For Immediate Release
January 4, 1999

Enhancements Bolster Barkscomm.com Web Site; Public Poll, Free Analysis Top New Features

Barkscomm.com just got better thanks to enriched content designed to strengthen the Internet's communications training resource.

"These upgrades take what was a very good site to the next level," said Barks Communications President Edward J. Barks. "Barkscomm.com will continue to offer more and more valuable benefits with each passing month."

Barks Communications operates the site, located on the World Wide Web at http://barkscomm.com.

"It's all free and open to the public," Barks noted. "Our new innovations like The Barks Poll, our audio and video tape analysis offer, and the search function compliment our old favorites like the Communications Training Audit and articles and newsletters that explain in no-nonsense fashion how to communicate in public."

The new features visitors will find include: The Barks Poll, a survey soliciting the public's opinions on important communications issues of the day;

etails on Barks' new and free audio and video tape analysis offering; A search index function; A new web privacy policy; A guest book for visitors;