reports on access and progress as well create and manage learning content. It is designed to work with or without an LMS. More info: www.upsidelearning.com IMPROVING COLLABORATION INSTANT VIDEO CONFERENCING Vidyo, Inc., now allows Microsoft Lync users to quickly and easily initiate and par- ticipate in high-definition, multi-party Vidyo conferences. Users are now able to access Vidyo's personal telepresence by simply selecting it from within their Lync desktop application. Vidyo's Microsoft Lync Plug-In is also backward compatible with Microsoft OCS 2007. Vidyo's plug-in connects Microsoft Lync with the VidyoDesktop client, providing end-users with the ability to initiate Vidyo conferences using their Lync-based con- tacts and other unified communications capabilities, while updating presence status automatically when users start and end Vidyo conferences. Instant messaging ses- sions can be escalated to Vidyo's multi- party conference by clicking on the Vidyo icon in the Microsoft Lync desktop to pro- vide users with a seamless and high-quali- ty video conferencing experience. Vidyo has also simplified scheduling and guest participant invitations with a separate plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. And it has also recently announced integration with Adobe Connect and IBM Lotus Sametime. More info: www.vidyo.com ADDING USER-FRIENDLY FEATURES Ganttic, based in Estonia, has announced new user-friendly features for its online project management software for scheduling resources and projects, including teamwork, 46 May / June 2011 projects, bookings and production. Its online scheduling software provides user- friendly graphical interface and interactive Gantt charting for real-time collaboration. It's perfect for resource management and project scheduling. Best of all, it's free for small businesses and basically idiot-proof. Latest features: >>out. >>Add URLs to tasks and projects. Copy tasks. More info: www.ganttic.com REACHING THE MOBILE WORKFORCE Upside2Go is a solution that will not only help your training department reach out to your mobile workforce easily, but would also enable a mobile-based approach to real-time sharing and collaborating, within and outside a team. Upside2Go provides users with a mobile enabled environment where not only they can access the training activities in the form of videos, podcasts, e-learning courses, quizzes and evaluation surveys, but it also enables them to use their mobile device to share knowledge with others (within or out- side their team) in real-time. Moreover, unlike any other learning system, Upside2Go lets users use their mobile device to capture relevant information around >>Improved comments and history. >>Choose simple layout or advanced lay- Create a new project while creating a >>task. Saba Social Learning combines formal learning with collaboration and sales 2.0 technologies to accelerate learning, drive behavior and drive performance. Designed to address the rapidly chang- ing and evolving nature of the workplace, Saba Social Learning offers a social and formal learning solution to enable organi- zations to speed sales readiness, drive top- line growth and reduce training costs. The combination of Saba's award-win- ning learning management system with social networking and groups allows organ- izations to surround their people with a structured and unstructured learning expe- rience within a collaborative environment. Each employee is able to access what he or she needs and wants to learn through a method that best suits individual comfort levels and preferences. Additionally, by uni- fying informal networks with formal train- ing resources, organizations can not only foster continuous learning, but also gain unprecedented visibility into the workforce. More info: www.sabasociallearning.com.