IT IS NOW SIMPLY 'WIMBA'

06/04/2007


NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Horizon Wimba Name Change Reflects Brand Simplification


Horizon Wimba, the education technology company that helps people teach
people, announced today that it has changed its name to Wimba. The company
will continue to offer the same collaborative software and services to its
education customers, while rationalizing the brand.


Wimba's brand reconciliation will eliminate the multiple monikers and
identities that currently define the company.


"We've been known as Horizon Wimba, HorizonLive and even Wimba since
HorizonLive and Wimba merger in 2004," said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO of Wimba.
"We want our customers to identify us by our incredible products and
committed customer service-period. To date, our brand has been known for
having multiple names and identities and this shift addresses that reality."


Staying the Same:


The products and services upon which education institutions worldwide
have grown to trust and rely won't change. Wimba will support its products
and customers as it always has.


Wimba's new tagline: People Teach People.


Wimba enables the achievement of key pedagogical objectives that cannot
be reached with standard course management systems. Such objectives include
fostering instructive dialogue, creating hands-on interaction, and ensuring
access to as many students as possible. The software helps students and
teachers connect by combining interactive technologies such as voice, video,
podcasting, content authoring, assessment, and instant messaging with an
educators' mission to stimulate the most powerful educational tool of all
time -- the mind.


The tagline reflects Wimba's belief that while technology is a
significant enabler of education, at the end of the day it is people who
teach people.


New product offering: The Wimba Collaboration Bundle


The Wimba Collaboration Bundle offers a rich array of collaborative tools
that allow faculty to retain the highly personal and lively nature of
traditional classroom instruction. From voice to video, from podcasting to
content authoring to instant messaging, the Collaboration Bundle works
seamlessly within existing online courses so instructors never need a new
username or password, and never have to leave their familiar online course
environments.


New company division: Wimba Publishing Services


Wimba Publishing Services knows that a textbook isn't simply a textbook
anymore -- it's part of a collection of learning materials tailored by the
demands of a school's professors and students. Wimba Publishing Services
combines the Company's expertise in providing services for academic
publishing companies with its expertise in collaborative technologies to help
schools and publishers create compelling offerings for delivering and
assessing content in all disciplines.


About Wimba


Wimba is a company focused solely on education and dedicated to the
principle that people learn more when they are drawn closer together. Our
collaborative software applications for the online education market enable
institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course
management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person learning
environments. Wimba's intuitive solutions enable educators and students to
quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live chat and
instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to
text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba solutions
to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible web pages and to create
and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Our focus on education and
collaboration with educators fuels our product development.


Wimba. People Teach People. http://www.wimba.com


Web site: http://www.wimba.com


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