KnowledgeVision for eLearning: On-Demand Training Content Comes to Life

Concord, MA (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

KnowledgeVision Systems, a leading provider of cloud-based tools and services for creating online, on-demand and live multimedia presentations, has introduced KnowledgeVision for eLearning, a powerful new tool for online learning and development.

At the heart of KnowledgeVision's new offering is KVStudio 4.1, the world's most powerful and easy-to-use tool for synchronizing video, presentation slides, just-in-time footnotes, and navigation. KVStudio's new features include support for SCORM, the worldwide standard for sharable multimedia content, which enables any KnowledgeVision presentation to be incorporated easily into most corporate Learning Management Systems.

"Recent research shows that employee training is still the #1 application for corporate video," said KnowledgeVision CEO Michael Kolowich. "And more than half of all companies surveyed use video for customer education. KnowledgeVision is making a major commitment to these critical applications, with tools that make creation and deployment of rich learning content easier than ever." Kolowich was referring to Interactive Media Strategies' "Business Video Market Forecast, 2011-2105", which found that of more than 1000 companies surveyed, 61% were deploying video for employee training and 52% were using video for customer training.

"We're using KnowledgeVision to address the dual challenges of time and distance in corporate learning within a far-reaching organization," said Kirstin Lynde, Director of Learning and Development for Randstad, one of the world's largest staffing and HR services companies. "KnowledgeVision's tools make it easy for us to take our best presentations and trainers and project them far and wide, and its new SCORM features make this content snap in to our Learning Management System so its use can be tracked on an individual learner level."

"When educating customers and helping them be successful with our products, it's vitally important to create interactive content that engages them on as many levels as possible," said Rebekkah Hilgraves, Instructional Design Technology and Infrastructure Manager at Marketo, the marketing automation company. "We recognize that different people acquire knowledge differently, and our vision for learning includes addressing as many of those modalities as possible. KnowledgeVision's tools make it easy to design, deploy, and track learning assets in a way that helps us understand not only what they're learning, but how."

KnowledgeVision for eLearning is immediately available from KnowledgeVision Systems. The company offers a fully-functional 30-day free trial so that learning content creators may use it to create their own learning assets.

View a demonstration of KnowledgeVision

View examples of KnowledgeVision in action around the world

About KnowledgeVision Systems

KnowledgeVision is single-mindedly focused on making online video work harder:

--to make it perform better as a content marketing tool;

--to make it more impactful as a sales tool;

--to make it more engaging as a learning tool; and

--to make it more effective as a corporate communications tool.

Clients all over the world use KnowledgeVision?s tools?KVStudio and Knovio?to create orchestrated online video and audio presentations that combine their best communicators with PowerPoint slides, web pages and applications and supplemental material, and make them available from web browsers and mobile devices anytime, anywhere. KnowledgeVision is based in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Lincoln Financial Taps Gyro as Lead Sgency, Debuts New "Chief Life Officer" Campaign

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

gyro, the global ideas shop, was recently named the agency of record for Lincoln Financial Group. Its first ads, as part of an aggressive $ 20 million effort, debuted on Thanksgiving day.

The campaign, entitled ?You?re in Charge,? is the first new effort since 2007. The ads center around the fact that ?people have complex lives that are not much different from big complex businesses,? said Lincoln Financial Corporate CMO Jamie DePeau, who recently joined the company from TIAA-CREF. ?That?s why they are all Chief Life Officers.?

?While many other financial companies leverage fear or humor, we are embracing a positive message and reminding consumers that they are in control,? said Charles Armstrong, Vice President of Brand Management at Lincoln Financial. ?Our research shows that the more people do take charge, the better they feel about where their lives are headed?Lincoln will listen to what you want to accomplish and help make it happen.?

Lincoln is making a substantial investment in the new effort via high profile media placements like the annual airing of The Today Show, the Macy?s Thanksgiving Day Parade, It?s a Wonderful Life, the Green Bay/Detroit NFL game and other key programming throughout the coming months. Print will support in key daily newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal as will radio and digital.

The campaign is the first on behalf of gyro New York. ?People are skeptical about what financial institutions have to say,? said gyro ceo+cco Christoph Becker. ?Lincoln Financial understands that the consumer wants to be in charge. This campaign beautifully reflects this vision and firmly ties into gyro?s mission of creating ideas that are humanly relevant.?

About Lincoln Financial

Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its affiliates. With headquarters in the Philadelphia region, the companies of Lincoln Financial Group had assets under management of $ 153 billion as of September 30, 2011. Through its affiliated companies, Lincoln Financial Group offers: annuities; life, group life, disability and dental insurance; 401(k) and 403(b) plans; savings plans; and comprehensive financial planning and advisory services. For more information, including a copy of our most recent SEC reports containing our balance sheets, please visit http://www.LincolnFinancial.com

About gyro

We create ideas that ignite business decisions in a numb world. gyro is an Advertising Age Top 50 global agency deploying a digitally savvy, 600-employee team of creative professionals in 17 offices in nine countries throughout the world. Globally gyro works with Abbott, Audi, FedEx, HP, John Deere, L'Oreal, USG and Virgin Atlantic. http://www.gyro.com


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Laura Slatkin Brings the Fragrant Vanilla Fields of Tahaa to Life in Tahiti Vanille

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 09, 2011

NEST Fragrances, the leading luxury home fragrance manufacturer, announces the addition of a new, fine vanilla fragrance, Tahiti Vanille, to its FiFi Award-winning NEST Fragrances Collection. Debuting this fall at Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, Tahiti Vanille joins favorites Black Fig & Honey, Moroccan Amber and Wild Oats & Bourbon in the NEST Fragrances Collection?s sophisticated gourmand fragrance category. Gourmand fragrances prove to be popular during the cooler fall and winter months because of their warm, reassuring and comforting qualities.

?While traveling through the French Polynesian islands in the South Pacific last summer, I had the opportunity to visit a vanilla farm on the island of Tahaa,? said Laura Slatkin, founder and CEO of NEST Fragrances. ?As I passed racks and racks of vanilla pods drying in the sun, the aroma was so alluring and intoxicating it inspired me to create a vanilla-scented candle, Tahiti Vanille.?

To bring the fragrant vanilla fields of Tahaa to life through Tahiti Vanille, Slatkin took Tahitian vanilla bean, white chocolate, and cinnamon and blended them with caramel and a touch of white rum.

The NEST Fragrances Collection?s new Tahiti Vanille fragrance is available in an 8.1 oz. candle for $ 32 (SRP), and can be purchased exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and specialty stores nationwide beginning later this month.????

About NEST Fragrances

Founded and owned by Laura Slatkin, NEST Fragrances (NEST) is a specialized home fragrance company that emerged from its parent company, Slatkin & Co., after it was acquired by Limited Brands, Inc. Laura has a long-standing reputation as a leader in the home fragrance industry and is well-known for her luxurious scented candles, room sprays, diffusers and other essentials for rooms and environments. NEST?s client list currently includes more than 50 prestige companies in the fashion, beauty and home fragrance industries ? all of whom turned to NEST to develop their own exclusive line of home fragrance products. In 2008, Laura launched her own home fragrance collection, NEST Fragrances, which won the 2009 FiFi Award for Interior Scent Collection of the Year. In 2010, Laura launched her second and third fragrance collections, Sprig Fragrances, and Project Art by NEST Fragrances. NEST draws on decades of experience in the home fragrance industry with a special expertise in designing, developing, producing, distributing and marketing home fragrance collections that capture each client?s unique brand image and style. For more information, visit http://www.nestfragrances.com. NEST can also be found on facebook and Twitter.

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