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Conestoga College Brings the Classroom to the Students

Interactive Technology Provided by eShare Technologies Is the First to Enable Students to Access Institution in Real-time

Commack, NY — March 2, 1999 — eShare Technologies Inc., the expert in human interaction on the Internet, today announced that Conestoga College (www.conestoga.edu), one of Canada's leading educational institutions, has chosen the company's software to enable its cutting-edge Internet-based education system. The college is using eShare's Expressions® Interaction Suite software product to enrich its educational program with revolutionary distance learning applications.

Using the full suite of eShare's chat software, Conestoga now offers students the opportunity to "attend" classes online with complete real-time access to professors and classmates. This unique technology enables students to simply log-on through the college Web site and participate in lectures or study sessions via online chat. No other ".edu" site has offered such a program for college credit. In the past, distance learning on the Internet has occurred on a text-only basis and never in real-time. eShare allows the Conestoga program to offer its students multi-media service at the click of a button.

"There's never really been a program like this one to-date," said Kevin Milne, the independent contractor charged with organizing Conestoga's multi-media services. "eShare's technology allows us to completely eliminate the learning curve that exists with other distance learning applications."

Conestoga chose eShare because the company's products provide the school with the best aspects of both distance learning and formal classroom training in an interactive environment. eShare Expressions Interaction Suite enables students to receive information, ask questions and confer with other students without having to spend extra time downloading software. Students are able to log on to the Conestoga Web site and immediately enter their online "classrooms." In addition, eShare's software does not subject its users to advertising banners that can be disruptive to the learning experience.

Conestoga expects to have 30,000 students enrolled worldwide in the Internet distance learning program over the next two years. The school participates in joint online programs with other learning programs globally, including the Melbourne Institute in Australia.

About eShare Expressions®
eShare Expressions is a scalable suite of chat products that enables customers to increase communications, collaboration and community building. The product suite features: chat, bulletin boards, online presentations and an API set to allow for integration with legacy databases and directories. eShare Expressions features a powerful chat server that allows users to interact in real-time using any browser. No special client software, downloads, or plug-ins are necessary and users have their choice of Java or HTML formats.

About eShare Technologies
eShare Technologies, Inc. (www.eshare.com) delivers powerful enterprise-class interaction software and services that are crucial for eBusiness. These innovative technologies include Web-based customer service and support, customer self-service, live conferencing and events, distance learning, Community chat, threaded discussion forums and custom integration tools. Current eShare Technologies clients include AOL, AT&T WorldNet Service, Computer Associates, GeoCities, Lycos, networkMCI, UUNet, the University of Florida, Pfizer, Bertelsmann, Columbia University, Hewlett Packard, Xerox and 1-800 FLOWERS.

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