Circle.com Enables New Womens Executive Network Web Site; First Full-Service Web Site for Women's Career Development

Business Wire, Jan 13, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2000

Circle.com (NASDAQ:CIRC), a leading provider of complete end-to-end Web enabling services for leading companies, has launched the new Web site www.thewen.com. The new site for the Womens Executive Network (WEN) is the Web's first full-service job placement and career development company focusing on professional women.

Today, there are only 4 female CEO's at Fortune 500 companies, and women currently represent only 11% of corporate officers and directors. To address this challenge, the executives of WEN and Circle.com have collaborated to design and build a site that invites the formation of the WENetwork - a community of individuals, companies, organizations and universities who are united in the common goal of helping women achieve their full career potential.

WENetwork provides individual women with unique pathways to professional success, and also offers corporations the opportunity to attract and retain a more diversified work force. Circle.com, selected for its complete range of strategic e-commerce consulting offerings -- online branding, design and technology -- built a complete business to business e-commerce solution for WEN. Through job listings, business networking, mentoring and internship programs, articles, and bulletin boards, viewers and participants continuously build the WENetwork community.

"We're proud to have been able to provide our expertise to design, build, and launch the Women's Executive Network. The innovative concept behind the site has given us the perfect opportunity to showcase our commitment to bringing emerging dot com enterprises from strategy to execution - and most importantly, to providing them with the capabilities to deepen customer relationships online."

Amy Glynn, CEO of the Womens Executive Network, chose Circle.com because it could help with every aspect of the site. "Circle.com had everything we needed to make this an e-business which would reflect our vision. We rely on their impressive experience and expertise in customer relationship management, their amazing can-do attitude to technology, online branding, and design, as well as their advertising and marketing resources," said Glynn.

"The site is organized so that we can easily make the changes we need as we go forward. As a start-up, we relied on Circle's ability to lead us through the process and work around our strengths and weaknesses. They sincerely cared about our business and treated us like partners."

About Circle.com

http://www.circle.com

Circle.com (NASDAQ:CIRC) is a leading provider of customer relationship management solutions on the Web, providing complete end-to-end Web enabling services for leading companies. Circle.com, a division of Snyder Communications, Inc. (NYSE:SNC), employs over 400 people in offices worldwide, and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

About The Women's Executive Network (TheWEN)

http://www.thewen.com