Conference for Government Agencies on Trust and Control in Government-to-Citizen Email to be Presented by Goodmail Systems and GovDelivery

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jun 19, 2007 — Goodmail Systems, Inc., creator of the CertifiedEmail service for trusted, assured email delivery, and GovDelivery, the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions, today announced that they would co-sponsor a free conference for government agencies titled "Trust and Control: Emerging Trends in Digital Communication." The panel discussion will reveal best practices on building and maintaining public trust in email communication. Keynote speakers Richard Gingras, CEO and co-founder of Goodmail Systems, Inc. and Scott Burns, CEO and co-founder of GovDelivery will provide attendees with an overview of today's trusted email services and offer practical tips for how to make government-to-citizen emails more effective. Participants will also learn best practices for enhancing public trust in email by using technology to proactively communicate information and policy to citizens.

In addition to Gingras and Burns, three major government agencies will present case studies on how to effectively reach the public by email.

WHO: Richard Gingras, CEO and co-founder of Goodmail Systems Scott Burns, CEO and co-founder of GovDelivery.

Richard Gingras is an accomplished luminary with 25+ years experience in leading networking technology and content businesses. Before assuming the position of CEO at Goodmail, he previously ran the online service efforts at @Home, (which later became Excite@Home),including the broadband and narrowband portal divisions, and served as SVP and General Manager of the company's consumer-focused product division, Excite Studios. In 1979, Gingras also created the first interactive set top-based news magazine in partnership with CBS and NBC. Scott Burns co-founded GovDelivery, Inc. in 2000 and has led the company to its current position as world leader in government-to-citizen email communication. Prior to GovDelivery, Burns was the Director of Marketing at SafeRent, Inc., and a consultant with McKinsey and Company. Burns has guided GovDelivery to its current position by consulting directly with the Company's broad public sector client base to understand how GovDelivery's unique, web-based platform, can meet government's needs.

About GovDelivery

GovDelivery, Inc., headquartered in St. Paul, MN, is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions. Its flagship product, GovDelivery Digital Subscription Management, uses a proprietary Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to provide organizations with fully-automated and on-demand communication with the public. Governments use GovDelivery to reach the public through e-mail, wireless alerts, and RSS. GovDelivery is used by more than one hundred public sector organizations worldwide including USA.gov, the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Departments of Labor, State, Agriculture, Transportation, and Commerce; U.K. Parliament; Texas Department of Health and Human Services; Orange County, CA; and Washington, D.C. GovDelivery is also used by transit authorities across the U.S., including the Tri-County Metropolitan District of Oregon (TriMet). For more information, please visit www.govdelivery.com.

About Goodmail Systems

Goodmail Systems makes CertifiedEmail™, the industry standard class of trusted email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity, and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of email available that assures delivery of all opt-in email messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, yielding measurable improvements in email campaign effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top ten email mailbox providers, and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

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