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News Learn.com Announces $40 Million Software Grant Program Learn.com, Inc. announced a $40 million software grant program to support the National Education Plan released in January by the Department of Education. The Learn.com Software Grant will assist American educational institutions with their efforts to bring blended learning to their campuses, while extending their reach using the World Wide Web. “We believe that providing cutting edge and quality tools to promote lifelong learning through the proper academic channels can help build strong, educated communities, which in turn promotes economic opportunity,” said Jim Riley, President and CEO of Learn.com. “We believe that facilitating these institutions’ ability to extend programs to e-learning based delivery will allow them to leverage already overtaxed assets including faculty and facilities. Budgeting should never be a barrier to quality education.” Learn.com grant recipients will receive single-user licenses for the company’s CourseMaker Studio authoring suite, an e-learning development and delivery tool that enables the creation of full screen, fully synchronized interactive multimedia with “streaming” graphics, animation, text, and audio. Finished courses can be delivered over the Internet and Intranet using minimal bandwidth or via CD-ROM. CourseMaker Studio is ideal for Subject Matter Expert (SME) authoring or high end developers. Learn.com will donate up to 10,000 CourseMaker Studio licenses with retail value of $3,995 each. Eligible institutions are limited to K-12, colleges, universities, and vocational schools based in the United States. For more information visit www.learn.com or call 954 233-4000. Citrix GoToMeeting Wins More Than 2,000 Business Customers Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, announced that Citrix GoToMeeting, its online meeting offering, has won more than 2,000 business customers since its general-availability launch in August 2004. Many of these customers are small- to medium-sized businesses, the company says. Companies that switch are attracted to the benefits of Citrix Online’s second-generation on-demand platform, including GoToMeeting’s ease-of-use and economical pricing model, which offers an unlimited number of meetings of unrestricted length for a flat, low monthly fee, Citrix says. In its World Web Conferencing Markets report, market research company Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the market for online meetings will grow to $1 billion within a year, and to nearly $3 billion by 2010. Features of Citrix GoToMeeting include instant screen-sharing technology that allows presenters to share PowerPoint slides, financial spreadsheets or any other PC application with all participants in real-time. Citrix GoToMeeting also provides true 24-bit color representation of the presenter’s PC so illustrations, graphicintensive applications and pictures are shown to meeting attendees in their native state. The product includes 128-bit end-to-end AES encryption for online meeting confidentiality. Citrix GoToMeeting offers a free audio bridge, giving meeting participants immediate access to audio conferencing with no additional setup or expense. Citrix GoToMeeting is for very small businesses that require a single-user account and up to 10 attendees per meeting. Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate is available for larger businesses that require a company-wide solution for a minimum of five named-user accounts with 25 attendees per meeting and an optional event-license upgrades for up to 200 attendees per meeting. For more information visit www.gotomeeting.com. Wegmans Ranks #1 on Fortune Magazine’s List of 100 “Best Companies to Work For” Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. topped Fortune Magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Fortune has also named Wegmans to its Hall of Fame, as one of 22 companies that have been on the list since its inception. Robert Wegman, chairman of the supermarket chain started by his father and uncle in 1916, said of the recognition: “This is the culmination of my whole life’s work. When I became president of our company in 1950, after working in our stores for a number of years, I was determined to make it a great place to work.” His first step was to raise all salaries, and within a couple of years, he implemented fully paid health care. Later, the company added a defined contribution retirement plan, a 401K plan and an employee scholarship program, which has given nearly $54 million in tuition assistance to 17,000 employees since it began in 1984. “No matter how much we invest in our people, we get much more in return,” said Wegman. “When I visit our stores, customers stop me and say, ‘Mr. Wegman, you have a great store, but wow, your people are wonderful.” For more information about Wegmans Food Markets to go www.wegmans.com. 8 Winter 2005 Elearning! http://www.Learn.com http://www.Learn.com http://www.Learn.com http://www.Learn.com http://www.Learn.com http://www.Learn.com http://www.learn.com http://www.gotomeeting.com http://www.wegmans.com

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Elearning - Winter 2005 Contents Editor’s Note News & Analysis Witness Buys Blue Pumpkin Deals in the Making People on the Move Trendline Executives Rate Importance of Training Requirements for Support Put Pressure on Tech Companies Hiring Trends: Small Companies, Big Plans Measuring the Return on Your E-earning Investments Building Interactivity into E-learning Partnering with Colleges and Universities for E-learning Content Strategy VoIP Voice Over IP Case Study: LMS Content Development & Collaboration Tools Case Study: ePerformance Last Word

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