Gelco Receives an Excellence Award for Technical Publication

The Gelco Travel Manager 9.0 Quick Reference Guide won an Excellence award from the Washington DC chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), which was presented at an awards banquet on February 4th.

The Society for Technical Communication is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to furthering the art of communicating technical information. STC is the world’s largest professional organization serving the technical communication profession. STC is over 53 years old, with 160 chapters and 18,000 members worldwide.

Gelco Travel Manager® is a state-of-the-art, Web-based travel and expense management system that gives corporations, government contractors, and government agencies the tools necessary to streamline and automate travel and expense management processes. Gelco Travel Manager enables companies to automate the adoption of the travel management best practice of expense pre-trip authorization, giving organizations the unprecedented ability to control the cost of travel before it takes place, while at the same time enabling managers to ensure that travelers are adhering to corporate travel policy.

Gelco’s Travel Manager 9.0 Quick Reference Guide was awarded an Excellence award for consistently meeting high standards in all areas and exemplifying an exceptional understanding of technical communication principles. “The competition judges were impressed with the high level of professional work in this area, and their choices were difficult,” said the STC’s manager for the technical publications competition. “This is what a quick-reference tool should be – simplistically elegant.”

“Gelco is committed to providing its customers with high quality support and training tools, and we are proud to be recognized by the Society for Technical Communication,” said Karen Beckwith, chief executive officer for Gelco Expense Management. “At Gelco, we strive for excellence in all areas of our work and customer tools are no exception.”