Avitage Introduces Citrix GoToWebinar Archive Service to Improve Webinar Experience and Value

New Archive Service Provides Intuitive Interface to Engage Viewers and Improve Use of Webinar Archives

Waltham, MA (PRWEB) November 28, 2008 -- Avitage, www.avitage.com and www.presentationselect.com, a business communications services company, announced today a complementary low-cost service for the Citrix® GoToWebinar (TM) platform that improves the standard GoToWebinar archive output.

"When running a GoToWebinar, subscribers can automatically produce archives of their events," explains Marc McNamara VP of Programs and Services at Avitage. "GoToWebinar is a great system and it does a good job of recording the original event. But, the Windows Media® file (WMF) format is a poor archive. It's a completely linear experience without a table of contents or the ability to instantly get to a specific section of the program. Our studies show this creates user frustration and reduces the time people spend viewing archives."

For marketers and trainers, the webinar archive is an extremely important way to allow viewers to review complex topics and messages, so they are understood and internalized. Having these archives work effectively provides tremendous value to marketing and training efforts.

Jim Burns, CEO of Avitage, comments "Webinar content is too valuable not to provide a better experience to the viewer. We've started this service because our GoToWebinar customers have really appreciated the archives we've produce for them after running their events. They tell us they also like the ability to deliver linked documents in a single archive package."

The Avitage GoToWebinar archive service delivers a streaming and downloadable Flash® program with an intuitive interface that provides an engaging user experience. Customers simply upload their existing GoToWebinar recording to a secure site and, in less than 24 hours, Avitage provides a Flash archive, MP3 podcast and PDF files of all visual materials with hosted delivery for one full year.

The cost of an Avitage archive is $349. Additional webinar production and support services are also available.

To see examples and for more information, please visit www.presentationselect.com/gtwsupport.asp.

To learn more about this new service, view this short, multimedia vignette:
http://www.presentationselect.com/GTWexample/introduction/index.html

PresentationSelect.com is the webinar microsite of Avitage.

About Avitage
Since 1996, Avitage has provided services in support of webinars that result in improved lead generation and education. With a combination of unique processes and technologies, we help organizations apply the lessons of publishers and broadcasters to the creation and delivery of their multimedia communications. This results in:

• reduced risks associated with the delivery of live webinars
• improved user and audience experiences
• better overall returns on content investments

® Citrix, Windows Media and Flash are registered trademarks of their respective owners.
TM GoToWebinar is a registered trademark of Citrix.
(C) Copyright 2008 Avitage, Inc. All rights reserved.

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