In the first half of 2009, the Brainshark Customer Community team visited customers in San Francisco, New York City, Toronto, Houston and Dallas. Our primary objective of these city tours is to provide customers the opportunity to meet one another and share your stories. Recently, we've switched the format of the meetings by sponsoring lunches and adding both Brainshark and product update details to the gatherings. We've also extended our visits an extra day to make ourselves available to you for onsite visits. The feedback has been very positive from those we had lunch with this September in Charlotte, Atlanta, Omaha and Lincoln. And it's been rewarding to see people exchange business cards and schedule follow up conversations. 

The last two lunches for this year will be in Hartford (CT) on Tuesday, November 10th and Denver (CO) on Wednesday, November 18th. Invitations will be coming out in mid-October. 

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At the October 7th Customer User Group meeting, we received nominations for next year in Phoenix, Houston/San Antonio and Chicago. I am thinking of Minneapolis and Toronto as well, but would love to hear your suggestions! Please feel free to comment or reach out to me.

Hello from PPT Live in Atlanta.  I have been having a great time meeting the fine people down here.  I have had a couple of chances to meet folks and get some pictures taken which you can check out by watching my presentation below.  Just in case you are wondering the music is called Jump the Shark and was created by my friend Mark.

Have a Sharktastic Day!

Tibby

The Special Olympics World Winter Games, a Brainshark nonprofit grant customer, is featured in today's Wall St. Journal!  The WSJ article "Helping Themselves" describes how nonprofits are cutting costs and raising revenues in the midst of fewer donations and declining investment --- and we're thrilled to be mentioned!  Games organizers used Brainshark to reduce costly in-person training. 

See the presentation that was used to train 5,000 volunteers:

If you are involved in a nonprofit, whether it's your full time job or your passion outside of work, visit the our non-profit page to learn how Brainshark can be used to cost-effectively raise awareness, train volunteers, recruit members, raise funds, and more.