Spiceworks Wins Prestigious Social Media Award for Energizing IT Professionals Worldwide

AUSTIN, Texas – October 29, 2010 – Today at The Forrester Consumer Forum 2010, Spiceworks™, Inc. announced it was named the winner of the Forrester Groundswell Award in the ‘Business to Business, Energizing’ category. This year, there were nearly 130 entries to the Forrester Groundswell Awards in four divisions, including Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Management, and Business-to-Consumer International. The winning Spiceworks submission can be accessed at: https://groundswelldiscussion.com/groundswell/awards2010/detail.php?id=381.

“Once again, the entrants and winners for this year’s Forrester Groundswell Awards amazed us,” said Josh Bernoff, Senior Vice President of Forrester Research, Inc. “We were particularly impressed with the diverse and effective social and mobile strategies that organizations are now using to reach consumers, business companies, and their own employees.”

The Forrester Groundswell Awards recognize excellence in achieving business and organizational goals with social technology applications. The awards program was developed to support and recognize the principles outlined in the Forrester Research books Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies (Harvard Business Press, 2008) and Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Press, 2010). More information about the Forrester Groundswell Awards is available at: https://www.forrester.com/empowered.

“We’re honored to be recognized by the Forrester Groundswell Awards for our work in energizing our users to spread the word about Spiceworks,” said Scott Abel, Spiceworks co-founder and CEO. “Spiceworks is truly a collaborative and community-driven effort to simplify everything IT for the world’s small businesses.”

With more than 1.2 million users in 196 countries, Spiceworks is the most widely deployed and fastest growing IT management application in history. The Spiceworks user community currently supports 37.5 million workers, manages 66 million computers and devices, and spends $200 billion annually on technology products and services.

Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by combining network management, network monitoring and help desk software with a rapidly growing and active Facebook-like community of IT professionals. Organizations of all sizes use the free Spiceworks IT management software and integrated online community to collaborate with each other and support the management of both cloud-based and on-premise technology products and services.

About Spiceworks

Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help technology buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day. The company helps people in the world’s businesses to find, adopt, and manage the latest technologies while also helping IT brands build, market, and support better products and services. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks empowers people to use technology to make their organizations, their communities, and the world better. For more information, visit http://www.spiceworks.com.

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