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Colleagues,

... GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has been acquired by GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions ... GovLoop will become an operating division within GovDelivery, a software-as-a-service company, operating on a cloud computing platform that government agencies use to communicate. ... Steve Ressler, GovLoop founder and president, will continue in his role leading the fastgrowing GovLoop community... Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed...

... The acquisition unites two prominent players in the “Government 2.0,” market, as the application of social-networking technology to government functions has been termed. ... GovLoop has become the go-to online community for government professionals to collaborate, socialize and support each other... The site has members, mostly public sector employees, in both the U.S. and Europe...

“GovLoop has been my passion since I launched it in May 2008,” Ressler said. “What
began as a simple idea to improve government through collaboration has already grown
on a scale well beyond my expectations..."

... By the end of this year, GovLoop will launch additional initiatives to support the community with a goal of encouraging more in-person meetings, making it easier to tap into GovLoop to solve critical problems, and will launch a charitable fund ...

Read on at: http://www.govdelivery.com/govloop.php

ENJOY!

CC

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