OutStart today announced that organizers of ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors, selected two OutStart technologies to enhance the conference experience. OutStart’s social business software, OutStart Participate, is powering the conference’s new online social network, ONLINE EDUCA Connect. In addition, OutStart Hot Lava Mobile is providing post-session and post-event evaluations to attendees through their mobile devices. ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN runs from December 1-3.
To improve networking opportunities for conference attendees, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN tapped the social networking capabilities of OutStart Participate. Users of the online network can maximize their conference experience by connecting with peers before the show; participating in active conversations with peers, speakers and organizers during the show; and, following up with new and missed connections after the event. To accomplish this, ONLINE EDUCA utilizes a portion of OutStart’s broad capabilities that enable users to capture and share expert and user-generated ideas, experiences and insights.
To gather additional conference evaluations and feedback from attendees, conference organizers are utilizing mobile distribution of post-session and post-event evaluations using Hot Lava Mobile. Hot Lava Mobile is a software solution that enables users to develop and deploy mobile learning and priority communications to a variety of devices. The post-session and post-event evaluations are critical tools in evaluating speakers and topics, and planning future conferences. With Hot Lava Mobile, attendees are able to complete evaluations at their convenience on their mobile devices and organizers can view and analyze responses in real-time. This is just one of a multitude of applications for which Hot Lava Mobile can be used to support on-the-go workers.
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Massood Zarrabian, President & CEO, OutStart
“ONLINE EDUCA’s use of OutStart software is testament to our goal of providing innovative solutions and applications that drive real business results. Usage in a conference setting is just one of the many use cases for OutStart Participate and Hot Lava Mobile, with each providing a host of applications in and benefits to any organization.”
About OutStart Participate
OutStart Participate is SaaS solution for enterprises that supports popular social media models and rich collaboration in a secure, management environment. It blends traditional communication channels with new Web 2.0 channels to help users collaborate with their peers and share insights on virtually any channel. Organizations use Participate to power their customer communities, tap into the collective intelligence of their employees and extended the enterprise.
About Hot Lava Mobile
Hot Lava Mobile is the leading mobile learning solution to rapidly develop, deliver and analyze device independent mobile content to employees, customers and partners. The solution enables organizations to meet a wide variety of priority communications and mobile learning scenarios. And, unlike traditional mobile content development, Hot Lava Mobile allows organizations to develop content once and deploy it in multiple formats to multiple devices (Symbian Phones, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Pocket PC’s, etc.) without requiring additional development. Hot Lava Mobile won a Best of Elearning! award for Best Mobile Learning Solution in 2009 and is a finalist in the same category in 2010.
About OutStart
OutStart’s portfolio of software solutions helps organizations constantly learn across a continuum of ways – formally, socially, and now through mobile. Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner’s Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant since 2004, OutStart is regularly acknowledged for its industry leading solutions. In 2010 alone, OutStart was named a Top Learning Portal, one of “Five Emerging LMSs to Watch,” and a winner of two Best of Elearning! Awards for OutStart LCMS and Hot Lava Mobile.
OutStart’s solutions include OutStart LCMS the industry’s leading learning content management system; OutStart TrainingEdge.com, a complete SaaS corporate learning system (LMS, LCMS, social, and mobile); OutStart Participate for social learning; Hot Lava Mobile for mobile learning and priority communications; OutStart Trainer for eLearning desktop development; and OutStart SoftSim for the development of software simulations.
OutStart is honored to serve organizations that surpasses expectations and delivers exceptional business results, such as AgustaWestland, BB&T, Boeing Company, BT, CVS Caremark, DIRECTV, General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Internal Revenue Service, McDonald’s, MetLife, Pilatus Aircraft, Prudential, Australian Defence Force, U.S. Navy, UK Ministry of Defence, Verizon Wireless, Xerox and Yum! Brands. To learn more about OutStart, visit the company on the web at www.outstart.com. You can also read the blog at http://blog.outstart.com and follow us on Twitter @outstart.
