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By Steve Horton
iProduction

ST. PAUL, August 17, 2001 -- “Roll Call has learned from other Web publishers’ mistakes,” iProduction president Steve Laliberte said today. “They're empowering their editors to deliver high-value content over the Web without spending a bundle on IT staff and systems. iProduction made that possible."

Mr. Laliberte’s company, Internet Production, Inc., was selected by Roll Call (www.rollcall.com) to provide Internet publishing applications, systems and services for Roll Call Daily, Roll Call’s new Web publication covering Capitol Hill.

The system enables the publication's existing print subscribers to easily access the Roll Call Daily Web site, a subscribers-only service, without needing assistance from customer service representatives. The system also delivers the entire daily issue via e-mail to subscribers who request that service. Roll Call, "The Newspaper of Capitol Hill," reports on all aspects of Congress, the issues and the personalities that shape America's laws. Published twice weekly, it often is the first to break major Congressional news stories. Roll Call's circulation is 17,300 with 11,400 complimentary copies delivered to members of Congress, their staffs and the White House.

Roll Call is a unit of The Economist Group. Based in London, The Economist Group publishes The Economist, CFO, The Journal of Commerce, European Voice, Business Central Europe and Public Network Europe. The Group employs 1,576 people across 39 different nationalities

The dollar value of the contract between the two companies was not disclosed.

Mr. Laliberte founded iProduction in 1994, and has been involved with on-line information services since 1977. Mr. Laliberte began his career in publishing with McGraw-Hill, and has developed and implemented dozens of Web operations for publishers and FORTUNE 500 companies such as The Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Orange County Register, Dell Computers, Novell, National Computer Systems, and Target.

iProduction's core product is a suite of Internet applications that help publishers manage online editorial, issues, volumes, content archives, classified and display advertising, syndication, subscriptions, and other components of the Internet publishing business. The system allows editors rather than programmers to run Web sites on their own with minimal training, thus greatly reducing or eliminating altogether the publisher's need to hire Web programmers and buy expensive computers and software.

iProduction is located at 3570 Lexington Avenue North in St. Paul, Minnesota.