Harbinger Knowledge Products Releases New Business Activities Pack for YawnBuster Presentation Software

Online, January 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Harbinger Knowledge Products, a global leader in interactive eLearning, presentation and website software, announced today a new library of activities for its YawnBuster presentation software. Called the Business Activities Pack, the activities are designed for presentations and discussions that have a business context.

YawnBuster comes as a PowerPoint Add-in that adds group activities for speakers wanting to involve their audience in presentations. The new group activities will help presenters involve their audience in brainstorming and making decisions.

"Capturing group dynamics and the collective thought process can have a phenomenal impact on a business presentation," said Vikas Joshi, chairman and managing director of Harbinger Group. "Managers often lead discussions and involve their teams to spark innovation and collaborative decision-making, and to get team buy-in. The Business Activities Pack will enable them to hold truly engaging discussions with all of their key stakeholders inside and outside the organization."

The new pack adds activities that elicit audience participation, such as brainstorming, parking of ideas and collaborative prioritizing. It also adds activities that enable structuring of complex thoughts and ideas, such as T-chart and Mind-Map.

"The Business Activities Pack makes YawnBuster an essential tool for presenters wanting to engage their audience to create meaningful discussions," said Seema Chaudhary, president of Harbinger Knowledge Products. "All the activities that you see in YawnBuster bring the audience and the speaker closer together, just like they were inside a classroom. With Business Activities Pack, the context of that discussion moves to seminars and meeting rooms."

For information about the YawnBuster Business Activities Pack, visit http://www.yawnbuster.com/Yawnbuster_business_activities ....

About YawnBuster
YawnBuster enables teachers, trainers and speakers to easily add high-impact group activities to their PowerPoint slides. With YawnBuster, trainers get undivided attention of their students, and managers can involve stakeholders in their decisions. It brings PowerPoint slides alive with Group Activities such as audience polls, brainstorming aids, games and group exercises. Trainers, classroom teachers and speakers can get their audience to think, enjoy, participate and identify key takeaways quickly and easily. 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. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies. 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. For more information, please visit www.harbingerknowledge.com or call 425.861.8400.