Everything Channel's Channelweb Connect Has Record Month with 1,000 New Registrants and Over 100,000 Page Views in July, Online Forum Brings the Channel Together to Do Business More Efficiently

Creates Two Custom Sub-Groups, SMB Channel Voice Sponsored by HP/Intel and an Access Security Group Sponsored by Trend Micro

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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
Aug 17, 2009

Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced that Channelweb Connect, an interactive, online forum that enables Solution Providers to connect with colleagues and vendors to collaborate and share information, has added 1,000 new registrants, 550 forum posts and reached 100,000 page views in July 2009. Channelweb Connect serves the entire technology channel ecosystem of solution providers, technology vendors as well as Everything Channel editorial. Channelweb Connect was launched in March 2009.

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"The interaction within Channelweb Connect has brought our editorial team even closer to day-to-day news and information from the channel. We are now able to engage with our readers immediately and we find that we are doing a lot of reporting through the site. This forum also allows us to generate new story ideas based on hot topics that are coming directly from the solution provider community," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

Everything Channel is working closely with vendors to develop custom sub-groups to educate solution providers on various topics. To date, Everything Channel has created the following custom sub-groups: SMB Channel Voice sponsored by HP/Intel and an Access Security group sponsored by Trend Micro.

Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Managing Director, Channelweb, said, "The community platform is the perfect forum to create custom sub groups together with vendor partners. In one place we combine blogs from subject matter experts with relevant product and program information from vendor sponsors. Solution providers now have one place they can go to find information that will help them drive sales. Best of all, the community allows for immediate discussion and interaction by solution providers."

To register for Channelweb Connect, or to join the sub-groups, visit community.crn.com.

For additional information on Channelweb Connect sponsorships, contact Chris Sullivan at 609-759-4733 or csullivan@everythingchannel.com.

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

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. 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 field 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 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, online, print and 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.

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