Brainshark Honored As 'Best of Elearning!' Award Recipient

Elearning! Magazine Group's Annual Readers' Choice Awards Highlight Brainshark as 'Best Rapid Development Tool'

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, December 21 - Brainshark, Inc., the leader in on-demand presentations, today announced
that it has received a 2009 Best of Elearning! Award, in recognition of
superior product innovation and customer satisfaction. Hosted by Elearning!
and Government Elearning! magazines, the Best of Elearning! Awards are the
exclusive readers' choice awards in the eLearning market. Brainshark was
honored as the inaugural winner in the newly created "Best Rapid Development
Tool" category.

"We're pleased to honor Brainshark as a winner in the 'Best Rapid
Development Tool' category. Readers nominated it for its ease-of-use and
effectiveness in creating rapidly deployable, high-impact eLearning
programs," said Catherine Upton, group publisher of Elearning! and Government
Elearning! magazines.

The Elearning! Magazine Group received 1,755 nominations for the annual
awards - twice last year's volume - which were cast online by readers.
Winners are featured in the January 2010 issues of Elearning! and Government
Elearning! magazines. This distinction caps off a year of accolades for
Brainshark, which was recently selected for inclusion on Apps.gov, the
General Services Administration's (GSA) cloud computing storefront, and named
a 'Learning Leader' by research firm Bersin & Associates.

Brainshark's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications provide the
scalability and flexibility for rapid training and eLearning deployments -
letting companies ramp up and execute on their training initiatives faster,
more effectively and more cost-effectively than ever before. Using
Brainshark's on-demand, multimedia presentations, subject matter experts
across an organization can easily create and share interactive eLearning
content, as well as track completion. From sales, employee and customer
education to channel certification to compliance training and more,
Brainshark's eLearning solutions enable geographically dispersed audiences to
interact with multimedia learning materials that can be experienced anytime,
on-demand.

"We're thrilled with this recognition from the Elearning! Magazine Group
and from our customers who have created winning eLearning programs using our
solutions. This honor is a testament to Brainshark's commitment to enabling
business professionals to easily create and share information in powerful
ways," said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. "By using Brainshark for eLearning,
organizations can increase productivity, decrease costs and successfully meet
their time-sensitive training needs."

About Elearning! & Government Elearning! magazines

Elearning! and Government Elearning! Magazines, e-zines, E-newsletters,
Alerts, Web sites and Summits are produced by B2B Media Company, LLC.
Elearning! Magazine is one in the family of eleven media products serving the
US$160 billion e-learning market. In combination, these brands reach up to 2
million executives, practitioners and professionals all evaluating, deploying
or implementing e-learning solutions across their organizations each year. To
learn more, visit: www.2elearning.com or www.gov.2elearning.com

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark is the leader in on-demand presentations, transforming static
business content into high-impact communications. Delivered via
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Brainshark enables audiences to access and
engage with business content when and how they want. More than 1,000
companies - including a third of the Fortune 100 - rely on Brainshark
software and services to help sales, marketing, training and HR experts
cost-effectively deliver measurable results. In addition, organizations and
individuals use the myBrainshark site to create, share and track publicly
available multimedia presentations for free. For more information on these
offerings, visit www.brainshark.com.

    MEDIA CONTACTS:    Joan Babinski             Sara Card
                       Brainshark, Inc.          Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
                       +1-781-370-8001           +1-781-418-2431
                       jbabinski@brainshark.com  brainshark@daviesmurphy.com
                       www.brainshark.com        www.daviesmurphy.com

Joan Babinski of Brainshark, Inc., +1-781-370-8001, jbabinski at brainshark.com or Sara Card of Davies Murphy Group, Inc., +1-781-418-2431, brainshark at daviesmurphy.com