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Ecademy Launches a Community Toolbar for Its Members - Http://Www.Ecademy.Com

Posted on: Friday, 24 March 2006, 12:00 CST

LONDON, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - The World's Premier Social Business Network Offers a Personalized Community Toolbar Based on EffectiveBrand's Innovative Toolbar Services Platform to its 70,000 Member Community

Ecademy, The Trusted Business Network (http://www.ecademy.com/) introduced its community toolbar targeting its 70,000 members worldwide. Ecademy has partnered with EffectiveBrand, the pioneering Toolbar Service Provider (TSP) to power their community customized toolbar.

"Our community toolbar is an effective means to help our members navigate and use of Ecademy, making the site more user-friendly and accessible," says Penny Power, Founder and Director of Ecademy. "We found in EffectiveBrand the perfect strategic partner, because of their community-centric ethos. Their solution is based on a profound understanding of an organization like Ecademy. Their cutting-edge toolbar solution is based on proven technology which provides our users instant access to our site wherever they are on the web."

The Ecademy toolbar, designed to function as the site's extension, is based on a similar method used to develop Web sites. It features content that helps members stay up-to-date with the latest blogs, Marketplace listings and club posts on Ecademy. "Automatic updates ensure that the toolbar content remains a fresh, dynamic, and constantly relevant communication channel," says Power.

The Ecademy community toolbar provides its members with the following integrated functionality:

- Search from anywhere on the web - Login and access to top Ecademy features with one click - Personalized messages delivered on the toolbar - My Ecademy - A quick access any area of Ecademy - E-mail notifier - Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and POP3

- Live Ecademy content up-to-date with the latest blogs, Marketplace listings and club posts.

- DailEnews - Breaking news from across the web

- A Useful Guide to the benefits and features can be found on the Ecademy website

Glenn Watkins, Chief Executive of Ecademy is thrilled with the secure EffectiveBrand toolbar solution. "Ecademy is always looking to be on the cutting edge of communication with our members. It's as if EB built a solution with our membership and technology needs in mind," he says. "Best of all, their hosted model supports creation, deployment, reporting & maintenance. The Ecademy Toolbar is a valuable business asset that delivers knowledge, business news as well as easy access to key areas of the Ecademy website."

"We are excited to partner with Ecademy, which is one of the most forward-thinking, community-driven networks," says Ronen Shilo, Founder and CEO of EffectiveBrand. "The time has come for community toolbars to be a standard offering and an integral part of community communication."

Both companies would like to thank David Petherick, the Internet entrepreneur and CEO of Scottish-based Clarocada Limited, who recognized the match between Ecademy's needs and EffectiveBrand's platform, and made the contact between both sides.

About Ecademy:

Ecademy is a Social Business Network founded in 1998 with over 70,000 members worldwide. Our cause is to build the world's premier Trusted Network, connecting business people to share knowledge, contacts, support and transactions. Ecademy is the Trusted Business Network built on the philosophy that 'winning by sharing' is key to success. Members join to learn and practice business networking for contacts, knowledge, support and transactions through the Website's unique networking tools and face to face at networking events.

For more information visit http://www.ecademy.com/. About EffectiveBrand:

EffectiveBrand, the Toolbar Service Provider (TSP) pioneer, enables Web publishers to create, customize and deploy their toolbar within moments. Over 82,000 Web publishers worldwide already use its patent pending technology, which eliminates the need to deal with the software development cycle. The EffectiveBrand solution is not spyware, adware, or malware; it doesn't track an individual's usage of the application and doesn't spawn pop-up windows. Making maintenance simple and easy, EffectiveBrand positions the toolbar, once associated with large search engines, as an essential part of every Web site.

For more information, visit http://www.effectivebrand.com/.

Ecademy

CONTACT: For further information please contact Penny Power, EcademyFounder on +44-7771-543478 or email penny.power@ecademy.com

Source: PRNewswire

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