Partnership with Symmetry Services Group to Serve E-Learning Needs of Government Agencies

Washington, DC, August 8, 2006 -- QMIND, a leader in design collaboration software for rich media and instructional content, today announced that its flagship product, the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform, is now available for purchase off of the federal government GSA schedule.

By using the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform, these agencies in conjunction with their prime contractors will be able to become more efficient in creating electronic training content with the participation of distributed teams.

Federal agencies have embraced e-learning technology in order to improve efficiencies in government for the training of personnel. QMIND has partnered with Symmetry Services Group located in the Washington D.C. area to list QMIND software and services on the Symmetry GSA schedule. By having QMIND on Symmetry's GSA Schedule, federal agencies and their contractors will save time and money in gaining access to QMIND's products and services to pursue e-learning projects.

"Public sector organizations have embraced automation of training based on the need to demonstrate specific job skill attainment," said Michael Berkley, President and CEO of QMIND. "By using the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform, these agencies in conjunction with their prime contractors will be able to become more efficient in creating electronic training content with the participation of distributed teams."

For instance, the FBI offers more than 2,500 courses to its 30,000 employees, and has seen tremendous benefits from e-learning. The FBI's Virtual Academy is available to employees on their desktop computers, and it includes performance support tools and instant advice for managers who need information about dealing with different situations, said Jim Trinka, the bureau's assistant director of training and development. (FCW.com, August 29, 2005)

The recently announced QMIND Design Collaboration Platform Summer 2006 Release (see separate QMIND press release dated July 31, 2006) has extended the core QMIND software capabilities for storyboarding content, review collaboration, and production automation. With this release, public sector agencies will be able to streamline the creation of new content and enhancement of existing content using QMIND's new capability for automating the conversion of Microsoft Word documents into interactive FLASH multimedia. QMIND also has concurrently created an open API to FLASH enabling extended multimedia production capabilities using QMIND for government e-learning projects.

"QMIND significantly reduces time-to-delivery by fostering collaboration among distributed teams throughout the entire design and approval workflow," said William Fowkes, President of Symmetry Services Group. "The government market also values that QMIND is available as a web-hosted service or in an enterprise server edition which can address security requirements."

Pricing and Availability

The QMIND Design Collaboration Platform Summer 2006 release is available immediately for public sector organizations from the Symmetry Services Group GSA Schedule #GS-35F-0171S. Pricing for QMIND software on the GSA schedule is approximately $1,840 per user based on an annual subscription.

About QMIND:

QMIND develops and markets web-based software enabling teams to collaboratively design, review, and publish interactive multimedia for training and marketing. QMIND's flagship Design Collaboration Platform is the world's first team-based multimedia design offering addressing the specific needs of geographically distributed creative teams. QMIND is headquartered in Portland, Oregon and sells its software to corporations directly and through a network for authorized resellers.

About Symmetry Services Group:

Symmetry Services Group is a woman-owned small business located in Vienna, Virginia just outside the Capitol Beltway. Its market area includes the Federal Government, State of Virginia and commercial organizations with geographic reach to the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the United States Virgin Islands. Symmetry provides information technology and financial services and support to government and commercial organizations.

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QMIND, the leader in collaborative rich media design software, announced a major update to their web-based software that enables professional e-learning and marketing design teams to collaboratively design and manage rich media content.

Portland, OR, August 1, 2006 -- QMIND, Inc. today announced the Summer 2006 Update release to its Design Collaboration Platform, used by e-learning and creative design professionals to streamline team-based content development and management. The update includes several new multimedia production capabilities, an open Flash API, and usability enhancements.

Originally released in October of 2005, QMIND's design collaboration software addresses struggles that are commonly faced by e-learning and marketing design teams: improving collaboration on storyboard design, managing the review and feedback cycle of digital assets, and speeding production of storyboards into interactive Flash content. QMIND offers its web-based platform on a per user subscription basis.

Some of the new features in the update include: conversion of MS Word documents into interactive Flash multimedia, enhanced tools for creating non-linear (user-driven) branching navigation, and an API enabling Flash programmers to extend the multimedia production capabilities of QMIND.

"QMIND continues to push the envelope of what’s possible with web-based applications," said CEO, Michael Berkley. "The power of QMIND’s server-based multimedia production engine rivals that of desktop production tools and beats the pants off of traditional enterprise content management systems. This gives distributed project teams a huge advantage in both content quality and time-to-market."

The release of this product update follows an extensive QMIND customer feedback program, involving interviews and focus groups. "It’s critical that we give our customers the loudest voice in determining product direction and enhancement," said Kim Ramage, QMIND’s Vice President of Customer Operations.

About QMIND:
QMIND, Inc. develops and markets web-based software enabling teams to collaboratively design, review, and publish interactive multimedia for training and marketing. QMIND’s Design Collaboration Platform is the world’s first team-based multimedia design platform addressing specific needs of internal and geographically distributed creative teams. QMIND is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with sales associates in Washington, D.C.; Austin, Texas; and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Provider of design collaboration software for design teams ranks beside the industry’s most respected e-learning software and service providers.

Portland, OR, July 5, 2006 -- QMIND, provider of on-demand design collaboration software for e-learning design teams, was listed this week by TrainingOutsourcing as one of the top 20 providers in the e-learning market.

As more organizations struggle to create and maintain current e-learning and training, third party suppliers become a critical component for controlling quality and cost. TrainingOutsourcing’s annual list recognizes leading training outsourcing companies for their high quality of services and comprehensive capabilities. All have demonstrated expertise and experience in managing major business process outsourcing engagements as well as creating a significant impact on the industry.

QMIND's on-demand solutions have proven to dramatically reduce time-to-market of mission critical training content for corporations with geographically distributed teams as well as those that partner with outsource agencies.

"QMIND is among a short list of companies that possess unique capabilities. They have demonstrated an ability to add business value through innovative learning initiatives," said Doug Harward, CEO and founder of TrainingOutsourcing.com.

Michael Berkley, founder and CEO of QMIND, said, "We are very pleased to be recognized among the leaders in training solutions. This proves we have created a unique, vital solution." Berkley and a core team of design professionals have built QMIND to fill a void they experienced first hand within large enterprises and design agencies. QMIND’s web-based software supports collaborative design, visualization, and publishing of instructional multimedia content. The solution dramatically reduces costly delays and endless rework of web-based training and marketing content, and makes it possible for design teams, who are often distributed geographically, to streamline content development.

The 20 companies on this list are recognized as leaders or 'best in class' in supplying specific learning process services in support of comprehensive training outsourcing service providers or directly to corporate and government clients.

TrainingOutsourcing reviewed 75 companies to assess their expertise, experience, strengths and capabilities. They evaluated corporate competencies in the 22 processes identified in the Training Process Framework. They also looked at the strength within 13 business capabilities areas such as financial stability, geographic reach, and talent leadership.

QMIND, founded in 2004, achieved this recognition among considerably larger companies like Hewlett Packard and Thomson. QMIND shares the content development tools category with Adobe and Harbinger Group.

About QMIND:
QMIND, Inc. http://www.qmind.com develops and markets web-based software enabling teams to collaboratively design, review, and publish interactive multimedia for training and marketing. QMIND’s Design Collaboration Platform is the world’s first team-based multimedia design platform addressing specific needs of internal and geographically distributed creative teams. QMIND is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with sales associates in Washington, D.C.; Austin, Texas; and Lansing, Michigan.

About Training Outsourcing:
TrainingOutsourcing.com is a web-based knowledge community dedicated to the training industry and focused on bringing corporate executives and training suppliers together to facilitate mutually beneficial economic relationships. Additional information on TrainingOutsourcing.com can be found at http://www.trainingoutsourcing.com. TrainingOutsourcing.com is a division of Training Industry, Inc., based in Cary, North Carolina.

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QMIND’s Innovative Multimedia Design System Now Available in Michigan

Gregory, MI, May 11, 2006 -- Companies Bellisle and QMIND today announced the signing of a reseller agreement bringing representation for the innovative QMIND Design Collaboration Platform to Michigan for the first time.

QMIND released the world’s first 100% web-based multimedia design system for e-learning and marketing applications last Fall.

The QMIND Design Collaboration Platform™ is the only collaborative authoring system that integrates storyboarding, project management, automated Flash production, and client feedback management into a hosted platform. QMIND customers typically realize a 50% time savings in their development projects. By automating redundant and non-strategic tasks, QMIND frees the instructional design and development team to focus on their value-added skills: instructional and creative design.

“The market is ripe for QMIND, and this alliance will help us blow the roof right off,” said Michael Berkley, CEO and founder of Portland, Oregon based QMIND. “Companies Bellisle includes some amazing talent. Debbie deSousa has been helping develop and implement on-line tools since the days of 14.4 modems. And Paul deSousa is one of the great innovative system thinkers in the Instructional Design and Development world. We are thrilled to be allied with these veterans who still keep it fresh every day.”

Paul J. deSousa, principle consultant for Companies Bellisle, says “I’ve developed online learning since the early ‘90’s and this is an unprecedented new tool to streamline the complex web based training development process. This will do for the front end of the e-learning process what Learning Management Systems have done for the
back end."

Companies Bellisle is a business development and performance improvement consulting firm located in Gregory, MI, North West of Ann Arbor. The company provides outsourced instructional design and development services, performance consulting and allied services.

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Vancouver, WA, March 10, 2006 -- Learning Point Inc, a leading provider of training, tools, and resources announced today that it has chosen QMIND as its preferred development platform for online courseware.

Mark Christensen, President of Learning Point, Inc. said that the entire Learning Point team is extremely excited about the potential that QMIND presents. “We have been piloting QMIND for the past nine months. In that period of time we have discovered just how powerful the platform will be in streamlining our development process. Naturally, our clients will benefit from this the most as they will have high quality learning solutions at less cost,” said Christensen. "The QMIND tool will enable our development teams to create asset-rich courses in 30% less time and at 30% less cost.”

QMIND is the brainchild of Michael Berkley, a leading programmer and rising entrepreneur based in Portland, Oregon. The QMIND Design Collaboration Platform enables teams to collaboratively produce interactive multimedia in real-time over the web, eliminating many of the inefficiencies inherent in team-based design projects.
“Working with Learning Point during our pre-release pilot program proved critical in ensuring that the QMIND platform provides maximum value and ease-of-use to training design teams,” Berkley said. “We now look forward to supporting Learning Point and their clients in a long-term partnership.”

LEARNING POINT, INC. is a full-service training and development firm based in Vancouver, WA. Founded in 1989, Learning Point has helped companies all over the world develop leadership, productivity, and manufacturing skills to their managers, supervisors, and employees. The Learning Point team possesses an extensive background in manufacturing, operations, organization development, change management, workforce development, and communications. This background, coupled with acute attention to client needs, makes Learning Point uniquely qualified to deliver powerful learning solutions to meet specific organizational needs. Their clients have included Freightliner, Honeywell, GE, Northrup-Grumman, Kennametal, Weyerhaeuser, Kimberly-Clark, adidas, Xerox, and Autoliv.

QMIND, Inc. is dedicated to improving creative design productivity through the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform. QMIND’s web-based collaboration system is the only team-based software that provides seamless integration between content storyboarding, interactive Flash production, media file management, project management, and client review & approval management. http://www.qmind.com

For more information please visit www.learningpointinc.com or contact 360-992-0830 or info@learningpointinc.com.

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Portland-based QMIND, which introduced the e-learning industry’s first “on demand” content design system last fall, will be presenting at Oregon’s premier investment event.

Portland, OR, February 14, 2006 – It was announced today that QMIND, Inc. (www.qmind.com) has been selected as a finalist in Angel Oregon 2006, the Northwest’s premier investment competition for innovative startup companies. QMIND, the leader in “on demand” e-learning authoring solutions, will be competing with three other startups for a winner-take-all prize of $150,000.

The CEO of QMIND, Michael Berkley, said, “Being selected as a finalist in Angel Oregon is a huge honor and further validates our business model. QMIND is positioned well within a niche market that is starting to explode. In just the first few months since releasing our product, we’ve received incredible validation from a growing set of customers, resellers, and partners. These are the basic ingredients of an attractive seed opportunity for angel investors.”

QMIND’s flagship product, released last October, is a Design Collaboration Platform that enables teams to collaboratively produce interactive multimedia over the web, in about half the time normally required using traditional methods. The web-based system is being adopted by training and marketing teams within corporations, government agencies, and higher-education institutions seeking to increase the quality of content while reducing costs. It is offered on a monthly or annual subscription basis.

"We're very excited to see a young and promising company like QMIND competing for the $150,000 investment prize at Angel Oregon," said Linda Weston, president and executive director of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum (OEF), which is presenting the event. "The four finalists this year are all excellent examples of the kind of creative, even visionary companies growing here in Oregon. This year's competition is going to be very impressive."

QMIND is headquartered at the Portland State Business Accelerator, a business incubator for start-up technology companies that links resident companies to the resources of the university community as well as the business community.

"QMIND's leadership has shown good business savvy in the company's short stay here. It knows its market well and is doing the things a start-up needs to do to be successful," said Carol Mason, director of the Accelerator.

The Angel Oregon conference will be held on February 23rd in Portland, Oregon. Event and registration details can be found at www.oef.org.

About QMIND
QMIND is dedicated to improving multimedia design productivity through the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform. QMIND’s web-based collaboration system is the only solution that provides seamless integration between storyboarding, Flash production, media file management, project management, and client review & approval management. www.qmind.com

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WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17, 2006 — QMIND, the leader in on-demand e-learning authoring solutions, today announced the strategic alliance with Symmetry Services Group, a woman-owned small business in Vienna, Virginia. Based upon customer statistics, it is estimated that the federal government can save over $4,145 per employee or contractor, per month, by using the QMIND platform.

The CEO of QMIND, Michael Berkley, said, “At a time when the federal government is looking for ways to reduce costs and increase individual productivity, all of us at QMIND are excited about having a qualified government reseller in the Washington, D.C. area. By teaming with Symmetry, QMIND will be able to securely deliver products via our ASP model while knowing our federal government customers will receive outstanding local support when needed.”

The QMIND platform is a web-based e-learning authoring system that streamlines the development of online training programs. The platform provides an “anytime, anywhere” shared workspace for all government team members and outside contractors, no matter where they are located. In addition to facilitating collaboration, the platform automates many authoring and multimedia production processes.

According to IDC research, government spending on e-learning development tools has been growing about 30% each year since 2002 and is projected to continue at that level through 2008.

Bill Fowkes, the President of Symmetry Services Group said, “QMIND software truly adds value to the missions of both Federal end users and prime contractors. With tight travel budgets and time sensitive program constraints, web-based training programs serve as a cost-effective answer to these problems. QMIND will not only reduce the cost of creating government e-learning programs, it will increase the level of collaboration among government agencies, contractors, and subject matter experts.”

As a secure, ASP-hosted application, QMIND enables distributed government teams, even when spread among multiple agencies and contracting firms, to collaborate on design plans, storyboarding, media file creation and review, multimedia production, and project management. QMIND's servers are hosted in high security, high performance data centers, with a guaranteed 100% up time.

About QMIND
QMIND is a Portland, Oregon based company dedicated to improving e-learning productivity and reducing project costs through the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform?. QMIND’s on-demand collaboration system is the only solution that integrates storyboarding, instructional design, project management, asset management, QA, and client review & feedback into a single, hosted platform. www.qmind.com

About Symmetry Services Group
Symmetry is a woman-owned small business located in Vienna, Virginia just outside the Capitol Beltway, whose market area includes the Federal Government, State of Virginia and commercial organizations. Symmetry provide information technology and financial services and support to government and commercial organizations. This includes e-learning software, nationwide hardware maintenance, data migration, installation rollouts, staff augmentation, accounting, audit and financial modeling.

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Portland, OR, November 14, 2005 - QMIND, Inc. today announced the release of the multimedia industry’s first “on demand” Design Collaboration Platform. Following the leaked memos from Microsoft and Salesforce.com last week, the QMIND announcement adds to the increasing buzz around “on demand” software.

The QMIND Design Collaboration Platform enables geographically distributed teams to collaboratively author and produce rich, interactive multimedia content. The Internet-based platform, which requires no software to install, is targeted at project teams within corporations and creative agencies who create e-learning, marketing, and advertising content. QMIND offers the hosted platform on a monthly per user subscription basis.

QMIND, a startup in Portland, Oregon, is a pioneer in collaborative multimedia authoring solutions. Today’s announcement is the company’s first public statement on the Design Collaboration Platform. Prior to today the company has been quietly selling the platform to multimedia design agencies since September.

In the product release announcement, CEO Michael Berkley stated that “QMIND is generating a lot of grassroots excitement because it alleviates very real pain in the creative process that until now has been unaddressed. Producing storyboards, programming Flash content, streamlining the review and approval process, and managing projects with teams spread among different organizations and around the world -- these were costly challenges our customers once faced. Now they are no longer challenges.”

Commenting on the significance of the recent news out of Microsoft, Berkley notes: “Microsoft’s move to an on demand model clearly underscores their belief in the market’s acceptance of hosted, subscription-based software. People are realizing that hosted software vendors like QMIND who leverage high-performance data centers are fully equipped to protect the security and privacy of corporate data and assets.”

QMIND will publicly unveil the Design Collaboration Platform this week in San Francisco, at the eLearning Guild’s DevLearn 2005 Conference.

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