Free Web Sites Available for San Diego Groups

Business Wire, Sept 11, 1998

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1998--

SanDiegoInsider.com Invites Noncommercial Organizations to Training Sessions Sept. 19, 24

SanDiegoInsider.com invites San Diego's noncommercial civic, arts, entertainment, sports, recreation, business and technology-related organizations to post Web sites free of charge on its high-traffic interactive city site.

Local organizations interested in creating a new Web site or broadening the scope of an existing site may attend a training session at SanDiegoInsider.com.

Demonstrations will be held every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, and from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, and every Thursday thereafter. SanDiegoInsider.com offices are at 3965 Fifth Ave., Suite 230 in the Village Hillcrest building. RSVPs are a must to Community Producer Randi Wapner at (619) 610-5566. Interested groups also may request a free do-it-yourself guide by emailing Wapner at randi.wapner@cimedia.com.

Among those already involved in SanDiegoInsider.com's Groups Channel are: Crime Stoppers, OMBAC, the National Association of Women Business Owners, Mama's Kitchen, Hall of Champions, Maritime Museum, Skill Centers of America, Rotaract, San Diegans United for Safe Neighborhoods and many others.

According to Mark Forster, site manager for SanDiegoInsider.com, this free opportunity provides high visibility for groups, easy-to-use publishing tools, full support and integrated promotion on SanDiegoInsider.com. The Groups Channel is provided as a community service.

SanDiegoInsider.com is a locally produced online product of Cox Interactive Media. The city site is available free on the Internet at www.SanDiegoInsider.com and on the Cox@Home high-speed Internet access service. SanDiegoInsider.com provides a highly interactive arena where San Diegans can access entertainment, sports, recreation, groups, news and auto channels. Content changes daily and is driven by its users, who contribute opinions and ideas on any and all topics.

CIM is the nation's largest provider of local content sites on the Internet. The volume of CIM pages read by consumers exceeds the page view performance of any other local site network. To date, this network includes 21 city sites (www.cimedia.com).

CIM is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly-traded Cox Radio, Inc.) and publicly traded Cox Communications, Inc. (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in addition to Cox Interactive Media. The company also is the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial services, government auctions, online services and price guides.

    CONTACT: Cox Interactive Media
              John Pihl
              619.610.5568
              jpihl@cimedia.com
              or
              Scribe Communications
              Jan Percival
              619.452.8958
              jpercival@aol.com