Everything Channel Unveils ChannelWeb Connect, a Social Networking Community for the Technology Channel

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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
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Mar 17, 2009

Brings Technology Professionals Together to Collaborate, Grow Relationships and Drive Business

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today unveiled ChannelWeb Connect, an interactive, online forum that enables Solution Providers to connect with colleagues and vendors to collaborate and share information, helping them grow relationships and drive business forward.

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The communal platform enables Solution Providers to actively contribute to online discussions, gain insight to what peers are thinking, share success stories and build relationships. ChannelWeb Connect is free to join and can be found at community.crn.com.

The community allows technology professionals to:

  • Read daily hot topics, blogs from industry thought leaders as well as key research and white papers;
  • Create a profile and manage personal information available to the community;
  • Find and be introduced to colleagues, potential and existing clients and partners;
  • Post comments and participate in discussions;
  • Collaborate and share information such as documents and photos; and
  • Form groups based on interests.

In addition, each time Solution Providers contribute to the community they will receive points which will be redeemable towards merchandise and cash debit cards.

"Business success is no longer based on one person alone - but those in your network," said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Managing Director of Everything Channel's ChannelWeb Network. "We created this community to bring the technology Channel together to do business more efficiently. We are very excited to offer this sophisticated platform help technology professionals share information and ideas more efficiently and create partnership opportunities."

Everything Channel offers a complete Channel solution for the technology industry, including online (ChannelWeb.com online network), events (XChange and Vision), media (CRN), workflow tools (MTC Performance, eXalt, M&A Forum and VARStreet), tele-recruiting, sales support, marketing services and research as well as education (Institute for Professional Education & Development).

Technology vendors interested in sponsorship opportunities or to create a custom microsite can contact Chris Sullivan, of Everything Channel at (609) 759-4733 or csullivan@everythingchannel.com.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised 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.

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    Kate Spellman
    Everything Channel
    516 562 7383
    kspellman@everythingchannel.com
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SOURCE: Everything Channel

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