Training Today: Tech Talk (July/Aug 2012)

>>Citrix launched its new multimedia Webcasting service, GoToWebinar Premier Event, enabling the company to support large-scale multimedia Web events for up to 20,000 attendees using streaming video and audio with pay-per-event pricing and dedicated support before, during, and after the event.

>>Wildly Different developed theiPad Hunt, a new twist on the traditional teambuilding hunt that features interactive tech-driven clues that may involve video, photographs, and/or puzzles. Some clues may involve props or other items, such as a QR code, that must be paired with the iPad to solve them.

>>Jobscience Inc. launched a Facebook Job Board application for its Recruiting solution. This new social recruiting app enables corporations, staffing agencies, and executive search firms to post and manage job openings on their Facebook business page from within Jobscience’s Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Jobscience customers avoid the complexity and extra time needed to manage two separate job boards—one on their Website and another on their Facebook page.

>>Touch of Life Technologies (ToLTech) developed a virtual reality-based cystoscopy simulator to train and evaluate urologists on the procedure of injecting Botox into the detrusor muscle of the bladder to treat incontinence in adults with overactive bladders due to a neurologic condition.