InformationWeek.com Launches Online Editorial Community

Posted on July 12, 2001

InformationWeek.com, announced the Listening Post, an online forum where readers and journalists interact with each other. Using this new service, InformationWeek readers can participate in an online community by posting questions, comments and opinions based on columns and featured stories that appear on InformationWeek.com and in the weekly magazine.

``The Listening Post serves as an online 'water cooler' for IT professionals. It's a place for us to discuss a variety of IT-related topics while networking with our peers,'' said Rusty Weston, editor, InformationWeek.com. ``By offering this online community we are eagerly looking forward to the ideas and feedback our readers will provide.''

The Listening Post allows InformationWeek readers, editors and columnists to read and respond to messages. The discussion area is organized into two sections: Talk Shop focuses on IT-related topics and issues, while Water Cooler covers topics of interest to our readers and journalists. A reader clicks on the journalist's name, the article hotlink or the 'Listening Post' hotlink. After registering their name and email address, they can post comments or ask a question.

Listening Post will feature CMP journalists, including Bob Evans, John Soat, John Foley, Clint Wilder, Judith Hurwitz, Rusty Weston, Herb Lovelace and Fred Langa. The Listening Post is run by site editor and community manager Esther Schindler.

InformationWeek.com is part of CMP Media's TechWeb, a network of sites for business technology professionals. In addition to the weekly magazine, InformationWeek provides a platform of information solutions including informationweek.com, InformationWeek Research, InformationWeek Events, which includes the InformationWeek Conference for business and technology executives and InformationWeek Daily, an email news service.