Press Release

Ingeniux CEO Shares Insights on “Web 2.0 in Higher Education” for Ready2Net Webcast Program

July 26, 2007

"Web 2.0 is not just a new technology paradigm, it's a new institutional paradigm for higher education, and there's no turning back: college and universities must move from a centralized content model to a decentralized, ubiquitous content model," said Jim Edmunds, CEO of Ingeniux Corporation, in discussing the impact of Web 2.0 in higher education. Edmunds participated in a panel that included Blackboard, Microsoft and Oracle discussing how Web 2.0 is revolutionizing higher education.

The Ready2Net webcast program can be viewed at http://ready2net.csumb.edu.

The panel featured industry leaders Ingeniux, Microsoft, Oracle, and Blackboard. The panel discussed Web 2.0 in terms of understanding the hype and getting to the real issues that are impacting colleges and universities. The award-winning Ready2Net series serves as a national forum for structured discussions about the key eLearning and information technology issues that affect students, faculty, campus officials, institutions, and the public.

Web 2.0 is a label that has been broadly applied to a new wave of Internet-based applications that enable users to participate on the Web by contributing content and connecting with other Internet users. Collectively these new tools - applications like wikis, podcasts, blogs and social networking - are in high demand on university campuses. Institutions are looking for ways to harness these solutions and to manage the enormous amount of content that is user-generated on campus.

Jim Edmunds spoke to the panel about the challenges and opportunities presented by the Web 2.0 paradigm. "For Ingeniux this has meant evolving its Web application functionality from a model that supports a defined group of content contributors to a model that supports all users of the Web," said Edmunds. Recently Ingeniux has expanded its content management platform to support Web 2.0 functionality. Its Xite line of products enable users to update content online directly from the live web site, without working in a traditional CMS application. These solutions expand access to content services on campus and support everything from simple Web publishing to education-specific solutions for podcasting, blogging, events, news, photo galleries and athletics.

"Web 2.0 is not about technology, it is about people," noted Edmunds. To deliver on the promise of Web 2.0 in higher education, Ingeniux and other vendors have to provide the toolsets that empower students and faculty to work in a dynamic, collaborative, live Web environment. The higher education community will use tools from Ingeniux and other vendors to share files online, publish personal web sites, participate in team-based Web sites, and subscribe to syndicated feeds and online discussions. Using these tools, institutions can manage user generated content and better support processes for accreditation and instruction.

To learn more about Ingeniux solutions for higher education, please contact Ingeniux Corporation at 1-877-445-8228 or info@Ingeniux.com.

About Ingeniux Corporation
Ingeniux Corporation is the trusted provider of Web content management and publishing software. Its XML-based technology empowers Web developers and content creators to build the next generation Internet with products acclaimed for ease-of-use, rapid deployment, extensibility and low total cost of ownership. Ingeniux delivers quality software with unparalleled customer service to customers in a broad range of industries, including higher education, trade associations, broadcasting, e-government, and financial institutions.

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