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Diane Brundage, SVP Marketing & Volume Operations
TPSA
(408) 354-7136
dbrundage@tpsaonline.com
Tim Keelan
StoryQuest
888-263-6976
info@storyquest.us
StoryQuest Awarded Certified Partner Status from
Technology Professional Services Association
Mobile Learning Solutions Leverage Streaming and Podcasting to Accelerate and Enhance Training and Sales Enablement
SAN DIEGO and COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 9, 2006 –The Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA), the technology professional services industry’s premier organization, announced that mobile learning solutions pioneer StoryQuest has been awarded TPSA Certified Partner status. The TPSA Certified Partner Program offers TPSA members the resources of service providers specializing in areas of technology professional services management such as service strategy, service marketing, service sales, and service portfolio development.
Chicago-based StoryQuest helps clients accelerate learning, shorten sales cycles and leverage the experiences of their best people. By capturing stories, strategies and tactics in the voices of the people who lived them, business can not only share knowledge but belief, confidence and ultimately trust. StoryQuest methodology leverages leading-edge technologies including on-demand streaming, iPods, and podcasting to deliver these mobile learning solutions to its clients.
“It’s all about delivering relevant learning tools into the field. iPods, podcasting and mobile audio deliver the learning, but more important is creating relevant content people can believe in and will act on. Using peer-based voices and stories, we help our clients drive performance, save their people time, and their own budgets,” said Tim Keelan, founder and CEO of StoryQuest. After a successful 15 year sales career, Keelan traveled the world studying the application of story and narrative for sales, training and organizational learning. StoryQuest clients, including Keane, Ciber, and RSA Security have enlisted StoryQuest to help capture and leverage their company, product and customer stories into powerful learning tools.
“The Certified Partner Program is distinguished by our careful and deliberate screening of service provider companies who we are certain will offer bottom-line benefits to TPSA members. StoryQuest's roster of blue chip clients speaks to the value of this unique and underutilized learning format,” said Thomas Lah, TPSA Executive Director.
The Certified Partner Program is one of several new partner programs that TPSA will unveil in the coming months. The association is assembling a network of business partners to extend the reach of its program portfolio and add value for members. Poised to assist members with the challenges of building and optimizing technology professional services organizations, TPSA partners possess a vast array of talent, expertise, and experience. TPSA is carefully choosing partners to provide assistance to its members in major disciplines such as strategy, operations, sales, marketing, engineering, and delivery.
For more information on TPSA partners and for companies interested in being considered for the TPSA Certified Partner program, contact TPSA at info@tpsaonline.com. For professional services community resources including important industry news and key financial trends, TPSA programs and member benefits, visit www.tpsaonline.com.
About StoryQuest
StoryQuest is a Chicago-based company that produces custom mobile audio solutions. StoryQuest combines its own knowledge-harvesting methodology along with mobile audio production and distribution tools to help users learn faster, remember more and save time using their mobile learning solutions , training and sales enablement, reference capture, conference capture and podcasting services. President Tim Keelan has traveled the world studying the application of story and narrative for training and organizational learning. For more information about StoryQuest, visit www.storyquest.us or call (312) 258-0111.
About TPSA
The Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA) is the first and only organization for executives who create, produce, deliver, manage, measure, and optimize technology services in the world’s leading corporations. Member companies represent a diverse group of market segments including hardware and software products, systems integration, on-demand hosted applications, and value-added solutions. Through membership collaboration and management expertise, TPSA provides the information, concepts, models, and best practices required for success in the critical professional services component of the technology enterprise.
Leveraging its influential membership, TPSA serves as a pre-eminent thought leader and issues advocate, providing insights and trends analysis to the media, industry and business community-at-large on all matters related to technology professional services. Among its member programs, TPSA offers a Benchmark Survey with peer-group specific and industry average metrics, and The Service 50, an aggregation and analysis of publicly reported financial data, with a focus on trends in services revenues, margins, and contributions to total corporate revenue.
TPSA is part of the Point B group of associations. For over 16 years, Point B has successfully managed industry groups, including the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA). More information on TPSA can be found at www.tpsaonline.com.
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