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Emerging Technologies in Talent Management: Focus on Mobile Learning and the Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 7 am PDT / 10 am EDT
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT
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Mobile learning solutions make possible a broader, more powerful repertoire of pedagogical strategies for your enterprise. In this webcast you’ll discover how mobile learning is opening up new possibilities in how you should approach designing your learning initiatives.

Join us and you will:

• Discover how early adopters are creating innovative learning experiences enabled by their learners’ access to mobile devices
• Hear mobile learning trend statistics that will illuminate just how fast this technology & solution is taking off
• See how to create mobile learning content today for the Apple iPhone using the ToolBook authoring solution

PRESENTERS:
Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook, SumTotal Systems

Michael Hamaoka
ToolBook Solutions Architect, SumTotal Systems

Delivering Content for a Worldwide Audience

Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. ET
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Successfully developing and delivering courseware content for global audiences entails much more than just translation. Understanding the design components and complexities specific to globalization and localization processes will reduce the time, cost and effort you spend in creating content for your worldwide learners.

Join us for this webcast where you’ll learn:

1. The steps necessary to successfully develop and implement multi-lingual content
2. Industry best practices around localizing content for delivery
3. Cultural considerations to ensure that your message is received as intended
4. How to use translation services as a component of your global delivery plan

This webcast will also feature a brief demonstration of the ToolBook authoring platform’s multi-lingual capabilities.

PRESENTER:

Alex Yanishevsky,
Senior Globalization Technology Manager,
COMSYS

Today we posted an update to the ToolBook 9.5 beta release.

In addition to the Apple iPhone and Voice narration features found in previous beta releases, this beta release has the following enhancements:

You can download the beta and learn more details about the beta program by visiting www.toolbook.com/preview.

All the best,

Brad

Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook
SumTotal Systems Inc.
bcrain@sumtotalsystems.com

Want to learn more about ToolBook? Key members of the SumTotal ToolBook product team along with other ToolBook product experts will be presenting at this year’s TBCON ( ToolBook User Conference). Delivered by Platte Canyon, TBCON is a great opportunity to learn more about ToolBook and share best practices.

To find more information about this event (occuring mid-June of this year), visit
www.tbcon.com

I hope to you there!

-Brad

Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook
SumTotal Systems Inc.
bcrain@sumtotalsystems.com

Emerging Technologies in Talent Management: Focus on Mobile Learning and the Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 7 am PDT / 10 am EDT
Register Now

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT
Register Now

Mobile learning solutions make possible a broader, more powerful repertoire of pedagogical strategies for your enterprise. In this webcast you’ll discover how mobile learning is opening up new possibilities in how you should approach designing your learning initiatives.

Join us and you will:

PRESENTERS:
Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook, SumTotal Systems

Michael Hamaoka
ToolBook Solutions Architect, SumTotal Systems

Today we posted the second beta of ToolBook 9.5. We’ve had incredible feedback throughout the 9.5 beta program so we’re excited to be able to provide some more of the new features you requested.

What’s new in this beta release?
In addition to the Apple iPhone support found in beta release #1, this second beta release has the following enhancements:

Voice Recording Feature for Page Narration - This makes it easy to record a voiceover that plays when the learner enters the page.

Enhanced and Simplified Right Click Menus - the right-click menus have been replaced by more standard, simplified, and user-friendly menus

And more –other enhancements are described on the Preview web site.

You can download the beta and learn more details about the beta program by visiting www.toolbook.com/preview.

All the best,

Brad

Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook
SumTotal Systems Inc.
bcrain@sumtotalsystems.com

Join us on the 26th of March and discover how to use SumTotal ToolBook to create learning content and web applications for the Apple iPhone.

Register here.

We look forward to seeing you online!

ToolBook Team

We received a lot of interest since our mobile learning announcement went out on Tuesday. Based on the many inquiries from our users, we have just published a mobile learning microsite. At this new site, you can find content for the Apple iPhone, how-to information on creating iPhone content using beta ToolBook 9.5 and a best practice document on creating mobile learning content. We hope you find this information valuable.

-Brad

Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook
SumTotal Systems Inc.
bcrain@sumtotalsystems.com

Developing content for small mobile devices makes a lot of sense — the adoption of these devices around the world is just tremendous. Mobile learning is growing at a rapid clip as well. I see business professionals embracing mobile learning on all sorts of devices, and SumTotal intends to be there every step of the way. Today we are announcing the availability of a preview release (aka beta) of ToolBook Instructor version 9.5. With this release you can get going today creating learning and rich interactive content for the Apple iPhone. We’re initially focusing on the iPhone because of its ability to display & run rich interactive web content, its expected mass popularity and its screen size.

I encourage you to try out the preview software and send us your feedback. All the details how to get access to the free download and send in feedback can be found out www.toolbook.com/preview. We are also doing numerous virtual webinars/meetings to show you the preview release in action - you can find information on how to attend these webinars by visiting http://www.toolbook.com/community_whatsnew.php.

-Brad

Brad Crain
VP, GM ToolBook
SumTotal Systems Inc.
bcrain@sumtotalsystems.com

It has come to our attention that using the ToolBook Instructor 9.01 CD ROM installer to update your 9.0 installation to 9.01, can results in missing catalog objects.

If you have received your Instructor 9.01 CD ROM but have not yet installed it, please read the following.

How to backup the Instructor 9.0 catalog prior to installing the 9.01 CD ROM.
kb.sumtotalsystems.com/community_kb_tb_display.asp?id=Q120009546900075

Thanks,
ToolBook Technical Support
SumTotal Systems, Inc.