With the growing number of organisations that ask me to support their implementation activities for interactive whiteboards I am frequently confronted with the issue of the incompatibility of content for the current whiteboard brands (also see this earlier blogpost where I referred to this problem). Various bloggers I follow of course also report on this. I am passing on the start of a 2009 post on WhiteBoard Blog :

[...]I’ve been thinking over the last few days about the implications of the ActivInspire launch for users of other boards. And I think it’s pretty big news for everyone who uses an interactive whiteboard.

The launch of the Personal Edition of ActivInspire is quite a major thing and is an interesting development by Promethean to open up their resource library to everyone, something I’ve always felt that they wanted to protect for their boards only.

Now it should be possible for the user of any interactive whiteboard to download and run ActivInspire Personal Edition on their board legally. This gives them the basic whiteboard tools, plus more importantly access to open and use all of the Promethean flipcharts available on Promethean Planet, and on other websites (such as mine)...

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