Elearning - February/March 2008 - (Page 15) Hillary Gets a ‘Virtual’ Surprise Birthday Party For her 60th birthday last October, former President Bill Clinton helped launch an online birthday greeting site for his Presidential-campaigning wife Hillary’s 60th birthday. Now you can surprise someone you know with an online holiday party or personalized greeting with video, pictures & sound. USurprise.com, a unique new Website, picks up where typical e-cards leave off, enabling you to create and host Virtual Surprise parties that combine video, pictures and sound for any occasion, free of charge. The originator of each celebration, the designated host, is prompted for the guest of honor’s name, type of celebration, celebration date and a guest list to which personalized invitations will be sent. All guests, host included then collectively contribute to this creative virtual card by writing personal messages and uploading photos and videos of their choosing. At the appointed date and time, the guest of honor will receive a discrete invitation to “attend” his or her own Virtual Surprise party to view the finished product. To view a demonstration, log onto the Website www.usurprise.com. Web Seminar Series Join us for these engaging on-demand and live learning sessions: Gen X/Y Households Mostly Misunderstood? On-Demand: >> Best Practices in Customer & Sales SRI Business Consulting says that 43.4 million “Gen X/Y” households are “mostly misunTraining derstood.” Gen X/Y households are defined as those in which the primary head of house>> Compliance in a Regulated World hold was born after 1962 and the household is not retired. According to the report, Gen X/Yers are better educated and are more willing to access >> Leadership Development via Elearning the wealth of information on financial services and products available to today’s Internet savvy than are their predecessors, the Boomers, and they have a significant emerging affluent population. “Clearly, this rising age cohort should be top-of-mind for financial marketers who wish to establish brand loyalty and take advantage of cross-selling opportunities —yet it remains a market segment that is mostly misunderstood and markedly underserved,” the report notes. The MacroMonitor shows that: >> Just 38% of Gen X/Y households say that they will rely on Social Security for retirement. >> In the past decade, younger households have shown significant increases in both their level of debt and their level of assets. >> Gen X/Yers are not receiving the financial guidance that they need or want. >> Although overall household use of the Internet for financial services has dropped, Gen X/Yers will likely continue to show growth in this arena given their ongoing financial maturation and comfort level with doing financial business online. >> 37% of Gen X/Yers have earned at least a bachelor’s degree, in comparison with 34% of Boomers. >> 31% of this young cohort earns an income of more than $75,000. >> 19% of Gen X/Yers expect to see their income rise by more than 25% in the next year. To download the complete report, access the Website http://www.sricbi.com/CFD/MRsummaries/MR-VIII-03.shtml. Live Sessions: >> Beyond the Checked Box: Compliance Training in Banking >> Rapid Development of E-learning Sessions >> Virtual Classroom 101 Don’t miss another valuable learning experience. Hear professionals from Alcatel, CA, Scottrade, Caterpillar, Bersin & Associates and many others. Register Now! Sign up for the complimentary Elearning! Web Seminar Series at: http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com /webseminars.php Sponsored by: Elearning! February/March 2008 15 http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/webseminars.php http://www.usurprise.com http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/webseminars.php http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/webseminars.php http://www.sric-bi.com/CFD/MRsummaries/MR-VIII-03.shtml http://www.sric-bi.com/CFD/MRsummaries/MR-VIII-03.shtml
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