Military.com has picked up Hugh Lessig’s story on the Army’s stand-down for Suicide Prevention training, and the use of WILL’s recent product Beyond the Front. The simulated exercise isn’t a cure-all for a fighting force stretched thin, but it will let soldiers practice making tough decisions, said Sharon Sloane, president and CEO of WILL Interactive, [...]
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Beyond the Front was featured again over the weekend, this time in the Daily Press: His name is Spc. Kyle Norton, and his life is falling apart. Norton is deployed in the Middle East. His wife-to-be has just ended their relationship via e-mail. He has money problems. A bad country-and-western song doesn’t even begin to [...]
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CBS News ran a story about the US Army Stand Down for training in suicide prevention. Beyond the Front, a VEILS® Interactive movie recently completed for the Army was featured as one of the tools that will be used to combat this growing problem. You can view the video here. Watch CBS Videos Online
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Last night CBS affiliate WUSA 9 ran a story about ‘sexting’, and the new program that WILL Interacive is developing in partnership with Verizon and Web Wise Kids to help combat this risky behavior:
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Edge Online is running an article by WILL’s own Sharon Sloane (President & CEO) which discusses how the difficult emotional issues that Soldiers face can be addressed by reality-based simulations, or ‘serious games’. Specialist Kyle Norton is a 19-year old soldier two months into his first deployment in Iraq. Already lonely for his fiancée, Anne, [...]
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The Washington Post is running a feature on Beyond the Front, one of our latest programs developed with the US Army, which is designed to train soldiers on Suicide Prevention. Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool — an interactive video to be mandatory [...]
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Chief Learning Officer Magazine is running an article by Lindsay Edmonds Wickman which features Outside the Wire, a VEILS® developed last year to help train the US Army’s Forward Support Company: Imagine being in a hostile foreign country commanding a unit of fresh-faced soldiers. You want to be prepared, you want to make good decisions [...]
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Potomac, Md. – May 27, 2008 – WILL Interactive has been awarded three Communicator Awards of Distinction by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. WILL Interactive’s programs The Barda Bridge and A Day in the Bam both won under the category of Best Interactive Media Training, while The Barda Bridge also won for Best [...]
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Potomac, Md. – May 22, 2008 – Outside the Wire, a Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulation (VEILS®) developed by WILL Interactive, Inc., received the award for ‘Best Workforce Training Solution’ in the 23rd Annual CODiE Awards Competition. The CODiE Awards, the premier honor in the software and information industry, recognize and showcase programs and achievements [...]
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CNN ran a story last night covering WILL’s current in-development project, a VEILS Interactive Movie targeted at suicide prevention in the Army. You can watch the full story here.
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