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Virtual Ed Link, Inc: Virtual Ed Link Solution and the Northeastern Regional Information Center Focus on Implementations to New

^{Published on 2009-09-28 09:18:28 - Market Wire}
 

FAIRFIELD, NJ--(Marketwire - September 28, 2009) - Virtual Ed Link, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: [ VRED ]) -- Dr. Alan McCartney, Chief Operating Officer, and VRED management have begun sales and marketing campaigns heavily focused on 2009 implementations of the Safety and Security Management System (SSMS).

The initial campaigns will focus directly on the 140 school districts in the 12 county geographical area covered by the Northeastern Regional Information Center (NERIC). This region offers a potential of 174,276 users and annual revenues of $784,235 for the basic SSMS service alone, excluding add-on services.

NERIC and VRED management are currently meeting with these New York school districts and have targeted a goal of serving 100,000 students for implementation in 2009.

In addition to the joint marketing being conducted with NERIC, VRED will be presenting the Safety and Security Management System this weekend in Rochester NY at the Council of New York State Superintendents Fall Leadership Summit. The Leadership Summit will have over 400 District Superintendents in attendance and will provide VRED with the opportunity to demonstrate the product and begin the sales process with school districts throughout all of New York State.

Lastly, VRED has contracted with Broadblast Communications Inc. of Delmar, NY as an authorized sales agent for distribution of the product suite. Broadblast has a long successful track record of selling technical services to school districts throughout the United States. Broadblast will be joining VRED in Rochester this weekend.

About Virtual Ed Link, Inc.

Virtual Ed Link, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: [ VRED ]) sells the Safety and Security Management System (SSMS), which uses proprietary core technology solutions developed by Viyya Technologies. The Safety and Security Management System is marketed and sold primarily to schools and colleges around the U.S. and geared to be used as a collaborative Web 2.0 tool to share general information retrieved from any internet source among the school users, and especially, in the event of threats or danger, to disseminate alerts to help and guide students, parents, faculty and law enforcement in the actions necessary to help protect school attendees, and school infrastructure.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: "Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance; they are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future results or events. Virtual Ed Link disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Important risk factors could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general economic/business conditions (including in the information technology and financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services and changes in our business strategies.