Brainshark Announces 2013 Sharkie Award Winners

WALTHAM, Mass., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainshark, Inc., the leading sales enablement platform provider, today announced the winners of its fifth annual Sharkie Awards. These awards honor organizations and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in their use of Brainshark to deliver engaging and effective business communications to their audiences across industries.

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Brainshark received more than 400 entries for consideration in this year's competition. Presentations were evaluated based on clarity, organization, aesthetics and quality, along with their use of key Brainshark capabilities – including video clips, animations, audio, attachments, survey and test questions, and more. Four new categories were added to this year's competition: Marketing for Lead Generation Presentations, Sales Presentations, Humorous Presentations and Presentations Delivered in SlideShark, Brainshark's award-winning app for viewing and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone.

Winning content can be viewed at www.brainshark.com/campaigns/sharkie-awards-2013. The 2013 winners, listed by category, are as follows:

Gold Winner – Presentation of the Year
Also: Training – External Audience Presentation
Plantronics
"Company Overview"

Silver Winner – Presentation of the Year
Also: Creative Expression Presentation
Corporate Visions
"Job Description – Designer"

Bronze Winner – Presentation of the Year
Also: Voiceless Presentation
Forsythe Technology
"Mobile Devices in the Workplace: 5 Key Security Risks"

Charitable Cause Presentation
Motorsports On Demand
"Warriors in the Workplace On Demand"

Corporate Communications Presentation
Darden Restaurants
"Salaried Medical Choices"

Foreign Language Presentation
Metso Mining and Construction
"Introduccion a eLearning de Metso"

Humorous Presentation
Southwestern College
"Jinx & Bobo Christmas Greetings"

Marketing – Lead Gen Presentation
Stagnito Media
"Stagnito Media Overview"

Marketing Presentation
Franklin Templeton Investments
"Yield Scarcity and the Case for Dividends"

Mobile Presentation
Pacific Life
"Pacific Income Provider (Client)"

My First Brainshark Presentation
Hospital Housekeeping Systems (HHS)
"Western HCAHPS"

myBrainshark Presentation
Nelson Mandela School Berlin
"Flex A Presents A Winter Tale"

Sales Presentation
B2B Contact
"Cerium & Avaya – Social Media"

Short Presentation
Phillips 66 Company
"Gas for Life"

SlideShark Presentation
Nine Network
"Nine's International Summer of Cricket"

Training – External Audience Presentation*
Derema Group
"Features and Benefits"

* Tie with Plantronics (gold winner above)

Training – Internal Audience Presentation
Dominion Enterprises
"New Hire Orientation – Company Overview (Abridged)"

Co-sponsors of this year's awards included Brainshark partners BrightCarbon, CGI Interactive, Eloqua and LeadFabric. Representatives from each organization judged the gold, silver and bronze winners.

"We congratulate the winners in this year's Sharkie Awards for their creative and effective use of online presentations," said Irwin Hipsman, Brainshark's director of customer community. "Brainshark's technology helps organizations improve the impact of their sales, marketing and training communications – and this year's winners exemplify principles of excellence. As mobile technology, social media, the cloud and video play increasingly important roles in business today, our Sharkie winners are successfully integrating these elements to create compelling, results-oriented communications."

About Brainshark, Inc.
Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based platform for sales enablement, helping companies more effectively generate demand, prepare and train employees, engage with key audiences and advance business opportunities. Brainshark's easy-to-use solutions enable static documents to be transformed into dynamic, mobile-ready content that can be accessed quickly and viewed as on-demand video presentations or presented live – anytime, anywhere. Companies can also measure the effectiveness of their communications in ways never thought possible and use these insights to take action. Thousands of companies – including half of the Fortune 100 – and millions of individuals rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. Learn more at www.brainshark.com.

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