Spiceworks Co-Founder to Lead Session on Social Business Platforms at Web 2.0 Expo
NEW YORK (September 27, 2010) – Later this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Spiceworks co-founder Jay Hallberg will lead a conference session exploring how social business applications are transforming entire industries and the way people work. The session, titled “The Future of Work: How Social Business Platforms Change Everything,” will highlight what comprises a social business platform and how Spiceworks has “put a face on IT” by connecting IT professionals with co-workers, industry peers and technology vendors, to improve the way they manage computing resources, recommend solutions and purchase products in the workplace.
Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web. The conference takes place in New York from September 27-30, 2010.
| What: | Conference Session | ||
| Social business platforms like Salesforce.com, LinkedIn, and Spiceworks are looking to take advantage of the largely untapped the “9-to-5” market | |||
| Who: | Jay Hallberg, co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Spiceworks, Inc. | ||
| When: | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | ||
| 2:35pm ET | |||
| Where: | Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers | ||
| 811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street | |||
| New York, New York 10019 | |||
With more than 1 million users in 194 countries, Spiceworks is the most widely deployed and fastest growing IT management application in history. The Spiceworks user community currently supports 37 million workers, manages 63 million computers and devices, and spends $192 billion annually on technology products and services.
Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by combining network management, network monitoring and help desk software with a rapidly growing and active Facebook-like community of IT professionals. Organizations of all sizes use the free Spiceworks IT management software and integrated online community to collaborate with each other and support the management of both cloud-based and on-premise technology products and services.
More information on Spiceworks can be found at http://www.spiceworks.com. Follow Spiceworks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spiceworks. Connect with Spiceworks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Spiceworks.
About Spiceworks
Founded in 2006, Spiceworks(TM) develops the first free social IT management application that combines network management and help desk software with a Facebook-like online community of IT professionals to help over 1 million IT pros and 150,000 IT service providers simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for businesses to manage IT products and services on-premise or in the cloud, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the IT knowledge and products they need day-to-day. Through its Voice of IT® market research program, the company enables direct conversations with IT professionals, conducts surveys and provides insight on important technology usage, staffing and purchasing trends by small and medium businesses worldwide. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit http://www.spiceworks.com.
Spiceworks is a trademark and Voice of IT is a registered trademark of Spiceworks, Inc. All other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact
For Spiceworks
Karl Scholz, 512-493-0909
karl.scholz@virtualprdirector.com
Source: Spiceworks