Wednesday, April 27, 2005 -
21Publish, a company
offering turnkey solutions to start a branded blog service for corporate and
community blogging, has signed a licensing deal with amnesty international
Germany, it was announced today by Stefan Wiskemann, President of 21Publish.
amnesty international Germany has chosen 21Publish to build a
fully customized blogging community where the local amnesty chapters can set up
and run their individual blogs. Local groups of the human rights organization
will enjoy the benefits of easy web publishing and communication while all blogs
have a standardized design, so that they can easily be recognized as being part
of ai.
“The
participation of our local groups is an extremely important part of our battle
for human rights. With 21publish we will be able to provide a voice on the
Internet to all of our local groups and to strengthen amnesty’s presence on the
Internet” said Klaus H. Walter, amnesty international. “We selected 21Publish
because it allows to conveniently manage a service for hundreds of weblogs with
no programming, no installation and no maintenance cost on our side.”
“We are
thrilled that amnesty international Germany has selected us to provide a
solution for their web publishing needs,” said Wiskemann. “21Publish will allow
amnesty international to benefit from a distributed content management that
enables independent blog sites and additional fund raising”
About
amnesty international Germany:
amnesty international (ai) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for
internationally recognized human rights. It has a varied network of almost 2
million members and supporters. The funding is primarily supplied by the local
volunteer groups and national sections.
ai believes
that everyone should enjoy human rights and fights to achieve this mission with
campaigns all over the world.
About 21Publish:
21Publish provides a hosted application that enables organizations to easily
set up a private-label blog service. The company is a spin-off of 20six the
leading provider of Weblogs in Europe, with active communities in Germany,
Netherlands, France and the UK . 21Publish provides services in the U.S. and Germany.
For further
information, please visit
www.21publish.com