Rick Smolan Elected to Democrasoft Board
January 19 2011 - 5:00AM
Marketwired
Democrasoft, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: DEMO) today announced that New York
and Sausalito-based entrepreneur, publisher and photographer Rick
Smolan has been elected to its Board of Directors, bringing the
number of directors to five.
Smolan, who has owned shares of the Company for nearly ten
years, is best known as the creator of the "Day in the Life" series
of coffee table books. His corporation, Against All Odds
Productions, Inc., specializes in the design and execution of
large-scale global projects that combine compelling storytelling
with state-of-the-art technology. Many of his books have been New
York Times best-sellers and have been featured on the covers of
Time, Newsweek, Fortune and U.S. News and World Report. Today more
than five million of his books adorn coffee tables around the
world; titles include America at Home, UK at Home, 24 Hours in
Cyberspace, The Power to Heal, Passage to Vietnam, One Digital Day,
From Alice to Ocean and the award-winning Blue Planet Run. Fortune
Magazine selected Against All Odds as "One of the 25 Coolest
Companies in America."
Smolan has been a pioneer in the world of global crowd-sourced
projects and employing practical new uses of technology, including
orchestrating the Internet's largest real time international poll
(The Planet Project), the first commercialization of custom cover
technology (America 24/7), creating the first book to include an
award winning interactive CD-ROM (From Alice to Ocean) and
producing the first large-scale solely custom published coffee
table book (The Obama Time Capsule). Because all of his projects
have been made possible through collaboration with corporate
sponsors, Smolan is extremely familiar with the benefits of sponsor
funding, one of the monetization options being employed with
Democrasoft's Collaborize Classroom™ product.
"Our schools and our teachers are being challenged by budget
constraints every day," Smolan said. "I'm very excited to be
working with Democrasoft to bring its Collaborize Classroom
learning tool to hundreds of thousands of kids across the country,
in part through the use of Democrasoft's unique sponsorship model."
A frequent guest on television programs including The Today Show,
Martha Stewart, Good Morning America and similar programs, Smolan
has recruited sponsorships from Fortune 500 companies including
Apple, Google, Facebook, Intel, Hewlett Packard, eBay, IKEA, Kodak,
Federal Express and Adobe.
"Rick will bring a wonderful new dimension to our Board," CEO
Richard Lang noted. "He knows how to create practical uses for new
technologies and he knows how to make a profit -- both very helpful
traits. We are very excited that he will be active in helping to
enhance our shareholder value by making our Collaborize products
successful."
About DemocraSoft®: DemocraSoft, Inc., headquartered in Santa
Rosa, CA, is a 20-year-old public company (PINKSHEETS: DEMO) with a
history of pioneering technology. The company's flagship product,
Collaborize®, is a web-based solution for organizing groups with a
common purpose into powerful, decision-making communities. It is
designed to empower groups of all sizes -- businesses, non-profits,
organizations, governments, their members and citizens -- to
resolve real problems and drive toward actual implementation of
collective solutions. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating a
vision of online "social networking with purpose." For more
information, please visit http://Democrasoft.com.
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For Further Information Contact: Richard Lang 888-993-8683
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