Echelon's Hill runs back to school for charity

learningmatters.com publisher Echelon is running a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme called Community Challenge for organisations wishing to enrich their local communities while importing the learning from the Challenge back into the organisation.

Echelon’s managing director David Hill, meanwhile, is exercising CSR - or PSR - of his own this September by enrolling on a 10km run to raise money for Cancer Research in support of a close friend.

Hill, in his 60th year, says he has not run 10km since he was at school. By coincidence, the forthcoming charity run requires his revisiting, in running shorts, his alma mater of Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, where fellow pupils included Sir Richard Branson.

Much welcome support can be made online at http://www.10ksponsorme.org/davidhill

More on Echelon at http://www.echelonlearning.co.uk

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Released July 2007 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR

Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228; Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk

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About Echelon Learning Ltd

Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing house that integrates electronically-delivered knowledge and learning into the development of management skills and business performance.

Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s service with the development of new content in meeting clients’ requirements. This is usually derived from analysing employee knowledge and learning needs captured during client learning programmes.

Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing then offers this new content to a wider audience by publishing the material in generic format. This is made available in the form of easy to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development information licensed exclusively from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.

Echelon e-Learning provides the electronic systems which enable content to be published, distributed and usage tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a global audience. Echelon’s blended learning based on a bespoke site populated with material selected to support specific courses, builds knowledge prior to the event and refreshes application when back at the desk.

About Echelon Publishing
Echelon technologies help organisations place solutions at people’s fingertips, whether solving everyday business and work-related problems or helping gain qualifications and continued professional development.
Echelon:
• Has a content management system enabling informational or learning material to be developed or converted into XML so that it can be published and distributed in text and/or via the web.
• Has a learning management system to provide ready access via the web to highly structured information, which is easily searched and retrieved, and whose usage can be tracked and learning logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats content for professional bodies and commercial organisations to help students and employees maintain or develop requisite skills throughout their careers.
• Supports people from the outset of their careers in working with professional bodies to develop and deliver the learning content required by students in preparing for examination.
• Frees up the knowledge and learning contained within a business so that people have ready access to these resources in helping them to solve problems or develop their careers.