Demand Gen Report

Brainshark, recently introduced the Brainshark Sales Enabalement Portal for sales teams to manage content in a single, searchable repository. As part of the Sales Enablement Suite, the portal is mobile-optimized to enable team members to find, filter and search for relevant sales, marketing and training materials, according to Brainshark officials.

Content curation is often described as a product of the Digital Age, but earlier forms of news aggregation were already being practiced in the early 90s.

“Content curation has been around for years,” explained Michael Kolowich, CEO of KnowledgeVision. “But the evolution of it as a thought leadership, expertise-establishing marketing engine is actually fairly recent.”

With the buzz about Yahoo purchasing Tumblr this week, Ogilvy & Mather put together this infographic about the blogging site, including the fact that there are 117 million visitors per month.

Certain Inc., a provider of enterprise event management solutions, announced enhancements to its SaaS platform that enable marketers to personalize events for attendees by steering them toward the appropriate educational content and connections.

“Events represent the last marketing channel to be fully digitized and integrated into sales and marketing infrastructure, although marketers are spending 25% to 36% of their budgets on events,” Betsy Zikalis, VP of Global Marketing for Certain, told Demand Gen Report. “The idea is to make events more productive for marketers and attendees, pointing attendees to the right activities, right sessions they should go to and social networks they should tap into based on their roles and interests, among other factors.”