Announcements

Netbriefings Appoints Chief Technology Officer

St. Paul, Minnesota - January 17, 2000 - Netbriefings, a full-service webcast technology provider that specializes in secure and large-audience Internet broadcasts, announced the appointment of Craig Wilson to the post of Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Wilson has been working in the computer and communications industry since 1976. He has spent the last five years designing, installing, and supporting Internetworked applications and solutions.

Before joining Netbriefings, Mr. Wilson started several businesses, including WaveFront Communications, Inc., and Com Squared Systems, Inc. As founder and president of WaveFront, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), he grew the company to over 5,000 customers before Vector Internet Services, Inc. acquired the company in 1998, to become the largest ISP in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

In 1994, Mr. Wilson was appointed by Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson to the Government Information Access Council (GIAC). From 1994 until 1996, Mr. Wilson served as chair of a working group making recommendations to the state of Minnesota on best methods for implementing Internet and World Wide Web technology into state government operations. Mr. Wilson is a graduate of Mankato State University in Mankato, Minnesota (1976-1979), where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with Mathematics interdisciplinary and a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronomy.

Gary Anderson, Netbriefings' Chairman of the Board, stated, " Inclusion of Craig as a key management member materially strengthens our continued leading-edge development of Internet conference management. He brings a unique set of technical, managerial and creative skills that assures attainment of our goals."

Netbriefings' Internet conference management services provide cost effective alternatives to traditional large-audience communications, with a delivery vehicle that provides the greatest convenience for both presenters and viewer participants. Its leading-edge set of integrated services, one of the most comprehensive, allow clients to conduct consistently professional, interactive, Web-based presentations, meetings and conferences.

In addition, Netbriefings provides full server hosting and archiving of entire events for convenient viewing by those unable to attend a live event, and easy reference by all who are granted access. Key among the services that clients can choose "a-la-carte," and which are represented on separate windows of participants' desktop and laptop PCs are:

• Fully synchronized streaming video and audio,
• Still and animated graphic "slide" presentations, also fully synchronized with audio,
• Online viewer polling, surveying and testing, complete with immediate group statistics on participation, interactivity and responses, (and real-time individual statistics for client company management), and
• Viewer interaction through messaging to presenter, in direct or moderated configuration, enabled for "chat" function or integrated with teleconferencing

About Netbriefings
Netbriefings is a leader in large group webcasting. It provides professional-quality webcast services with robust audio/video streaming to audiences in the 100s to 10,000s, designed for town hall meetings, CEO meetings and multi-day conferences. Netbriefings also provides a solution for personal video messaging for enhanced sales, engaging marketing and improved training. The company offers a full spectrum of services for large event, video and audio production. Look to Netbriefings for secure broadcasting, on-demand access of archived content, and repurposing of content into CDs, DVDs, podcasts and other formats. (www.netbriefings.com) (www.ProclaimYourself.com)

Contact Info

Jeanneane Kloss
651-225-1532 x151 office
jkloss@netbriefings.com