I'm excited to announce that Tom Burgess, founder and CEO of Third Screen Media, has joined our advisory board as marketing practitioner. Tom is a serial entrepreneur in the internet marketing space with extraordinary customer-side communications talent. Micronotes is pioneering an entirely new way of marketing with our "digital sales call" technology and it's great to have Tom; entrepreneur, executive, and avid sailor -- aboard to help us navigate.

I asked Tom why he joined our board and here's what he said, "Micronotes is a pioneer in a new marketing paradigm that is focused on bringing benefits directly to the consumer. Traditionally, the media players are the only ones with an obvious ROI in the marketing ecosystem. What about the general public? "What", they beg, "benefit do we get from all this 'in-your-face' advertising?" Micronotes allows brands to cut through the marketing fog, interact one on one with the consumer and leave behind a very positive brand experience. Doesn't get much better than that. I'm excited to be part of this innovative team."

About Tom Burgess:
Mr. Burgess is a seasoned executive in online and wireless interactive marketing and technology. He is a pioneer of innovative advertising solutions and holds a patent in wireless advertising. Mr. Burgess, a recognized authority in digital marketing, is a consistent speaker at global marketing conferences and has been quoted or featured in Forbes, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, CNBC and many industry publications. Mr. Burgess founded Third Screen Media, a wireless advertising company, in March of 2001. Third Screen set the standard globally for wireless advertising and secured customers such as Sprint, Verizon Wireless, USA Today, Weather Channel, American Express and many more. Third Screen Media was purchased by AOL/TW in May of 2007 delivering a 245% return for investors in two years. From January 1999 to March 2000 he served as President of internet portal CollegeLink.com. During this period he successful guided the company from a shrink wrap software developer to a multifaceted online destination. CollegeLink was purchased by Monster.com early in 2001. From 1998 through January of 1999 he served as Founder and CEO of 9th Square Inc. (currently Bluestreak.com, Inc.) an Internet E-commerce and advertising software and services company that he angel financed and directed through successful initial product development and market launch. From 1994 until 1998, Mr. Burgess served as Founder and CEO of Echomedia, Inc., one of the first internet advertising marketing and technology businesses. In December of 1997, Burgess successfully merged Echomedia with Softbank Interactive Marketing. Throughout his career, Mr. Burgess has consistently provided excellent returns for investors and was recently inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall Of Fame for superior performance by Blue Chip Ventures. Mr. Burgess currently resides in Rhode Island with his wife and two children. Mr. Burgess has a BA from Providence College.