GlobalWise Joins the Center for Digital Education to Expand K-12 Educational Services

COLUMBUS, OH--(Marketwire - Apr 10, 2012) - GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (OTCBB: GWIV) (OTCQB: GWIV) (www.GlobalWiseInvestments.com) and its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., a leading-edge technology company focused on the design, implementation and management of cloud-based Enterprise Content Management ("ECM") systems in both the public and private sectors, today announce membership with the Center for Digital Education (www.centerdigitaled.com) to expand scope of service offerings with kindergarten through 12^th (K-12) grade educational solutions.

The Center for Digital Education (CDE) is a national research and advisory institute specializing in K-12 and higher education technology trends, policy and funding. Along with its research services, CDE issues white papers and conducts the annual Digital School Districts and Digital Community Colleges surveys and award programs as well as hosting events across the K-12 and higher education arena.

"CDE is excited to help provide Intellinetics with knowledge, tools and access to the decision makers in the education market space," stated LeiLani Cauthen, Vice President of Center for Digital Education. "Schools are really looking for solutions as they transition off of paper to all-digital learning, and Intellinetics has a cost-effective solution."

Utilizing the power of Intellinetics' unique "on-demand" educational templates within the Intellivue™ ECM software, CDE members will have access to new solutions to manage their extensive student records and increased regulatory and privacy requirements. With Intellivue™, educators have at their fingertips ECM solutions to manage all of their student records and portfolios in a secure and converged manner to make the information highly accessible with advanced privacy controls.

"Our membership with the Center for Digital Education will provide two important advantages for GlobalWise," stated William J. "BJ" Santiago, CEO of GlobalWise. "First, the K-12 educational community looks to CDE for technology solutions such as Intellivue™, providing us with many new sales opportunities. Second, recognizing the large membership within CDE, our Business Development Managers will be able to work closely with this institute to develop new relationships with school systems all over the country. I see this relationship as a great addition to drive GlobalWise's organic growth within the educational markets."

About GlobalWise Investments, Inc.

GlobalWise Investments, Inc., via its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., is a Columbus, Ohio based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) pioneer with industry-leading software that delivers cloud ECM based solutions on-demand. The Company's flagship platform, Intellivue™, represents a new industry benchmark and game-changing solution by enabling clients to access and manage the content of every scanned document, file, spreadsheet, email, photo, audio file or video tape -- virtually anything that can be digitized -- in their enterprise from any PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone from anywhere in the world.

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