Well Engaged and PeopleLink Announce Partnership to Enhance Community Solutions.

SAUSALITO, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Well Engaged, LLC, today announced a strategic partnership with PeopleLink, the leading provider of outsourced community services for the Internet. With this partnership, Well Engaged clients will have access to PeopleLink's PORCH Light technology and PeopleLink clients will benefit from hosted community services offered by Well Engaged.

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PORCH Light is a universal presence indicator that allows users to communicate with each other in real time based on a shared interest in a specific Web page. PORCH Lights can be placed anywhere on a Web page: In a message within a message board, on a home page, in a Web-based e-mail, in an online classified ad or auction. When a PORCH Light is on, it means that the author or the creator of the page is online and available to communicate about the content.

"We are very pleased to announce our partnership with PeopleLink. The addition of PeopleLink's PORCH Light technology to the Community Discussion and Chat suite offered by Well Engaged, will further enhance our ability to offer the best of breed solution for companies needing interactive online communities," stated David Asheim, President of Well Engaged. "These new capabilities will enable members of our client communities to have much more spontaneous interactions with each other to complement the persistent ongoing discussions that are the backbone of well developed communities."

"We are very pleased to have formed this partnership with Well Engaged and see it as a significant milestone in our commitment to offering the best community services to our clients," said PeopleLink CEO and founder Steve Glenn commenting on the announcement. "Combined with Well Engaged's scaleable discussion services, our complete community solutions package will provide users with the optimum interactive experience thereby increasing the customer loyalty on Web sites and driving more revenue opportunities."

About Well Engaged

Well Engaged, LLC, (www.wellengaged.com) based in Sausalito, California, is the leading business-to-business full-service solution for building and maintaining online communities. It currently operates communities for some of the largest online businesses, including Adobe, CBS Sportsline, Chicago Tribune, Edmunds, HBO, KB Kids, Petopia, PlanetRx, and the Wall Street Journal. Well Engaged is the only company providing scaleable community technology services, either hosted on our service bureau or deployed on our client's servers, combined with consultants and live moderators who build traffic, encourage participation and manage the discussions online. The Well Engaged Community Suite includes, discussions, chats, newsletters, email alerts, voice chat and instant messaging.

About PeopleLink

Established by idealab! and funded by AT&T Ventures and The BRM Group, PeopleLink (www.peoplelink.com) offers chat, message boards, instant messaging, member directories, mailing lists, interest groups and the PORCH Light system. PeopleLink's clients -- of which there are now over 40 -- can use all or part of the company's services. PeopleLink brands its services for its clients, and handles all operations and technical support. The company also has over 4 million registered users, making it one of the largest providers of online community services in the world.

PeopleLink's current customers include Bolt, Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), GTE, Golf Online, iVillage, Netcom, StarMedia, Times Mirror, Snowball.com and The Sporting News amongst others.