PRWeb to Present at April 2008 eCommerce Summit in New Orleans

Lanham, MD (PRWEB) April 21, 2008 -- PRWeb, a leading online news distribution service and a Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS) company, today announced it will be exhibiting and presenting at the 2008 Spring eCommerce Summit (http://www.ecmta.org/ecommerce-summit-spring-2008/), a 2-day intensive educational event for online retailers to be held in New Orleans, LA on April 23-24, 2008. The Summit features educational presentations and interactive networking events.

PRWeb will be presenting at the Summit on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM CT. The session will discuss best practices for writing online press releases, maximizing their online performance with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and analyzing their effectiveness in boosting website traffic to drive company sales.

This is the ninth 9th eCommerce Summit and will feature educational presentations and interactive networking events with more than 40 industry experts. The eCommerce Summits are hosted by the E-Commerce Merchants Trade Association (www.ecommercemerchants.org), whose mission is to help small business owners improve their e-commerce.

About PRWeb

PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and news release distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution (http://www.prweb.com). PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information, please visit www.prweb.com.

About Vocus, Inc.

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management (http://www.vocus.com). Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring (http://www.vocus.com). We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide and is available in five languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

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