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Yury Uskov is a founder and CEO of iSpring Solutions Inc., an innovative software company focused on providing professional e-Learning authoring tools based on PowerPoint. Yury has a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, and since 2001 has been working in the rich media industry inspired by the idea of making the best solutions for online presentation delivery. iSpring products are widely recognized as robust, effective, and extremely easy to use with an outstanding price/quality ratio. iSpring is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
In this conversation, Yury discusses iSpring being the recipient of the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Award.
Geetesh: What is the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Award all about, and how does the team at iSpring feel about winning the Gold Medal this year?
Yury: Brandon Hall Group is a leading research firm in training and development whose opinion is rightfully considered by many as impartial and trustworthy. This is why Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards have become a token of acknowledgment for e-Learning professionals.
iSpring’s Gold award for the Best Advance in Technology for Rapid Authoring is an authoritative recognition of the high quality of iSpring software, and a reputable acknowledgment of our company’s orientation to customer needs and continuous development.
Being one of the leading vendors in the e-Learning sphere, iSpring is focused on setting new standards of quality and functionality now and again, bringing even more advanced features and opportunities to e-Learning people.
Thousands of people also demonstrate their appreciation of what we do by buying our products every day. This gives us the inspiration to keep moving forward.
Geetesh: What are the strengths of iSpring’s solutions that made it a strong contender for this award?
Yury: What would you prefer – eating the same bread loaf for several days or enjoying a new slice of deliciously fresh bread every day? I bet the second option is much better. At iSpring, we are focused on perfecting our products constantly so that our customer enjoys “fresh” software each time he or she uses it.
E-Learning authoring software is supposed to help the teacher to teach, and the student learns. Our objective is to be beyond the expectations of both. By developing new original features, we have enabled customers to share their ideas successfully and inspire further interest in learning.
Paying much attention to the development of advanced features, we also believe that e-Learning authoring software should be very handy. iSpring Presenter makes the creation of the most sophisticated e-Learning courses easy and fulfills the requirements of both e-learning professionals and new users.
iSpring Presenter beautifully preserves advanced features of PowerPoint keeping the author’s original idea undistorted. It also contributes to the creation of the course with its own unique features like narration recording, content protection, built-in QuizMaker, etc.
Being sold in a market where the price diversification starts from $99 and ends at $999, iSpring appears to be a happy medium providing the astonishing price/quality ratio in the market.
iSpring is committed to making e-Learning authoring easy. That’s why we remain inspired to discover unique authoring features that help the author to meet deadlines with outstanding results. Keeping our pricing affordable, we are keen on bringing iSpring software to perfection to help e-learning people teach, learn and cooperate more effectively.
The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.
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Reusing slides that you already have is a good idea as long as you make sure you are not using outdated content! I always suggest you to first create and import an outline so that you have a structured presentation in place — thereafter, use the option that lets you import slides so that you can add more slides or even replace existing ones. Finally, you can add any new slides that you need to create from scratch.
Learn how to reuse slides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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You have already learned the differences between text placeholders and text boxes within PowerPoint 2010. Beyond those differences, almost everything else does work in the same way as far as formatting for text placeholders and text boxes is concerned. However, there is one more vital difference between a text placeholder and a text box.
Learn how to insert a text box in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Text, Tutorials
Drawing shapes in PowerPoint is drop-dead easy with the vast repertoire of readymade shapes available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You can easily insert these shapes with a click or two, but some tricks can help you take these shapes further — in this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can draw a perfect square.
Learn how to draw a perfect square in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Tutorials
After inserting an Organization Chart (org chart) in PowerPoint 2011, you might need to add more shapes to your org chart. The default org chart that PowerPoint places has a few shapes but you might want to add more shapes — as well as more hierarchy levels for the new shapes you want to add. Fortunately, you can make these additions and edits with just a click or two.
Learn how to add more shapes to an existing Organization Chart in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Org Chart, PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials
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