Rio de Janeiro, RJ, April 25, 2013 – Start spreading the news, Izzui is coming to Broadway! The Izzui team lands in New York to present at TechCrunch Disrupt the latest improvements to our learning marketplace for everybody on Facebook.

With Izzui Learning Pages, authors and companies can now create their own learning portals on Facebook for everything from training and development to customer support, costumer relationship, customer engagement and communications.

Come and join us at this leading social media and innovation gathering as we share details and examples on how to engage people with your brand on the largest social network in the world by creating, publishing and selling your own online courses. On Izzui, learning and teaching come together with tools and content to integrate seamlessly with social media. It’s fun, it’s easy it`s Izzui!

Take a big bite of Izzui as we take a big bite of the Big Apple!

About Izzui

Izzui is the first open social learning place for everybody on Facebook to create, publish, share and sell elearning content. On Izzui, individuals and corporations can post free and paid courses to develop communities of interest sharing useful, engaging and impactful content. We are the first to bring the online learning experience to the online social experience. Come and join the learning revolution! For more information, visit http://www.izzui.com or email alfredo.leone(at)izzui(dot)com.

About TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. This April 27th “ April 28th we will host the Hackathon and April 29th “ May 1st, TechCrunch will be bringing Disrupt back to New York to reveal an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, guests, and more to the stage. For more information, check the event website.

As a Facebook app for end-to-end online learning collaboration, Izzui permits anyone with a Facebook account to teach, learn and share. Izzui allows users to create and post online content and presentations, invite friends to check them out and also subscribe to other people’s Izzui posts. Users can also rate, evaluate and comment on their Izzui subscriptions, as well as share their course activities on their Facebook profile. Izzui brings social learning and E-learning to the wider public. The website www.izzui.com/ provides additional information and a link that will take visitors to the actual Facebook app.

Previously garnering attention on Facebook in its beta phase, Izzui is structured so that users can quickly go to either the Learn or Teach option. Under Learn, Facebook users can browse through courses by topic. Recently added topics include Daily tips; Education; Fashion; Food and Drinks; Games; Health; Languages; Lifestyle; Management and Business; Music; Sports; and Technology. Users can also find courses by searching “All” courses or by Author.

What further differentiates Izzui from other Facebook applications is the option for users to create courses collaboratively. By clicking on the “Teach” tab, users will be walked seamlessly through QuickLessons, a professional authoring tool to create courses, using the platform for free. In Izzui, course authors are able to select whether they want to design their course for Mobile or Desktop publishing.

 
About Izzui
Izzui is a Facebook app that provides a free, collaborative E-Learning community for creating, sharing, and viewing a wide variety of interactive and engaging content via online courses. Izzui is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Izzui’s founders and developers focus on learning and development with a relentless commitment to improving the way people see and use elearning. For more information, visit www.izzui.com or email alfredo.leone@izzui.com.

Another enhancement is the new Public Link export option to reach learners on the move. Users can take advantage of the company’s cloud-based servers, which allow authors to post a course with a public link and share it by email with anyone.  A learner can simply click on the link to take the course on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.

In addition, QuickLessons’ users can now customize 20 new templates in the Studio Library. The Studio Library contains 15 more scenes and 5 additional exercises for course authoring variety, all with the SCORM compliance of QuickLessons courses.

User content on QuickLessons is now protected against unauthorized use. Developers can enable watermarks to identify learners taking their courses.

In conjunction with these new platform features, QuickLessons has launched a revitalized website, which offers new content and new plans.  Visitors can access new demo courses, links to the company’s social sites and read about new international partners. To learn more about QuickLessons, go to www.quicklessons.com or contact the company directly at info@quicklessons.com.

About QuickLessons, LLC

QuickLessons provides online, collaborative eLearning course development platforms for creating Flash-based interactive and engaging content. With individual and multi-user plans, customers can create and manage high quality content from anywhere and at anytime for offline, online and LMS use. QuickLessons offers a Free Plan for sharing and tracking eLearning courses on its Facebook application, Izzui. QuickLessons, LLC, is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and is a subsidiary of Affero, a leading corporate education company based in Brazil. QuickLessons is accessible to companies globally through a growing network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit www.quicklessons.com or call +1 (305) 847-2159.

With origins in the eLearning field, the Izzui app was designed for corporate training and collaborative learning. New users are invited to discover how they can create engaging and interactive online courses to present and position products and services. With Izzui, any sized business can create material targeted to grow Facebook fans and customers, developing a community of interest around their content. Developers of Izzui content can invite their friends to courses, and follow their activity on uploads. In addition, any Facebook user can search on Izzui for information on interesting services and products, and then share, evaluate and comment on the published content.

A webinar on the “Easy Way to Create New Content on Facebook!” presented by QuickLessons’ Managing Director Alfredo Leone is scheduled for February 22, at 1 p.m. EST. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn how to quickly create engaging and animated messages about what your business does best, to share with anyone on Facebook. We will walk users through the basic steps of using Izzui, from finding the app, to importing assets like company logos, photos, videos and text, to publishing and posting content on Facebook. It will also show users how to profit from content they publish on Izzui through the buy and sell feature.

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Alfredo Leone, Managing Director at QuickLessons, remarks that Facebook is leveling the playing field as a marketing channel to reach a larger audience, adding that anyone who wants to communicate a service or market online can essentially use Izzui as a type of online digital signage within Facebook. He remarked, “With more and more business owners and entrepreneurs turning to Facebook to reach customers with their own pages, Izzui makes a great addition to the marketing mix, allowing page owners to create a novel message for Facebook users. Izzui can be used to communicate about a product, service, and drive new fans to a page.” Entrepreneurs, small business owners, not for profit organizations, B2B and corporate users alike are able to use Izzui to share content with a wide audience on Facebook. To learn more about Izzui, go to<a href=”https://www.izzui.com/en/”>www.izzui.com/en/</a>. Visitors can learn more from a short video at this site, or access Izzui directly within Facebook by typing “Izzui” in the search bar.

 
Francisco Ferreira, Product Director at Affero, noted “We have developed several advances in QuickLessons and our Facebook application Izzui to change our architecture to a real cloud-based software. All of our assets (images, videos, animations and flash content) are now stored in virtual storage services that will allow us to scale indefinitely. We will reduce our costs with our infrastructure operation, increasing our investments in the platform itself and delivering even more features to clients.”

 
On the development side, QuickLessons has raised R&D funds fromFINEP, an agency that works to promote economic and social development of Brazil. It is a 2-year project to add mobility and accessibility capabilities to QuickLessons/Izzui. Alfredo Leone, Managing Director at QuickLessons explains, “We are investing significantly to develop HTML5-related technologies to deliver courses on any kind of device to everyone. Our goal is to create multiple delivery formats that will improve our clients’ ability to reach people using tablets, smart phones and connected TV’s. Video plays also a key role on our strategy. We will improve video editing and annotation features on our platforms.”

Alfredo Leone, QuickLessons’ Managing Director, said, “We welcome working with these new partners who will be able both to use QuickLessons in house and to offer our platform to their clients across the globe.” He noted that eLearning’s advantages in reducing travel and training costs flexibility allow companies world-wide to maximize their training budgets. Both developers and learners benefit from the engaging Flash-based courses that can be produced using QuickLessons’ templates for content, characters, exercises and games.

The companies below join a robust list of existing partners around the world (summaries of all partners can be viewed athttp://www.quicklessons.com/en/partners/our-partners).

QuickLessons is open to inquiries from new potential international partners to provide local access and support to QuickLessons clients worldwide. To become part of this expanding list, please apply.

In Europe, new partners Cadpeople, Edustacja.pl and Studium join existing partners in the Netherlands, Spain, UK and Switzerland to make QuickLessons more readily available to European firms. Founded in Poznan, Poland, in 2007, Edustacja.pl is a modern training portal that was developed for both individual and corporate eLearning needs. With an experienced and committed core of eLearning professionals, the company offers a full range of services, including design and production of training content and webinars, eLearning platform leasing and sales and complete eLearning project execution. To learn more about the company, as well as view their online shop of existing courses and directories of trainers and training facilities, please visit http://www.edustacja.pl. To contact the company directly, email them at biuro@edustacja.pl.

CadPeople has offices in Denmark and the UK, and is a cutting-edge visual communication firm that offers expertise in the interrelated fields of marketing and eLearning. Cadpeople offers strategic and operational guidance to clients on how to plan, develop and implement eLearning, along with applied expertise in visual storytelling to help companies create their own knowledge modules which may then be used directly for online training. Cadpeople has build a straight forward process to create a complete eLearning platform including a complete user interface, LMS, LCMS, customized learning modules and authoring tools for rapid learning development. Visit to see representative work, video, recent news about the company and complete offerings. They can be reached by email at info@cadpeople.com.

STUDIUM was founded in 2000, and provides development, implementation, maintenance, IT consulting services and eLearning content production, allowing customers to focus on their business vision. They offer design and deployment of online courses, conceptual design, logical design, content authoring and editing tools, and Learning Management System (LMS) platform deployment and support. Located in Zagreb, Croatia, they can be contacted via email at  studium@inet.hr.

In Latin America, e-ABCLearning joins other partner companies supporting QuickLessons customers in the southern hemisphere including Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, e-ABC specializes in eLearning technical and product solutions, consulting, and custom software development. It lists among its clients Copa Airlines, the University of Buenos Aires, multiple government institutions, a wide variety of banking institutions, and many more. For a complete client list, success stories, and capabilities, please visit their website at http://www.e-abclearning.com/.

In the continent of Africa, QuickLessons welcomes LRMG as new partner for the entire region after their acquisition of QuickLessons’ former partner Laragh Skills. With offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, LRMG is a 13-year-old performance agency that creates memorable X-periences in management consulting, learning, talent and people technology. LRMG’s complete offerings, including accreditation and customized courseware, are demonstrated at http://www.lrmg.co.za/.

QuickLessons also recently reaffirmed their commitment to LINGOs with the appointment of QuickLessons’ Managing Director Alfredo Leone to LINGO’s Board of Directors. LINGOs is a consortium of over 65 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organizations. LINGOs provides the latest learning technologies and courses so these non profits can increase the skill levels of their employees, and therefore increase the impact of their programs. More on LINGOs’ mission can be found online at http://ngolearning.org/aboutlingos/default.aspx. QuickLessons annually participates in LINGOs’ Global Giveback, a competition that provides the opportunity for course developers to work with international non-profit organizations to develop online courses.

The conference speaking sessions’ key themes embrace seven categories: Management; Technology; Strategy; Learning, Enterprise Learning; Knowledge; and Performance. QuickLessons’ Managing Director Alfredo Leone will present a session on the topic of Social Media for Learning: A Balanced Approach.

The expo floor (Marketplace) at DevLearn provides visitors an unparalleled opportunity to explore a highly-focused assembly of key e-Learning vendors offering leading e-Learning tools, products, and services – all conveniently assembled under one roof. Visitors can test drive QuickLessons at the booth. QuickLessons personnel will be on hand to demonstrate how the collaborative e-Learning platform helps content developers create engaging and high-quality Flash-based courses quickly and easily.

Attendees can find QuickLessons in the Marketplace at Booth #318, and are invited to collect a guaranteed winning surprise on the spot. Plus, everyone who comes by the booth will get further to a bigger prize. Find out more at DevLearn! DevLearn is widely considered one of the essential annual events for training personnel, instructional designers, IT managers, and education specialists. Registration information, along with the schedule and video highlights from the prior year’s event, can be found online at http://www.elearningguild.com/DevLearn/content/1941/devlearn-2011-conference-and-expo—home. Twitter users can track the conference with hash tag #DevLearn or #DL11.

Izzui was the result of a vision for collaborative learning available to all, and a response to requests from the learning community for a place to post their content without having to deal with cumbersome and expensive Learning Management Systems (LMS’s).

With Izzui, anyone can create dynamic and engaging presentations, using the QuickLessons platform for free. Whether or not people choose to create their own courses, any Facebook user can search for interesting ideas and useful information at any time, as well as share, evaluate and comment on published content. Users who develop courses can invite their friends to their courses, and follow their activity on their Izzui uploads. Izzui users have access to characters, animations, templates, and games, with which to build their own online course on any topic. One of most recent and powerful developments for Izzui users is the introduction of an option to buy or sell content using PayPal.

Izzui already has well over 1,000 people currently using the app. Alfredo Leone, Managing Director at QuickLessons, commented, “We’ve noticed that those who discover Izzui quickly embrace it. It’s growing every day. With Izzui, people are able to take part in an online community for sharing content that is both fun and useful.” Izzui’s development team predicts B2B and corporate users will follow suit as they see the popular appeal of sharing content.

To learn more about Izzui, go to www.izzui.com/en/. Visitors can learn more from a short video at this site, or access Izzui directly within Facebook by typing “Izzui” in the search bar.

Google Chrome is one of the fastest and most updated web browsers today, as well as the fastest growing in usage. Individuals need a Google Account in order to install apps from the Chrome Web Store. A Google Account provides users with a single username and password that can be used to access Google products and services.

To find QuickLessons on Chrome Web Store, visit https://chrome.google.com/webstore from within the Chrome browser and search for QuickLessons or click on this link.

Readers also can visit the QuickLessons blog, QuickThoughts, to read more about Google Chrome, the Chrome Web Store, and the QuickLessons app at the Web Store.

The Studio Library brings QuickLessons users more options for visual variety in their courses. Over 50 new, highly flexible templates are available, combined with several new templates for exercises. The new library also introduces six new characters, and transition animations. Overall the developer experience is enhanced with increased flexibility of design and style settings, combined with higher quality resolution of courses for the user.

Anyone can view a brief sample course created with the Studio Library, titled “The Importance of Learning Objectives,” even if they are not currently a QuickLessons user by clicking here. Details about the Studio Library are posted on the QuickLessons blog, QuickThoughts.

For questions, comments or to request the new Studio Library, please contact the QuickLessons Support team.