The Champion Community to Emphasize State-of-the-Art Networking

NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Champion Community today unveiled a new social collaboration site for Juniper partners looking for insight on how to innovate with cloud computing, mobile, datacenter, and high-speed routing and switching technologies.

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Long-time editor and writer Marilyn J. Cohodas was named editor in chief of the site. Cohodas brings a diverse journalistic background and deep intellectual curiosity to the task, having written or consulted about Microsoft Windows enterprise servers and desktop software, product lifecycle management technology, financial service reform, healthcare, the environment, and education. She will lead the site's active blogosphere, message boards, and live chat activities.

The Champion Community will also have complementary social networking pages on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as a way to expand engagement and reach systems engineers at the online destinations they use most frequently.

"In the shadow of the Great Recession, the recent news about double-digit growth coming out of the global Juniper partner community couldn't be more encouraging. But with growth comes a need to develop new skills and keep abreast of new knowledge," Cohodas says. "By becoming a part of The Champion Community, Juniper-partner systems engineers will be able to share their knowledge about how to make smart, innovative use of new networking technologies and drive innovation, growth, and profitability for their customers."

The site is published by UBM DeusM. Juniper Networks is the exclusive sponsor.

Click here to access The Champion Community:  http://www.TheChampionCommunity.com  

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About The Champion Community

Founded in February 2012, The Champion Community (www.TheChampionCommunity.com) is a Website where Juniper-partner system engineers can share questions and insights in forums and blogs, participate in online training and events, and learn about best-practices and technology trends through customer case histories, original editorial content, and cutting-edge market research. The topical focus is on cloud computing, mobile and wireless, networking technologies for datacenters, high-speed routing and switching, service provider networks, and security.

About UBM DeusM

UBM DeusM (www.deusm.com) is an integrated marketing services company owned by UBM plc, targeting the fastest growing segment of the online publishing industry: business social media. The company is led by Managing Director Stephen Saunders, Min's Marketer of the Year 2010. He and the other UBM DeusM principals have built and delivered more than two dozen successful sites and online communities over the last 2 years. UBM DeusM's service is based on a unique platform, called Community in a Box (CiaB), which employs a structured system of proven B2B Web publishing best-practices, combined with a breakthrough integrated multimedia publishing platform ("n-Server") to enable marketers to quickly and profitably set up specialized communities for their target customers.

About UBM Channel

UBM Channel is the premier provider of channel-focused research and consulting, events, media and custom solutions for the technology industry. UBM Channel provides integrated solutions to technology marketers for managing channel strategy to accelerate technology sales. From building go-to-market strategies to partner recruitment and enablement to creating customer demand, UBM Channel offers the unmatched breadth and depth of global media and event brands, combined with the largest solutions provider database enabling an unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility built from over 30 years of experience and engagement.

About UBM plc

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting, and monitoring; and the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities – from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events and online and print business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com.

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