Learn.com Acquires The Assets Of Mentor Media Group, Inc.

Mentor® The Employee Performance Support Systems Company Teaches New Technologies without Training

Sunrise, FL May 14th, 2004 - Learn.com, Inc., the world’s largest provider of Learning Management Systems, Retail Computer Based Training Products, eAgent technology and Course Authoring Tools announced today it has purchased all the assets of Mentor Media Group, Inc. (www.trymentor.com). Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, Mentor Media Group is an innovator and Industry leader in Employee Performance Support Systems (EPSS) or Human Performance Support Systems (HPSS) products and technology that help employees, customers, and supplier’s master software and e-business applications, without training.

With over seven million seat licenses sold, Mentor®, the acquired Company’s flagship product line, offers an extensive portfolio, including Mentors for IBM’s Lotus Notes, Domino Web Access (iNotes), Sametime with "Best Practices," and QuickPlace, in addition to Microsoft’s Windows and Office, 2000 and XP. Mentor also creates Custom EPSS for software products and customers’ e-business systems, Web forms, and Websites. Users learn by viewing brief, multimedia just-in-time presentations and demonstrations accessed by a single click right from the application toolbar or web browser giving users just what they need to know, when they need to know it. Users may also toggle between the Mentor and the subject software to be led through the task they want to perform. Mentor eliminates the need for the user to retain large amounts of task-centered knowledge.

“We are pleased to add Mentor to our award-winning mix of e-learning products, including the state-of-the art LearnCenter® Learning Management System (LMS), CourseMaker® Studio authoring tool, eAgent Technology, and extensive course catalogs,” said Jim Riley, President & CEO of Learn.com. “This Acquisition completely rounds out our offerings to our Clients. We believe tightly integrating EPSS into the current e-learning environment is the next generation, in Human Capital Support and Development. This is also the most pragmatic way to develop and offer automated help desk support. Mentor has been developing cutting edge Employee Performance Support Systems for over a decade. For example, they recently delivered an EPSS to AOL (America Online) the world’s largest ISP. Now AOL’s 35 million users can access ’Custom Show Me Mentors‘, immediately when they need the support most, on AOL 9.0 Optimized, allowing the users to quickly adopt and master new features. This acquisition is a great synergy because Mentor’s Employee Performance Support Systems have all been developed with Learn.com’s CourseMaker Studio Authoring Tool. There are no integration pains or issues for our company or our clients.

To coincide with the announcement of this new partnership, Learn.com has announced a new promotion which will provide an immediate benefit to Learn.com and Mentor clients (the combined company). All existing Mentor clients will be offered a 30% discount on all products in the Learn.com e-learning suite. Conversely, Learn.com clients are being offered a 30% discount on all Mentor products. This promotion will last until August 1st, 2004.

Mentor Media Group exists to help companies get more out of their investments in new technology, e-Business, and new business processes. The Company’s products 1) reduce the time it takes people to assimilate and master new systems, 2) reduce or eliminate training costs 3) dramatically lower end user support costs, especially Help Desks and 4.) Increase the return on investment for new product launches while decreasing time to market for new products.

“We’ve had a close relationship with Learn.com’s products and people for many years,” said Dan Gallo, President & CEO of Mentor Media Group, Inc. “The synergy couldn’t be stronger. With the skills and processes we’ve developed to maximize the value of Learn.com’s technologies, we’ll make a strong contribution to their offering set and to their customers. We look forward to generating value for our current Clients due to the possibilities we see as a combined Company and exploring those yet to emerge.”

Mentor Media Group is the official tutorial company for America Online (AOL 9.0 Optimized).

EPSS Defined

An EPSS or Employee Performance Support System is any electronic system offering integrated, on-demand access to information, advice, learning experiences, and tools to enable a high level of job performance with a minimum of support from other people. The goal of EPSS is to provide whatever Just in Time training is necessary to generate performance and learning at that critical moment of need. This form of training allows users to become more productive in a shorter amount of time.

About Learn.com

Learn.com, Inc. is a leading provider of e-learning solutions that enable businesses and educational institutions to train their constituents while managing the education process. The company offers an award winning family of one-vendor, one-solution products that include a state-of-the-art Learning Management System (LMS), CourseMaker Studio® authoring tool, just-in-time tutorials and extensive course catalogs.

The company was voted by readers of Training Magazine to have the Best Learning Management System, Best Course Authoring Tool and Best Collaboration Software for 2003. For more information, visit www.Learn.com.

About Mentor Media Group, Inc.

Mentor Media Group, Inc. is a leading business communications company offering custom and off-the-shelf user deployment solutions. With over seven million user seats sold, Mentor programs help companies get more out of their new technology by making users successful as soon as the technology is deployed. Mentors are appropriate for a wide variety of products and services offered by software developers, hardware manufactures, ISPs, makers of wireless devices, and developers of e-commerce sites or exchanges.

Mentor delivers just-in-time multimedia support via local networks, CD-ROMs, local hard drives, or streamed over the Internet. Mentor products are available for Lotus products such as Notes, Sametime, QuickPlace, and TeamRoom and for popular Microsoft products such as Windows 2000 and XP, Office 2000 and XP, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer. Mentor has become a deployment and support standard in a wide range of companies of all sizes.

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