Composica

Composica is a social e-learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members. Composica is great for a work environment where team members cannot meet n face to face situations. Besides this Composica is 100 percent free to its users, therefore making it one less thing a company has to worry about paying for. To describe Composica easily, it is basically Microsoft Power Point but used throughout the internet. It allows the users to create and deliver a high-quality interactive e-learning 2.0 content with embedded social media. When using Composica, it provides social authoring with project presentations. One can comment on the presentation. It allows RSS feeds with a chat option as well as a tagging option. The program is very easy to use and is meant for a team oriented project. Composica is a unique type of presentation tool due to being able to be quickly edited. It is highly interactive by being able to add multi choice responses, drag and drop function, fill- in, hot spots and several other customizable interactions. Lastly, most of all for a work environment it is very direct and easy.

Composica can have a very positive effect in a work environment. This is because you can quickly set up one presentation that the employees can quickly access. Once on the presentation the employee’s can discuss the current project that they are working on. By being able to edit the post quickly the employees can correct and change the document. By being able to be used anywhere it allows the employees to meet online at anytime. Also this can allow the employees to meet online at different times and alter the presentation. By being able to be used at anyone’s convenience it allows the group members to work on it when they are available.

Overall this is a great program that employees can use when working on a group presentation that needs to be pitched to anyone at the office. Lastly as long as everyone uses a secure password and doesn’t provide that information to other than the presentation can be secured. Don’t give anyone else your password and the presentation information should remain with only the group involved. This is because if the presentation is saved it cannot be recovered. This is a feature they are currently working on to prevent problems from happening to presentations. So, after editing the presentation you should also save it on your computer as a backup. Overall this program is great for making presentations over the internet.

Brainshark: Why it is beneficial for your business

Brainshark is a website that allows the user to upload presentation slides to the internet.  Presentations can be viewed on smartphones and tablets as well, basically wherever a consumer can get internet, and as many times as they would like.  There are different levels that the user can signup for with Brainshark.  The most basic level is free and not private, and as the levels increase towards the enterprise level, security tightens and the price increases.

The Brainshark homepage is extremely clean and simple to navagate.  As a potential customer, you are not bombarded by unnecessary information.  There is an ‘Introduction to Brainshark’ video, and two bolded links to ‘SEE A DEMO’ or ‘TRY IT FOR FREE’. 

The homepage also has icon links that bring you to Brainshark’s LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  These links allow you to research the company more, and give you a way to easily contact them.

What affordances does a Brainshark Presentation have for your business?

The enterprise feature would be ideal for bosses or team leaders to communicate presentations to their employees and group members.  Most business people today are able to create a ‘Powerpoint Presentation’ on their computers, which is the basis of making a Brainshark presentation.  

After uploading the presentation to Brainshark, you can add categories and tags to your presentation so that it is easily searchable and identifiable.  Presentations created on Brainshark can be put into categories and tags, which allow for people to filter through other presentations and find ones relevant to what they are searching for.

The next step, which is optional, is adding audio (as a voice over) to your presentation.  This can be done by using either your computers microphone, or by using a phone and calling a specific Brainshark number and entering your presentations code.

If you decide you need to edit your presentation after that point, the website makes it easy to navigate what exactly you need to change.  You can add more slides (including a video slide).  You can also add notes to each slide, which only you as the presenter can see.

Brainshark also allows you to add a poll or survey question slide to your presentation.  This gives your audience a change to offer feedback to a specific topic of the presentation, or the presentation as a whole.

Of course, you will need to share your presentation with others.  Brainshark offers an easy way to share your presentation through email as well as social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more.  Or, you can embed the link to your company website or blog.

Employees, or whoever your presentation’s consumer is, can view the presentation wherever they have access to Internet.  This allows them to view the presentation on their own time and as many times as needed.  This is beneficial to the employees and the business because there wouldn’t need to be a scheduled time for bosses and employees to meet, and the employees will not be away from any potential clients.

All presentations have feedback in the form of a 5-star rating system, and ‘Comments and Reviews’ box.  Under the enterprise feature, you can retrieve detailed viewing reports (easily accessible when you log in and view a specific presentation) and a guestbook for your presentation. 

All information for this post was taken from (http://www.brainshark.com/) by watching demonstrations and creating a presentation to personally understand the process.