Flypaper has been honored with a Brandon Hall award for Best innovation in Learning Technology presented by 2008 marks the 14th year of The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards. Winners were announced at a ceremony last night at the Innovations in Learning Conference in San Jose, CA. You can check out the full announcement here.

Flypaper has also been named a finalist for the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Award in the start-up company category. Winners will be announced at the awards gala in November, so stay tuned.

And in other news, last week we launched our Flypaper Producers program. If you love Flypaper but don’t have time to create your own presentations and Web content, now you have access to certified producers who can do it for you.

In a couple of weeks we’re going to have our first training Webinar for users and invite you to join us to learn tips and trips to creating great Stories. The Webinar will be on August 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am PDT. This is the first of a series of free “how-to” events designed to give attendees an in-depth look at how interactive Stories are created using Flypaper. You’ll see a hands-on demonstration of the new features that help you educate, persuade, sell and entertain more effectively on the Web. Click here to register.

The Webinar will also feature a guest speaker that will share how they are using Flypaper to sell more effectively than ever. We hope you’ll join us and weigh in. We always appreciate user feedback and learning about how you’re using the application.

Now you can show off your creativity and your Flypaper prowess by joining the Flypaper Stories that Stick Contest. Simply create a cool Story using either the free Flypaper application or new Flypaper Pro and submit your Story by September 15, 2008.

Enter to Win a Sony 40” HDTV, an Apple iPod touch or a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate

Winners in 3 categories (Best Personal Use, Best Business Use and People’s Choice) will be announced the week of September 22, 2008 and will win some great prizes. Winners will also be featured on Flypaper.com, so submit early, and be sure to vote online to help determine the People’s Choice!

You can submit just about anything, from a fun photo album, to a powerful product demo, a cool company showcase, or anything in between.

What are you waiting for? Check out the contest details here.

Flypaper is buzzing today with our recent funding announcement and more articles about the new Flypaper Pro product. Check out this great coverage in TechCrunch, CNET, DEMO.com, and VentureBeat. We’re seeing a lot of comments on these blogs, which tells us Flypaper is catching quite a bit of attention.

Thanks to everyone who’s taking part in the conversation and has something to say about our company, the industry and the application. We like all the feedback, and will take all of it into account as we use this next round of funding to roll out some great products and cool content for you.

We are very excited to announce to all of our users (and the rest of the world) the release of Flypaper Pro! Thousands of people are using Flypaper’s flagship application for everything from sales to social networking to e-learning. One thing we keep hearing again and again is that Flypaper is letting business professionals communicate in ways not possible before.

While that kind of feedback may be great for some, for the Flypeople here there’s always more to be done. So we went back into our cave and thought about what could really help our professional users? And it came to us: tracking, data collection, advanced content creation, and more storage.

When we developed Flypaper, we had persuasive, engaging storytelling in mind. With Flypaper Pro, we’re letting you take all of that great storytelling to the next level. See what your audience is doing with those cool Stories you create. Collect important data that will help prioritize leads. Publish your content anywhere you want and still have the ability to track it.

These are just a few of the great features of Flypaper Pro. You can see a complete tutorial on the product here. Please check it out for yourself and let us know what you think.

Thanks to all of our users who have been creating cool stories in the standard version of Flypaper since our Beta launch. We’re now officially moving out of Beta and into in our first release! Enjoy Flypaper 1.0 and check out Flypaper Pro.

Thanks,
Pat Sullivan, CEO

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