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LuluPress and LearningTimes Collaborate

Partnership Puts LuluPress Publishing Engine at the Disposal of all LearningTimes Network Community Members
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 (www.learningtimes.net) 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 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.


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