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OutStart and Eedo Knowledgeware MergeCombined Company is World's Largest Provider of Learning Content Management Software
Eedo Knowledgeware
| Boston, MA, USA
| 23-Jul-2008.
- July 22, 2008 - OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations, making the new company the largest provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge through learning and social collaboration. The merged company, conducting business as OutStart, immediately becomes the dominant vendor of learning content management systems (LCMS).
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Xpertise to acquire Parity Training to create the second largest IT Training company in the UK
Xpertise
| 23-Jul-2008.
Xpertise, one of the fastest growing training companies, has today announced that it is has agreed, subject to Shareholder approval, to acquire Parity Training in a deal which will create the second largest IT Training company in the UK.
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Richardson's Perfect Selling Book Reaches USA Today Best Seller List
Richardson
| Philadelphia, PA, USA
| 22-Jul-2008.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and consulting firm, today announced that Perfect Selling, written by Founder Linda Richardson, has reached the Best Seller List for USA Today.
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O2 and Imparta bring Award-winning Innovation to Retail Training
Imparta
| London, UK
| 22-Jul-2008.
Communications company O2 and its training partner Imparta have picked up the prize for 'Best Use of Technology for Employee Training or Communication' at the 2008 European Retail Solutions Awards.
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The ROI Academy™ invited to speak at the HR Exchange Forum
The ROI Academy
| UK
| 21-Jul-2008.
The ROI Academy™ was invited to run a workshop session at last week's meeting of the HR Exchange Forum. The HR Exchange forum meet on a quarterly basis to discuss key issues and last week's meeting was focussed on Reward Issues and Performance Management.
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Website blog reveals Government's problems with the Planning Bill
Echelon Learning
| London, UK
| 21-Jul-2008.
The latest edition of the Legal Commentary - a blog - on the town planning website, www.planningmatters.co.uk, lifts the lid on the debate on the current Planning Bill in the House of Lords.
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InfoBasis adds test functionality to competency management platform
InfoBasis
| London, UK
| 21-Jul-2008.
InfoBasis, the capability management expert, has expanded its competency management platform, InfoBasis ESI v 5.0, by adding question-based testing. Users can now sit a short test of their knowledge and skills, and use the results to verify skills levels selected during self-assessment.
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Richardson Executive Receives Stevie® Award at the 2008 American Business Awards
Richardson
| Philadelphia
| 17-Jul-2008.
Jim Brodo, Senior Vice President of Marketing, was named top Marketing Executive at the 2008 American Business Awards.
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REDTRAY eLearning Package wins Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT Award
REDTRAY Group
| London, UK
| 17-Jul-2008.
Kerry Watts, lead nurse for medicines management at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, collected a Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT Award. The winning e-learning package, developed by blended learning specialist REDTRAY, delivers mandatory medicines management training.
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The ROI Academy™ licenses National Occupational Standards for Management
The ROI Academy
| 16-Jul-2008.
The ROI Academy™ has licensed the National Occupational Standards for Management to use in conjunction with its leading edge training evaluation tool, the Performance Pound™.
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RapideL-i now helps you convert your Power Point slides into eLearning
Brainvisa
| Jersey City, Seattle, Pune, London, Sydney
| 15-Jul-2008.
RapideL-i, the internet-based rapid e-Learning tool has been upgraded to include a new feature to convert MS Powerpoint slides into eLearning.
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OnPoint Digital Teams with VoiceCloud for Mobile Content Transcription
OnPoint Digital
| Savannah, GA
| 14-Jul-2008.
OnPoint Digital, Inc., a leading eLearning and mobile solutions provider, today announced a partnership with VoiceCloud, Inc., an innovative provider of instant speech-to-text conversions, wherein VoiceCloud will transcribe recorded audio responses to voice-based questionnaires, surveys and blog entries submitted by mobile workers via OnPoint's CellCast Solution platform and mobile widgets. Once transcribed, responses are immediately available and searchable, and can be leveraged as institutional knowledge in ongoing communications, informal learning and detailed reporting.
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Latest Course-Source Health Sector Event Highlights Importance of Rich Media to e-Learning
Course Source
| Manchester, UK
| 14-Jul-2008.
The latest in Course-Source's series of nationwide events to help develop e-learning in the health sector has focused on the benefits of using rich media in e-learning programmes. The 50 plus health professionals who gathered in Manchester last week heard from various experts on the subject, among them a former BBC TV cameraman and director. All agreed technology is now so far advanced that anyone developing any e-learning programme should be able to include rich media material, whatever their budget.
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Giunti Labs' HarvestRoad Hive eases content migration issues
Giunti Labs
| Sestri Levante, Italy, & London, UK
| 14-Jul-2008.
A software system - HarvestRoad Hive, from leading learning and mobile content management technology provider, Giunti Labs - is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to save both time and manpower as they make information more readily available to users.
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Website hits on town planning site continue to soar
Echelon Learning
| London, UK
| 14-Jul-2008.
Visits to town planning web site www.planningmatters.co.uk have hit a record high.
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The importance of CPD in coaching
The Performance Solution
| 13-Jul-2008.
The Performance Solution know that the concept of CPD is not new, but agree that effective professionals in all fields have always realized the importance of new knowledge, improved skills and the development of personal qualities.
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TrainerBase accredits two more Certified Learning Practitioners
TrainerBase
| 11-Jul-2008.
TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners has accredited Andrew Miller and Toni Johnson as Certified Learning Practitioners.
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Trainer1 offers the latest in mobile learning technology
Trainer1
| London, UK
| 10-Jul-2008.
Trainer1, the vendor neutral e-learning specialist which has become the UK's only authorised training centre and re-seller for the authoring tool, ToolBook, has revealed that the tool's producer - SumTotal Systems - is about to release ToolBook 9.5.
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Raptivity Releases Blackboard and Moodle Integration Accelerators: Makes it Easy to Add Learning Interactions to Course Management Systems
Harbinger Knowledge Products
| 10-Jul-2008.
Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release of Raptivity Integration Accelerators for Blackboard and Moodle. Trainers and educators who use Blackboard or Moodle can now quickly integrate learning interactions built using Raptivity, the award-winning eLearning software for creation of learning interactions, in their course management systems.
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Cornerstone in the Leaders Quadrant in leading industry analyst's 2008 Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant
Cornerstone OnDemand
| London, UK; Paris, France, & Munich, Germany
| 10-Jul-2008.
Cornerstone OnDemand delivers a full suite of learning and talent management software-as-a-service solutions to optimise workforce success.
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Matching Courses with Careers Made Easy - SEEK Learning Launches in UK and Ireland
Seek Learning
| 10-Jul-2008.
Getting the skills you need for work just got easier with SEEK Learning recently launching in the UK and Ireland, and partnering with the region's leading job boards, reed.co.uk and Irishjobs.ie. SEEK Learning, an online education provider of career-related training and development, provides distance-based education suited to people with busy lifestyles. The IT industry will be the first to benefit from the fast and flexible service with seeklearning.co.uk a licensed distributor of SkillSoft, the world's leading online IT certification training provider.
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New eLearning creation platform set to transform training strategies
CM Group
| 9-Jul-2008.
Today's launch of Luminosity, the new eLearning creation platform, heralds a new direction in eLearning development. The solution is being launched by learning content and consultancy specialist CM Group.
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SITA aligns learning with organizational goals using Global Learning Alliance's analytics services
Global Learning Alliance
| Den Bosch, Netherlands
| 8-Jul-2008.
SITA, a leading European environmental and waste services business is using Global Learning Alliance's learning analytics services to measure the performance of its career development and literacy training programs.
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Seek success with FranklinCovey courses from QA-IQ: New workshops improve personal, organisational and team performance
QA-IQ
| 7-Jul-2008.
QA-IQ has today launched a new relationship with FranklinCovey in the UK. The first exciting new workshops available are based on Stephen Covey's hugely influential bestseller, '7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. Improve your personal performance as an individual, a manager and as a leader, in the workshops available from July 2008.
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'Radio Show' to Feature CEO Adam Miller of Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand
| Santa Monica, California, and London, UK
| 7-Jul-2008.
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., the provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, today announced that company CEO, Adam Miller, will be the featured guest on this week's "The Bill Kutik Radio Show."
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LearningGuide Solutions Forms a Customer Advisory Board
LearningGuide Solutions
| Rochester, NY
| 7-Jul-2008.
Company announces Customer Advisory Board to share implementation success stories and help shape Performance Support industry.
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Richardson Releases Perfect Selling, a New Sales Skills Improvement Book Written by Linda Richardson
Richardson
| Philadelphia, PA, USA
| 3-Jul-2008.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com)announced the release of Perfect Selling: Open the Door, Close the Deal (McGraw-Hill; July; $19.95), the latest book written by Founder, Linda Richardson.
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Global Knowledge welcomes new Cisco CCNA Concentrations
Global Knowledge
| Wokingham
| 2-Jul-2008.
Global Knowledge, Europe's leading independent training company, is welcoming the expansion of the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification program which was announced today at Cisco Live. The introduction of three new entry level technology-based CCNA concentrations which are designed to build upon Cisco's most popular career certification CCNA are seen as an ideal stepping stone for those delegates not able to make the full commitment that a professional level certification requires.
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Groundbreaking Business Service Management solution from FireScope
Firescope
| London, UK
| 1-Jul-2008.
Business Service Management (BSM) software specialist FireScope is heralding its new configuration management database (CMDB) program in support of its pioneering Business Service Management (BSM) solution as revolutionising the way businesses manage their IT operations.
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ATA motors past 9000
Institute of the Motor Industry
| 1-Jul-2008.
Paul West, who works at Inchcape Volkswagen Chelmsford, is the 9,000th technician to achieve the Automotive Technician Accreditation standard, governed by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI).
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REDTRAY in UK's top 50 IT Training Companies
REDTRAY Group
| London, UK
| 1-Jul-2008.
REDTRAY, the true blended learning company, has jumped two places in the UK's top 50 IT Training Companies to 28th position with revenues in IT training of £4.4 million in its 2007 financial year. IT training represents half of REDTRAY's revenues alongside its provision of learning solutions for areas such as professional development, compliance and, health and safety.
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Call for entries announced for prestigious IT Training Awards 2009
Institute of IT Training
| 1-Jul-2008.
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce the call for entries for the IT Training industry's most prestigious awards event, the IT Training Awards 2009 sponsored by the British Computer Society (BCS).
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KnowledgePool named again as one of the world's top training outsourcing companies
KnowledgePool
| Bracknell, UK
| 1-Jul-2008.
KnowledgePool, the UK market leader in managed learning, has been named as one of the Top 20 companies in the global training outsourcing industry, for the second year running, by the web-based knowledge community TrainingOutsourcing.com.
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Xyleme Unveils Xyleme LCMS 3.2
Xyleme
| Boulder, CO
| 30-Jun-2008.
Fully integrated, highly scalable and truly collaborative LCMS for Reusability 2.0
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Hewden's award winning training program LearningGuide: more efficiency and lower cost of ownership
LearningGuide Solutions
| Milton Keynes, UK
| 30-Jun-2008.
"One of the main benefits of LearningGuide is that it is a low maintenance support platform, which allows control of published information and provides users with a one-stop-shop for policy and procedural information. It facilitates the increase of productivity, and is particularly useful to individuals who are new to the Movex system", says Darren Owen, Training and LearningGuide Manager of Hewden Stuart PLC, the UK's largest and most diverse specialist in equipment rental in the construction industry.
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Institute of IT Training launches new Innovation category for IT Training Awards
Institute of IT Training
| 27-Jun-2008.
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce the launch of a new category at the IT Training Awards 2009; The Innovation in Training Services Award.
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Elearnity provides guide to managing Rapid e-learning
Elearnity
| Cirencester, UK
| 25-Jun-2008.
Elearnity, Europe's leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced its latest research on the different approaches and considerations to managing Rapid e-learning.
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BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice
BTL
| Shipley, United Kingdom
| 25-Jun-2008.
- An Essential Course for Authors Facing the Challenge of Creating e-Assessments - BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of e-Assessment solutions, has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of highly experienced educational consultants with extensive experience in e-Assessments, to launch the 'e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course'.
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BTL commits to ITIL: best practices in the provision of IT services
BTL
| Shipley, United Kingdom
| 24-Jun-2008.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK e-Assessment development and delivery company, announced today that all of its senior management and the majority of its Project Management, Software Development and IT/Technical Support teams are now ITIL qualified. This further enhances the commitment previously made by BTL to ensure all Project Managers and other relevant members of staff are PRINCE2 qualified.
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Pearson VUE extends partnership with TDA
Pearson VUE
| London
| 23-Jun-2008.
Pearson VUE is helping to raise England's teaching standards through its delivery of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) skills tests for the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). This new three-year partnership will see the specialist provider of Computer Based Testing (CBT) solutions, delivering electronic tests to over 35,000 trainee teachers each year, helping the Government ensure greater measurability and performance in the profession.
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SQA Releases White Paper on Sustainable Development of e-Assessment
BTL
| Shipley, United Kingdom
| 23-Jun-2008.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), a prominent BTL Group Ltd customer, has released a white paper, Innovating Assessment in Scotland, outlining a sustainable model of e-Assessment development utilising BTL's state-of-the-art authoring tool, ContentProducer.
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TPS motivational speaker, Alan Chambers, returns to UK
The Performance Solution
| 21-Jun-2008.
Alan Chambers a renowned motivational speaker and leader of the first British team to walk unsupported to the North Pole is set to return to the UK.
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IT Training Award winners join speaker line-up at Training 2008
Institute of IT Training
| 20-Jun-2008.
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce that winners of the IT Training Awards 2008 are amongst the speakers at their annual conference and exhibition, Training 2008.
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Seven NHS Trusts Collaborate on E-learning for Mental Health with REDTRAY
REDTRAY Group
| London, UK
| 19-Jun-2008.
In a unique collaboration, seven NHS Trusts across the South East of England have developed new e-learning programmes based on the specific needs of Mental Health care. With content designed by blended learning specialists REDTRAY, the e-learning courses will enable each participating trust to provide training in key areas of healthcare.
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Collaboration Between InfoBasis and Salary.com's ITG Competency Group Boosts Clients' Capability Management
InfoBasis
| London
| 19-Jun-2008.
Leading competency management software provider partners with leading competency content and services vendor to support competency-driven human capital management and drive maximum customer value.
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New Series of JO Exam Revision Workshops to Improve Financial Services Exam Success
Intellego
| London, UK
| 19-Jun-2008.
The Professional Development Partnership Ltd (PDPL), recently acquired by Intellego and one of the leading providers of training in the financial services industry in the UK, is running a new range of open J0 (Diploma in Financial Planning from the Chartered Insurance Institute) exam revision workshops for financial services professionals to compliment those run in house to larger firms.
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Celebrating excellence and achievement - IMI Awards outstanding achievers are a credit to the industry
Institute of the Motor Industry
| 18-Jun-2008.
From almost 50,000 students registered on qualifications awarded by IMI Awards, the qualifications subsidiary of the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), 10 were short-listed as finalists for the 2008 IMI Awards Outstanding Achievers, held at the IMI in the presence of its Patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
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HealthELearning.net and Video Arts Add a Humourous Touch to Health Sector Training
Course Source
| UK
| 18-Jun-2008.
Course-Source has just released twenty-two new Video Arts self-study interactive courses to its expanding online catalogue for the Health Sector via its HealthELearning.net website. The new courses cover a large range of subject areas from management and communication skills to interviewing techniques and diversity, and featuring top actors such as Ricky Gervais, James Nesbit and Kris Marshall. Significantly, this new development means Video Arts courses are now available to the Health Sector online, rather than only on DVD.
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Business Analysis Comes of Age
Matchett
| London, UK
| 18-Jun-2008.
Matchett, one of the world's most trusted learning partners and AssistKD, the market leader in business analysis and systems development training and consultancy, launched the pioneering Business Analysis Maturity Model (BAMM) to a select audience of industry professionals at the futuristic Media centre at Lord's Cricket Ground.
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e2train reveals outstanding customer satisfaction scores at meeting of Kallidus User Group
e2train
| Cirencester, UK
| 18-Jun-2008.
e2train, the UK's leading supplier of learning and performance technologies, announces the outstanding results of its annual customer survey. Unveiled at the recent meeting of the Kallidus User Group, the survey reveals high levels of satisfaction amongst its customers, in particular for its support and implementation services.
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Global eLearning Standards Group Taps OutStart's Alonso to Speak About Linking Learning to Virtual Worlds
OutStart
| Boston
| 17-Jun-2008.
OutStart Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Alonso will speak to an international audience of training professionals about integrating virtual world simulations and learning content on June 19, 2008, in Hamburg, Germany.
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Cornerstone OnDemand introduces innovations in succession and certification management with Spring 2008 release
Cornerstone OnDemand
| London, UK; Paris, France, & Munich, Germany
| 17-Jun-2008.
Cornerstone OnDemand's Spring 2008 release offers strategic talent pooling, enhanced certification management for better compliance, and self-service tools to empower organisations to engage their workforce.
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RapideL-i now enables complete design flexibility for eLearning Developers
Brainvisa
| 17-Jun-2008.
RapideL-i, the internet-based rapid e-learning tool innovated by Brainvisa has recently added a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) template for complete design flexibility.
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Intellego acquisition of Zenosis
Intellego
| London, UK
| 16-Jun-2008.
As a part of a continuing strategy to further expand its business and strengthen the expertise and solutions it supplies to its clients across the pharmaceutical, life science and medical sectors, Intellego is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Zenosis, a publisher of compliance and regulatory affairs e-learning courseware for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry.
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KnowledgePool Appoints Learning Consultancy Director
KnowledgePool
| Bracknell, UK
| 16-Jun-2008.
KnowledgePool, the managed learning services company, has enhanced its strategic consultancy and service delivery capability with the appointment of Al Bird to the newly-created role of Learning Consultancy Director.
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Raytheon launches UK apprenticeship programme to address skills shortage in automotive industry
Raytheon Professional Services
| RUESSELSHEIM, Germany
| 13-Jun-2008.
Raytheon Professional Services (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has launched an apprenticeship programme to develop future generations of automotive technicians and after-sales personnel in the United Kingdom.
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Economic climate potentially beneficial to independent trainers
TrainerBase
| 13-Jun-2008.
The current economic climate, brought on by the credit crunch is potentially a benefit for independent trainers; comments TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners.
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UK's leading e-learning company Epic acquired by Andrew Brode
Epic
| Brighton, UK
| 13-Jun-2008.
Epic, the UK's market leading e-learning company, has been acquired by a private investor with extensive corporate and organisational learning and development interests. On 12 June 2008 Huveaux plc sold Brighton based Epic to Andrew Brode.
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QA-IQ appoints new CEO to lead future growth: William Macpherson joins UK's leading learning company
QA-IQ
| 12-Jun-2008.
The UK's leading learning company, QA-IQ, has broadened its management team by appointing a new Chief Executive to lead the company and develop future opportunities for growth. William Macpherson joined QA-IQ on 9 June 2008.
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Elicitus Authoring Tool Announces New Version
Trendy Looking Version 7.0 Adds Voiceover Recording, Enhances User Experience
Harbinger Knowledge Products
| 12-Jun-2008.
Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced the release of Version 7.0 of Elicitus, its award-winning rapid eLearning authoring tool. The highlights of this release are sound recorder and enhanced user experience. This release also boasts of a completely new trendy look.
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