Skyview Capital LLC has completed the sale of Headsprout®, developers of the MimioReading™ classroom suite and MimioScience™ online instructional software business unit, to Cambium Learning® Group, Inc., a leading educational solutions and services company.  As you recall, Skyview Capital acquired the online curriculum programs as part of its acquisition of Mimio, in July 2013.

Cambium Learning, a highly respected organization within the education marketplace is comprised of four stellar business units: Voyager/Sopris Learning; Learning A–Z®; ExploreLearning®; Kurzweil Educational Systems® and IntelliTools®.   Together, these divisions provide best-in-class intervention and supplemental instructional materials; gold-standard professional development and school-improvement services; breakthrough technology solutions for online learning and professional support; valid and reliable assessments; and proven materials to support a positive and safe school environment.

We are excited about the opportunity for Headsprout to grow within Cambium Learning.  To learn more about the sale, please see the Press Release.  Since Skyview has divested in the Headsprout business, MimioScience and MimioReading are no longer products that are part of Mimio’s portfolio. Therefore, with the announcement of this sale, Mimio no longer is offering these products for sale to its Reseller Partners as part of the Mimio product offering.  The Mimio Partner Referral program for Mimio Reading is also being discontinued.  If you have any further questions regarding the sale of Headsprout, please feel free to reach out to your Mimio Territory Manager or me by email steve.mefford@mimio.com or by phone 630.406.6145.

MimioTeach $50 SPIFF: Spreadsheet Due Tomorrow

Don't forget the SPIFF Excel spreadsheet for our Gold, Silver and Bronze Reseller Partners is due tomorrow, December 31, 2013.  

Please submit one SPIFF Excel document per Reseller Partner Company by the end of tomorrow to insidesales@mimio.com.  You can review the terms and conditions below to ensure you properly submit the Excel spreadsheet.  Remember only one Excel spreadsheet should be submitted per Reseller Partner Company.

For those of you who were not able to attend the Partner Webinar this past Tuesday, December 17, you can view the webinar within Partner Resources here under Mimio Partner Webinars. 

We went through a lot of information including product roadmap, MimioMobile competitive analysis as well as training and marketing updates.  We would strongly recommend reviewing the webinar if you were not able to attend.

If you have any suggestions on what to include in our next Quarterly Partner Webinar, feel free to comment on this post!

We’re very pleased to announce the release of MimioStudio 11.1 software on the website. This important software release adds enforcement of software licenses to MimioStudio.  With this update, there are several items your customers may have questions about when they update to MimioStudio 11.1 which we wanted to make you aware of:

• We are no longer including license codes with hardware purchases.  Connecting the hardware to the computer will continue to activate MimioStudio software.
• Due to the above, we have enabled additional features in the limited version (Gallery and Activity Wizard) to support content creation for Mimio Home users.
• All NEW MimioMobile or MimioStudio license codes will only work with MimioStudio 11.1.  If the customer needs a license code for a previous version (prior to 11.1), they will need to contact customer support and we will fulfill that request.  It should be noted that all previously distributed license codes will continue to work with MimioStudio 11.1.
• If the user does not either connect to the internet which automatically verifies User or Site licenses or connect a Mimio hardware device, then their MimioStudio software will revert back to the Limited version after a period of 15 days.

To learn more about MimioStudio 11.1 licensing, click here.  To download MimioStudio 11.1 or to review the release notes, please go to the MimioStudio Software Downloads page.

When: December 17, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT

To join the webinar, click here.  

Call-in number: 1-888-480-5201
Conference Code: 416 357 3220 

Looking forward to talking to you later today! 

Gold, Silver and Bronze Partners: MimioTeach $50 SPIFF

Don't forget the SPIFF Excel spreadsheet for our Gold, Silver and Bronze Reseller Partners is due December 31, 2013.  With this SPIFF, for every 10 or more MimioTeach™ interactive whiteboards per school sold, the Reseller Partner Rep and Company will each receive $50 USD per MimioTeach!  

Please read through the terms and conditions below to make sure you fill out and submit the spreadsheet correctly. You will need to submit one SPIFF Excel document  per Reseller Partner Company by December 31, 2013 to insidesales@mimio.com. For more information, please contact your local Mimio Territory Manager.

When: December 17, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT

The next webinar will include information about:

• Current Ownership and Future Direction
• MimioMobile app Competitive Landscape 
• Updates on Training Program
• Additional Support Documents

To add this to your calendar, click here.  

Call-in number: 1-888-480-5201
Conference Code: 416 357 3220 

We hope to see you at our Partner Webinar next week! 

In our last Partner Webinar, we explained some changes that were made to our training program.  We will be discussing some updates to the training program during our Partner Webinar next week, but didn’t want to wait until then to provide you with a list of Mimio Certified Trainers.  These trainers have agreed to be on this list and contacted by you if you would like to contract with them directly to set up trainings on Mimio products for your Mimio customers.  See below for some more information about this list of Certified Trainers:

• Trainers were certified at some point since the start of the Mimio Certified Training Program.
• Cost and logistics will be managed directly between you and the Certified Trainers.
• Partners do not need to reach out to Mimio to make arrangements with the Certified Trainers.

We will be discussing more about this list and the Mimio Certified Training Program for Partners and current educators during the Partner Webinar a week from today. To add the Partner Webinar to your calendar, click here.  

We wanted to keep you posted about the Partner Summit in 2014.  Since our products for 2014 will be releasing later in 2014, it makes sense to coordinate the Partner Summit with the product releases and not hold the Partner Summit as you’ve come to expect in the late January timeframe.  Stay tuned for more information including a save the date notice, as we get closer the releases.

We’re looking forward to getting together with you to show the exciting products in our 2014 lineup!    We’ll be giving you a sneak peek of what that looks like in our Partner Webinar on December 17th (see the below post “ Partner Webinar – December 17, 2013” for more details). To add the Partner Webinar to your calendar, click here.  

When: December 17, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT

The next webinar will include information about:

• Current Ownership and Future Direction
• MimioMobile app Competitive Landscape: 
• Updates on Training Program
• Additional Support Documents

To add this to your calendar, click here.  

Call-in number: 1-888-480-5201
Conference Code: 416 357 3220 

We hope to see you at our next Partner Webinar!