The New Learner

Experienced eLearning Company, Knowledge Anywhere Inc., Announces Strategic Acquisition and Merger

Sarah Romppanen — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:05:35 +0000

Strategic move combines the talent and expertise of all companies involved, thus enabling an expanded presence in healthcare informatics and traditional eLearning content development and delivery

Bellevue, WA –Today, Knowledge Anywhere Inc., Labelle Strategic Resources and Talon IP Communications of NC, LLC announced a strategic acquisition and merger. The companies will operate under the Knowledge Anywhere, Inc. name. The combined companies will continue to provide eLearning course development, software as a service solutions (SAAS), mobile platform applications and strategic resource placement for healthcare EMR customization and integration including prescriptive intelligent patient education.

Knowledge Anywhere will be managed by: Charlie Gillette, founder and President of Knowledge Anywhere, Mike Linville, Founder and President of Talon IP Communications, and Bob Kline, VP of Operations for Labelle Strategic Resources, Inc. The company will maintain corporate headquarters in Bellevue, WA and regional offices in Winston-Salem, NC and Overland Park KS with sales resources strategically placed nationwide.
“The combination is a natural fit,” says Linville. “Each company is in the technology/knowledge business and can capitalize on the technologies and expertise of the combined entities. On-demand knowledge solutions and customization to meet customer need while providing expert integration services is what we do, period.”
The companies’ combined expertise, exceptional technologies, and national footprint position the company for exceptional growth in the markets they serve.

Charlie Gillette states, “This is a unique opportunity, as the combination of the three talented team members will provide additional value to current customers and new customers. The merger will allow us to extend our technology platform and broaden our technical resources so the combined organization can extend our leadership.”

Knowledge Anywhere, as an industry leader, will now be able to deliver technology solutions to many additional vertical markets including Healthcare. They have positioned themselves to take advantage of the growing demand for technologies that fit the meaningful use criteria as set forth by the US Department of Health and Human Services specifically surrounding patient communication and chronic illness education including tracking of compliance and outcomes.

“The merger and acquisition of Talon IP Communications and LaBelle Strategic Resources,” says Kline, “places Knowledge Anywhere in a unique position to offer three completely separate, but very complimentary, Healthcare IT offerings. Leveraging each entity’s individual strengths provides for a more broad and robust portfolio along the HIT service continuum.”

According to Ambient Insight’s 2010-2015 US Corporate Market Forecast for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services, eLearning will see a growth rate in healthcare of 18.1% compared to .9% of an aggregate growth rate of other verticals. According to Healthcare IT News, healthcare IT spending will grow 25% from 2012 to 2014 based on a new study by global research firm RNCOS. They also reported Physicians use mobile health applications to educate patients, collect data remotely, communicate with distant workers, trace disease outbreaks, and aid in diagnosis and treatment is becoming ever more important in the delivery of care.

About Knowledge Anywhere, Inc.:
Knowledge Anywhere creates Knowledge Solutions for business. The company pioneered the field of custom, results-driven Knowledge Solutions that helps companies fix their Knowledge Gaps and improve performance. We partner with our clients to tailor solutions that address their unique business challenges. We specialize in Custom Knowledge Gap Solutions, Anywhere, anytime Learning, Custom creative Content, Interactive, Individual Experiences, Flexible Integrated Technology and custom real time reporting.

About Labelle Strategic Resources:
LaBelle Strategic Resources is a Healthcare Information Technology company specializing in providing expertise in the areas of: Project Management, Implementation, Optimization, Integration, Custom Reporting, Training, System Application customization, Support and Helpdesk Services, Staff Augmentation and resource placement for the Epic, Cerner, McKesson, IDX and Siemens EMR vendor solutions

About Talon IP Communications:
Talon for Healthcare is a prescriptive and interactive e-health solution that allows physicians to deliver health education and clinical information to patients securely via email and over the web. Talon´s extensive library of health videos focus on chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension, asthma) and encouraging healthier lifestyle choices (stress management, nutrition and exercise). Patients can also receive pre– and post–appointment, procedure, medication and discharge instructions where it can most effectively be viewed and retained in their homes and on their own time. Talon is also designed to assess a patient´s level of comprehension and compliance, reinforce learning and to collect data that may be used for evidence-based medical decision making, tracking clinical outcomes and reporting quality measures.

For more information, please visit www.Knowledgeanywhere.com

The Critical Elements of Implementing Learning and Training Programs

Charlie Gillette — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:25:47 +0000

Kevin Costner was told in Field of Dreams, “build it and they will come”. This mindset may work for an Iowa corn farmer and a baseball team, but it will NOT work for Learning and Training Programs. As much as we would like a magic voice to tell us how to successfully implement an online learning program, it is extremely likely that it will not happen.

For the past 13 years, Knowledge Anywhere has witnessed or supported hundreds of organizations deploy learning programs. We have witnessed the whole spectrum of success. We have seen learning initiatives flop as the “build it and they will come” model was followed and we have seen fast starts with usage dropping off after a couple months, but we have also experienced perfect implementation that has resulted in the learning programs exceeding the business objectives. From all these experiences, we established the elements of the best demonstrated practices to ensure the success of your training and education programs.

To successfully obtain the short term traction and long term results you desire from an online learning program, these are the elements that will prove paramount to your success:

Effective Communication

• Realize that if the target audience does not know about the training, they will not participate, and the desired results will not be realized. (simple, but the basic concept is sometimes lost).
• Over communicate the online learning with references on related web sites, newsletters, email campaigns, etc.
• Everyone who interacts with the target audience should be aware of the program (i.e. Field Sales, Inside Sales, and Call Center teams).
• Use physical media to highlight the availability of training (i.e. getting started cards, posters, mouse pads, table tents in conference rooms etc.)

Setting Goals

• Have obtainable and measurable goals for the online learning center (i.e. 1,000 new users by March 25; 5,000 users by April 20, and 3,000 completed courses by July 20).
• Measure and communicate progress on a monthly basis.

Access and Ease of Use

• Create easy access to the training (minimize barriers).
• Enable easy visibility for learners to see to the courses they need to take as well as completed courses.

Substantial Content

• The learning site needs to have relevant and engaging content.
• A new course or updated content should be available on a regular basis. Take this opportunity to communicate the additional material to all learners.

Secondary Support

• Connect the online training with in-person training, national meetings, and webinars.
• Obtain senior leadership support and communicate results.

Incentivize and Promote Engagement

• Highlight participation success.
• Think about a fun contest to jump start the program.
• Highlight performance success based upon learning participation.
• Respond immediately to feedback or suggestions.

Last but certainly not least, an extremely important part of this whole process is having great help and guidance along the way. Companies like Knowledge Anywhere have the skills and experience to make your learning program the best it can be, but only you can make sure that it really takes hold and makes a difference in your company. It is critical you partner with a firm that is not only concerned about selling you an LMS or building courses, but also shares your interest in ensuring the learning system has the business impact you require.

Trainingwreck

Dan Pontefract — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:47:07 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by the term engagement. It can mean so many things. It can also be interpreted in so many different ways too. I’ve always (personally) felt that an engaged employee will be far more productive than a disengaged employee. In return, there is a corollary to business or financial results, customer satisfaction, etc.

Know, that’s not exactly Nobel Prize winning commentary, is it.
But for many, it is.

First off, how does one actually describe an engaged organization? What is an engaged employee?

Let’s start with what it’s not.

Buzz word bingo.

Organizations that sound the trumpet of annual, quarterly or weekly engagement gimmicks are somewhere between daft and imbecilic. You may trick me with cotton candy once, but I’m eventually going to figure out it’s only made of sugar and fancy food colouring.

Richard Axelrod refers to it as plug ‘n play activities.

Successful employee-engagement practice is not about plugging in a set of tools and techniques that you just read about in some hotshot guru’s latest book—and then expecting engaged employees to magically appear.

I couldn’t agree more, but to many, employee engagement seems unnecessary and even nebulous.
Why is that?

In my opinion, engagement needs to be taken very seriously in an organization. Trying to fake out your employees with gimmicks may in fact create a disengaged workforce. Furthermore, not thinking about engagement in terms of an opportunity to increase overall organizational productivity is naïve if not foolish.

Want proof?

Yes, yes you do.

In what I would refer to as landmark research this past May 2011, Azka Ghafoor, Tahir Masood Qureshi, M. Aslam Khan and Syed Tahir Hijazi from the University of Central Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan published “Transformational leadership, employee engagement and performance: Mediating effect of psychological ownership“.

They sought to prove that an employee is engaged when they demonstrate what they refer to as “psychological ownership”. More specifically, when backed by transformational leadership (and leaders), employees will thrive on the basis of “self-identity, belongingness, self-efficacy and responsible attitude”.

What they proved was astounding:

Employee engagement makes employees more accountable and enhances the sense of belongingness. Employee engagement practiced under transformational leadership develops the positivity in behavior that leads to trust and satisfaction that enhances sense of belongingness. The sense of ownership is supported by the perception of citizenship of employees. Once employees feel themselves as part of the organization their self-identity with organization improves.

In summary, when an employee feels part of something, when there is unequivocal trust in the workplace and when backed by an environment that is positive and coupled by inclusive leadership, that employee will become engaged.

Want more?

“This identity and association with the organization develops commitment in employees and their performance increases.
That’s right. These researchers proved that an engaged employee is committed to the cause and with commitment comes an increase in performance.

So to recap, this isn’t rocket science. And yes, I know, it’s but one piece of research.

There is no need, however, to introduce buzz word bingo or “plug ‘n play” options to improve engagement and performance in your organization.

It’s not cotton candy.

Common sense is a good start.

Next time, I’ll share my specific thoughts on some must-have components to achieve the engaged (and therefore productive) organization.

Thereafter, I’ll share some thoughts on the link between customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

Everyone now… “Bingo”.

Ivy Tech launches new corporate college

Dan Blau — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:09:48 +0000

INDIANAPOLIS — Ivy Tech Community College has announced plans to launch a new Corporate College to provide expanded business solutions for companies looking to provide training for their employees. The Ivy Tech Corporate College will focus on developing, introducing and delivering statewide training, certifications and skills-improvement courses that business leaders have survey-highlighted as essential to their sustainability and profitability. From the factory floor to the boardroom, Ivy Tech will provide courses, training systems and creative resources to help advance Hoosier businesses to new levels of success nationally and worldwide.

Ivy Tech President Thomas J. Snyder introduces the new Corporate College initiative as another chapter to his legacy as a pioneer corporate education advocate with 40+ years of prior engineering, business and corporate leadership experience at General Motors and as President and CEO of Remy International, Inc., one of Indiana’s leading global suppliers of electrical and drive components to automotive, mass transit, heavy-duty and off-road/construction vehicle manufacturers.

“After doing our research that included a survey of businesses throughout the state it is clear that Indiana needs a Corporate College,” Snyder said. “We are currently providing customer, client-driven training to about 2,000 businesses and more than 20,000 employees each year, but the accelerated rate of change in the business world and global competitive pressures on Indiana employers, requires a corresponding statewide response to keep Indiana’s workforce the best trained in the market. The Community College has an opportunity and responsibility to greatly expand its services to businesses and corporations of the state and beyond, where appropriate, and to create a business model for the sale and delivery of these training services.”

Ivy Tech is the state’s largest workforce training operation utilizing its statewide community college structure to partner with companies throughout Indiana. For the past 30 years the College has provided training services to local employers through its division of Workforce and Economic Development and its predecessor Business and Industry Training. The College and Indiana’s employers have achieved much success through their combined efforts to match training opportunities with the employer needs. The new Ivy Tech Corporate College model will expand the college’s role in workforce training and offer new opportunities for executives, middle managers and front line staff members.

The College has named Vice President for Program Analysis and Engagement Jeffrey A. Terp as the Interim Corporate College President. Terp has been with Ivy Tech for the past seven years. Before joining Ivy Tech, Jeff was the President of The Milhous Group, LLC a consulting firm specializing in public affairs, crisis management, development, market integration, public relations, and strategic planning. The College will perform a national search to find a full-time President in the coming months.

“I am excited about this new opportunity to help Indiana businesses advance their workforce training, performance and marketplace excellence. Our focus on customized training will help us continue to change lives and make Indiana great in the corporate world, just as we have with our college students and graduates,” said Terp.

The Ivy Tech Corporate College will build greater flexibility into the college’s training courses, so that they will fit companies’ unique situations, job skill requirements or company culture with basic to executive-level options, designed to accelerate workforce excellence and improve bottom lines. Ivy Tech recently commissioned Walker Research to survey Indiana businesses and the results of that survey showed a need for a renewed focus on skill upgrades, certifications and advanced training modules.

“Ivy Tech, as the statewide community college, is best positioned to provide the training companies need to develop better workforces and improve profits. We are the fuel for the state’s economic development engine and can help drive success and growth in our state,” noted Snyder. “Knowing that the evidence of effective training is improved employee and business performance, we are committed to making those our goals when launching the Ivy Tech Corporate College training courses and services.”

Increase Channel Effectiveness through Partner Certifications and Trainings

Dan Blau — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:36:13 +0000

REDMOND, WA – Channel Services Group (CSG) and Knowledge Anywhere have partnered to develop a strategic offering to increase vendors’ revenue stream through effective, easy-to-manage training and certification programs. This offering helps accelerate the adoption of certifications and trainings, ensuring partners are fully equipped to successfully up-sell and cross-sell vendor products. Having displayed the necessary effort to succeed, partners that earn several certifications generally warrant more attention from vendors. The combination of CSG’s channel partner expertise coupled with the e-learning capabilities of Knowledge Anywhere provides vendors with a higher degree of revenue success within their channels.

CSG’s channel focused Business Development Managers (BDMs), possess the knowledge and experience to assess areas of improvement for partners and identify vendor resources that can be utilized to address these problem areas. Using Knowledge Anywhere’s innovative certification and training portal technology provides vendors with straightforward, easy-to-use systems for designing and executing effective trainings. Pairing Knowledge Anywhere’s impressive e-learning tools with CSG’s extensive understanding of channel function and partner needs brings vendors the perfect resource to increase their business through certifications and trainings.

“In order to prepare partners to effectively drive channel revenue, it is often necessary for vendors to provide one-on-one support to guide and assist partners to increase their overall skill-set,” said Tina Lauzon, CSG VP of Marketing and Alliances. “Our integrated efforts enable vendors to easily address the challenges partners face regarding certifications and trainings so they can equip partners to reach the revenue goals anticipated by the vendor.”

Project managers and channel strategists frequently test, analyze and update the program to ensure success. Constantly assessing the program provides CSG’s BDMs with the data necessary to make beneficial adjustments and modifications, which result in educated, inspired partners that possess the knowledge to sell new products effectively.

ABOUT CHANNEL SERVICES GROUP (CSG)

Channel Services Group (CSG) is the leader in channel partner marketing and sales solutions, with expertise and precision in indirect sales channels and strategies for technology based companies. CSG’s highly agile services and SaaS software empower enterprises and their indirect selling partners to gain channel efficiency, performance and predictability with results in increased sales revenue. For more information on CSG, visit our Web site at www.csgchannels.com.

ABOUT KNOWLEDGE ANYWHERE

Founded in 1998, Knowledge Anywhere provides technology-based learning and performance solutions to corporations around the globe. They deploy products and services to educate large numbers of employees, customers, and channel partners to directly impact performance. For additional information on Knowledge Anywhere, visit their website at www.knowledgeanywhere.com.

SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership Extends Training for Home Care Aides with Online Learning System

Dan Blau — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:01:34 +0000

The SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership launched their online training initiative for Home Care Aides this month. These online courses complement the Training Partnership’s existing and well-regarded classroom courses, allowing the organization to reach a large, diverse audience with information on topics ranging from blood-borne pathogens to nutritious cooking.

Home Care Aides, who are professional workers who work in the home, can take the courses as many times as they like, from any computer. Mary Margaret Callahan, Director of Research and Development for the Training Partnership, said of the new initiative, “Online learning provides the flexibility that perfectly suits our learners and meets our training goals. We are thrilled we accomplished these goals with our first set of online continuing education courses and plan on launching more soon.”

One Home Care Aide said the training has met an important need. “It has always been very difficult for me to take training,” she said. “I work two jobs with irregular schedules and have my own family to take care of on top of that. The online training is available to me any time, and that’s so helpful to me.”

The courses were developed with Seattle-based e-learning solutions provider Knowledge Anywhere, Inc.

The SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership, as part of the SEIU Healthcare NW Benefits, and Knowledge Anywhere both strive to deliver high-quality products to their industries and are both located in the Pacific Northwest, so there was a natural fit between the two organizations.

“We know that Knowledge Anywhere training has been helpful to many people,” said Charlie Gillette, CEO of Knowledge Anywhere. “But it is especially gratifying to us to support Home Care Aides, who work so hard at such an important job.”

With over 40,000 home care aides throughout the state of Washington, the Training Partnership (http://www.myseiubenefits.org) is the ideal partner for providing training and benefits to home care workers.

About the SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership
SEIU Healthcare NW Benefits – through the Training Partnership and Health Benefits Trust – provides training and health care benefits to home care aides across Washington state. These professionals provide life-sustaining support to seniors and people with disabilities. Through our innovative training and affordable health plans, SEIU Healthcare NW Benefits is helping transform the long-term care profession.

About Knowledge Anywhere
Founded in 1998, Knowledge Anywhere, Inc., (http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com) is an award-winning company that has emerged as a leader in the specialized arena of building technology-based learning solutions and performance support systems that provide tangible results. The company uses innovative technology to offer a broad base of products and services, including custom and mobile content development, and virtual classrooms.

Successful Onboarding keeps Organizations on right track and helps avoid drifting from goals

Dan Blau — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:29:51 +0000

Easing new hires into their positions as quickly and efficiently as possible so they are comfortable in their job responsibilities is an important business practice that organizations can not afford to ignore. A manager can easily assume successful on-boarding is being accomplished, but employees can fall through the cracks without an appropriate process in place that is properly executed. While on-boarding programs are becoming more common in the workplace, companies need to implement a standard practice for the programs to reach their full potential. If employees can sense when beginning a new position that the company cares about them and wants them to succeed, the organization reaps the benefits through improved job performance. Demonstrations of appreciation and showing employees how they add value to the organization can give them their purpose in the company, and can directly attribute to employee loyalty for years after the transition.

In addition to clarifying the new employee’s roles and goals, it is important to communicate the overall company goals, philosophy, and culture in a consistent manner. In the past this has been accomplished with a standard company manual, however this practice is now outdated, boring, uninteresting and not interactive. This method also does not guarantee that the material will ever reach the new hire. Online training and Elearning solutions provide an intriguing an interactive way to introduce new employees to their job positions and the company as a whole. Elearning also gives managers the ability to track an employee’s movement through the material and how much information was retained by including knowledge checks and quizzes. Successful on-boarding will also involve gaining feedback from new hires to better understand where they are coming from and receive their opinions on the employee transition. Gaining participation through these channels is a great measure of performance and success.

Managers may want to see a comparison of the ROI for the Elearning On-boarding course compared with the standard classroom training and training manual. A better measure of ROI can be calculated by comparing the development cost of the Elearning with a measurement of increased productivity or contribution to the company bottom-line after the On-boarding process is complete. An Elearning program is a cost-effective on-boarding tool that not only can provide employees with a consistent way to get important information as they start their new positions, but can also provide managers with information about the employee and confirmation the employee has received and understands company rules and culture. In these unsure economic times, companies can’t afford to take the risk that employees are unprepared for new positions nor can they afford the costs associated with high turnover. Successful organizations will make sure every employee is on-boarded in a systematic and dynamic way through trackable Elearning programs.

4A’s Launches “Digital Landscape” Online Training Program to Help Agencies Keep Pace With Rapidly Changing Digital Communications

Charlie Gillette — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:44:34 +0000

The Digital Landscape, a comprehensive online training program designed to help advertising and media agencies keep pace with the ever-changing tools, terminology and applications of digital communications is being launched today by the 4A’s.

Aimed at beginners as well as veterans across a full spectrum of industry disciplines, this unique e-learning program will help 4A’s agency members integrate digital thinking into the work they do for clients.

“Our goal is to consistently provide industry-leading programs that help our members make more informed marketing decisions,” stated Nancy Hill, President-CEO of the 4A’s. “The Digital Landscape is an excellent example of how we are providing the necessary tools to meet the challenges brought on by the rapidly growing digital environment.”

The Digital Landscape program is a collaborative effort of more than 50 content authors and editors from GroupM agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, Outrider, Catalyst, M80 and Joule.

“More than 2,000 of our people from across all disciplines have benefited from this digital training program,” said GroupM Interaction Chief Operating Officer John Montgomery, one of the program’s chief architects. “It has proved to be an invaluable integration tool that has advanced digital knowledge across our agencies. I can only imagine it will offer the same benefits to any 4A’s members who choose to take advantage of it.”

Divided into 13 modules, program content covers the entire digital arena including ad serving, digital media planning and buying, search, analytics, and emerging media.

The interactive program, with 24/7 access from any location with Internet connection, features avatars who guide users through each module that takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, followed by knowledge tests at the end of each session to help users monitor progress throughout the program. It also features a Digital Marketing Glossary of over 500 terms and a comprehensive FAQ section.

In order to meet the rapid changes in the digital media world and remain relevant, the program has been designed to allow for regular updates. Extensive use of flash, rich media and video, makes the content fun and engaging.

This custom built on-demand program is supported by Knowledge Anywhere, a leader in the distance learning field.
About the 4A’s
The American Association of Advertising Agencies is the national trade association of the advertising agency business. The 1,196 member agency offices it serves in the U.S. employ 65,000 people, offer a wide range of marketing communications services, and place 80 percent of all national advertising. The management-oriented association helps its members build their businesses, and acts as the industry’s spokesman with government, media, and the public sector. For more information, visit our Web site at www.aaaa.org.

Biotix Inc. Launches Two Online Training Courses for its Neptune and Biotix Brands

Dan Blau — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:58:10 +0000

SAN DIEGO, CA – Biotix, Inc., a manufacturer of high-quality life science consumables, will launch their online training initiative for their dealer partners this month. These two training courses were developed to support dealers of the Neptune and Biotix brand products and all of their sales professionals by providing the information they need to know to effectively sell the right products to the appropriate customers.

“As a sales representative, it is nice to have access to a training resource that’s not just another binder, but an interactive, engaging online learning tool,” said one sales professional when reviewing the newly launched system called eXpert 2.0. The courses can be taken as many times as the user likes, from any computer, at any time. The sales representative can also go back and take the training again in preparation to an upcoming customer meeting. Quizzes are included for users to ensure that the material is retained. The course also has a tracking feature that enables sales managers to see how well their reps are performing by viewing their quiz scores and how many attempts each user needed.

Dave Barth, the President of Biotix Inc., said of the new initiative, “We are extremely happy with the innovative value these courses will bring to our dealer partners around the world. This approach to training has been highly successful in other industries outside of the Life Sciences market. We are confident that they will recognize this newly added value immediately with increased sales and customer satisfaction.” The courses were developed with Seattle-based e-learning solutions provider Knowledge Anywhere, Inc. Biotix Inc. and Knowledge Anywhere both pride themselves on delivering high-quality products to their industries and stakeholders so the partnership was a natural fit between the two organizations.

With extensive experience in OEM manufacturing and comprehensive quality processes, Biotix Inc. (http://www.biotixholdings.com) is the ideal partner for the design of unique and distinctive product lines to match your stringent life science industry and market distribution requirements.

Founded in 1998, Knowledge Anywhere, Inc., (http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com) is an award-winning company that has emerged as a leader in the specialized arena of building technology-based learning solutions and performance support systems that provide tangible results. The company uses innovative technology to offer a broad base of products and services, including custom and mobile content development, and virtual classrooms.

Knowledge Anywhere Wins Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award

Elizabeth Linarelli — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:02:43 +0000

BELLEVUE, WA – Knowledge Anywhere, a leader in innovative online learning solutions, won a valued Brandon Hall Bronze award for technology excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Content Management Technology category. The award was given for Knowledge Anywhere’s Interactive Training Flipbook, an engaging online learning tool for managing and deploying corporate training through custom course modules.

“This award represents what Knowledge Anywhere was intended for, to bring information and training to our clients in an effective and efficient manner while remaining focused on high quality learning” said Knowledge Anywhere CEO Charlie Gillette. Knowledge Anywhere’s Interactive Training Flipbook was developed to meet the needs of a variety of clients with many features built in, such as employee progress tracking. These features allow managers to monitor their employees’ status in the training program and how well they are performing.

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Research, one of the leading research firms in training and development. The Learning Technology Awards program showcases innovations in the products in the marketplace for creating and managing learning, talent, and performance.

Founded in 1998, Knowledge Anywhere, Inc. (http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com) is an award-winning company that has emerged as a leader in the specialized arena of building technology-based learning solutions and performance support systems that provide tangible results. The company uses innovative technology to offer a broad base of products and services, including custom and mobile content development, and virtual classrooms. Its clients use its solutions to facilitate the delivery of proprietary knowledge, employee instruction and product training to dispersed audiences via the Web.

Brandon Hall, Ph.D. is the CEO of Brandon Hall Research and author of the ground-breaking “Web-Based Training Cookbook.” Since 1992, Brandon Hall Research (www.brandon-hall.com) has been providing independent research reports and expert advice on using technology in learning. Brandon Hall Research conducts Awards programs each year to recognize the best in innovative learning.