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Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide active and distance learning solutions, announced that the University of Toronto has selected the Echo360 as a university standard for lecture capture. After a rigorous selection process, University of Toronto opted for Echo360 due to its ease of use for both instructors and administrators. Academics now have a fulsome solution to create and capture instructional content both inside and outside the classroom. System administrators leverage the Echo360's centralized management capabilities to easily control a large deployment across the university campus.
Staying on track with fitness and weight loss goals in the new year just got easier with an integration enabling members of SparkPeople.com, the nation’s largest diet and fitness community, to automatically sync exercise and calorie burn data from their BodyMedia FIT armbands to their free SparkPeople personal fitness tracker. The integration not only automates data entry into SparkPeople for BodyMedia wearers but also leverages BodyMedia’s physiological measurements of all activities – from washing dishes to pumping iron – to ensure a comprehensive count of calories burned.
Zipcar, Inc., the world’s leading car sharing network, today announced the introduction of Zipcar vehicles at three airports in the Greater New York City area, including Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy (JFK) airports. The cars are conveniently located in Zipcar branded parking spaces at the Avis Car Rental pick-up facility at each airport.
Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide active and distance learning solutions, announced the release of an integration that allows its solution to effortlessly communicate with Instructure's native cloud learning management system, Canvas. Free to existing Echo360 and Canvas users, the integration gives instructors added control over how students access their Echo360 recordings without increasing time spent on technology tasks. The Canvas integration is the first integration for the EchoSystem that leverages the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) technology standard.
San Francisco Chronicle - March 12, 2013 - "The next generation of disruptive companies are going to have to figure out how to interact with the government." Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, on the growing interest in public policy among technology firms. Case was interviewed at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, where politicians including Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and California Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County), were working the crowd of tech entrepreneurs. Case says areas such as education, health care and transportation will be transformed by technology over the next decade, and "government is the largest buyer of those services."
Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide active and distance learning solutions, is announcing a product release that provides analytics for student activity before, during and after class. Data-rich summaries provide instructors intelligent insight oneach student's participation, flags topics of difficulty and measures student engagement in and out of class. Ultimately, this data will guide instructor-led course adjustments and improve academic outcomes as teaching pedagogies change to respond to student cues in real time.
Everyday Health’s website MedPage Today, the largest medical news gathering operation for healthcare professionals, announced today the launch of mdAlerts, the first and only multi-platform solution providing brands with a vehicle to reach physicians with news via mobile anddesktop in real-time. Similar to MedPage Today’s editorially-driven Breaking News Alerts for physicians, mdAlerts allows marketers a dedicated opportunity to instantly alert physicians at the point of care to their safety data, imperative patient information and manufacturing updates.
Everyday Health, the leading health and wellness media company, today announced a partnership with Logical Images, a New York based health informatics company that manages the world's largest visible light digital medical image library and parent company to Skinsight.com, allowing Everyday Health to operate and grow the leading skin-related online resource
Everyday Health, the leading health and wellness media company, today announced a partnership with Logical Images, a New York based health informatics company that manages the world's largest visible light digital medical image library and parent company to Skinsight.com, allowing Everyday Health to operate and grow the leading skin-related online resource
Everyday Health, Inc., the leading digital health and wellness company, today announced that its multi-brand, multi-platform strategy continues to drive solid growth across its portfolio of premier health and lifestyle properties. The company's advertising and sponsorship revenue increased 24 percent in 2012 over 2011, and revenue from top 20 advertiser brands grew 28 percent in the same timeframe.
Zipcar, Inc. the world's leading car sharing network, today announced a new weekday, no annual fee driving program called the 'Access Plan,' which will be introduced as a pilot program in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. The Access Plan lets members drive Zipcars and Zipvans (where available) from Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Zipcar Access Plan hourly and daily rates include gas, insurance and limited kilometers per day.
The explosion of online customer feedback is transforming how businesses will use social intelligence to deliver a quality customer experience. Using information analyzed from 2012, newBrandAnalytics, a leading provider of social intelligence, has its finger on the pulse of the key trends that will unfold in 2013.