Public Comment Goes Kiosk! Neighborhood America Takes Technology to a Wider Audience

April 11, 2006 - Neighborhood America today announced delivery of its Public Comment Service through kiosks. The Company's customers can now collect public comment by placing kiosks in public places where citizens are likely to gather, such as retail outlets, airports, libraries, conference centers and city hall.

Delivering Neighborhood America's Public Comment Service through a mobile kiosk enables customers to create greater inclusion by reaching out to their citizen audience and removing barriers to participation, particularly for those without computers, Internet access or knowledge of public comment initiatives.

"Organizations are continually challenged to identify more efficient approaches to interaction with citizens, whether it be to collect feedback related to products or services, or as a means to gauge public opinion," stated David Bankston, Neighborhood America's CTO. "A strategically located Public Comment kiosk, enabled with our Public Comment software, can help organizations reach a broader, targeted audience. Managed remotely through the Web, the back-end of the system - the part that citizens do not see - works to immediately compile real-time results and provide decision-makers with meaningful analysis, mapping and reports."

The kiosk is only one example of the innovative approaches that Neighborhood America is taking to remove barriers to citizen participation. Technological advances developed by the Company continue to make it easier for organizations to collect meaningful input from citizens and easily manage all forms of comment, including input from public meetings, electronic submissions, telephone surveys and even printed survey forms.

"The development of our Public Comment applications is based upon our belief that society is changing to require structured interaction in almost every process," stated Kim Patrick Kobza, Neighborhood America's President and CEO. "Organizations are moving to an interactive approach to citizen communication. Rather than simply pushing information out to the public, we are providing public and private sectors with the ability to not only inform and promote, but also to capture citizen response in a meaningful and structured way."