CareerCity.com Leads With Many New Product Offerings - Selects Boxwood Technology to Provide Career Site Infrastructure.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2000

Boxwood Technology, Inc. (www.boxwoodtech.com), the premiere resource for outsourced online recruiting solutions, announced today that CareerCity (www.careercity.com), one of the most frequently visited employment sites on the Internet with over 2.7 million page views per month, has selected them to provide the core job posting and search functionality for their site.

Designed and hosted by Boxwood, the technology provides CareerCity employers and job seekers with robust web-based tools for career advancement and development. CareerCity joins a rapidly growing number of commercial career sites, portals, associations, and community-based organizations using Boxwood's services.

CareerCity outsourced their core applications to Boxwood to focus on the many challenges of a rapidly changing career site environment. According to CareerCity CEO Bob Adams, "In order to serve our candidate and client audience we were continually investing time and money in technology development. As our backlog of new web site features grew, so did our costs. After looking at several options, we found Boxwood could provide a complete solution at an affordable price. Our new product offerings include: job board functionality for corporate web sites, a candidate pre-screening delivery system, an improved resume search capability, online credit card processing and soon-to-be-announced, posting to multiple Internet job sites." Mr. Adams further stated that, "Our partnership with Boxwood frees us to focus on our clients needs and content development."

John Bell, chairman and founder of Boxwood Technology adds, "We are delighted to add Career City, named by Interbiznet as one of the "Top 100 Career Sites for 1999," to our growing list of clients. Bob Adams, Rich Ashodian, and the staff at CareerCity were great to work with during the preparation and conversion process. We are excited about moving forward in this partnership, and wish the capable staff at CareerCity all the best for 2000."

About CareerCity

CareerCity (www.careercity.com) is a frequently visited Internet employment site serving over 2.7 million page views per month. Launched in 1995, CareerCity is linked to thousands of high-traffic sites, and promoted in all of the leading job search and career books published by its parent company, Adams Media Corporation (www.adamsmedia.com).

Its publications include the highly acclaimed Knock `em Dead and JobBank series. Recently, CareerCity was named a "Best of the Web" site by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and a "Top 5% Site" by Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS). Additionally, CareerCity was awarded a "Hot 100" designation from the Go2Net Network (Nasdaq: GNET), and listed as the "Best of the Best" by Careerxroads.

About Boxwood Technology

Founded in 1998, Boxwood Technology, Inc. is an Applications Service Provider (ASP) to the electronic recruiting industry. Boxwood's private-label career site products integrate seamlessly with a client's existing web site design and applications.

In addition to hosting the full-featured online recruiting technology, Boxwood also provides technical support, customer service, accounting, content management and ongoing product development. Boxwood's newest product offering, the Job Broadcast Manager, distributes and cross-posts job listings to multiple career sites from a single job posting form.

Boxwood develops, hosts and operates online recruiting technology for clients that include commercial career sites, niche portals, associations, newspapers, as well as radio and television services. For more information about Boxwood's products and services, visit www.boxwoodtech.com or call Cynthia Johnson at 410/584-8700.