CircleUp, provider of social communication services for online and offline communities, announced the availability of <A HREF="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-20-2007/0004648078&EDATE">a free downloadable toolbar for Microsoft Office Outlook.</A> By integrating the free CircleUp service with Outlook, used by close to 18 million people worldwide, CircleUp extends its current consumer service to small business, home office and professional users to deliver significant productivity gains in email and group communications.

With up to 90 percent of collaboration occurring through email and up to 75 percent of an organization's knowledge assets stored in email messages, the need for more streamlined and functional group communication is apparent. Instead of blasting an email to tens, hundreds or thousands of contacts, only to be inundated by a flood of answers, CircleUp enables office managers, event planners and administrators to send a question, announcement or information request to any size group and get back a single, organized result containing facts, decisions, links, photos and feedback that can be acted on immediately.