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June 22, 2010
BrightLeaf Group Receives Two More Awards for Corporate Responsibility Report
BrightLeaf Group won international honors for its design of Inspire and Innovate: Achievements in Corporate Responsibility Fiscal Year 2009, produced for Dell. The report can be seen here (PDF format). BrightLeaf Group won the top-level Technical Arts Distinguished Award at the 2010 Society for Technical Communication (STC) International Competition as recognition for its work on the sustainability report. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in visually communicating technical concepts. The report also recently won a Bronze Quill award from the International Association of Business Communicators.

March 7, 2010
Coca-Cola Enterprises Selects BrightLeaf Group as New Design Firm
BrightLeaf Group has been selected to design the 2010 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report for Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlanta, GA.

March 5, 2010
BrightLeaf Group Takes Top Honors for Annual Report
BrightLeaf Group (cPubs) received a Best in Texas Bronze Award for Special Purpose Publication from the Texas Public Relations Association and a  Best of Show, Distinguished award from the Austin Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The award-winning report, Inspire and Innovate: Achievements in Corporate Responsibility Fiscal Year 2009, produced for Dell, can be seen here (PDF format).

September 21, 2009
BrightLeaf Group Awarded Contract
BrightLeaf Group is awarded a contract to provide technical writing and related services to Texas state agencies and local government organizations.

August 10, 2009
BrightLeaf Group Re-Certified by WBENC
BrightLeaf Group was officially re-certified as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). BrightLeaf Group is also certified as a State of Texas Historically Underutilized Business (HUB).

July 9, 2009
Books for SafePlace
BrightLeaf Group employees, clients, and their children collected over 900 books for the children of SafePlace during the two-week BrightLeaf Group Summer 2009 SafePlace Book Drive. SafePlace is an Austin-based non-profit organization (safeplace.org).

May 25, 2009
BrightLeaf Group Awarded Contract
BrightLeaf Group is awarded a contract to provide its full range of services to Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

May 1, 2008
BrightLeaf Group Wins Two International Awards
BrightLeaf Group won the top-level Technical Arts Distinguished Award at the 2008 STC International Competition as recognition for its work on the 2007 Dell Sustainability Report. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in visually communicating technical concepts.

The work also won one of the four top awards in the Sustainability Annual Report competition held by the Ceres coalition. Nominees included Nike, Gap, American Airlines, General Motors, and Hewlett-Packard.

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. STC has more than 20,000 members and 153 chapters worldwide.

 

Highlights from Our News Archives

 

January 14, 2007
BrightLeaf Group Web Content Team Marks 75th Schlumberger Website
The BrightLeaf Group Web Content Team recently completed development of its 60th website for Schlumberger, a global organization. The websites range from simple to highly complex internal and external sites. BrightLeaf Group has been providing web development services for Schlumberger divisions around the world since 1995.

August 20, 2005
BrightLeaf Group Partners with Knowbility
BrightLeaf Group and Knowbility have partnered to bring Knowbility's accessibility services to BrightLeaf Group' technology clients. A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Knowbility helps corporations and other organizations adapt their products and services to meet federal and state mandates for accessibility for people with disabilities.

Knowbility's services include:

• Assessing the accessibility of the client's website content, product user interfaces, and support documentation and training
• Providing technical guidance during the development of the website, user interface, and supporting documentation and training
• Training client staff on the "how-to's" and other accessibility topics

 

March 5, 2004
BrightLeaf Group Marks 75th Dell Training Project
The BrightLeaf Group Learning Development Team recently marked the completion of their 75th training project for Dell Inc. The training projects have included interactive web-based courses, classroom instruction and materials, and blended solutions. Students have included Dell and third-party engineering groups, product support staff, and inside-sales personnel throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

"When you call Dell to order your computer, the Dell sales rep you talk to may have received some of their product or service knowledge from one of our courses," says Jane Scott, CEO.

BrightLeaf Group has successfully served Dell for over seven years in various Human Resources, Learning, Engineering, and Information Development departments. BrightLeaf Group services have included instructional design, writing, graphics and multimedia development, quality assurance, translation management, audio in multiple languages, project management, and process improvement.

 

March 4, 2004
BrightLeaf Group CEO Accepted into "Birthing of Giants" Program on MIT Campus
Our CEO, Jane Scott, has been accepted into the third and final year of the Birthing of Giants - Class of 2004. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as the #1 executive educational program of its kind, "BOG" is jointly hosted by the MIT Enterprise Forum, Inc. Magazine, and the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO). Held on the MIT campus, this program brings together young entrepreneurs from around the world once a year for a period of three years. Attendance is limited to 60 participants who are selected from a worldwide field of applicants by representatives of MIT, Inc. Magazine, and YEO.

The program's intense leadership-focused curriculum covers the six fundamental areas of business: Management, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing & Sales, Operations, and Research & Development. The faculty consists of the best in entrepreneurial professors from MIT, Harvard, and Babson, as well as the world's top entrepreneurs from the pages of Inc. Magazine.

The BOG program has graduated participants around the globe, and has "birthed" such entrepreneurial giants as Ted Leonsis (AOL) and Jim McCann (1-800-FLOWERS).