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Achievers Named As Finalist in Seven 2012 Stevie? Awards for Sales & Customer Service

San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

Achievers, the leader in employee rewards and recognition solutions, was named today as a finalist in the sixth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

?"To be deemed a finalist in all seven categories we applied to this year is incredibly exciting; this honor was only possible because of Achievers' talented and passionate team," said Razor Suleman, Founder and Chief Evangelist, Achievers. "Our success stems from our high-performance culture, our non-negotiable values and engaged employees who are dedicated to driving results. Celebrating success is one of those values, and this is certainly reason to celebrate."

More than 1,000 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted to this year's competition, an increase of almost 30% over 2011. Finalists were determined by the average scores of 93 professionals worldwide, acting as preliminary judges. Achievers is a finalist in seven categories including Demand Generation Program of the Year, Outbound Marketing Program of the Year, Inbound Marketing Program of the Year, Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year, Contact Center of the Year, Customer Service Management Team of the Year, and Incentive, Rewards, or Recognition Provider of the Year.

The awards are presented by the Stevie? Awards, which organizes several of the world's leading business awards shows including the prestigious International Business Awards. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," the final results will be announced during a gala banquet on Monday, February 27 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.? Finalists from the U.S.A. and several other nations are expected to attend.?? Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at http://www.stevieawards.com/sales.

About Achievers

Achievers is passionate about helping companies reward and recognize brilliant employee performance through our award-winning software.? Customized to your company's brand and culture, Achievers provides easy-to-use social technologies to create authentic moments of recognition that increase employee engagement, retain top talent and drive business success. Achievers will change the way your employees, your managers and your company work together. Check us out on the web at http://www.achievers.com.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.? Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.? Learn more about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com. Sponsors and supporters of the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include American Support, Coloredge Los Angeles * New York, Competence Call Center, SDL and ValueSelling Associates.

This press release was distributed through PR Web by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: http://www.HRmarketer.com) on behalf of the company listed above.

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EQUELLA Earns Finalist Honors in 2011 Software and Information Industry Association CODiE Awards

Denver, CO (PRWEB) April 27, 2011

EQUELLA, Pearson's award-winning digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online, is a finalist in the prestigious 2011 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. EQUELLA is recognized in the Business Content Management category.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement across the software, digital information and education technology industries. Nominated products undergo an intensive review by subject matter experts, analysts, journalists and other respected authorities in education technology.

"Today's educational institutions must provide students and faculty with easy access to vast amounts of learning content. EQUELLA helps them face that challenge head on by providing a secure, easy-to-search environment to store and find these important resources," said Dan McFadyen, General Manager at Pearson for EQUELLA. "We are particularly honored to have our digital repository recognized by SIIA judges in the business content category, because it acknowledges that we are providing our customers with a robust enterprise solution for this mission-critical responsibility."

EQUELLA provides one central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library content needs. Faculty, instructional designers and academic technologists can easily search in one location for all of their learning content - video, custom eBooks, presentations, lecture captures and more - all tagged by metadata such as learning outcomes, grade level and relevant keywords. EQUELLA places no restriction on the content type or file size, and all content is protected using the repository's permissions, digital rights management and copyright functionality. Faculty can also easily contribute their own materials or reuse content from shared repositories around the world.

For the second consecutive year, Pearson tops the list of companies with products named as CODiE finalists, with 15 innovative ed-tech and information management products earning recognition. All were developed based on the company's commitment to leveraging the power of technology and innovation to prepare today's students for success in college and careers. Pearson products earning finalist honors span the spectrum of today's breakthrough education and business technology products, such as learning Apps, educational games, technology-driven professional development and robust systems for managing information and data. Pearson's programs are focused on college- and career-readiness and preparing students to meet the Common Core State Standards.

In addition to EQUELLA, the company's products moving on to the next round of competition in this year's CODiE Awards are Calculus: Early Transcendentals (e-Book); enVisionMATH: Understanding Fractions; Grammar Jammers Primary Edition; Hospitality and Tourism Interactive; MyLiteratureLab; MyMathLab Algebra I and II; MyMathTest; MyReadingLab; myWorld Geography; PowerSchool 6.2; PowerTeacher 2.0; SuccessMaker; SuccessMaker Collaborate; and Words Their Way Online Workshop.

In the next step of the CODiE Award process, EQUELLA will be voted on by the entire SIIA membership, who determines the winner in each category. The CODiE Awards will be announced at the 2011 Ed Tech Industry Summit in San Francisco on May 23.

About Pearson

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global reach and market leading businesses in education, business and consumer publishing (NYSE: PSO).

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MyReadingLab Honored as Finalist in 2011 Software & Information Industry Association CODiE Awards

Boston (PRWEB) May 02, 2011

MyReadingLab, Pearson?s interactive online learning program for building literacy skills, is a finalist in the prestigious 2011 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. The first and only program created specifically for developmental reading students, MyReadingLab is honored in the Best Reading/English Instructional Solution category.

?When students enter college without the requisite literacy skills for academic success, institutions around the country turn to MyReadingLab to provide a personalized environment for accelerating the development of reading skills,? said Paul Crockett, Director of Media and Digital Strategy for Pearson Arts and Sciences. ?This complete online learning system allows students to build the reading skills they need to excel in whatever discipline they are pursuing. We are honored that MyReadingLab is recognized as a finalist in the 2011 SIIA CODiE Awards program.?

MyReadingLab personalizes learning for students with a wealth of instructional resources, practice exercises and comprehensive assessment and progress tracking. Each topic in the online environment includes an overview with an abbreviated skill lesson, examples modeling the use of the skill, animated tutorials that help students see as well as hear the concepts, and an integrated eText. Students receive instant feedback on their work ? freeing instructors to spend less time grading and more time working directly with their students.

In addition to MyReadingLab?s instruction, practice and assessment, students have access to other learning resources such as vocabulary and study skills websites and MySearchLab, Pearson?s robust research and plagiarism-detection website.

For the second consecutive year, Pearson tops the list of companies with products named as CODiE finalists, with 15 innovative ed-tech and information management products earning recognition. All were developed based on the company?s commitment to leveraging the power of technology and innovation to prepare today?s students for success in college and careers. Pearson products earning finalist honors span the spectrum of today?s breakthrough education and business technology products, such as mobile learning apps, educational games, technology-driven professional development and robust systems for managing information and data. Pearson?s programs are focused on college- and career-readiness and preparing students to meet the Common Core State Standards.

In addition to MyReadingLab, the company?s products moving on to the next round of competition in this year?s CODiE Awards are Briggs/Cochran Calculus; enVisionMATH: Understanding Fractions; EQUELLA; Grammar Jammers Primary Edition; Hospitality and Tourism Interactive; MyLiteratureLab; MyMathLab Algebra I and II; MyMathTest; MyReadingLab; myWorld Geography; PowerSchool; PowerTeacher 2.0; SuccessMaker; SuccessMaker Collaborate; and Words Their Way Online Workshop.

MyReadingLab will be voted on by the entire SIIA membership, who determines the winner in each category. The CODiE Awards will be announced at the 2011 Ed Tech Industry Summit in San Francisco on May 23.

About Pearson

Pearson, the world?s leading learning company, has global reach and market leading businesses in education, business and consumer publishing (NYSE: PSO).