Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Excellence Awards: Tools continued rich video as useful as text. Mediasite users can also record and upload rich media presentations, learning objects or training modules from the convenience of their desktop or laptop and automatically publish them to the powerful Mediasite EX platform. Enhanced Web-based tools and collaboration workfows provide a layer of control for enterprise clients with multiple content producers and knowledge-creation environments, allowing the growth, management and scalability of online knowledge libraries. —More info: www.sonicfoundry.com BEST ASSESSMENT TOOL Articulate Quizmaker Quizmaker '09 ofers question types that go beyond the basics. Of course, you'll have professionally designed multiplechoice, true/false and Likert questions. But you'll also be able to construct dragand-drop questions, hot spots, and more (20 diferent quiz types in all). Your quizzes will be in Flash format, which means they'll be accessible to just about anyone anywhere. Your quiz takers will enjoy a rich, interactive experience while you enjoy freedom from technical hassles. And you'll get quiz results through email, your LMS or Articulate Online. —More info: www.articulate.com/products/ quizmaker.php ReadyGo WCB Please see entry above, under "Best Rapid Development Tool." BEST SOCIAL LEARNING SOLUTION Cornerstone OnDemand Connect Cornerstone Connect enables efective employee collaboration, improves em42 December 2012 / January 2013 Elearning! ployee performance, and drives innovation from customer and partner communities. By encouraging creation of new content and ideas and making it easy to join communities of practice, Cornerstone Connect fosters social (informal) learning, organizational memory, professional networking, and better communication across your employee base and the extended enterprise. —More info: www.cornerstoneondemand. com Microsoft Yammer Yammer brings the power of social networking to the business world. It's as easy to use as great consumer sofware like Facebook and Twitter, but is designed for company collaboration, fle sharing, knowledge exchange and team efciency. Access Yammer from anywhere with an Internet connection. Stay connected from your Web browser, mobile device or tablet. You can also view and interact with Yammer content within other business applications (such as Sharepoint) using API integrations. Create, discuss and share content with coworkers without sending a single email. Store large fles, post documents to team workspaces and collaboratively edit pages in real time. —More info: https://www.yammer.com/ product BEST MOBILE AUTHORING SOLUTION Adobe Captivate Please see entry above, under "Best Simulation Tool." ReadyGo WCB Please see entry above, under "Best Rapid Development Tool." BEST PRESENTATION TOOL Adobe Presenter With Presenter, you can minimize the time, efort and cost associated with producing videos by doing it yourself right at your desktop, without specialized equipment or training. Te sofware helps you communicate more efectively with engaging videos and interactive presentations created in Microsof PowerPoint. Add quizzes; deliver to the Web, video sharing sites, desktops and mobile devices; and track using integration with LMSs. Out-of-the-box assets such as actors and learning interactions are available to convert slides into interactive training content. —More info: www.adobe.com/products/ presenter.html Brainshark Slideshark SlideShark is a leading app for viewing and sharing PowerPoint presentations on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch the way they were meant to be seen: with animations, fonts, colors and graphics intact. From their mobile device or computer, SlideShark users simply upload PowerPoint fles to their secure online accounts, where the slides are automatically converted to a mobile-optimized format. Ten they simply use the SlideShark app to download and view or show the converted presentations on their mobile device. Users can also share online versions of their slides for audiences to view on-demand, anytime from any device, while users can track the viewing results. —More info: www.slideshark.com Prezi Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologs into conversations: enabling people to see, understand