Enterprise Social Networking Conference

Dow Jones & Company to Discuss B2B Social Networking in Miami on January 22-23, 2009 at SNC2009 - Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that Tom Aley, Senior Vice President at Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: NWS) will present at the Enterprise Social Networking Conference taking place on January 22-23, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. - New York, NY, United States, 12/10/2008 – Mr. Tom Aley, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Business and Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones & Company, will be sharing with attendees how the company views social media in the business community and how major corporations are leveraging next generation relationship solutions to further their business goals. Given the difficult economic times, when vendors are trying to better delineate corporate hierarchies and how they can influence them through discovering hidden relationships, these solutions can be very effective. Mr. Aley will also discuss social media’s potential impact on markets, both positive and negative.

“It is exciting to be part of a conference focusing on social networking in the business setting.” stated Mr. Aley. “B2B social networking is truly playing an integral role in daily business practices. Connections derived from social networking open doors, speed up business cycles, and seal deals demonstrating the need for social networking in effective and efficient businesses.” The Social Networking Conference taking place in Miami is the leading business convention for the social networking and social media industries. The event covers business and enterprise social networking. It also discusses working business models and new technologies.

Executives from the following industries will be attending the event: Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise & Venture Capital, Software, Mobile Telecommunications, Interactive Marketing, Widgets & Mashups, Internet/Mobile Payment Processing, Background Search firms and others. Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Business and Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.


Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence solutions that enable organizations to identify and connect to the best business opportunities. The combination of next generation technology with actionable information powers the performance of sales and research professionals plus media organizations. Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence’s award-winning solutions include the most up to date and accurate global intelligence on millions of companies, the executives that manage them and the relationships that link them.

Integrating these tools and content behind your firewall - connecting vital internal and external customer information in context for salespeople - provides a single, complete view of a customer further increasing your effectiveness. -- Source - (PRZOOM - LINK)