BizLibrary Announced as Finalist for the Best of Elearning! 2012 Awards in Three Categories

Aug. 6, 2012 - PRLog -- BizLibrary is a finalist in the Best of Elearning! 2012 Awards in three categories – Best Learning Management System (SaaS), Best Soft Skills Content and Best Sales Training. Winners for each category will be revealed at the upcoming Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo on September 26, 2012. BizLibrary won for Best LMS (SaaS) and Best Soft Skills in the Best of Elearning! 2011 Awards.

“The Best of Elearning! Awards program formalizes the informal “word-of-mouth” referrals practiced in our industry. According to our survey, 85 percent of professionals have personally recommended a learning solution to a colleague over the past 12 months. And 61 percent agreed that award recognition impacted their buying decision,” cites Catherine Upton, group publisher of the Elearning! Media Group.

Dean Pichee, President and Founder of BizLibrary said, “This is a great honor to be nominated two years in a row. We were thrilled to win Best LMS (SaaS) and Best Soft Skills Content in last year’s competition. This year, we are the only finalist nominated in both the technology and content categories, and that’s amazing. We’ve believed for years that our Learning Management System is one of the best learning technology solutions on the market for small and mid-sized organizations. It’s just a great feeling to realize that our clients and prospects voted for us in the top category – Best Learning Management System - in the awards sponsored by Elearning! Media Group. We’re also very happy to have our content collection recognized in two categories. Our Streaming Video Library won for Best Soft Skills last year, and it’s a finalist again this year. We are also quite pleased to be a finalist in the Sales Training category, too.”

Pichee continued, “What makes this recognition even more meaningful is the knowledge that in the very crowded learning management system market, we are being named one of the top six providers by the readers of Elearning! – one of the top publications in the industry. To make the whole thing even more wonderful for BizLibrary is to look at the other nominees for the Best Learning Management System. Of the top six, we are the only provider that offers its complete solution to the small and mid-sized market. We understand why some vendors in the space offer a slimmed down solution to smaller companies, but we’ve never done that”

Elearning! Media Group also named BizLibrary a finalist in the Best Soft Skills Content category for BizLibrary’s streaming video collection for the second year in a row – the only provider to be named in both 2011 and 2012. BizLibrary won the category in 2011.

“We are very happy that Elearning! readers nominated us in the Best Soft Skills Content category. There are so many excellent content providers in the market, it’s gratifying to be the only provider named a finalist in both 2011 and 2012.  Our streaming video collection really places us at the forefront of the trend we see in the market towards training content that is short, highly targeted and available on demand – just like the way people look for video at YouTube. And we’ve grown this collection since last year. We now have over 1,400 titles, and we add more each month. It really is a one-of-a-kind solution, and we are delighted to see that our ongoing emphasis on the quality of these programs paid off in the eyes of our clients and the market,” commented Pichee.

BizLibrary is also a finalist in the Best Sales Content category for the first time. “This recognition is a testament to the quality of our Streaming Video collection. We aggregate the best titles from the best producers in the industry into one, comprehensive collection of over 1,400 titles. The fact that so many clients use us for their sales training more than justifies the work and effort that have gone into building this great collection of training content,” continued Pichee.

“We are so happy to be named a finalist in three categories. We would also like to extend our congratulations to our partners who were likewise nominated, specifically SkillSoft, one of our e-learning content partners, EJ4, a contributor to our Streaming Video Library, and Trivantis, our authoring tool partner. It’s really great to know that small and mid-sized organizations can come to BizLibrary, and take advantage of these partnerships and our ability to fully integrate these excellent solutions into a single, comprehensive package of content bundled with technology. We were honored to be a double winner in Best of Elearning! 2011 Awards. Now we are the only finalist in both the LMS and content categories in 2012 with three nominations. It’s a great honor for BizLibrary."

The Voting

Readers, practitioners and community members nominated and voted for products and solutions via Elearning! Media Group’s online ballot. This year’s ballot featured two new expanded mobile categories: Best Mobile Application and Best Mobile Authoring Tool. They joined last year’s addition of Best Open Source Solution. All ballots were cast between May 15 and August 1, 2012. Each ballot was reviewed and validated by the editorial team. All vendor ballots were voided.

Each finalist is honored for excellence and the top vote-getter in each category is named the winner. “Every finalist is a winner in the Best of Elearning! Awards. Given the high volume of votes and the number of nominated products, every one of these solution providers should be proud to be honored for excellence,” concludes Catherine Upton, Group Publisher, Elearning! Media Group.

Award Winners Announcement
The winners will be named at the Best of Elearning! Awards Luncheon held at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo (ELCE) on September 26, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, CA. The conference will also feature Best of Elearning! sessions showcasing winning solutions to prospective buyers. To learn more about ELCE and the awards program, visit: http://www.elceshow.com.

About Elearning! Media Group
Elearning! Media Group is owned by B2B Media Group LLC. Elearning! Media Group consists of eleven media products including: Elearning! Magazine, Government Elearning! Magazine, eMagazines, e-mail newsletters, Alerts, web sites, Enterprise Learning! Summit and Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo. Elearning! Media Group serves the $160 billion enterprise learning market. In combination, these brands reach over 2 million executives, practitioners and professionals all evaluating or implementing enterprise learning and workplace technologies across their organizations each year.

About Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo
In its fifth year, Enterprise Learning! Events bring onsite and online audiences together to learn, network and share. Mark your calendar for Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo, the exclusive learning and workplace technology marketplace, September 25-27th, 2012 Irvine, CA. Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo hosts the Best of Elearning! Awards Luncheon and Learning! 100 Award winners. The Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo Virtual edition is slated for November 8th, 2012. For more information about the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo visit http://www.elceshow.com