ATLANTA, GA -- TitleWeb.com, an Internet-based service that lets title professionals keep up with the changing title industry and helps agents grasp the implications of Internet technology, today announced availability on the World Wide Web. On-line at http://www.titleweb.com, TitleWeb is the definitive online source for information on title industry technologies and trends, with a special focus toward Internet commerce.

TitleWeb is an advertiser and sponsor supported Internet service. Those interested in advertising on the TitleWeb site can send e-mail to advertise@titleweb.com with a contact name, company name, phone number, and e-mail address in the message. Title surfers who visit the newly launched site can enter to win a palm-size computer.

The TitleWeb site is regularly infused with news, headlines, feature columns, interviews, software and book reviews, business information and other editorial content from a range of original content and well recognized industry sources. The Internet medium is growing and keeping up with it is very difficult. TitleWeb feeds the title communities' appetite for information on Internet technology via the World Wide Web.

TitleWeb.com has enlisted Todd Hartle, president of Fountainhead Information Systems, a provider of title plant automation and Internet strategy services, as editor of the Web site. Mr. Hartle is also a speaker on Internet commerce in the title industry, writes a monthly column for Title Technology magazine, and regularly contributes to ALTA's TITLENews.

"Title professionals need compelling high quality content as a incentive to utilize the Internet. Vertical portals are a good way to keep an audience coming back for more," says Hartle. "Know who your audience is, and know what their needs are," exclaimed the executive.

Dedicated to title agents, attorney-agents, plant managers, underwriter executives, brokers, lenders, appraisers, inspectors, and IT professionals, TitleWeb serves as a central point on the Internet for the members of the title community. Providing a complement of authoritative commentary on technology, the Web, real estate trends and best-of-breed Internet commerce services to furnish title professionals with an easy way to locate information and facilitate business on the Internet.

Hartle states, "Accessible information and technology has always been an initiative. Many analysts have been speaking to the title community about how technology is transforming the future of the title business and the real estate transaction as a whole. However, what has not been done to date is to make the mechanisms accessible for title agents to utilize the Internet medium in an effective fashion on a day to day basis."

He continues, "Title agents for the most part are not utilizing the Web nor have a business strategy for doing so. Defined Web business models are needed, so title companies can gain results once on-line. TitleWeb.com will provide information on those models and act as a neutral environment to coordinate services for title agents."

TitleWeb is on the World Wide Web at http://www.titleweb.com, or can be reached by phone at 404-827-0366 and by fax at 404-685-4019.

Published: December 1, 1998

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