PoliticsOnline Inc. - The Company

PoliticsOnline, Inc. (POL) is the premier global company providing news, tools and strategies for using the Internet and new technology in the civic sector - media, government, NGO's, and politics.

The company was founded in 1996 and is now the oldest political Internet company. POL began as a division of Phil Noble and Associates (www.pnoble.com) a political and public affairs consulting firm with experience in over 350 campaigns and public affairs projects in 40 states and 33 countries. These included campaigns to elect the president or head of state in 17 countries.

Dozens of industry firsts and innovations - POL is widely recognized for its numerous innovations and its products and services are in use today in over 70 countries by over 900+ clients and 22,000 subscribers. The innovations include:

• the first online fundraising software for politics in the US and internationally;
• the first how-to CD-ROM and guidebook for Internet and politics;
• the first online e-learning course for politics;
• the first political super store and e-marketplace;
• the first and largest series of non-partisan e-mail political Internet newsletters;
• the first online global poll for politics and public affairs and many others.

Large Scale e-Democracy Projects - POL has developed the strategy, technology and led the implementation of numerous major interactive 'e-democracy' projects for such clients as:

• European Union / European Parliament
• Amnesty International
• Papandreou Foundation / United Nations
• World Bank / Metropolis
• British Broadcasting Company
• Bertelsmann Foundation
• UNDP
• Council of Europe
• AOL Time Warner
• International Crisis Group
• Amnesty International
• Reuters
• Governments in Sweden, Holland, Australia, Spain, Malta
• Over a dozen political parties around the world,
• Numerous colleges and universities including the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, the University of Amsterdam and many others.

Global Media Projects - Since 2000, POL has worked with the BBC to help guide and direct a wide variety of its interactive strategies and projects. As part of this work, POL has developed the NetPulse Interactive Network, providing an online interactive platform for numerous media companies to share interactive features across this global platform for online voting, registering opinion, message boards, quizzes, opinion research, blogs, video, ratings, etc. The technical performance has been virtually flawless in 30+ projects with users in 175 countries, in 32 languages (19 languages simultaneously), more than 75 media partners, hundreds of thousands of users and millions of online transactions.

Awards and Global Recognition - The company's work has been widely recognized and acclaimed in the US and international media and it has won numerous international awards for excellence and innovation. The New York Times called their work "revolutionary" and their projects have been praised by such leaders as Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Romano Prodi and other global leaders.