CIOZone.com - Professional Network for CIOs and IT Professionals

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Our Mission Statement

CIOZone® (launched in January 2008) is dedicated to creating a highly interactive experience in which users – Chief Information Officers (CIOs) – not only become active participants in their community, but also take on the role of custodial guardians of their community, for the collective benefit of all executive-level Information Technology (IT) professionals.  CIOZone supports and practices the philosophy of professional philanthropy.

About CIOZone

CIOZone (www.ciozone.com), the Network for IT Leadership, is the first and only professional networks for CIOs. CIOZone offers its members:

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CIOZone offers an internet platform where members can exchange ideas and experiential learning with their peers, solve critical business problems, discuss common challenges, share IT best practices, learn about the newest technology implementations, provide and receive mentoring, uncover business leads, and advance their careers – all in real time. 

Award-winning Editorial Team

CIOZone offers cutting-edge content that members cannot find on traditional technology-publication websites.  The site boasts an award-winning team of technology editors who report the news, conduct market research, post case studies, publish vendor profiles, and aggregate opinions and insightful commentary from across the IT and business strategy spectrum.

High-level User-generated Content

Interest in user-generated content (UGC) websites is growing among organizations, as they face highly competitive markets, uncertain economic environments, and a growing user base that’s accustomed to active engagement rather than passive acceptance of products and services.  The business world is seeing a shift in models, requiring that organizations change their value proposition for users to one where organizations must construct and share meaningful experiences with users in order to derive value.  We are now living in the era of the open brand.

On the CIOZone site, chief information officers and leading academics provide commentary, opinions, and analysis on key technology trends and business news via online editorials, columns, and blogs. CIOZone has more than a dozen CIOs and other IT experts contributing blogs, and it offers more than 50 moderated business technology forums. CIOZone also enables members to communalize this content, inviting discussion and debate from the audience and thus ensuring the content’s relevancy and value.  Members can converse with their peers and with the experts who provide content to the sites.  This community aspect invites discussion and debate from the audience, ensuring the content’s relevancy and value.

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Invaluable Resource

CIOZone offers members business technology information, the latest findings from the key IT research organizations, analysis, tools and benchmarks, CIO case studies, daily technology industry updates, an extensive library of white papers, upcoming webcasts, virtual trade shows, online roundtables where CIOs and invited vendor guests talk about important technology and business topics, a calendar of key online and offline gatherings for CIOs and senior IT professionals, among other resources.

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CIOZone’s Worldwide Audience Reach

The following reflects a small sampling of the Fortune 1000 companies that CIOZone engages with at the CIO level on a regular basis via its peer-to-peer community: 

Agilent Technologies, Allstate, Altria Group, ArvinMeritor, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, BL Services, Blockbuster, Capitol One Bank, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Cognizant, Comcast Cable, CVS Caremark, Devon Energy Corp., Discover Financial Services, Eaton, eBay, EMC, Emerson, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Fiserv, Ford, GE (General Electric), GMAC, Goldman Sachs, Harris Corporation, Henry Schein, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Insight Enterprises, Interpublic Group, Juniper Networks, McCormick Group, McKesson Medication Management, Medco Health Solutions, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Northrup Grumman, NRG Energy, Pall Corporation, Pfizer, Phoenix, Pinnacle, Prudential, Realogy, Schering-Plough, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Sun Microsystems, Sunoco, Synnex Corporation, Sysco, The Mc-Graw Hill Companies, Time Warner, UnitedHealth Group, UPS, Verizon, VF Corporation, Viacom, Virgin Entertainment Group, Warner Brother Home Entertainment, Wells Fargo, Western Digital Europe, Western Union, Whirlpool, and Wyeth.

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Marketing Solutions

CIOZone provides clients with a high-traffic, high visibility, and impactful vehicle for leveraging traditional and emerging media.  Besides the many different advertising options that CIOZone offers (for more details, refer to the “Ad Specification” section below), CIOZone presents clients with a wide range of sponsorship opportunities that enable clients to showcase their brand, services, and solutions to CIOZone’s highly desirable membership audience of CIOs and senior IT professionals.  These sponsorships provide clients with a conduit to their target market, a means of gathering leads in an organic way, and a highly effective platform for educating senior-level IT professionals about the client’s brand, services, and solutions.  For more about all of CIOZone’s marketing solutions, in addition to rates, please contact your sales representative. Contact information follows below.

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Our Partners

Bill Gerneglia, Head of Editorial Operations

Bill has been a member of the technology industry for 25 years and brings extensive expertise to the role of CTO.  Previously, he co-founded OptaCommerce.com and served as its CTO.  He has also held the positions of founder and director of operations for GolfHelp.com Ad Network, and served as the chief technology officer at both WiseAds New Media and About.com.  Bill worked for more than 10 years as a C/C++ programmer at various technology and publishing companies before joining Oracle in its Architectural Services Division. He also served as Vice President of Systems & Quality for Elsevier Engineering Information, where he helped build the Engineering Information Village.  This product provided Internet-based full-text search access to the Compendex database, used daily by thousands of scientific and research organizations around the world.

James Lee,  Information Technology Specialist

James has over 15 years experience in online development, from design and usability to advertising operations.  He manages all aspects of development and oversees advertising operations on CIOZone.com and CFOZone.com.  He holds two Fine Art degrees – a BFA from The College for Creative Studies and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art.

Patricia Varga, Direct Sales Associate

Patricia Varga has 25 years of publishing and media experience, in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments, most recently with The Economist and economist.com.  She has worked with some of the most respected brands and companies in media, including The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, Men's Health, in addition to Times Mirror, Hearst, Hachette, and Conde Nast.  Besides business development, corporate sales and marketing, Patricia has been very involved with charities and philanthropic organizations that enhance the status of women and children around the world.  She is the founder of A Woman with Wings.  Additionally, she works closely with Haven House, A Window between Worlds, and Glendale Adventist Cancer Services.

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Ad Specifications

Run of Site (ROS) Ad Units

Technology Zones

Vendor Zone

Video Sponsorship

Newsletters

For more about all of CIOZone’s advertising options, in addition to rates, please contact your sales representative. 

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Patricia Varga, Sales and Marketing Director

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Phone: 626-403-7575

Alicia Agostino, Account Manager

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Phone: 516-570-1100

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