Intranets.com and the Interactive Advertising Bureau announce strategic partnership to streamline the process of IAB committee collaboration

Boston, MA and New York, NY (October 21, 2002) Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), the world's largest provider of Web based intranets, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) have announced a strategic partnership to streamline the process of IAB committee collaboration. IAB is the leading voice of the interactive advertising and marketing industry.

"Intranets.com is a great tool for collaboration and it's incredibly easy to use," said Adam Gelles, Director, Industry Initiatives for the IAB. "We have standardized on it for communication within our standards committees at IAB. In our efforts to better support our member companies, we chose to partner with Intranets.com as they offer a valuable tool that saves time and improves efficiency.

IAB is using Intranets.com to bring together the teams of people working on industry research, standards and best practices. With nationally dispersed project teams, the ability to collaborate on ongoing project initiatives will help the IAB to improve the efficiency of its operations. The member companies will have access to a rich suite of collaboration applications, including:

• Drag-and-drop Document Library
• Group Calendar
• Database Application
• Group Discussions
• Group Polls
• Expense Reports
• A Task Manager
• Announcements

"It's the ideal solution for the IAB member companies to manage activities that range from proposal generation to client deliverables, said Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com. Project teams can now have a single point of access to a centralized resource for gathering, sharing and evaluating information to keep a project moving from the proposal stage to completion. It's also ideal for securely connecting project workers who may be in different locations working on the project."

For more information on partnering with Intranets.com, please contact Glenn Sinclair, director of business development, at 781-939-2221 or at gsinclair@intranets.com.

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

About the IAB
Founded in 1996, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is the leading interactive advertising association and represents companies responsible for selling over 75% of online advertising in the United States, including; AOL, CNET, MSN, Overture Services, Walt Disney Internet Group, Yahoo, and 100 others. Its activities include evaluating and recommending standards and practices, fielding research to document the effectiveness of the interactive medium and educating the advertising industry about the use of interactive advertising. Membership includes companies that are actively engaged in, and support the sale of interactive advertising.

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