Bridges.com (TSE:BIT) has hired Ross Dickie, formerly Managing Partner of Northern Computer Inc., to head up development of the new consumer sales division. Mr. Dickie has 18 years' experience in the computer sales and service industry and has recently served on the Canadian Dealer Advisory Council for VentureTech Canada.

The consumer sales division will focus on the marketing of direct-use career services to individual career planners and the professionals who serve them. As manager of consumer sales, Mr. Dickie will also be responsible for introducing and developing a variety of new Bridges.com revenue streams, including advertising, sponsorship and retail sales.

"Ross Dickie has the experience and skills required to initiate and develop our new consumer sales division," said Doug Manning, CEO and President of Bridges.com. "He and his partner developed Northern from its humble beginnings to a multi-location, multi-million dollar organization through the 1980s and have continued to grow their operation in the very competitive computer reseller industry. We are very pleased that an individual with Ross's experience will be heading up our new consumer division."

"I am delighted to be joining the Bridges.com team," said Ross Dickie. "Bridges.com has been very successful in the development of their educational subscription business. I'm excited by the challenge of matching or exceeding that success in the emerging consumer career services marketplace."

Bridges.com began development of consumer products in early 2000, with the introduction of @Bridges as a direct-use career awareness service. Since then, the Career Channel, the Career Pro News and Career Advantage have been introduced to the consumer and career professional markets. Bridges.com has agreements with MSN and Monster.ca to assist in the marketing of these consumer resources.

About Bridges.com

Bridges.com is the market-leading educational Internet publisher. The company provides online career and educational services to North American middle and secondary schools.

The company's community of individual planners includes over five million students accessing its career planning resources. The Career Explorer resource is used in over 5,000 U.S. and Canadian schools. The Choices line of subscription resources is used in over 5,000 schools and more than 2,000 non-school sites across North America. Bridges.com's online tools generated more than 80 million annualized page views in Q4 1999.

The company also publishes 14 online daily career news services, including customized services in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Manitoba. Bridges.com resources keep people informed about emerging career opportunities, and enable them to take charge of achieving the future they desire.

Bridges.com trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange as BIT.

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