Blount County Board of Education Selects SmartDraw for School Safety Maps

SmartDraw Used to Create School Safety Diagrams, Emergency Evacuation Plans

San Diego, CA. — August 6, 2007 - SmartDraw.com, creator of SmartDraw®, the world's most popular business graphics software, today announced that the Blount County Board of Education has selected SmartDraw to create school safety plans for every school in the county. Principals at the Blount County School System, which consists of 16 schools, plus 3 other department buildings and 8,000 students in the Tennessee Valley, will use SmartDraw to create emergency evacuation plans, fire safety diagrams, and more.

"As part of my job, I was responsible for seeing that all schools had maps that showed evacuation routes, safe areas and more," said Cindy Williams, Federal Programs Consulting Teacher, Blount County Board of Education. "I found SmartDraw on the Internet, and now our plans look professional, neat, and they are consistent across the county. We can now provide fire departments and police with maps showing fire extinguishers, utilities, gas lines, and more."

In addition, SmartDraw is being used to create school organizational charts, timelines, as well as traffic and parking diagrams. In the future, students in the county's Career Tech School will have access to the program for technical applications, as well as home design and landscaping, according to Williams. The enthusiastic response to SmartDraw has resulted in the school board purchasing additional licenses—the Blount County Board of Education now has about 3,000 licenses.

"If I didn't have SmartDraw, I'd probably be using a pencil and paper to create these diagrams," said Williams. "The program is very easy to use, and on top of that, it's fun!"

SmartDraw is used by school districts across the country to create presentation-quality diagrams quickly and easily. Educators and administrators use SmartDraw to create educational diagrams, certificates, floor plans, timelines, organizational charts, mind maps and much more—no experience or training required. SmartDraw features more than 20,000 symbols and images and hundreds of templates, including SmartTemplates, each loaded with a command-set specific to the diagram type. In addition, users can export documents to popular programs like PowerPoint, MS Word, and PDF in a single click. Each year, more than two million people download and use SmartDraw for their business graphics needs.

SmartDraw offers a variety of licensing options and programs, including a Freedom License that allows an organization or department to install and use SmartDraw on any computer. A free trial is available at www.smartdraw.com and includes both online and telephone technical support.

About SmartDraw.com
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the world's most popular business graphics software. SmartDraw allows anyone to create professional-quality business graphics in minutes-no experience or training required. The Company is the leader in the business graphics market, a market made up of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but who lack the time and expertise to learn software designed for graphics professionals. In addition to SmartDraw 2007 intended for general business use, there are also SmartDraw Healthcare and SmartDraw Legal editions with graphics and applications unique to their respective fields. In mid-2006, SmartDraw.com surpassed the ten millionth download of SmartDraw.

Headquartered in San Diego, CA, SmartDraw.com is privately-held and counts more than half the Fortune 500 among its customers. To download a free trial of SmartDraw 2007, please visit: www.smartdraw.com.

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