Interactive Training and Street Technologies Expand Partnership

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Marketing Manager
Interactive Training, Inc.
Phone: 978-921-2470
Email: info@trainingforum.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 1998

Interactive Training and Street Technologies Expand Partnership

BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, October 8, 1998 -- Interactive Training, Inc., (IT) a provider of interactive, on-line training courses and systems, and Street Technologies, Inc. (STREET), an advanced learning solutions organization, today announced a joint development and marketing agreement to offer an extensive ciriculum of IT’s soft-skills courses through STREET’s learning universities, and significantly expand the existing relationship between the two companies.

Included currently are IT’s courses on conflict resolution and coaching practices. Five additional courses covering effective listening, critical thinking, and effective presentations will be available by the end of 1998. During 1999, an average of two courses per month covering sales skills, customer service, negotiations, decision making, teamwork, partnering, networking, performance management, and other key professional competency areas will be released.

“IT is pleased to be a partner with STREET.” said Paul Earl, IT’s President and CEO. “Their extensive network of retail and corporate learning universities will help us reach over 80% of the business and professional Internet community with our soft-skills courses. Our relationship with STREET will position IT as their major courseware partner in the soft-skills arena.” Steve Gott, President of STREET, commented “Incorporating IT’s curriculum into STREET’s on-line environment will enable us to provide a comprehensive offering of high quality professional courses to our customers. Current requests from our customers indicate the fastest growing and potentially largest Web-based training need is the soft-skills area.”

Street Technologies of White Plains, New York is the world’s leading provider of network and Internet multimedia software for continuous interactive learning. The company has over 250 learning universities installed through marketing partnerships with AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, Bell Atlantic and other major communications companies, as well as numerous other corporate, academic, and retail Internet communities.

Interactive Training, Inc. of Beverly, MA develops and delivers on-line training resources for professionals and organizations. The company’s SoftSkills-interactive division provides interactive, Web-based learning programs to meet the performance improvement, training, skills improvement, and certification requirements of business professionals and organizations. The company’s HLS-interactive division provides interactive, Web-based learning programs and consulting services to meet the mandatory training, skills improvement, compliance, and certification requirements of professionals and organizations in the health care industry. Interactive Training’s Web community, TrainingForumTM (www.trainingforum.com), was recognized by NetGuide as a four star Gold Site winner placing in the top 5% of 100,000 sites that were reviewed and was also chosen as the “Surf Site of the Week” by The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).

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