University of Plymouth Selects Tomoye

Leading UK-based university relies on Communities of Practice to support partnerships with other academic institutions and private sector

Ottawa, ON - April 22, 2007 - Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company™ (COP) today announced that the University of Plymouth has further invested in Tomoye technology, adding additional seats and renewing maintenance for several years. The University of Plymouth is using Communities of Practice as part of its Higher Education Learning Partnership (HELP), which has been recognized nationally for its leadership.

The University of Plymouth is consistently ranked as one of the top three modern universities in the United Kingdom, with over 30,000 students and 3,000 staff. HELP is one of four Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the university, which aims to inspire teaching and learning communities to research and reflect on their practice and to share and disseminate knowledge and experience as well as share resources, within the South West region and beyond. Communities of Practice are used by those involved with HELP to support the program's goal of not only researching practices, but actively sharing and disseminating that information across physical and academic boundaries.

"We are a national leader in the development of Higher Education in Further Education initiatives," said Dr. Neil Witt, Technical Director, HELP CETL, University of Plymouth. "With a Tomoye community of practice, we've been able extend our network to enable greater communication and collaboration. The end result is a stronger community that may not be able to exist in the physical world, but is thriving in the virtual world."

Tomoye Ecco offers much more than a portal solution or add-on to an existing system. Built for communities and based on actual community leader and member feedback, Tomoye Ecco enables organizations to improve productivity by providing knowledge workers with access to peer knowledge, peer conversations, and the experts they need to help them deal with complex, non-routine situations. Increasingly, learning in the enterprise is happening on an informal basis, and a Tomoye Community of Practice enables organizations to promote informal learning and training on a day-to-day basis while driving innovation.

The HELP CETL can be visited at: http://www.help-cetl.ac.uk/

About Tomoye

Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company, has focused exclusively on communities of practice since 1997. This specialization has enabled Tomoye to develop a strong and thorough level of expertise in terms of software design, training and support. Tomoye solutions and services embed the best practices, processes and social architecture unique to communities of practice enabling organizations to reduce the time it takes to build a community, get results and scale to meet the growing demands of the organization. Tomoye community of practice solutions are used by hundreds of thousands of people in large corporations and government agencies throughout the world. Tomoye customers include John Deere, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Education, Canadian Heritage and UNESCO. Tomoye is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information please visit: www.tomoye.com

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