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PHILADELPHIA, PA--(Marketwire - July 15, 2009) - i-Meet.com, the professional and social network for people who plan meetings and events, announced today its partnership with PlannerNet, enabling organizations to find, qualify and contract for experienced project-based labor. This service-based offering identifies professional meeting and event skills that are available worldwide, matching planner experience and projects with a turn-key process for event organizers.

"In this challenging, economic environment, companies are becoming more inclined to staff their events on a project by project basis," said John Pino, i-Meet's Founder and CEO. "By connecting our worldwide social network to PlannerNet, we're accessing PMPN's unique and effective process of delivering qualified talent. i-Meet is enabling this trend to scale up, and become a more vital component of our industry's future."

PlannerNet's PMPN service group is a recognized leader in providing skilled and certified planners for the pharmaceutical, financial and technology industries, and brings over 20 years' experience in sourcing, contracting and managing project-based staff for organizations. "Corporations are increasingly straddled, needing to provide oversight to their most critical business meetings, but no longer have the people resources or travel budgets," explains James Montague, CEO of PlannerNet. "By partnering with i-Meet, we have made our network of highly qualified meeting professionals available so these corporations can now ensure the logistics and various industry rules and regulations for these events and conferences are managed properly and the attendees are well cared for."

This is also welcome news for independent planners, who are always looking for opportunities, especially in this challenging environment. Planners can be found more easily, and with PlannerNet's classifications and certifications, they are matched appropriately with needs. PlannerNet's professional certifications are vigorously managed and will be listed in i-Meet's profiles, assuring organizers that they are getting experienced, proven talent. i-Meet will provide one central portal for PlannerNet's network of highly skilled planners to go and get the needed information and resources to run their business on a daily basis.

The partnership broadens the supplier offerings for sending RFIs on i-Meet. PlannerNet has staffed tens of thousands of events at restaurants and other non-traditional venues. This database of restaurants, and their respective ratings for group events, will now be included at www.i-Meet.com.

i-Meet is launching its "Services Marketplace" with this partnership, which connects its members to "experts" who can provide full services when required. More partners are planned to effectively provide outsourced services as an additional option to i-Meet's self-enabling tools.

About i-Meet

Created by the Founder of StarCite, i-Meet.com is focused on building the industry's most relevant worldwide online community for the meeting and event industry, and was officially launched on November 18, 2008. With 9,000 members from 114 countries around the world to date, i-Meet brings social networking, web 2.0 tools, work flow and relationship opportunities, and industry intelligence to its members and suppliers.

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About PlannerNet

PlannerNet is a provider of meeting logistic services to medical, pharmaceutical, financial and technology corporations. PMPN (Professional Meeting Planners Network) is the people resources division of PlannerNet. Corporations are offered the ability to extend the reach of their meetings and events staff, providing highly trained and qualified professional planners.