Aug 12, 2010
IDG News Release, 8/12/10
Computerworld, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and SNW are seeking IT user-organization case study submissions for their Best Practices Awards Program.
Eligible nominees are exclusively IT end-user organizations. Nominations of IT end-user organizations are accepted from IT users themselves, their public relations representatives, or vendors on behalf of their IT end-user customers. Multiple submissions of case studies describing different deployments per IT end-user/organization will be considered.
Deadline for Receipt of Submissions via Online Process: Monday, August 30, 2010. Five finalists will be chosen in each category and honored at SNW, taking place October 11-14, 2010, at the Gaylord Texan Conference Center in Dallas, Texas. Award recipients will be recognized on the conference website (www.snwusa.com), in an event press release, and may be featured in a special Computerworld supplement.
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May 24, 2010
BtoB
5/20/10
Cisco Systems has added a third award to two other honors in BtoB’s first Social Media Marketing awards. In an online vote, Cisco was selected as the People’s Choice in the tech category. Previously, BtoB editors chose Cisco as the best submission in the Integrated and Facebook categories.
IDG Strategic Marketing Services was the lead sponsor of the BtoB awards program.
For more on all the winners, click here
Apr 30, 2010
4/30/10, minOnline
IDG Enterprise emphasized flexibility in the conception and design of its TechDispenser newsletter. Working from a customizable newsletter template aimed at IT leaders, IDG Enterprise seeks to address customers’ specific information needs by filtering technical content according to their interests, be it professional advancement or mobile-focused news.
Based on audience monitoring, the company is achieving its targets—33% of the user base are IT managers or above and another 16% are business managers or above. Because the product was built in-house, incremental expenses were minimal, allowing the company to focus on quality. Its Ruby on Rails platform will allow it to structurally adapt as it grows.
IDG has aligned with several measurement tools, including Omniture, to gauge its success. Though only a few months old, the product had already seen positive growth. The low 0.5% unsubscribe rate suggests its burgeoning potential. Targeted ad campaigns have also earned success, some seeing click-through rates above 2.0%. View the eletter engine here.
Apr 16, 2010
Now’s your chance to get a worthy CIO or other top IT executive at your company (or client or partner companies) nominated for the 2011 Premier 100 IT Leaders awards. Computerworld has launched its annual search for technology professionals who have demonstrated leadership in their organizations through the use of IT and have the strategic vision to align technology with business goals.
Nominations are being collected now through June 1: Click here to submit yours.
For more information about the program, please visit our Web site here.
Questions?: Please email us at: Premier100@computerworld.com
Apr 15, 2010
4/15/10, MarketWire
IT organizations driving innovation in some of today’s most important technologies were honored this week at SNW Spring 2010 during the Best Practices Awards Program ceremony, presented by SNW in conjunction with Computerworld and The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
The awards were presented to the top winner in each of five categories during SNW’s Best Practices Awards Program ceremony at the SNW Spring 2010 conference taking place this week in Orlando.
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Apr 12, 2010
4/12/10, IDG News Release
Eight companies have received top honors in the BtoB program sponsored by IDG. Cisco Systems and HP are among first place finishers. The voting ends Friday, April 23rd, with a People’s Choice award for tech and non-tech companies.
To learn more about the winners and runners up, click here…
Apr 12, 2010
4/12/10, BtoB
A complete list of winners in BtoB’s Social Media Marketing Awards in the following categories:
*Integrated (Tech)
*Integrated (NonTech)
*Twitter
*LinkedIn
*Facebook
*Viral Video
*Blog
*Closed Community
…and a chance to vote for the People’s Choice Award.
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Mar 26, 2010
3/26/10, IDG News Release
SNW, in conjunction with Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), announced 25 Finalists for its twice yearly “Best Practices” Awards Program, which identifies and acknowledges excellence among IT user-organizations.
Five Finalists and one Honoree in each category will be recognized during an Awards Ceremony taking place at SNW, April 12-15, 2010, at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida.
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Mar 23, 2010
3/23/10, VentureBeat
DEMO, the technology launchpad conference co-produced by VentureBeat and IDG, is wrapping up, and we’ve selected the big winners among the more than 60 companies that showed off new products. Attendees (not demonstrators) voted for their favorite companies, and eXaudios won for its MagInify Call Center, a customer call center that detects callers’ emotions. With the People’s Choice award, eXaudios will get $1 million worth of free advertising in IDG publications like CIO Magazine, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, and PC World.
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Jan 18, 2010
1/18/10, BtoB
BtoB is kicking off an awards program to honor marketers and agencies for superior use of social media channels.
Created by BtoB and sponsored by IDG—the world’s largest technology, media, event and research company—the award program will be divided into seven categories: Best use of Facebook, Best use of Twitter, Best use of LinkedIn, Best use of viral video, Best corporate blog, Best closed community and Best social media integrated campaign (across more than one social channel).
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