Cygnus Business Media Acquires The Fire-EMS Information Network; Fire-EMS.net to become part of Cygnus' Firehouse.com industry portal.Business Editors WESTPORT Westport, residential town (1990 pop. 24,407), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Saugatuck River; settled 1645–50, inc. 1835. It serves as a popular residence for New York City commuters. Westport has a summer theater. , Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002 Cygnus Business Media Cygnus Business Media is an American magazine publisher, internet information developer, exposition management provider and custom marketing services company. It was founded in 1966 with the initial acquisition of Photo Trade News, a magazine founded in 1937 which continues to , a leading, diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business media company, announced today it has acquired The Fire-EMS Information Network, an online portal located at www.Fire-EMS.net, from Illinois-based Cambert, Ltd. The site was one of the first portals to serve the emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' industry, offering free home page hosting for thousands of departments worldwide. Cygnus Business Media already reaches millions of fire and EMS professionals through their highly successful Firehouse.com, Firehouse magazine, Firehouse Expo and Firehouse World, all of which hold market leading positions within the fire-rescue industry. The Fire-EMS Information Network is credited with providing the first true directory of fire and EMS departments online. Today, it receives over one million page views monthly, hosts more than 6,000 home pages and offers 10,000 links to fire and EMS departments worldwide. "Many fire departments around the country had their first home page hosted on the Fire-EMS Information Network and many other departments -- including my own -- modeled their first web sites after their format," says Dave Iannone, co-founder and Publisher of Firehouse.com. "Now we can combine the Fire-EMS Network with Firehouse.com and vastly expand on our ability to deliver to our readers and subscribers more of the news, information and resources they need to do their job." The Fire-EMS Information Network provides message boards, live chats and personal home pages from fire and EMS users. A Resource Center offers a library, links to government agencies, associations, unions, schools and training and much more. Its Products and Services section provides a comprehensive online directory of fire and EMS equipment and service providers as well as links to research programs that are available online. All of these services will be interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. into the core Firehouse.com site in the coming months. The acquisition coincides with the launch of the Firehouse Network, a new service offered by Firehouse.com that will feature state, regional and international news and resources, hiring profiles from hundreds of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. fire and EMS departments, regional forums and much more. Scheduled to be unveiled in December December: see month. , the Firehouse Network will continue to offer free web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. for departments as Fire-EMS.net has done. In addition, the Firehouse Network will provide for expanded department profiles, news, information and images. "We at The Fire-EMS Information Network are extremely proud of the work we have done and what we have created," says Bob Campbell, president of Cambert Ltd. "Firehouse.com and Cygnus Business Media can offer much more for the site and its users making this acquisition a win-win for all involved." Integrating The Fire-EMS Information Network with the resources of Firehouse.com will create the web's largest directory of emergency services sites. It will also include an alumni directory of past and present members from each department. A new look and feel for the free home page offerings will provide for a fresh appearance and more opportunities. "All of these new services, combined with the rich content and interactive features made available through Firehouse.com's recently launched subscriber-based MembersZone, will make Firehouse.com the total online destination for community, content and commerce for the world's first responders first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency ," adds Iannone. Cygnus Business Media's Firehouse.com is the most visited fire and emergency services portal on the web with over six million page views and more than 500,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. monthly. Unique to the market, Firehouse.com's new media team is comprised of many firefighters and emergency services workers. The company also publishes Firehouse magazine, owns and manages both Firehouse Expo and Firehouse World Expo tradeshows, the Firehouse traveling conference series, Firehouse on the Road, and publishes Public Safety Product News and Publicsafety.com, for a combined reach in the fire and emergency services market unmatched by any other business-to-business company. For more information log onto Firehouse.com or Cygnusb2b.com. |
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