Get creative and think visually with Mind Map organizing thoughts, effectively solving problems and writing more explicably

June 14, 2012

Harbinger Knowledge Products, a global leader in interactivity solutions today announced a new initiative to help deliver greater value to its Raptivity customer base.  As a part of this effort, the Raptivity has launched a ‘Free Interaction’ initiative starting this month in which it will release a new interaction periodically for its valued customers. Raptivity Premium customers will be eligible to receive these interactions on a regular basis absolutely FREE!

The first interaction being launched in the series is – Mind Map, a concept invented by British psychologist Tony Buzan, who believes it to be “the ultimate organizational thinking tool –the Swiss army knife of the brain!”

The Mind Map interaction brings a compelling learning aid to Raptivity customers and other learning professionals, which they will find useful for organizing thoughts, effectively solving problems and writing more explicably. Through Mind Map, concepts and associations between them can be easily organized, conveyed and visualized. It aims to bring about a definite change in the conventional method of assimilating and memorizing content heavy information.

Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of Harbinger Group, acknowledges this initiative saying, “There are very few learning aids that can help in organizing and visualizing both conceptual and structured information at the same time. Mind Map is one such powerful concept that can serve as a catalyst not just in the learning process but also in innovation and strategic decision making. I personally use Mind Map as a handy tool in my professional as well as personal life and would recommend the same to all.”

Mind Map is the first interaction to be launched under the free interaction initiative and the team plans to release many more interesting interactions in the future. Raptivity team also encourages its customers to share new ideas on the community for future interactions they would like to see in the series.

According to Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc, “This ‘free interaction’ initiative is just a small token of gratitude for our valued Raptivity customers. We owe the credit of our success to them. We strive to further strengthen our relationship and to co-create value with our customers through this initiative. I am sure Mind Map as a concept would be highly appreciated by all.”

Seema added “To find out about the ‘Free Interaction’ initiative and to learn more about the concept of Mind Maps as it applies to learning, I encourage our customers to join us for a special webinar we will be hosting on June 19th. Details and sign-up information can be found on the Raptivity website.”

To join the webinar, visit www.raptivity.com.

About Raptivity

Raptivity^® allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions such as games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and more. Instructors can add the interactions conveniently to their eLearning content.

Raptivity® has won numerous awards in various categories, including the 2011 Best Educational Software Award in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine. For more information, please go to www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400.

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), Pleasanton (CA, USA) 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®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit

http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Explore New Possibilities in Interactive eLearning with Raptivity Empower Services

June 4, 2012

Harbinger Knowledge Products, a leader in interactivity solutions, today unveiled new services under the brand name “Raptivity Empower”.  Organizations can avail Raptivity Empower services to help them quickly meet their needs for developing interactive eLearning and mobile-learning courses on time and within budget, in a fast paced and ever changing environment. Raptivity Empower broadly encompasses three categories of services:

1. Raptivity Training workshops
2. Custom Raptivity interaction development
3. Designing completely new Raptivity Interaction templates.
4. Customizing existing Raptivity Interaction templates and features.

These services have been thoughtfully designed to accommodate different needs of course creators today. Whether they want to get trained in the best practices of interactive course development and Raptivity, or require some assistance with creating engaging interactive components for their courses, Raptivity Empower has a solution just for them.

Harbinger is pleased to announce that for the purpose of bringing the best training to its customers, it has partnered with experienced and industry recognized Training professionals. The workshops will be enriched by the valuable experience and learning that the Training Partners will bring to the training sessions.   Customers will be able to select either online or in-person training depending on their criteria and constraints.

Another service under Raptivity Empower will now make it possible for Raptivity customers to get completely new custom interactions created, or get some of the existing Raptivity interactions customized to their specific requirements.  Anything from custom interactive exercises and diagrams to games and simulations can be created under the Raptivity Empower services. Customers will also be able to specify their technology requirements such as Flash, HTML5, 508 compliance or SCORM and the Raptivity Empower team will make sure those are incorporated. This will ensure that the customers get an interactive experience that best suits their needs. Being a leader in the interactivity solutions space and having created products like Raptivity, Harbinger has the expertise and the know-how to create instructionally sound and state-of-the-art interactivity for its customers.

To comment on it, Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of Harbinger Group says, “There has been a remarkable growth in leveraging interactivity as a strategic tool for imparting education and enriching the user experience in learning and training. With Raptivity Empower, we aim to foster an innovation culture where we can co-create value with our customers.” He adds to it saying, “Raptivity has been accepted as a leading technology in eLearning industry. Raptivity Empower services will enable us to take our expertise directly to our customers and help them with their initiatives to make eLearning interactive and engaging.”

According to Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products, “We have received numerous requests from our customers about extending our interaction development expertise to help them develop new interactions based on their innovative ideas. There have also been requests for offering training on Raptivity and interactive eLearning.  We felt the need to introduce Raptivity Empower services in order to satisfy these customer requests. It will help eLearning and mLearning enthusiasts discover new possibilities in Raptivity without hampering their budgets.”

To know more about these services, visit www.raptivity.com/services

About Raptivity

Raptivity® allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions such as games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and more. Instructors can add the interactions conveniently to their eLearning content.

Raptivity® has won numerous awards in various categories, including the 2011 Best Educational Software Award in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine. For more information, please go to www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400.

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), Pleasanton (CA, USA) 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®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit

http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Harbinger Knowledge Products announced the addition of the new Standard Pack 4 to its award-winning Raptivity product line. The new pack includes a variety of visually-appealing, meaningful and expressive interactions to help organize and present complex information in a simplified yet engaging manner.

Continuing with Raptivity’s commitment to bring more HTML5 interactions to its customers, all the Standard Pack 4 interactions support both HTML5 as well as Flash publishing options. With this release, Raptivity now supports more than 50 HTML5 interactions that work on iPad and iPhone devices.

“Delivering information, especially complex information, in a way that motivates learners to explore the learning material on their own, often presents a great challenge for course developers. Exploration is a critical part of eLearning. The new pack offers a set of unique interactions to address this challenge”, said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group.

Standard Pack 4 aims to help course creators present information using various presentation aids, overview visuals and interactive diagrams. It’s a great way to not only organize the learning content so it is effective, but also to jazz-up the content so it is engaging. The pack features a variety of interactions such as Accordion Display, Event Calendar, Spotlight, Tabbed Display and many more.

“This new pack provides an interactive look to common visual aids, such as, Mind Map, Interactive Tables, Two Sided Diagram, Relationship Diagram and others.” said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc. She continued, “By making these interactions available in HTML5, Raptivity continues to expand its support for mobile learning.”

To know more about Standard Pack 4, visit www.raptivity.com

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 dropout 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. It also supports world’s largest library of more than 50 interactions with HTML5 support for mobile learning. 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 interactive eLearning software by users. Last year, Raptivity won numerous awards including the 2011 Best Educational Software Awards in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine.

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), Pleasanton (CA, USA) 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®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

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

Harbinger Knowledge Products, a global leader in interactive eLearning, presentation and website software, today unveiled a strategic plan to create the world’s largest library of educational interactivity templates that will work on iPhones, iPads and all mobile devices using HTML5 technology.

Harbinger will provide customers of its award-winning Raptivity educational software with HTML5 publishing capabilities for all of its interactivity packs this year. The company’s Raptivity Himalaya pack would include the industry’s most extensive library of 170+ eLearning interactions for mobile devices that do not support Flash.

Harbinger’s announcement marks a strategic move into the fast growing market for products from Apple and others using HTML5 technology. The HTML5 standard is rapidly being adopted and supported on various web browsers and mobile devices. As a result, there is a burgeoning demand for tools that can help to deliver eLearning content on mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads that don’t support Flash.

“Harbinger continues to be at the cutting edge of the eLearning industry’s move into mobile learning, and today’s announcement will strengthen our market leadership position in this important field,” said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of the Harbinger Group, the parent company of Harbinger Knowledge Products.

“With the increased use of smart phones and tablets in education, the eLearning industry is well-positioned to reach a wider audience in unique ways,” he added. “Raptivity’s vast library with HTML5 support will allow course creators and instructional designers to meet the new requirements of a mobile audience quickly, easily and affordably.”

Harbinger first announced HTML5 support for some of its Raptivity eLearning interactions in October 2010 with its HTML5 TurboPack. As interest in the product grew, the company released next set of 11 interactions as “HTML5 Starter Pack” in August 2011.

“We had always planned to add more interactions to provide HTML5 support, but there has been such an outpouring of interest from customers that we decided to accelerate the process,” said Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products.

Chaudhary said Harbinger will release its Essential pack with 35 interactions for HTML5 mobile devices by early March with the remaining interaction templates soon after that.

“This announcement underscores Harbinger’s commitment to our customers to continually provide them with the most advanced products and services to help them take advantage of emerging mediums for eLearning,” she said.

Raptivity allows trainers, educators and subject matter experts to create effective learning interactions quickly and easily. It uses Adobe Flash technology as well as HTML5 non-flash technology for more than 170 eLearning interactive elements, such as quizzes, game shows, videos, and 3D objects.

To get latest updates of Raptivity releases and its HTML5 support, please visit www.raptivity.com.

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 dropout 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 interactive eLearning software by users. This year, Raptivity won the 2011 Best Educational Software Awards in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine.

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), Pleasanton (CA, USA) 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®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

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

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.