July 20, 2011 Provo, Utah – Xcelus is proud to announce it has been awarded a Silver Telly, the highest honor given by the annual Telly Awards for its video production of the 2010 Code of Conduct online training video.  Xcelus also was recognized with a Bronze Telly for its employee communications video.  Xcelus won additional industry awards this year, including a Stevie Award for “Best Training Video” and a Horizon Interactive Award.

“We have great clients that allow us to be creative in developing their training projects,” said Todd R. Corbett, CEO and Founder of Xcelus, LLC.  “Our client’s employees have been conditioned by media such as movies, television, video games, and music videos and are expecting something more than a PowerPoint slide show for training courses.”

Xcelus recently celebrated is sixth year anniversary. Through its experienced team and national network of development professionals, works with businesses to create, write, and produce high quality video using industry-leading technology to engage and inform target audiences. Xcelus is capable of providing exceptional quality video projects to clients anywhere in the world.

About Xcelus, LLC
Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. Xcelus’ video solutions include training, sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. http://www.xcelus.com

Xcelus’ Social Media Training for Life Technologies Recognized as One of This Year’s Best Video Training Projects

Xcelus, LLC was announced as a finalist in the Video & Film category in the ninth annual American Business Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for companies in the US. The American Business Awards are also known as Stevie® Awards.

The social media training was part of Life Technologies annual code of conduct employee training.  Xcelus’ services for this project included instructional design, script development, storyboard development, video motion graphics, video shooting and editing, video compression, online video hosting, and employee tracking and reporting.

“Being a finalist is a great honor for Xcelus”, said Todd Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC. “It validates our creative team and their talent to create a successful employee training video.”

This year’s Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.  More than six hundred executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend.  The event will benefit Camfed (camfed.org), which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change. The ceremonies will be broadcast on radio nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.

More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.  Stevie Award winners will be selected from among the Finalists in each category next week by members of 10 specialized final judging committees.  More than 150 executives will have participated in judging this year.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available athttp://www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About Xcelus
Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. www.xcelus.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.

Hitachi Data Systems partners with Xcelus to develop sales role play videos and online eLearning sales course.  The sales role play videos showed the viewpoint of a client/prospect through the sales cycle. The narrated eLearning course provided additional learning and activities to compliment the role play videos.

Hitachi Data Systems partners with Xcelus to develop product installation training videos. The training videos included unboxing, installation procedures, product status indicators, troubleshooting, product maintenance, and configuration.

Unboxing Screenshot

HDS Installation Video Screenshot

HDS Installation Video Screenshot

HDS Installation Video Screenshot

Xcelus partners with Channel Compass to deliver Unified Communications e-learning training program for Plantronics. Xcelus developed three e-learning modules including one web video and two interactive Flash modules. The e-learning training program with be delivered to Plantronics channel partners worldwide.

About Xcelus
Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. http://www.xcelus.com

About Channel Compass
Channel Compass is a consulting and training organization that helps companies successfully navigate their channels to market to increase the impact and profitability of your channel through the implementation of best practice business processes. Channel Compass can facilitate increase the mindshare and commitment of the partner by enabling your resources with the right tools and processes for success. http://channelcompass.com

Hitachi Data Systems partners with Xcelus to develop “Compensation Basics” eLearning Compliance Course for managers.

The Compensation Basics course is a custom online training course that teaches managers the general compensation policies and principles.

“Our elearning development has traditionally been in sales training,“ said Todd R. Corbett, CEO of Xcelus. “We are now developing more and more compliance training courses with over ten titles.”

Xcelus has developed the following custom compliance courses for global companies like Hitachi Data Systems and Life Technologies:

• Company Code of Conduct (Annual Certification)
• Social Media Policy for Employees
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• Export Controls
• Insider Trading
• Intellectual Property
• Revenue Recognition
• Compensation Basics
• Managing Difficult Conversations
• Security Awareness
• Avoiding Litigation
• Confidential Reporting — An Employee Guide
• Compliance — New Employee Orientation (On-Boarding)

For more information about Xcelus compliance training visit: http://www.xcelus.com/training/compliance

Xcelus’ online video services for this project included instructional design, script development, motion graphics, video shooting and editing, video compression, online video hosting, and employee tracking and reporting.

“This program showcases our complete eLearning solution”, said Todd Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC.  ”We have a great team of creative professionals who work together to bring an idea to fruition.”

About Xcelus

Xcelus develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools, set to launch in Q4, will allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah.

To learn more about Xcelus’ social media training, please visit http://www.xcelus.com/training/compliance

Provo UT – April 1, 2010 Hitachi Data Systems selects Xcelus to produce eLearning sales training video for BladeSymphony.  Xcelus created an animated role play of a successful sales rep teaching a sales peer on how she was successful in selling Hitachi’s BladSymphony product line. The eLearning training video was launched in May 2010.

PROVO, UT – January 31, 2010 – Life Technologies, a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, partners with Xcelus for development of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Export Controls e-learning compliance training courses. The  courses will focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Export Controls and will be translated into 10 languages and distributed worldwide via Xcelus’ eLearning hosting platform.

For more information about Xcelus compliance courses, visit http://www.xcelus.com/training/compliance

Provo, UT – June 1, 2009 – Hitachi Data Systems partners with Xcelus to develop sales training white-board session videos for e training.

“White-boarding sessions with SMEs are an effective way to provide crucial sales training information in a format that is easy to access and comprehend,” explains Todd R. Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC. “More and more learners are demanding higher quality video based training rather than the typical page turner e-Learning.”

White-boarding sessions are short videos featuring a Subject Matter Expert explaining a process or feature using a white-board.  White-boarding sessions are great for e training, elearning and mobile learning.

About Xcelus

Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah.

http://www.xcelus.com