Stephen Saunders, Creator of TechWeb's Internet Evolution, Inducted into the min Digital Hall of FameEverything Channel Wins Two Best of the WebAwardsPRNewswire-FirstCall MANHASSET, N.Y., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Business Media (UBM) LLC today announced that Stephen Saunders, creator of TechWeb's Internet Evolution (http://www.internetevolution.com/), was inducted in the min Digital Hall of Fame and Everything Channel won two Best of the Web awards for its ChannelWeb.com launch marketing campaign and its virtual tradeshow. The Best of the Web awards is the only competition that singularly heralds magazine excellence online. The awards were presented at the min's Best of the Web Awards Luncheon at the Grand Hyatt New York. "This recognition from min's showcases UBM's extraordinary talent," said Scott Mozarsky, Chief Operating Officer, UBM LLC. "Steve has done a tremendous job creating unique online businesses. His latest creation -- Internet Evolution -- brings awareness to the key issues guiding the future of the Internet and has been well received by both bloggers and viewers. In addition, the Everything Channel team created a superior marketing campaign launching the new ChannelWeb.com as well as hosting their first and very successful virtual tradeshow. It is a great honor for our employees to receive these industry awards for their hard work and dedication." Saunders Inducted into min Digital Hall of Fame Saunders was honored for developing and building a successful online business with TechWeb's Internet Evolution. Launched in October 2007, Internet Evolution is a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet. Internet Evolution hosts more than 100 world-famous Internet experts addressing today's critical socio-economic issues within its ThinkerNet blogosphere as well as video documentaries and interviews, investigative reports and user-generated content facilitated via the latest Web 2.0 technology. Prior to Internet Evolution, Saunders was the co-founder, president, and CEO of Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/), an online start up that rapidly became the largest and most influential source of news and analysis of the telecommunications industry. Light Reading was sold to UBM LLC in 2005. Saunders has been consistently recognized for his work, including six Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards from American Business Media and three awards from the Computer Press Association. He also is the author of two books, The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and The McGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1995). Saunders was inducted into the Digital Hall of Fame along with Fran Hauser, People Group Digital; Jason Kint, CBS Interactive, GM CBSSports.com; Caroline Little, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive; and Jamie Pallot, CondeNet. Everything Channel Wins Two Best of the Web Awards Everything Channel was recognized for creating a comprehensive marketing campaign for the launch of ChannelWeb.com when the CRN and VARBusiness online properties were combined into a single online destination for Solution Providers. With over 1.5 million page impressions per month, the new ChannelWeb.com site offers the most comprehensive Channel content in one place by bringing together the news, product reviews and technical primers from CRN with the strategic research and in-depth features of VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR magazines. Solution Providers rely on ChannelWeb for news, opinions, tools, research and community interaction that help them run their businesses more successfully. Everything Channel also received an award for its first virtual trade show -- Selling to the Mid-Market. The November 2007 event brought together more than 700 Solution Providers from around the country as well as leading technology vendors to demonstrate products. The virtual trade show highlighted how Solution Providers can increase sales in the mid-market. Min's award judges included executives at consumer and b2b magazines, several digital media consultants, and members of the min editorial team. About United Business Media LLC United Business Media LLC (http://www.ubmtechnology.com/), formerly known as CMP, has four separate and distinct technology divisions -- Everything Channel, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services -- which produce the leading online, event and print brands, and provide business tools and integrated media solutions for technology marketers. Its respected media brands include InformationWeek, the TechWeb Network, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and business information and marketing services such as the Institute for Partner Education and Development, International Customer Management Institute and Semiconductor Insights. United Business Media LLC is a subsidiary of United Business Media plc (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. Contact Alix Raine SVP Communications United Business Media LLC 516 562 7827 araine@ubm-us.com SOURCE: United Business Media LLC CONTACT: Alix Raine, SVP Communications of United Business Media LLC, Web site: http://www.ubmtechnology.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |