e.Republic Unveils Market-First GTtv Web Channel and Tailor-Made "My Briefcase" Personal Tool

Sacramento, CA (May 15, 2007) Government TechnologyTV (GTtv), a first-of-its-kind service for public sector media, is being launched by e.Republic, a national media, research and event company. The 24/7 online video channel is devoted to state and local IT news and features news bulletins, special reports, exclusive newsmaker interviews, vlogs, conference highlights, video case studies and more.

GTtv is one of a number of enhanced services of e.Republic's new Government Technology website, www.govtech.com. Govtech.com also offers My Briefcase, a sophisticated and powerful personalization tool that enables users to organize all their web content in a single space.

As the major sponsor of the state-of--the-art tool, My Briefcase is a partnership with Symantec. "My Briefcase is a valuable industry resource for readers to retain, reference, and share vital news on state and local government. We believe it will be a site readers come back to time and again to get the latest information on the topics driving today's government news", said Patrick Burns, Director of Public-Sector Marketing, Symantec.

The new website's expanded content includes exclusive previews of upcoming Government Technology articles, access to training content from Government Technology events, background papers and links to source documents, all of which can be clipped and saved within one's briefcase.

"GTtv and My Briefcase, as well as all the other new features of govtech.com, are part of our continued commitment to bring more information to users in unique and useful ways and tap into the power of our full breadth of content in print, research and online", said e.Republic's CEO, Dennis McKenna.

About Government Technology - Government Technology (www.govtech.com), a division of e.Republic, is the award-winning national magazine of record covering information technology's role in the business and policy of running modern state and local governments.

About e.Republic -- e.Republic, Inc. (www.erepublic.com) is the nation's leading publishing, research, event, and new media company focused on information technology for the state/local government and education markets.


Contact:
Patty Cota
Director of Corporate Communications
e.Republic, Inc.
pcota@erepublic.com
916-932-1300