Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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NewProducts: Tools Creating Efficient Learning Networks Triple Creek's River fills a significant gap in the social tool market, going beyond simple file sharing and the friends-andchatter paradigm. Intended to complement a company's current talent management infrastructure, River offers an efficient way to make meaningful learning connections for a variety of purposes — such as support for learning programs and on-the-job performance, peer-to-peer and work team collaboration, employee development, leadership and high-potential coaching, and onboarding. River differs from other social tools in these key ways: >> Smart connection recommendations based on individuals' competencies, experience levels and availability. >> Reports and dashboards to track employee adoption and use. >> Features to facilitate employee-initiated connections, manager-directed engagements for direct reports, and administrator-generated groups for various business and training initiatives. —More info: www.triplecreekriver.com This Creation Platform Is Based in the Cloud GoAnimate for Business is a do-it-yourself cloud-based animated video creation platform that you can easily use on a standalone basis, with your preferred courseware authoring tool or favorite learning management system. With GoAnimate, you can publish your first professional-looking video in minutes. 46 April / May 2013 Elearning! Advantages include: >> Produce, publish and share an unlimited number of videos >> Copy and paste easily into your courseware authoring tool, LMS or website >> Unlimited hosting and playback for cloud/streaming delivery >> Unlimited downloads to mp4 for local delivery >> Thousands of characters, backgrounds, props, music tracks and effects in our libraries —More info: http://goanimate.com/videomaker-tips/how-to-make-a-video/ App Enables Access Via Tablet or Mobile Orange Business Services launches access from a tablet or mobile device to its cloudbased Open Videopresence with the Orange Video Meeting mobile application. Available for both Android and Apple devices, the Orange Video Meeting app, powered by Scopia Mobile technology from Radvision, an Avaya company, enables attendees to actively participate in videoconferencing sessions initiated through Orange Business Services' Open Videopresence. Available in 107 countries, it already allows meetings to combine equipment from the market's major vendors, including various types of videoconference rooms, desktops and possibly telepresence rooms, on any network. PC and Mac access use the Scopia Desktop light and full-featured conferencing client from Radvision. Orange Video Meeting is available for free downloading to a mobile device or tablet from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. —More info: www.orange-business.com/ en/press/orange-business-services-launchesorange-video-meeting-app-enabling-accessto-video-meetings How to Purchase Your Private Cloud Server Real Time Logic has released BarracudaDrive 6, a multi-platform application that makes it simple to run your own private cloud server. BarracudaDrive lets you take complete control of your files, and eliminates the dangers of entrusting the privacy of your sensitive data to third-party web portals. The software is affordable for commercial use, and free for non-commercial use. With BarracudaDrive, your computer network becomes a secure online storage system. You can access and share files using any Internet-enabled computer, smartphone or tablet. BarracudaDrive is easy to set up and use on any modern Windows, Mac or Linux computer, or on a private online cloud/VPS server. Without being — or hiring — a network administrator, you can use its simple, step-by-step instructions for installation and configuration. —More info: http://barracudadrive.com iPad Web Browser Adds Four Languages Float Mobile Learning announced today the release of RabbleBrowser 2.6, a collaborative Web browser for the iPad that is now available in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Italian. RabbleBrowser includes the following features: >> Video, photo and other multimedia sharing among iPads >> Social media integration via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email >> Group and private chat features >> File storage and sharing via Dropbox >> Bookmark saving and editing >> Document printing with AirPrint >> Exportable URL logs, chat logs and file transfers RabbleBrowser is available in the Apple App Store.