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Useful Tips for 2012 London Olympics Rental Car Savings via Carrentals.co.uk

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Despite a start date of 10 months in the future, many savvy travellers planning to enjoy the 2012 London Olympics are already lining up their hotel rooms, tickets and rental cars. This is a wise move says leading online car hire rate comparator Carrentals.co.uk, which points out that the massive influx of demand will almost certainly result in high rental rates during the games.

Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, comments: “Few events attract so much global attention as the summer Olympics, so we are expecting a bumper tourist season in London next year. Every business wants to capitalise on this chance by raising their prices, and this includes car hire firms. There are still plenty of good deals on car hire available right now, but if you wait until the 11 th hour you’ll have to pay dearly for it.”

Right on the heels of the 2012 London Olympics, which run from 27 July through 12 August, are the popular Paralympic Games from 29 August until 9 September. With nearly two months of solid sporting action London will be buzzing with activity and visitors for most of the summer.

Robinson continues: “The most popular car rental extras like sat nav and child safety seats will probably sell out weeks in advance. The same holds true for the most popular models of rental car. But if you’ve already finalised your travel itinerary for London there’s no reason to put off booking a rental car. The Olympics may be 10 months away but it’s perfectly fine to make a car hire reservation now, saving you the potential headache of high prices and a weak vehicle selection.”

Carrentals.co.uk is the leading car rental comparison site for comparing deals from up to 50 rental companies, including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 15,000 locations worldwide including car hire throughout the UK and USA. Car hire in the UK includes locations throughout London and Manchester for the Olympic Games.

Car hire in the USA includes locations in Miami, Los Angeles and car hire in Las Vegas, with a wide choice of pickup locations including car hire at Las Vegas Airport.

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eLearning Guild Survey Finds Raptivity to be One of the Top Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools

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Raptivity®, the leading eLearning authoring tool is among the top tools identified in an ongoing user survey and through research data gathered by the eLearning Guild. The eLearning Guild is a leading community of practice for eLearning designers, developers, and managers. For a series of questions asked by The Guild, Raptivity figures in the top six or seven tools used by various eLearning practitioners around the world. In the ‘ease of use’ category of questions, Raptivity leads the pack with over half the respondents claiming that the tool is ‘very easy’ to use.

The majority of data collected by The Guild represents 5,350 respondents from March 2010 to March 2011. In addition to the data, charts and their interpretations, the report brings out insights and goes on to explore in detail, seven rapid authoring tools, including Raptivity. The report highlights Raptivity’s ease of use and the significant reduction in development time per course hour for a course designer who uses Raptivity. “Building an interaction in Raptivity is relatively quick, sometimes taking just a matter of minutes,” claims the report, which is written by Joseph Ganci, President of Dazzle Technologies Corp, a custom training and learning company.

“Raptivity has become a must-have tool in the armory of eLearning practitioners all over the world,” said Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc., the maker of Raptivity. “It is our constant endeavor to make Raptivity very easy for course creators and provide them with a powerful tool for their needs. We are very glad to see that our users find Raptivity among the easiest and powerful to use eLearning tools.”

The report, which has been collecting data over some years, explores interesting areas, such as user behavior in terms of using multiple tools for rapid interactivity building and fitting of eLearning course design into the tools. Visit http://www.elearningguild.com/research/archives/index.cfm?id=150&action=viewonly to download the report from the eLearning Guild.

Visit http://www.raptivity.com to learn more about Raptivity.


About Raptivity

With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their eLearning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of eLearning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patented technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

Raptivity has won numerous awards in various categories, including the e-Learning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in the simulation tools category. It has also been voted number one by users on many occasions. This year, Raptivity has won the 17TH ANNUAL BEST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AWARDS (BESSIE) 2011 in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine.

For more information on Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com.


About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies.
Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity and Raptivity Presenter, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.