CMP's Vice President Digital Services, Steve Arend, to Present at iFOCOS' We Media Global Forum

MANHASSET, N.Y., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP, a media, marketing solutions and services company serving the technology industry, today announced that Steve Arend, Vice President Digital Services, will participate as a panelist at iFOCOS' We Media Global Forum in Miami on February 28. The panel titled "Civil Discourse" will also include panelists from Reuters, Topix and Slashdot & SourceForge, Inc.

"This conference is a great place to share ideas and experiences with others that are involved with online communities," said Arend. "We have the winning formula for creating virtual communities for marketers wanting a unique solution to engage and educate their audiences while entertaining them. I am looking forward to sharing my ideas with the other panelists and the We Media Global Forum audience."

Arend is the founder of How Machines Work, a leading designer and developer of next-generation, customized interactive online environments, which was acquired by CMP in July 2007. How Machines Work has created a winning formula for marketers wanting a unique solution to engage and educate their audiences while entertaining them. Arend developed an extensive customer list including Infineon, Siemens, Wind River, HP, Rockwell Automation and Sun Microsystems.

The We Media Global Forum offers ideas, actions and a meeting ground for an eclectic and ambitious group of funders, entrepreneurs, community activists, media executives and strategic thinkers on social action. Together they seek new collaborations, new relationships and new ways of thinking about opportunities to build a better-informed society.

About CMP

CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.

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