Social Media Infiltrates the Workday – A Business Debate at SXSW 2011

Experts from Altimeter Group, Horizon Bank Texas, Microsoft and Spiceworks Explore How the Workday is Going Social

SXSW 2011

AUSTIN, Texas--()--Mark Zuckerberg recently said there’s an opportunity to rethink any industry in a social way. His predictions are beginning to take hold in the business world. Tomorrow at the SXSW Interactive Conference, leading social media executives will gather to discuss how social business networks and platforms are transforming the 9-to-5 workday. The session will explore how different industries are being completely remade through new applications of social technology.

Session Title: Making ‘Social’ Work for the 9-to-5 Crowd

Panel Participants:

  • Moderator: Andrew Jones, Researcher, Altimeter Group
  • Tabrez Syed, Vice President of Products, Spiceworks
  • Jacob Mullins, Startup Development Manager, Microsoft/BizSpark
  • Andrea Merry, IT Manager, Horizon Bank Texas

When:

  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 9:30am (CT)
 

Where:

SXSW Interactive
Hyatt Austin
Texas Ballroom 2-4
208 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX 78704
 

The Spiceworks social business network for IT combines free 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 Spiceworks to collaborate with each other and support the management of both cloud-based and on-premise technology products and services.

More information on Spiceworks can be found at http://www.spiceworks.com. Follow Spiceworks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spiceworks. Connect with Spiceworks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Spiceworks. Search for available career and networking opportunities on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/spiceworks.

About Spiceworks

Founded in 2006, Spiceworks™ is the world’s largest and fastest growing social business network for IT. By combining free IT management software with a Facebook-like community, Spiceworks helps over 1.3 million IT professionals to discover, buy and manage $236 billion worth of technology products and services each year. Spiceworks is headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit http://www.spiceworks.com.

Spiceworks is a trademark and Voice of IT is a registered trademark of Spiceworks, Inc. All other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contacts

For Spiceworks
Karl Scholz, 512-493-0909
karl.scholz@virtualprdirector.com

Release Summary

Social Media Infiltrates the Workday at SXSW 2011 - Execs from Altimeter Group, Spiceworks and Microsoft Explore Workday Going Social

Contacts

For Spiceworks
Karl Scholz, 512-493-0909
karl.scholz@virtualprdirector.com