NEW
YORK, NY and CARY, NC -- November 14, 2002 --
LearningTimes, LLC, a producer of online learning communities,
and LuluPress, Inc., an Internet applications provider for
collaborative publishing, today announced a partnership that
puts LuluPress's publishing tools in the hands of LearningTimes
community members, and makes professional publishing a reality
for all instructors and learners.
The
LearningTimes Network is comprised of a vibrant series
of online learning communities serving a wide array of educational
and cultural institutions, non-profit organizations, and
member associations. Interaction between community members
online takes many forms - including real-time virtual meetings,
webcasts, and working group sessions, and on-demand voice
and text-based communication tools - and often results in
the emergence of new collaborative content worthy of publication.
LuluPress allows
authors to upload work to the LuluPress web site (www.LuluPress.com)
in a variety of media formats, where the work is instantaneously
transformed into a published product that can then be output
as a traditional bound book, CD-ROM, Web or e-Book. LuluPress
also facilitates collaboration by housing materials from a
wide array of sources that authors can include as they assemble
their own works. By managing rights and permissions on all
digital content, LuluPress allows authors always to control
how and when their work is used.
"Lulu's
goal is to change the way creative works are published," said
Bob Young, CEO of Lulu Enterprises, and Red Hat (NASDAQ:RHAT)
co-founder and former Chairman. "LearningTimes has already
proven to be a hotbed of creativity, collaboration and idea
exchange, and we're excited to help members publish their ideas
and propel them to a wide audience."
The partnership
will allow individual LearningTimes members to extract their
own discussion thread contributions or original articles posted
to the community area and have those works professionally published
via LuluPress. Similarly, groups of LearningTimes members may
opt to select their collaborative works, such as webcast archives
of their panel discussions or jointly authored white papers,
and submit them to LuluPress for widespread distribution and
availability.
"We're
pleased to offer members of our learning communities an instant
outlet for the publishing of their best works and contributions," said
Jonathan Finkelstein, LearningTimes Founder and Executive Producer. "The
relationship between LearningTimes and LuluPress eliminates
the traditional obstacles to publishing, and opens doors for
the dissemination of original works, even when from non-traditional
origin, like online community discussions and webcasts."
One of the
first groups whose members will benefit from the partnership
is the League for Innovation in the Community College, which
currently offers a Digital Publications Library (DPL) furnished
by LuluPress. LearningTimes - which will be conducting live
online interviews of educational leaders from the League's
Conference on Information Technology this month - will contribute
its interactive interview recordings to the (DPL), which means
that they will be available as an online publication for League
members.
About LearningTimes, LLC
The
LearningTimes community (http://www.learningtimes.org) is
produced by LearningTimes LLC, an organization that designs
and produces online learning communities, programs, and events,
and provides the platforms, applications and promotional
expertise that makes them successful. LearningTimes focuses
on serving groups with an education-oriented mission, including:
cultural and educational institutions, non-profit organizations,
associations, and membership groups that benefit from an
array of human communication tools, accessible through an
online venue. The LearningTimes Network connects each member
institution with other learning-oriented groups and provides
unique opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
About
LuluPress, Inc.
LuluPress is part of Lulu Enterprises, the latest endeavor
of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT) co-founder Bob Young. Lulu provides
Internet applications that enable collaborative publishing for
digital content of all sorts. LuluPress gives instructors, learners,
and other creators and users of content control over how they
create, use and share information. The Lulu brand is derived
from the concept of a "lulu," which is an old-fashioned
term for a remarkable person, object or idea. The enterprise
is driven by Young's strong commitment to information access
as a foundation for knowledge advancement, whether in education,
computer code, or other realms.
Contact: Jonathan Finkelstein
Organization: LearningTimes, LLC
Phone: 212-420-6052
Email: info@learningtimes.com
Contact:
Stephen Fraser
Organization: LuluPress, Inc.
Phone: 919-678-9900, ext. 106
Email: sfraser@lulu.com
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