Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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News Best of Elearning! and Learning! 100 Winners to be Honored Winners in two exclusive Elearning! Media Group competitions — "Best of Elearning!" and "Learning! 100" — will be revealed at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo in August. The Learning! 100 Awards, established in 2011, recognize excellence in learning across enterprises that invest in a truly immersive learning culture, including best-in-class learning and development programs. The four categories in which learning organizations competed are: learning culture; collaboration; innovation; and performance. Past honorees included: AT&T;, American Heart Association, Scripps Health, Starbucks, U.S. Dept. of Defense and U.S. Dept. of Veterans Afairs. "Best of Elearning!" nominations are now closed. Readers and professionals from both the private and public sector cast 3,862 nominations for the best-in-class solutions across 27 product categories. Eighty-fve individual products will be recognized for excellence, up from 72 in 2012. Honorees herald from small innovative companies to Global 200 corporations and include: Adobe, Oracle, NetDimensions, and VuBiz. The Learning! 100 and Best of Elearning! Awards will be presented at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo 2013 on August 26, 2013. Learn more about the event and awards programs at: www;ELCEShow.com. —More info: www.2elearning.com Deals INFOR, a provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has reached an agreement to acquire CertPoint Systems Inc. Based in Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Certpoint is widely regarded as an innovative provider of SaaS-based learning management software and learning content management software. The acquisition will make the Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) suite a comprehensive end-to-end offering. BLUEVOLT, a provider of online learning management systems for the construction, manufacturing and service industries, recently partnered with MCGRIFF, SEIBELS & WILLIAMS, INC., to enhance its training program with a new online university geared toward contractors. McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc. is the sixth-largest insurance brokerage in the United States, specializing in construction risk services, commercial 14 April / May 2013 Elearning! insurance and employee benefits, health, wellness and retirement programs. Students, faculty and staff across BABSON COLLEGE are now using BRAINSHARK to streamline and improve communications. Originally piloted in one of Babson's MBA programs, Brainshark is now used for graduate and undergraduate class projects and preparation, faculty communications, program office communications, admissions outreach, HR presentations and more — with more than 30,000 hours' worth of Babson's video presentations viewed last year. Now, with Brainshark's cloud-based technology, students can add their voice to PowerPoint decks, and faculty can use it to supplement and enhance the educational experience. NETDIMENSIONS has acquired the assets, goodwill and business of eHealthcareIT for a total consideration of approxi- mately $3.5 million. Founded in 2004, eHealthcareIT specializes in providing e-learning and compliance solutions to the U.S. healthcare market. eHealthcareIT's solutions are composed of specialized health-care training content that is delivered via the NetDimensions Talent Suite to clients ranging from multiple hospital organizations with more than 20,000 employees to single stand-alone hospitals. The company has been a leading partner & reseller of the NetDimensions Talent Suite platform during the last six years. CONVEY HEALTH SOLUTIONS, a leading specialty healthcare business process outsourcing frm, has selected Mzinga's OmniSocial Learning to power its internal employee collaboration, training and communication initiatives, and expand into a community for customer experience and support. Convey Health Solutions is in a period of tremendous growth as the company continues to meet the demand for Medicare and medical products enrollment, engagement, service and administration support, as well as increased needs for client wellness and quality program support. CORPU, the talent development company, recently announced a new partnership with SHAWN ACHOR, one of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and success and author of the international bestseller "The Happiness Advantage." In 2012, Shawn's research on happiness made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular of all time with more than three million views, and his PBS lecture has been seen by millions. His methods to achieve happiness and increase productivity and success at work are now available from CorpU in a fve-week online guided-learning journey.