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Chicago, IL – November 21, 2006 – Prominent mobile learning authority Tim Keelan, founder of StoryQuest, is sharing insights and trade secrets at a variety of highly regarded learning conferences across the United States.

In September 2006, Keelan addressed attendees at the first annual SumTotal Systems User Conference – TotalConnection 2006 in San Jose, California. His session was devoted to using podcasting as a learning enablement tool.

In two separate presentations, StoryQuest founder Tim Keelan presented “Finding, Capturing & Sharing Stories That Teach & Drive Action” and “Podcasting: an Enterprise Learning Tool” at the “The Human Side of Technology” ASTD Learning Technologies Event presented by the Chicago Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development on October 18 and 19, 2006. Keelan discussed how to find and leverage stories as learning and change management tools within one’s organization, giving attendees the tools and insights on podcasting that can be leveraged within organizations. “When you talk about enterprise podcasting, there are a number of infrastructure and behavioral issues that need to be addressed if you really want to be effective,” notes Keelan.

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Chicago, IL – November 21, 2006 – StoryQuest, Inc. introduces its new conference capturing technology method that maximizes sales and training conferences and meetings. This solution has already been utilized by industry leaders such as Miller Heiman, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA) as well as others. StoryQuest is quickly proving to be the leading provider of cutting-edge developments to revolutionize mobile learning and sales enablement.

Through podcasting’s popular “push, publish and subscribe” approach, the conference capturing system literally ‘captures’ the actual audio and visual content presented at conferences and makes it available in a fully synchronized, accessible on the web, desktops and iPods. This allows users to experience the synchronized audio and visuals of any presentation either on or offline, on their own schedules – even if it’s six months after a conference takes place.

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Chicago, IL – November 21, 2006 – Tim Keelan, mobile audio learning and sales enablement guru and founder of StoryQuest, Inc., addressed a full house at the first annual SumTotal Systems User Conference – TotalConnection 2006 in San Jose, California. Five hundred fifty business leaders, decision-makers and experienced product users attended the event. SumTotal Systems is a provider of Learning Management Systems as well as other learning and communication enablement solutions.

During his session devoted to using podcasting as learning enablement tool, sales authority Tim Keelan shared his knowledge and experience to a room packed with sales professionals and training experts. Keelan revealed secrets to mobile learning success and shared success stories from some of the world’s leaders in training that are currently utilizing podcasting as a learning enablement tool.

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Chicago, IL – November 21 , 2006 – Miller Heiman, widely regarded as “The Sales Performance Company,” is applying StoryQuest’s conference capture service offering, a new mobile learning technology method that maximizes the information delivered at training and motivational conferences.  Miller Heiman most recently used StoryQuest’s conference capture service offering at its Annual User Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA in September 2006.  Over 200 sales professionals attended the annual US conference, all of whom are now able to see, hear in-sync and access online locally and through mobile devices such as iPods.  In addition, through the conference capturing technology, the audio and visual content of the Miller Heiman Annual User Conference in now available to over 1,000,000 Miller Heiman users.

“The content we presented at our User Conference is relevant and valuable to a broad range of clients who are responsible for driving sales performance in their organizations. By capturing the content in this way, we are able to deliver the information to both attendees and those who could not attend in a mobile, referenceable format,” says Dario Priolo, EVP of corporate development at Miller Heiman.

StoryQuest’s conference capturing system is the newest training technology introduced by the leader in mobile learning.  Through podcasting’s popular “push, publish and subscribe” approach, conference capturing literally ‘captures’ the actual audio and visual training content presented at conferences and makes it available in an accessible, flexible, user-friendly format.  Conference attendees and associations members are able to experience a synchronized audio-visual version of the actual conference sessions, accessed online locally and through mobile devices such as iPods.  Downtime is all but eliminated and travel time is maximized by making extremely useful but previously lost content easily attainable, whenever and wherever it’s needed.  

“In a conference environment, it is impossible to retain everything that is presented, so this technology provides an easy way to revisit key elements and get more value from the conference experience,” say Priolo.

Experience an example of StoryQuest’s conference capturing applied by Miller Heiman and learn more.

StoryQuest is a Chicago-based company that produces custom mobile audio solutions. StoryQuest combines its own knowledge-harvesting methodology along with mobile audio production and distribution tools to help users learn faster, remember more and save time using their mobile learning solutions, training and sales enablement, reference capture, conference capture and podcasting services.  President Tim Keelan has traveled the world studying the application of story and narrative for training and organizational learning. For more information about StoryQuest, visit www.storyquest.us or call (312) 258-0111.

Miller Heiman is the world’s largest sales performance consulting and training firm and the preeminent thought leaders in the space.  Miller Heiman helps companies and individuals that compete for high-value business-to-business sales develop strategies, processes and skills to consistently win business – especially when the sales process is complex and the marketplace demanding.  For more information, visit www.millerheiman.com.