diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
index 70d62600..9e00a6dc 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
@@ -7,6 +7,66 @@
     <a id="lightbox_close" href="#"></a>
     <div id="lightbox_content">
 
+      <div class="lightboxContent" id="about">
+        <h3>About Metamaps.cc</h3>
+            <div id="aboutParms">
+              <div id="leftAboutParms">
+                <p>STATUS: </p>
+                <p>VERSION:</p>
+                <p>BUILD:</p>
+                <p>LAST UPDATE:</p>
+              </div>
+
+              <div id="rightAboutParms">
+                <p>PRIVATE BETA</p>
+                <p><%= METAMAPS_VERSION %></p>
+                <p><%= METAMAPS_BUILD %></p>
+                <p><%= METAMAPS_LAST_UPDATED %></p>
+              </div>
+              <div class="clearfloat"></div>
+            </div>
+
+        <p>Metamaps.cc is a free and open source web platform that supports real-time sense-making and distributed collaboration between individuals, communities and organizations.</p>
+
+<p>Using an intuitive graph-based interface, Metamaps.cc helps map out networks of people, ideas, resources, stories, experiences, conversations and much more. The platform is evolving for a range of applications amidst a growing network of designers, developers, facilitators, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and artists.</p>
+
+<p>Metamaps.cc is created and maintained by a distributed community of contributors passionate about the evolution of collaboration, alternative forms of value creation and increase of collective intelligence through the lens of the open culture and the peer-to-peer revolution.</p>
+
+        <ul class="lightbox_links">
+          <li>
+            <a id="lightbox_metamapps" href="https://twitter.com/metamapps" target="_blank">
+              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
+              @metamapps
+            </a>
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <a id="lightbox_blog" href="https://docs.metamaps.cc" target="_blank">
+              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
+              documentation
+            </a>
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <a id="lightbox_community" href="https://www.hylo.com/c/metamaps/join/mice-late-hit-two-shown" target="_blank">
+              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
+              community
+            </a>
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <a id="lightbox_source" href="https://github.com/metamaps/metamaps" target="_blank">
+              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
+              source code
+            </a>
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <a id="lightbox_term" href="https://metamaps.cc/maps/331" target="_blank">
+              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
+              terms
+            </a>
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+        <div class="clearfloat"></div>
+      </div>
+
       <div class="lightboxContent" id="noIE">
         <h3>OOPS! <br> YOUR BROWSER IS NOT SUPPORTED.</h3>
         <p id="noIEsubheading">To view this experience, please upgrade to the latest one of these browsers:</p>