Microsoft SharePoint and NewsGator Fuel Enterprise 2.0 Success at Edelman

Largest independent PR firm's intranet transformation detailed in Microsoft
case study

DENVER, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Anyone craving real-world Enterprise 2.0
success stories need look no further than global PR giant Edelman, which has
used the combination of Microsoft SharePoint and NewsGator Social Sites to
transform an aging intranet into an engine of global collaboration called
Fusion.

"Edelman is the largest independent PR firm in the world, and The Holmes
Report named us the 'Best Large Agency to Work For,' " said David Rosenberg,
Edelman vice president, development lead, Internet services, in a Microsoft
case study. "A cited factor of this award was a reference to Edelman's
'first-rate intranet,' so I suspect Fusion played a role."

When coupled with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 collaboration
foundation, NewsGator Social Sites adds Facebook-like features for business,
including networking, user profiling, people and content search, community
creation, social bookmarking, activity streams, social graphing and robust
reporting. SharePoint is a popular collaboration platform: it reported
breaking the $1 billion sales revenue mark last year and has 17,000 business
customers.

"NewsGator Social Sites has added rich features for cross-organizational
collaboration, discussion and networking," Rosenberg says. "Employees can
easily integrate NewsGator RSS feeds and Web parts into their My Site pages,
so they can follow the updates of their friends and co-workers, whether
they're writing about a current project or an upcoming social event."

More than one million paid business users now take advantage of NewsGator's
Social Sites enterprise social computing solutions. To read the case study,
visit http://is.gd/2LFpp.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises and media companies leverage social
computing solutions to deliver real business value. The company's enterprise
social networking and widget services are in use by hundreds of the world's
most recognized brands, including Biogen Idec, CBS, CNN, Discovery, National
Geographic, Procter & Gamble and USA Today. NewsGator Social Sites and
Enterprise Server give enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content,
expand employee knowledge and improve productivity. For more information,
visit www.newsgator.com.

SOURCE NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

Laura Farrelly of NewsGator, +1-303-552-2046, lauraf(at)newsgator(dot)com; or
Ed Marshall Of Beaupre, +1-603-559-5816, emarshall(at)beaupre(dot)com