Akuter Technologies teams up with ADERLY at the French MBA Conference 2008 in NYC

November 15, 2008 the French MBA Conference was held at Columbia University, New York, NY. One of the event sponsors, ADERLY gathered a few entrepreneurs from Lyon to present their success story, share their cross Atlantic experience and the many reasons to choose Lyon as their European headquarters. Akuter Technologies as a leader in the eLearning market was one of them. Akuter values the high quality of partnership with ADERLY and its numerous initiatives to support SMB growth in Lyon area.

This daily involvement federates and makes real the many criteria to choose Lyon for business:

• Excellent communication and telecommunication networks, a crucial advantage for us
• Outstanding quality of life reconciling personal and professional life
• Very dynamic regional market to gain new customers in advanced sectors
• A large software engineering talents reservoir
• A new way of looking at the tourism industry in its sustainable development

The City of Culture and Sustainable Tourism (CCTD) and Akuter Technologies have signed a mutual research and development agreement to design a specialized eLearning application committed to sustainable tourism:

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Akuter Management System v4.8 new features:

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Parkland School Division #70 selects Akuter Enterprise

Akuter will allow the Parkland School Division to utilise the power of the Internet to effectively communicate and train their facilities staff members, faculty, and school support staff. Akuter Enterprise is a server-driven adaptive learning management system that will empower Parkland School Division #70 to create, manage and track training and results.

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As promised we are launching our User Group Discussion Forums:

http://forums.akuter.com

To participate, register yourself from the link:

http://forums.akuter.com/forums/profile.php?mode=register

The forums are available in both English and French so make sure you set your preferred language and your email address when you register.

By clicking a forum, you can see its various topics and participate by posting a reply to a message. Use the “Your questions and comments...” forum for new topics and the moderator will create a new forum accordingly.

These are YOUR forums, take ownership!

Would you need directions, please contact us at support@akuter.com

AKUTER Technologies, developer of E-learning software dedicated to certification and conformity of organizations, announced at the beginning of December the opening of its European office in Lyon, France. Didier Bourgeot , President & CEO of Akuter Technologies, said: " Lyon quickly asserted himself as premier for our European operations because of its geographical situation and its means of communication which make it a natural platform for business". This Canadian company was established in Lyon with collaboration ADERLY. “Thanks to ADERLY to find adequate offices, to introduce us to local key professionals etc... That has helped to focus to the development of our activities" specified Mr. Bourgeot.

Converting MS Office documents to web-friendly formats for free! Flash Format easily integrate with Akuter Author and can be played full screen or in Graphic area. It reduces popup blocking and firewall issue while offering a faster loading due to the reduced file size and the streaming capability.

Using the free Open Office software from Sun http://www.openoffice.org (Use the stable version) , you can convert common MS Office files to Flash and PDF which are web-friendly formats:

Converting to Flash:

Open Office lets you export PowerPoint presentations to Flash format. You can also convert Word documents by pasting their content into a Presentation's slide and exporting the presentation to Flash.

Note: PowerPoint animations are lost when exporting to Flash, so if the animation part is crucial and losing it does not overcome the accessibility gained by using the Flash format. You might want to consider using a commercial PowerPoint to Flash converter.

Convert to PDF:

All types of documents can be directly exported to PDF after being opened in Open Office (including documents of type MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Graphics).

About Open Office:

OpenOffice.org is both a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us.

Why Would You Ever Want To Convert A PowerPoint Presentation Into A Flash File?

Here is a list of the key advantages you would have in converting a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash file. No matter what your final goal is, a Flash-based presentation goes a long way in making your content become easily accessible, ubiquitous and easily distributable.

1) Greater Accessibility
2) Compatibility
3) Reduced Files Size ( up to 1/10th of the original file size )
4) Sound Integration
5) Display Resolution
6) Internet Distribution
7) Streaming
8) Basic Interaction Controls
9) More Distribution Options
11) Secure
12) Firewall Friendliness

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