ITtoolbox Experiences Social Networking Growth: 170,000 Profiles Created Since September 2006
In the nine months since the launch of ITtoolbox Professional Networking, IT and business professionals have created 170,000 professional profiles at ITtoolbox. This has supported acceleration in the amount of reusable knowledge created by the community, reaching more than 1.4 million pages of experience-based information.
Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) June 20, 2007 -- ITtoolbox (http://www.ITtoolbox.com), the online community enabling professional IT knowledge sharing, today announced the IT community has created 170,000 profiles through ITtoolbox Professional Networking (http://My.ITtoolbox.com/signin.asp) in the first nine months since introducing the features. This has supported acceleration in the amount of reusable knowledge created by the community, reaching more than 1.4 million pages of experience-based information.
ITtoolbox Professional Networking blends social networking and professional collaboration, allowing IT and business professionals to create profiles, connect with peers, and share knowledge to facilitate decision making. By providing a platform through which community members can share proven solutions to IT challenges with peers in their own personal networks, ITtoolbox Professional Networking adds value to the highly active blogs, discussion groups, and wiki articles already at ITtoolbox. It also presents new ways for IT marketers to benefit from an established online community of more than 1.7 million unique monthly visitors.
"There is significant value in the insights and experiences of peers that have already made decisions and resolved challenges similar to those you are facing," said Dan Morrison, ITtoolbox CEO and co-founder. "The community's positive response to social networking features indicates they are a valuable addition to ITtoolbox's professional knowledge-sharing platform."
Features of the professional network at ITtoolbox include:
-- Profiles: Serve as the user's professional home page, where they can list accomplishments and professional focus, and organize IT information that helps them in the decision-making process.
-- Connections: Enable users to create connections with trusted peers and existing blogs, discussion groups, and wiki articles at ITtoolbox that offer knowledge they need in the workplace. Users also receive instant access to new contributions made by their connections throughout the ITtoolbox network each time they log in.
-- Communication: Allows users to send private messages to members of their personal network, and communicate with them and other members of the IT community through the posts they make to blogs, groups, and a wiki at ITtoolbox.
Benefits for business-to-business advertisers include:
-- More precise demographic targeting of their key audiences in the IT community.
-- Contextual matching of advertising within highly granular user generated content.
-- Opportunities for recruiters to find qualified candidates to fill their open positions.
To view a user profile, please visit http://www.ittoolbox.com/profiles/dan_morrison.
To learn more about ITtoolbox Professional Networking, please visit: http://My.ITtoolbox.com/signin.asp.
About ITtoolbox
ITtoolbox is an online community, enabling peers to share professional knowledge about information technology. Since 1998, ITtoolbox has helped professionals make IT decisions and stay current in the rapidly changing technology market through peer collaboration. The ITtoolbox platform incorporates a professional network, blogs, discussion groups and a wiki, facilitating targeted community interaction in which IT advertisers can participate through a proprietary contextual matching system. This combination of community and advertising value has made ITtoolbox a leading destination for professionals and a leader in online advertising, performing for more than 800 clients, including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell and HP. For more information visit www.ITtoolbox.com.
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