Conduit Wins Web 2.0 Award for Online Marketing Solution
Conduit's community toolbar platform lauded for its usefulness, social aspect and design
May 29, 2007 — Redwood Shores, CA
Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced that it was selected as one of the top three Web 2.0 Marketing tools of 2007 by SEOmoz, the company behind the Web 2.0 Awards. Chosen from a field of hundreds of Web 2.0 sites and solutions by knowledgeable, well-respected experts, Conduit was ranked according to a variety of factors including usability, usefulness, social aspects, interface and design.
"Companies large and small are racing to embrace Web 2.0 - and for good reason," writes Rand Fishkin, CEO and Co-Founder of SEOmoz. "The power of these ideas to spread content, spread branding and enable greater engagement from people is extraordinarily powerful, not only from a cultural perspective, but for the bottom line, too."
Conduit's features and functionality represent the best aspects of Web 2.0 and continue to transform the way publishers connect with their user communities. Conduit enables publishers to persistently engage and bond with their users via a customized community toolbar in the browser. Conduit's customers have experienced significantly higher traffic, revenues, and loyalty as a result of the strong user bond created by their community toolbars. Conduit also enables publishers to build an engaged community beyond their websites.
"We are honoured and delighted to be recognized by the prestigious Web 2.0 Award," says Ronen Shilo, CEO, Conduit. "Conduit epitomizes the Web 2.0 philosophy with its completely free hosted service for driving community engagement for publishers. Winning the award validates our leadership position in the industry."
Established to highlight and champion pioneering sites that embrace Web 2.0's philosophy, the Web 2.0 Awards help define the emerging area known for fusing new technology and social expression, empowering users to do more with the Internet. Contributors to the awards included a diverse range of industry leaders, including Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch, Emily Chang of eHub, Michael Eisenberg, Partner of Benchmark Capital and Newsweek reporter Brad Stone. The full list of 2007 Web 2.0 Award winners is available at http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0.
About SEOmoz
SEOmoz is a leading Internet marketing consultancy, providing search engine optimization services for global clients including the Saatchi Gallery of London, Benchmark Capital, Primal Pictures Ltd., Avatar Financial Group and others. SEOmoz's website is an informational hub for the online search marketing community, providing authoritative articles and reports on search engine algorithms and web marketing. SEOmoz.org has 13,000+ subscribed members and serves more than 100,000 unique visitors each month. Originally founded in 1981, SEOmoz is privately held and headquartered in Seattle, WA. For further information, please visit www.seomoz.org.
About Conduit
Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users via the browser. Conduit delivers unprecedented community loyalty and site traffic for over 130,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball, Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX, TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 112 countries around the globe. Conduit's innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware and spyware. The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA. For more information about Conduit, visit www.conduit.com or email info@conduit.com.
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