Rapid Intake Celebrates 10 Years in July!

We're excited to announce July 2010 marks Rapid Intake's 10 year anniversary--July 14, 2010 to be exact. We'll be celebrating with a number of promotions and events throughout July and through the rest of the year.

For fun, here's a quick synopsis of notable milestones over the last 10 years:

• July 2000 - Rapid Intake starts as a custom content development vendor building content (using Toolbook of all things) for companies such as Lockheed Martin, Intel, HP, Bank of America to name a few
• October 2001 - Rapid Intake publishes "Using Dreamweaver to Create eLearning", the first in a line of e-learning technology books based on Dreamweaver and Flash
• July 2004 - Rapid Intake launches the industry's first and original eLearning Developers Conference, eLearning DevCon (by the way, we just held our seventh conference; learn more at www.elearningdevcon.com -- just concluded); at the conference our attendees and book readers beg us to build tools that will help them build XML-driven Flash e-learning better and faster
• December 2005 - Rapid Intake launches pilot version of a Flash/XML e-learning development product
• July 2006 - Flashform, later renamed ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio, is born
• February 2008 - Rapid Intake launches the first collaborative online course authoring tool, called Unison
• August 2008 - Flashform is renamed ProForm because of pressure from Adobe's legal team to remove Flash from the name
• April 2008 - Unison wins Best Product Innovation in Cloud Computing from COMPTIA and SoftwareCEO
• November 2008 - Unison wins the Gold Award for Best Innovation in Learning Technology from Brandon Hall Research (beating Adobe incidentally, which took a Bronze :)
• February 2009 - ProForm wins the user's choice Best of Elearning award from eLearning Magazine (again beating Adobe Captivate and Articulate...two of our main competitors)
• October 2009 - A new e-learning conference concept is born: BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop; learn more at http://elearning.byol.com
• April 2010 - Unison wins the Gold Award for Excellence in Learning Technology for Rapid eLearning Software, making it the only e-learning software to consecutively win both the Best Innovation and Excellence in Technology awards from Brandon Hall

There's a lot more we could say, of course, but those are just a few of the highlights. Stay tuned for more details on related special promotions and events.