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Spiceworks Wins AlwaysOn OnMedia Top 100 AwardAUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- Spiceworks(TM), Inc., the provider of the industry's first free ad-supported IT management software and community, today announced it was chosen from among hundreds of companies worldwide as an OnMedia 100 Award winner. The annual award given by AlwaysOn recognizes companies delivering innovations in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relations campaigns. Spiceworks was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. "We're honored to be recognized as one of the top new media companies in the advertising and online community space," said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of marketing for Spiceworks. "Our ability to attract over 200,000 dedicated business users of our ad-supported software in just over a year has made our network of IT professionals an extremely valuable way to quickly and easily reach over $20 billion dollars in annual buying power for computer goods and services that run small and medium businesses around the world." Spiceworks and the other OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference, which is taking place January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature top technology CEOs from emerging companies leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment on disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. "The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation." The OnMedia 100 was selected from hundreds of companies that were nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing and Web analytic sectors from around the world. A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/. The Spiceworks IT Desktop allows IT professionals to automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track and report on the hardware and software running in a network, while having access to community and social networking capabilities that make it easier for users to collaborate to solve problems and do their jobs. Over 200,000 professionals from 194 countries around the world in a variety of organizations, including systems integrators, government agencies, businesses, manufacturers, educational institutions and non-profits, are currently using Spiceworks software. The free application is supported by an online media business model by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals. For more information on Spiceworks or to download the latest version of the free Spiceworks IT Desktop software, visit www.spiceworks.com. About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital, Stanford Summit, and Going Green) and quarterly print "blogozine." No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants. About Spiceworks Founded by network and systems management software pioneers, Spiceworks develops the industry's first free IT management software and community designed to meet the unique needs of small and medium businesses. Spiceworks helps IT organizations easily manage their networks, solve IT problems and find the products, services and information they need to do their jobs. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures. For more information visit www.spiceworks.com. Spiceworks is a trademark of Spiceworks, Inc. All other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
