Company: Brainshark, Inc., Waltham, MA
Entry Submitted By: Davies Murphy Group
Company Description: Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based software for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations. Thousands of companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. For more information, visit www.brainshark.com .
Nomination Category: App Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Utilities & Services

Nomination Title: Brainshark’s SlideShark App Lets Users Manage, Show and Track PowerPoint Presentations on the iPhone

The date on which this nominated app was first distributed or otherwise made public:

September 5, 2012

Briefly describe this app’s objectives and how it has met those objectives (up to 125 words). Include here the platforms your app supports:

SlideShark for the iPhone (counterpart to the SlideShark iPad app) solves a problem for millions of iPhone users: the inability to properly show PowerPoints.   
   
With SlideShark for iPhone, users can:  
 
* Show PowerPoints with fonts, animations, graphics, hyperlinks and videos intact.   
* Zoom in/out by “pinching.”   
* Connect to a projector/TV.   
* Share presentations and track viewing activity.   
* Use the iPhone as a remote control and laser pointer when projecting from the iPad.   
* Pull in files from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Syncplicity.   
   
The newest feature is the ability to “broadcast” presentations – right from an iPhone – over the Web to meeting attendees. Whether they’re across the table or across the globe, the audience can follow along on their own device!

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To meet the needs of iPhone users around the world – enabling them to properly and professionally show PowerPoint from their iOS devices – Brainshark developed SlideShark using internal resources. Brainshark staff who collaborated to build, test and promote the SlideShark iPhone app include members of the product management, engineering, development and quality assurance (QA), design, IT, technical support, marketing and executive teams. Brainshark also solicited feedback from usability testers inside and outside of the organization.

Key individuals from Brainshark included:

* Joe Gustafson, CEO
* Greg Flynn, President
* Chris Caruso, CTO
* Andy Zimmerman, CMO
* Lisa Johnson, VP of SlideShark Marketing
* David Klein, Senior Product Director