SALT LAKE CITY (December 16, 2009) Media Corp Inc. announced Allen Communication Learning Services (Allen) and their clients, Risk Management Association (RMA) and USANA Health Sciences (USANA), have won three Omni Intermedia Awards. Allen and RMA won for Educational, and Allen and USANA won for Programming and Educational. Winners will be listed at: www.omniawards.com/winnerscircle.html

Allen and RMA partnered to create the Lending Decision Process (LDP). The online LDP uses RMA’s expertise to educate the financial services industry on the lending process. This course won gold in the educational category.

For the other two awards in educational and programming, Allen teamed up with USANA to create BDS:eApprentice, an online course that takes years of learning and expertise from some of USANA’s most successful leaders and condenses it down to several hours of a fun, yet educational, elearning experience to provide just-in-time or on-the-job training to new or less experienced Associates. This course won two bronze awards.

“The Omni Awards exist to recognize outstanding media productions that engage, empower, and enlighten” (www.omniawards.com). The criteria for these courses are based on eight areas of interest: creativity, graphics, programming, ease of use, functionality, audio, special effects, and impact. The entries for each category “are evaluated for overall excellence in a specific genre” (www.omniawards.com).

“We are thankful for organizations such as OMNI Intermedia for helping showcase the high quality of instructional design and media production in our industry,” states Ron Zamir, President and CEO of Allen. “Awards are a testament to our team members and the high demands and caliber of clients like RMA and USANA. Through our partnerships with these organizations, we’re able to bring out the best in results for the betterment of learners around the globe.”

About Allen

For almost thirty years, Allen Communication Learning Services (www.allencomm.com) has helped improve the training processes and methods of numerous Fortune 500 companies. With a rich history in training that started with the introduction of the world’s first commercial interactive videodisc system, today the company is recognized as a leader in custom training, e-learning, blended learning, and learning portal development. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Allen’s mission is to align organizations’ training initiatives with their business objectives by developing the optimal learning solution for each organization.