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DEC-JAN 2013

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Zenler, Articulate Each Capture Four 'Best of Elearning! ' Awards EIGHTH ANNUAL COMPETITION HAS ITS SHARE OF NEW WINNERS AND REPEAT WINNERS FROM YEARS PAST New entrant Zenler came out of nowhere this year to dominate the eighth annual "Best of Elearning!" competition. First-time winner Zenler, which is domestically based in New York City, won four awards with three products: Zenler Online, Zenler Studio Lite and Zenler Studio Pro. "We've kind of had our nose to the grindstone, doing things the old-fashioned way," says Tom Burton, vice president of Business Development. "In 2010, we were looking for an LMS that would meet the criteria of 'simple, fast, easy and economical.' Our strategy is to be at a lower cost level for people just entering the feld or those without a lot of experience. People can become productive almost immediately with our product." Each year, the awards program is co-sponsored by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines. Tis year, 3,881 nominations were received via the magazines' websites, an increase of 221 percent over 2011. In the eightyear history of the award, 222 diferent companies and 399 products have been honored. Ballots this year were counted across 21 product categories. Honored are 40 companies and 72 products —26 percent of which are 12 December 2012 / January 2013 Elearning! new the category or awards program. "Given the number of nominations, to earn an Award of Excellence is quite an honor," says Catherine Upton, Elearning! Media Group's publisher. "And to be named a category winner is a true testament to the vendor's product and service excellence." What makes the "Best of Elearning!" awards so coveted among both vendors and learning/training/development professionals is that the ballot is open-ended, so voters must carefully consider which of their vendors they want to honor. (Votes originating from vendor ISPs are not included in the fnal online tally.) "With so many categories, it takes quite a bit of time for a person to fll out a ballot," notes Elearning! and Government Elearning! editorial director Jerry Roche. "We are incredibly thankful that we have so many loyal readers participating in the voting process." Multiple winners besides Zenler were Articulate (four), Skillsof (two), BizTraining (two) and Adobe (two). Articulate won this year with three products: Storyline, Presenter and its mobile player app. Last year, Skillsof, Articulate and Adobe also won at least twice. Individual repeat winners from 2011 are Meridian KSI in the Best LMS Enterprise category, Skillsof for I.T. content, eCornell for leadership development, BizLibrary for sof skills content, Articulate for e-learning development, Interactyx for social learning tool, and Adobe for Web seminar solution. Eight years ago, the awards program was frst implemented to formalize the recommendation/purchase process for the two magazines' 90,000 subscribers and 250,000 readers. Stafers found that 85 percent of readers had recommended an e-learning solution to a peer over the most recent 12-month period and 61 percent claimed that award recognition "impacts their decision" to consider a product or service. Top award-winners were honored at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo in October at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, Calif. Finalists in each category were honored with awards of excellence. "Best of Elearning!" nominations for 2013 will open March 1 and close June 1. MORE ON THE WEB To visit the "Best of Elearning! Hall of Fame" — a list of all the companies and excellence brands that have won awards since 2008 — access our supplemental news section and our e-zine at http:// www.2elearning.com/Äleadmin/ images/Promotions/el1112_ HallofFame2.pdf on the Internet.

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