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Harbinger Unveils New Ways to Make Training Sessions and Presentations Fun, Engaging and Effective

Enhances YawnBuster – a Path-Breaking Software for Adding Group Activities to PowerPoint

Posted: Friday, May 07, 2010 at 1:16 PM CDT

Redmond, WA -- (SBWire) -- 05/07/2010 -- Harbinger Knowledge Products has released a significant add-on for YawnBuster, the path-breaking software for adding high-impact group activities to PowerPoint. This brand new add-on, named Competitive Games Pack, helps build a variety of strategy games and popular TV games such as Feud Game Show, Spin the Wheel, Bet, Answer, Reach the Top and many more. Now, facilitators like managers, trainers and consultants can use these ready games and enjoy complete audience engagement and involvement in their facilitated sessions. The new release is fully compatible with MS Office PPT and PPTX file formats.

“The Competitive Games Pack embodies Harbinger Group’s deep knowledge of learning games, gained from research in eLearning and acknowledged through various international awards. We are excited to bring this knowledge to classrooms and meetings through this new games pack”, said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group.

Drive audience boredom out of your facilitated sessions! The Competitive Games Pack includes variety of games which help in transforming PowerPoint slides into engaging, attention-grabbing and motivating presentations. Use Feud Game Show to generate excitement and encourage group participation among your audience. Help your audience to learn, practice, and review concepts taught in training session using Bet, Answer and Win – a Jeopardy like game. Use Spin the Wheel game to let your audience answer questions for various categories to win the points associated with it. Encourage collaboration between teams and test their confidence while they bet on an answer for a given question using the ‘Reach the Top’ game. Create a lively environment with ‘Mine the Gold’ game and allow your audiences to collect points by collecting gold nuggets and answering questions. Energize the audience, increase participation and concentration among attendees with Rapid Fire game.

“These games will be a valuable resource for corporate trainers, educators, facilitators, and speakers alike, who are looking for ways to enliven their sessions. Since these games are very easy to create, the presenters can themselves add involving games to their presentations - in minutes. We are sure millions of presenters worldwide would love this”, said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.

About YawnBuster
With YawnBuster, you can easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint slides.

YawnBuster brings alive your PowerPoint slides with Group Activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. Now you can get your audience to think, enjoy, participate and identify key takeaways quickly and easily.

With YawnBuster, you always have undivided attention of your audience: after all, they aren't just watching PowerPoint slides any more - they are interacting with you

For more information, visit http://www.yawnbuster.com

About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For two consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

Harbinger's patent-pending technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. Red Herring has named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

For more information, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com