Nibipedia Adds Seven Curators

Business Wire, June 10, 2009

Growing YouTube/Wikipedia Mashup is Encyclopedic Database of Quality Educational Videos; Offers "Video Deep Linking" via Social Media, Plus Timeline Annotation

STILLWATER, Minn. -- Nibi Software Group, Inc., the provider of next-generation collaborative learning solutions, today announced that it has added seven curators to the staff of its flagship site, Nibipedia(TM), to help accommodate the site's booming growth.

"Our vision to radically strengthen education tomorrow by building collaborative video libraries today is working faster than we imagined," said Troy A. Peterson, CEO and Co-founder of Nibi Software Group. "The tidal wave of enthusiasm about Nibipedia from educators, corporate enterprises, and policy makers has provided resources that now help us accelerate growth, build depth, and strengthen focus."

Nibipedia is a database of quality educational videos that grows in value as users annotate moments in time on video with annotations and links to Wikipedia articles and other relevant reference materials. Nibipedia combines wiki communities and video learning. The site is built to leverage all of today's highest-traffic social media platforms — including Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, and MySpace — as channels to feed and build high-quality, specialized learning communities.

The new curators come from widely varying backgrounds, including studies in biology, economics, medicine, environmental science, political science, linguistics, and religious studies. They will help Nibi Software Group build and aggregate a rich, interconnected, and searchable video database unlike anything in existence today.

Discover how you can search videos, add "nibs" (annotation), and help build communities today on Nibipedia. As you'll find visiting the Nibipedia site, any number of loosely-structured communities are coming into shape. Ever growing and shifting, these communities are generally built around coinciding intellectual, aesthetic, political, environmental, or moral concerns that folks in today's Nibipedia community have. The quality of Nibipedia's video library is enhanced by the brilliance of Nibipedia curators and you, the commentator. It's all about adding value and depth to serious conversations about serious things. And engaging with other intelligent people about every other manner of thing fun, exciting, and dramatic! All enabled by some of the coolest tools for video collaboration and annotation around today.

If you're an educator who's visited the site and is interested in not only adding annotation and links, but also sharing videos with the curators and the Nibipedia community, please write troyapeterson@nibipedia.com.

About Nibi Software Group, Inc.

Nibi Software Group, Inc., is a development company focused on using social collaboration to build, distribute, and share rich content. Based in Stillwater, MN, and founded in 2008 by Troy A. Peterson and Terry Schubring, Nibi Software Group right now is assembling a powerful team to bring its services to market. To learn more about how Nibi Software Group can help school districts cultivate interest, attention in students that produces measurably better results, or how your corporation can use Nibi Software Group tools to spread knowledge more effectively, write info@nibipedia.com, or visit www.nibipedia.com.