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(OTCBB:DGTW) DigitalTown, Inc.

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DigitalTown Announces Alliance With Portage Interactive

(OTCBB:DGTW) DigitalTown, Inc.

Two Veteran Software Education Directors Join DigitalTown's Design Team

MINNEAPOLIS, MN-Feb 2, 2009 - DigitalTown, Inc. recently announced an alliance with Portage Interactive (Minneapolis, MN) and its two executives Mike Palmquist and Larry Phenow on educational and web design for DigitalTown's community portal.

"Portage Interactive has a 10 year history of developing award-winning educational and creativity programs, websites, and systems for schools and families," states Jan Andersen, CEO DigitalTown.

Mike Palmquist is Portage's President and Creative Director. Prior to founding Portage Interactive, Mike was the executive producer for the design of over a dozen retail programs for MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) and the Learning Company. Prior to MECC, he held several software design positions and was the Director of Courses for the ELS Language Centers which provides intensive language training for international adults. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA from St. Olaf College.

Larry Phenow is Vice President and Technology Director. Prior to founding Portage Interactive, Larry was the Director of Media Productions at MECC and the Learning Company. He composed, scored, and recorded the sound tracks for many of their retail products and directed the video production for all of the Trails products (Oregon, Amazon, and Road Adventures) for The Learning Company. As a software designer for MECC, he created many successful and award-winning educational products. Prior to that, he was a public school teacher and has a BA from Hamline University and graduate work in the Curriculum and Instructional Systems program at the University of Minnesota.

"We're excited to be collaborating with DigitalTown and are looking forward to developing sites that will connect communities, strengthen schools, and programs that will enrich many kids' lives," says Mike Palmquist.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with DigitalTown who shares our corporate goals in providing high-quality, targeted experience for the educational community and their supporters," added Larry Phenow.

About DigitalTown

DigitalTown, Inc. in Burnsville, Minn., is developing a nationwide network of more than 27,000 local online communities for high school students, alumni, boosters and local citizens.

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Any statements contained here-in related to future events are forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 1995. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. DigitalTown, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update any such statements to reflect actual events. For more information, please visit www.digitaltown.com.

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Contact: DigitalTown Company Contact: info@digitaltown.com 890-2362   Portage Interactive Contact: 341-2784   Source: DigitalTown, Inc.

Profile for DigitalTown, Inc.

DigitalTown, Inc. focuses on the design and development of digitaltown social-networking portal. Its portal connects local online spirit sites formed around a town and its high school, as well as includes features, such as email, alumni communication and reunion tools, calendar, and organizing tools for boosters, personal profiles, photo, video and music sharing, and timely community news. The company owns the domains associated with all of these communities. It owns Laptopcomputers.com and Notebookcomputers.com, which are PC related domains, as well as GoSchools.com domains, which specialize in high school domain names. DigitalTown, formerly known as BDC Capital, Inc., was founded in 1982 a... Detailed DGTW Company Description...

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