Mentor for the Internet™ Allows Anyone to Quickly Master the Web Without Training

Mentor Media Makes Command of the Most Popular Internet Applications A Breeze

Norwalk, CT, November 7, 2001 — Mastery of the World Wide Web has never been so easy to achieve. Mentor Media Group today introduced Mentor for the Internet™, providing consumers with an exciting new way to master the Web. This newest Mentor harnesses the power of the leading communications, learning and support application used by six of the world's Fortune 10 corporations, allowing any user to understand and quickly master the top Internet applications — without training. The software delivers more than 170 concise, multimedia demonstrations that allow users to learn just what they want to know, when they need to know it. Mentor for the Internet, which retails for $19.95, is available to consumers online at www.thementorshop.com, as well as at Circuit City, CompUSA, J&R Computer World and MicroCenter stores across the country.

"Everyone from small business owners leveraging instant communications, to grandparents beginning to use email to connect with family, to mom's and dad's protecting their children from inappropriate Web content, to students doing research for school online — all of these people are beginning to leverage the power of the Web," says Dan Gallo, president and CEO of Mentor Media Group. "However, most of us are only familiar with some of the basic operations and never take full advantage of the power the Internet has to offer. Mentor for the Internet covers all you need — and without training. Mentor is for everyone who doesn't have the time to read manuals, or spend hours in a training course and taking tests. Just pick the task you need to perform, watch and listen to the short just-in-time demonstration, and then do it yourself."

Mentor for The Internet allows anyone to quickly master the mysteries of the World Wide Web with more than 170 individual multimedia on-screen demonstrations of Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook Express 6.0, AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, and MSN Explorer. For instance, by using Mentor one can easily learn how to chat with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, retrieve deleted e-mails in Outlook Express, publish a Web page in Internet Explorer and attach a picture in Windows Messenger.

Mentor for the Internet offers:

• The exact information users need, when they need it
• Accompanying audio to explain the precise task at hand
• Short conceptual movies to explain the software's purpose and possibilities
• Easy, one-button access, without leaving the software
• Always available support and help—doing away with memorization and lengthy text-based help screens
• A tried-and-true success path to master applications without training

Mentor for the Internet is the second home-use version of the company's software. Already available is the just released Mentor for Windows XP™. The company is also planning to release Home Edition versions of its Mentor for Office 2000™, Mentor for Windows 2000™, and Mentor for Windows Me™, followed by Mentor for Office XP™ in January 2002. To purchase Mentor online, log on to www.thementorshop.com.

About Mentor Media Group

Mentor Media Group is a leading business communications company offering custom and off-the-shelf e-learning products. With over six million user licenses sold, its flagship solution, Mentor™ helps companies get more out of their new technology by making users successful as soon as the systems are deployed. Now available to individual users as well as businesses, a Mentor can be added to any software to motivate and instruct users and give them instant, multimedia demonstrations of how to perform its functions. Mentors are appropriate for a wide range of products and services offered by software developers, hardware manufactures, Internet Service Providers, device manufacturers, and developers of e-Business systems or exchanges.

Mentor delivers just-in-time, sight-and-sound multimedia Communication, Learning, and Support via local networks, CDs, local hard drives, or streamed over the Internet. Mentors are available in multiple languages for Lotus products such as Notes, Sametime, QuickPlace, and TeamRoom; for popular Microsoft products such as Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Outlook 2000, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer; as well as for Netscape Navigator and custom applications. Mentor has become a learning standard at Fortune 500 companies like IBM, DuPont, Verizon, DaimlerChrysler, GE Capital, Duke Energy, Colgate-Palmolive, and many smaller companies. Mentor can be experienced online at http://www.trymentor.com

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