Nitron Circle of Experts Co-Managing Director Speaks on “The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry”

New York, NY—October 21, 2007—David Teten, Co-Managing Director, Nitron Circle of Experts, was invited to speak at a Software and Information Industry Association lunch/webcast organized on October 31, 2006, in midtown New York. He spoke on “The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry” at the event.

The event was on “How your enterprise can profit from social networking: in promotion and marketing, in the development of new products and content creation, and even by making communities one of the services your business offers as an ancillary to content products.”

The other panelists at the event were Leslie Forde, VP of Strategic Alliances, Communispace; Kim Kobza, President and CEO, Neighborhood America; and Scott Parry, General Manager, Reuters Advicepoint. Karen Christensen, CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group was the moderator at the event.

Some of the questions addressed at the event are as follows:

• How can we make our communities persistent and sustainable?
  
• What increases the value of a community to its participants?
  
• What social media are appropriate for my business?
  
• Does it really make sense to use existing free social networking communities such as Facebook and Second Life?
  
• Can we develop our own unique social networking systems with open source technologies?

For a more detailed transcript of this event, visit http://www.siia.net/events/prereg.asp?eventid=783.

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