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It's been quite a year for us here at dominKnow, and we're really quite pumped about the reception that Claro has received in its first eight months.

Just a couple of weeks ago Craig Weiss named Claro as one of his Best of the Best content authoring tools. In fact, Craig described himself as being "stoked" about what he's seen, adding that Claro's authoring functionality "means business".

A few weeks before that Craig also tipped his hat to Claro after seeing the product at DevLearn in Las Vegas. In a post to the E-Learning 24/7 group in LinkedIn, Craig said Claro's "feature set was impressive, the ease of use is there and with items such as an image editor, screen capture, video recording and narration, this really is very slick." Craig also gave Claro kudos as a product that "offers features and capabilities for the non-tech course builder, as well as capabilities for the e-learning developer and ID who is seeking an advanced tool. This product hits both audiences without any hiccups or hitches."

DevLearn was a great event for us, and Claro made some great impressions. Emergent Radio's Brian Dusablon and Judy Unrein singled out Claro as one of the show highlights in their podcast summarizing the conference (the Claro discussion begins around the 9:30 mark). Judy describes Claro as "pretty cool" adding, "I think it has a good balance between ease of use and the capabilities most people want." Here's a listening tip - open a bottle of your favourite beverage to get into the spirit of the podcast!

Judy also included Claro in her article Promising Tools for HTML5 Development in the October edition of Training and Devepmoent Magazine, the monthly publication from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). She noted that, "Claro is very easy to use" and has "a few very distinctive and even surprising features".
 
Janet Clarey, senior analyst for Learning & Development at Bersin & Associates liked what she saw in Claro in August, descrybing Claro as "a well thought out and incredibly simple yet powerful solution for enterprise learning" in her blog post Simplicity packaged. Clarey in particular singled out Claro's online review mode - "Love this!" as one of her feature favourites. OVerall, she said Claro is "powerful and simple all rolled up into one. We need more of that in the land of shiny shiny. With a free trial, what’s not to love?"

All of this adds up to some pretty good feeling for our team here at dominKnow. And we're not standing still, either. We've released four updates since Claro's original roll out in April, including some really great features in our update this week. And we're already planning for the next release - no rest for the wicked, eh!