Cbeyond Selected as Top Company for Training and Development

ATLANTA--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Cbeyond ] (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to small businesses, has been named a BEST Award winner by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) for the second time in the last three years.

"We place great value in ensuring our employees have all the necessary tools to serve our customers and enhance their individual skills. This award reflects the success of these ongoing efforts."

The [ ASTD BEST Awards ] is the training industrya�s most rigorous and coveted recognition. The BEST Awards recognize a select 32 organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success through employee learning and development. aThese 32 companies excelled in creating innovative, vibrant learning cultures that clearly aligned with strategic business goals,a said Tony Bingham, ASTDa�s president and CEO. aThey get it. The leadership of these organizations value learning and know it is a strategy driver.a

Cbeyond ranked seventh among honored companies and is one of three Georgia-based companies included in this yeara�s rankings. As a BEST Award winner, Cbeyond training leaders had the opportunity to share the companya�s training best practices during the ASTD Learn from the BEST Conference held earlier this month.

aCbeyond is committed to providing a dynamic environment in which our nearly 2,000 employees can continuously develop both personally and professionally,a said Susan Mitnick, senior director of training at Cbeyond. aWe place great value in ensuring our employees have all the necessary tools to serve our customers and enhance their individual skills. This award reflects the success of these ongoing efforts.a

ASTD unveiled the winners at this montha�s conference and also published the complete list in the October issue of [ TrainingDevelopment ], a leading publication for workforce management professionals. ASTD selection criteria also included the overall investment organizations make in learning and performance initiatives and the extent to which companies connect individual training to organizational performance.

Nicole Ashe, Director of Operations Leaning & Development stated, aTo be recognized as one of the 'BESTa� by one of the training industrya�s premier professional associations is quite an honor. Since learning is such an integral part of the culture at Cbeyond, we will continue to strive to offer innovative opportunities for growth that allow our employees to develop and advance throughout the organization.a

To learn more about the ASTD BEST Awards, and to view the complete list of winners, visit [ http://www.astd.org/ASTD/aboutus/AwardsandBestPractices/bestAwards/ ].

For more information on Cbeyond, visit [ http://www.cbeyond.net/ ]. To view a social media version of this news release, visit [ http://pitch.pe/179805 ].

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading provider of IT and communications services to more than 59,000 small businesses in the U.S. Serving growing entrepreneurs, Cbeyond offers morethan 30 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry^�, voicemail, email, Web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing, and virtual private networking. In addition, Cbeyonda�s Cloud Services division offers virtual and dedicated servers and cloud PBX to small businesses worldwide. Recently, the Cloud Services division won Microsofta�s Hosting Partner of the Year Award for 2009 and 2010 in connection with Microsofta�s Hyper-V Server product. Winning more than 50 awards for product innovation, growth anda quality customer experience, Cbeyond continues to focus on helping small businessessucceed and grow through high-performance technology, superior services and world-class support. For more information on Cbeyond, visit [ www.cbeyond.net ] and follow Cbeyond on Twitter:[ www.twitter.com/Cbeyondinc ].

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Cbeyond Selected as Top Company for Training and Development