|
Picnik Donates Picnik Premium Memberships to 25 International Conservation and Humanitarian Organizations Through NetHope
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SEATTLE, WA, November 13 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Picnik (www.picnik.com), the leading online
photo editing application, announced today that it will make its Premium
version available to 25 leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
through NetHope, a nonprofit IT consortium serving tens of millions of end
beneficiaries each year in more than 150 countries. With Picnik Premium,
NetHope member organizations will have access to the full power of Picnik
to edit and enhance digital photos taken by employees and field staff
around the world.
Initially, the Picnik team will be making the Premium version available
through NetHope to the NetHope members, allowing full access to Picnik's
basic editing tools along with its long list of special effects such as
color boost, vignette, infrared, panography, frames, shapes, text, layers
and collage. By the start of 2009, end users from the organizations that
make up the NetHope network will also be able to access Picnik Premium by
signing on with a valid member network email address.
"Visual communications are critical for conveying the importance of the
work NGOs do around the world," said Monica Harrington, chief marketing
officer of Picnik.com. "The Picnik team wanted to make this donation so
that more than 300,000 workers who do humanitarian and conservation work
throughout the developing world have access to image processing tools that
can help them better communicate the wonderful work they do."
NetHope is a collaborative consortium made up of chief information officers
and senior technical managers from leading international NGOs, including
the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, CARE, Save the Children, Mercy
Corps and the Wildlife Conservation Society. NetHope members work in
partnership with each other and with private industry to maximize the
impact of technology investments across the NetHope network.
"We're delighted that Picnik is making its Premium version available to our
member organizations," said Bill Brindley, chief executive officer of
NetHope. "NetHope has been strongly supported by major technology
companies, including Cisco, Microsoft and Accenture, and to have a leading
Web-based startup also join in supporting our mission says volumes about
the technology industry's shared commitment to working collaboratively with
the nonprofit sector to help solve huge problems around the globe."
Picnik, which was launched last year, is now the leading online photo
editor, attracting more than 19 million visits a month from users in more
than 200 countries. Picnik has won a number of industry honors and awards,
including the MacWorld's Editors' Choice award or "the Eddy" in the Web
category, the American Business Award's "Stevie" award for best overall Web
site design, and the I.D. Magazine "Best of Class" award in the Interactive
category. Earlier this year, Picnik was also the only photo site named to
TIME magazine's annual list of the Top 50 Web sites.
About Picnik
Picnik.com gives real people photo-editing superpowers. Because Picnik
lives online, users get fast, easy access to a powerful set of photo
editing tools for editing, sharing, and printing images using any Internet
browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.) on any computer
platform (PC, Mac, Linux). The Premium version of Picnik, available
through a $24.95 annual subscription, offers more of everything Picnik in
an ad-free experience.
Picnik is fast, fun, and easy-to-use and is fully integrated with a wide
variety of websites including Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, MySpace,
Webshots, Box.net, Picasa Web Albums and Lexmark. With Picnik, you can edit
your photos wherever they are from wherever you are.
The Picnik team, headquartered in Seattle, is dedicated to making great,
affordable software for real people.
For more information, please visit: http://press.picnik.com.
About NetHope
NetHope is a new-generation information and communications technology
collaboration representing 25 leading international non-government
organizations that work to solve humanitarian and conservation issues in
the developing world. NetHope, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
is made up of member agencies that work around the world in more than 150
countries. A complete listing of the member agencies is available at
www.nethope.org/members.html and a complete listing of corporate supporters
is available at www.nethope.org/support.html.
For more information about NetHope, please visit: www.nethope.org
Picnik Press Contact:
Erica Chandler
MWW Group
201.658.4037echandler@mww.com
NetHope Press Contact:
For questions or to arrange an interview with NetHope CEO Bill Brindley,
please contact press@nethope.org.
Copyright ? 2008 Marketwire
[ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]
|
INDUSTRIES
Activate Email 
INDUSTRIES
Find Solutions for Enterprises, SMBs & Service Providers at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO West, September 1-3, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
