ITtoolbox Marks Seven Years as the Leading Community for IT Professionals
ITtoolbox marks its seventh anniversary as the leading collaborative network for the IT market. New ITtoolbox product launches over the past twelve months continue to facilitate knowledge sharing among IT and business professionals, building quality community-generated content for users and establishing a unique marketing venue for advertising partners.
Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) August 15, 2005 -- ITtoolbox today marked its seventh
anniversary as the leading collaborative network for the IT market. This
anniversary exemplifies ITtoolbox’s long-term commitment to facilitating
knowledge sharing among IT and business professionals.
ITtoolbox launched
in 1998 as one of the first companies to recognize the professional value of
content created through peer-based collaboration. Today, ITtoolbox is the leader
in providing community-generated content to the IT market through collaborative
tools including blogs, discussion groups, and a wiki. Over the last seven years,
millions of professionals have utilized these ITtoolbox services to access the
knowledge of their peers and make IT related decisions.
"The fact that
community is picking up steam as a recognized source of quality content bodes
well for the continued growth of the ITtoolbox network. This trend supports a
model we have worked on for seven years and has added to the excitement level
within our company," stated Dan Morrison, CEO and co-founder of ITtoolbox. "In
addition to moving on new opportunities to extend collaboration, we have linked
community content to providing unique advertising value through contextual
content matching that ties right into the collaborative process."
New
product launches and consistent operations growth top the list of highlights and
accomplishments for ITtoolbox over the last twelve months, including:
New
Product Launches
• ITtoolbox Contextual Match, a powerful feature that
contextually matches in depth IT white papers with content created through the
collaborative process
• ITtoolbox Wiki, the first collaborative IT reference
that provides community edited definitions and detailed instruction on IT
subject matter
• ITtoolbox White Paper Alerts, e-mail updates that notify
users as soon as the latest IT white papers are published for a specific area of
expertise
• ITtoolbox Ticker, a desktop application that streams the latest
information from the IT community straight to user’s desktops
• ITtoolbox
Keyword Alerts, daily e-mail alerts that provide users with updates from the
community about keywords of interest
Operational Highlights
• Added
160 new clients, increasing the total client base to 520 advertising
partners
• Processed more than 400 million e-mails through peer-based
discussion groups
• Expanded ITtoolbox Blogs, http://blogs.ittoolbox.com,
to more than 110 active authors and increased user sessions by 257% over the
previous year
About ITtoolbox
ITtoolbox is the leading collaborative
network for the Information Technology market where millions of IT and business
professionals seek and provide information to support IT decision making
on-the-job. In addition to hosting the world's largest and most active IT
community, ITtoolbox aggregates and distributes high-value content from IT
vendors and leading media sources. The targeted and interactive nature of the
ITtoolbox network provides advertisers with a powerful platform to achieve a
high ROI on their marketing campaigns. ITtoolbox's hundreds of advertising
clients have included Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, Dell, and more. For more
information, visit www.ITtoolbox.com.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb272088.htm