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NAMTC and EduTone Join Forces to Create a Digital Marketplace for K-12 Schools The EduTone Xchange(TM) Platform Enables Education Service Agencies to Purchase, Provision and Access On-Demand Web-Based Applications and Content Services

ALAMEDA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Media & Technology Centers (NAMTC) and EduTone Corporation announced today their plan to create an On-Demand Services Catalog to be offered by NAMTC exclusively to its members. The NAMTC Catalog is the foundation of a Digital Marketplace and will consist of various web-based solution bundles provided by NAMTC's Corporate Partners. The EduTone Xchange Platform will enable member ESAs to deliver these bundles to their districts and schools through locally-branded ESA Portals.

This innovative Digital Marketplace will benefit both NAMTC's ESA members and Corporate Partners. NAMTC bundles offer their members significant savings and automated distribution while the EduTone Xchange Platform offers role-based provisioning and Single Sign-On, enabling ESAs to customize services delivery to each end-user. NAMTC's Corporate Partners benefit from a low cost, highly efficient distribution and support model.

"Our partnership with EduTone and utilizing its EduTone Xchange Platform will enable us to quickly, easily and safely build the infrastructure needed for a Digital Marketplace that delivers on-demand web-based services to our members," said Betty Gorsegner Ehlinger, Executive Director of NAMTC. "As further evidence on our continued efforts to bring value to our members, our "bundles" approach will greatly reduce costs while allowing our members to offer validated, state of the art services to their schools districts that improve teaching and learning outcomes."

"We are delighted to partner with NAMTC and are confident that our Platform will deliver innovative services and significant cost savings to their members," said Robert Iskander, CEO of EduTone Corporation. "Our technology will seamlessly integrate with each ESA's or school district's existing infrastructure, offering their teachers and students a significantly enhanced educational environment without any increase in IT costs or administrative resources."

About NAMTC

The National Association of Media & Technology Centers (NAMTC) is an organization committed to promoting leadership among its membership through networking, advocacy, and support activities that will enhance the equitable access to media, technology, and information services to educational communities. Membership is open to regional, K-12, and higher education media technology centers, as well as commercial technology and media vendors. For more information, visit www.NAMTC.org

About EduTone Corporation

EduTone Corporation provides the sustainable technology schools need in order to deliver the 21st century teaching and learning environments their stakeholders require. The EduTone Xchange(TM) is a state-of-the-art, Web 3.0 Platform-as-a-Service technology that enables on-demand, one-to-one Services Delivery in the Education Enterprise. EduTone Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of VIP Tone Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Alameda, California. For more information, visit www.EduTone.com.

SOURCE EduTone Corporation

EduTone Corporation

CONTACT: Betty Gorsegner Ehlinger of NAMTC, +1-319-654-0608,bettyge@namtc.org; or Yanni Kalajakis of EduTone, +1-925-413-6216,yanni@edutone.com

Web site: http://www.edutone.com//http://www.namtc.org//



New Interactive Learning Community Launches Live Online Breakthrough Courses

My Rx for Living, an online learning and coaching center has begun accepting registrations for its Fall 2009 Breakthrough Courses, utilizing a high-speed Internet connection, an interactive video, voice, and text communication interface.

Indianapolis, ID, and Denver, CO – My Rx for Living, an online learning and coaching center has begun accepting registrations for its Fall 2009 Breakthrough Courses. Utilizing a high-speed Internet connection, an interactive video, voice, and text communication interface and highly qualified and respected course leaders, the company provides live online courses for individuals’ self-improvement. The four to six week educational seminars focus on a wide variety of subjects for anyone needing a personal breakthrough in the areas of career, health, spirituality, personal finance and relationships. With the guidance of course leaders, goal setting and life planning tools and a like-minded personal development community, members and course attendees can incorporate a supportive learning environment into their daily lifestyle.

“Everybody gets stuck in life,” says my Rx for Living co-founder, Adam Christopher, about my Rx for Living’s ‘Breakthrough’ approach to personal success. “We wanted to create an Educational Institute on the Internet to help people unlock their true potential and realize their aspirations. We do this through the knowledge and leadership of our experts and the support of our community and goal setting tools.”

In addition to the online sessions, enrolled members have unlimited access to learning materials, course updates, tools and their course leaders for one full year via the site’s online coaching system and e-mail.

“We have created a technology and course platform that makes it possible for everyone to manage their energy, not their time, to accomplish lasting personal change.” says Vice President of Marketing Steve Toth. “This environment gets everyone on the site to be engaging, invigorating, joyful, confident, challenged and connected to community.”

Membership for the online interactive coaching center is FREE. Members can join the community at no cost and utilize myRxforLiving.com’s goal setting and life planning tools. In addition, complimentary access to self-improvement videos, audios, forums, articles and the Professional Expert directory is included.

For Fall 2009, members can now register for the following fee-based courses: Your Voice is Your Calling Card, course leader Suzann Rye; Be a Radio Show Superstar, course leader Coach Steve Toth; Get Busy Living, course leader Jimmy Petruzzi; Lose Weight Feel Great, course leader Sara Lou-Ann Jones; Conscious Sexuality, course leaders Victor Gold and Aimee Lyndon-Adams and The Science of Higher Purpose -101., course leader Lily Finch. A wide array of additional Breakthrough Courses and Professional Experts will be featured in the months and years ahead.

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myRxforLiving.com provides live fee-based online courses for self improvement in the areas of career, health, spirituality, personal finance and relationships with free access to its life coaching and goal setting system and community.
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