techies.com Announces Two-Year Agreement with AOL's Digital City
BUSINESS WIRE - June 01, 1999 07:54
MINNEAPOLIS (June 1) BUSINESS WIRE -June 1, 1999-- techies.com Brings Local Technology Job Opportunities to the Nation's
Leading Local Content Network
techies.com today announced an agreement with AOL's Digital City to share its career content and resources with the nation's most popular local content network. Solidifying techies.com's position as the leading local network of career resource sites for technology professionals, this agreement provides Digital City's 4.3 million users - and visitors accessing Digital City via major portals such as Netscape and MCI - with techies.com's local, technology career information and wealth of local employment opportunities.
As a result of the agreement, employment listings on techies.com's online career communities in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, and the Twin Cities will be integrated into the employment sections of corresponding Digital City sites. For example, technology professionals can access techies.com's career information for the Boston area via Digital City's Boston site: www.digitalcities.com/boston. Over the next six months, additional techies.com communities will also launch "across" the Digital City Network.
The agreement provides Digital City's local users with access to the most extensive technology career opportunity database available, along with in-depth information about the IT/IS departments behind the jobs. In addition, the agreement provides techies.com's corporate clients - which include US West, Oracle, Nike, American Express, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Mitsubishi, among others - with access to a new audience of potential applicants as well as the ability to engage in and host Digital City's popular online events.
"We're thrilled about this agreement and bringing together a shared commitment to offering the most relevant local information," remarked Dan Frawley, CEO of techies.com. "In linking to AOL's Digital City we are connecting the leading local content provider with techies.com's unparalleled collection of local technology career information. As a result, visitors to both sites will find a deeper range of content from the places that matters most - their back yards and immediate cities of interest. This will undoubtedly bring new job seekers to our site and provide significant exposure for techies.com's corporate clients."
The local career communities at www .techies.com provide technology professionals with real-time career resources such as career planning tools, a job search engine, industry-related articles, and reference materials. Moving far beyond a basic job description database, each techies.com community is a locally customized site where corporations can reach potential employees by delving into the technologies they are using, the projects they are involved in, the culture of their organization, and other beneficial information. Additionally, techies.com does not allow headhunters to list job openings, thereby assuring that shared and supplied personal information is secure. About Digital City, Inc.
Digital City, Inc. is the nation's largest and the Internet Online's most popular local city resource. Digital City reaches 2.9 million people every month, or more users than the next 3 local content networks combined, according to the March Media Metrix survey. Digital City provides an array of interactive products in 38 cities and delivers locally relevant news, community resources, entertainment and commerce in a dynamic and easy-to-use format. Available on America Online at Keyword: Digital City and on the Web at www.digitalcity.com, Digital City combines useful local information, expert reviews, and the personal contributions of the people who use the service to help residents get the most from their communities. Based in Vienna, VA, Digital City, an AOL Studios business, is owned primarily by America Online and Tribune Company. About techies.com and RIT Systems, Inc.
techies.com is a division of Relevant Information and Technology Systems, Inc., (RIT). RIT is a Minneapolis-based company founded in 1994 to provide technology career information and a high-performance Internet recruiting resource to individuals specializing in the technology profession. It is anticipated that demand for technology professionals will double over the next four years to three million in 2003. The company currently offers localized online technology career communities for Austin, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Chicago, and Boston with plans to increase the number of communities to 23 by year end 1999. Expansion cities include: San Francisco/Bay Area, San Jose, Houston, Atlanta, Raleigh/Durham, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC/Virginia, Salt Lake City, Detroit, Philadelphia, Orlando, Los Angeles, and San Diego. techies.com can be found online at www.techies.com.
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