Spiceworks Co-Founder to Lead Session on Social Business Platforms at Web 2.0 Expo

NEW YORK – September 27, 2010 – Later this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Spiceworks co-founder Jay Hallberg will lead a conference session exploring how social business applications are transforming entire industries and the way people work. The session, titled “The Future of Work: How Social Business Platforms Change Everything,” will highlight what comprises a social business platform and how Spiceworks has “put a face on IT” by connecting IT professionals with co-workers, industry peers and technology vendors, to improve the way they manage computing resources, recommend solutions and purchase products in the workplace.

Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web. The conference takes place in New York from September 27-30, 2010.

What:

Conference Session – “The Future of Work: How Social Business Platforms Change Everything”

Social business platforms like Salesforce.com, LinkedIn, and Spiceworks are looking to take advantage of the largely untapped the “9-to-5” market – or the eyes and ears of the workers while they do their jobs. The value of this elusive business audience has not gone unnoticed by advertisers.

Who:

Jay Hallberg, Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Spiceworks, Inc.

When:

Tuesday, September 29, 2010, 2:35pm ET

Where:

Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street
New York, New York 10019

With more than 1 million users in 194 countries, Spiceworks is the most widely deployed and fastest growing IT management application in history. The Spiceworks user community currently supports 37 million workers, manages 63 million computers and devices, and spends $192 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.