ITtoolbox Celebrates 10 Years of B2B Social Media Success

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Aug 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
ITtoolbox, the online community where professionals and executives share
knowledge to support their information technology decisions, today
announced that it is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

ITtoolbox launched in August 1998 as one of the first business-focused
online communities. Today, the ITtoolbox community has grown to more than
1.3 million registered members, over 2.8 million unique visitors per
month, and more than 2.1 million pages of user-generated content. With
ITtoolbox, IT professionals can easily and quickly communicate and share
information through a host of online community tools including a
professional network, discussion groups, blogs, a wiki, and a vendor
research directory.

ITtoolbox also works with over 800 advertising partners, including
Microsoft, HP, IBM, Oracle and Dell, to deliver quantifiable, highly
competitive ROI through a proprietary contextual matching system that
integrates advertising content with relevant community-generated content.

"We're very proud to be celebrating ten years of helping professionals and
marketers reach their objectives through an online community," said Dan
Morrison, ITtoolbox CEO and co-founder. "Our team has spent the last ten
years learning how to help professionals share knowledge to make their
jobs easier and how to deliver high ROI marketing programs within a B2B
online community. We're excited to continue our journey serving
professionals and marketers in innovative ways."

Below are some of the milestones reached during ITtoolbox's first ten
years of growth:

-- July 1998: ITtoolbox Launches
ITtoolbox is launched with the mission of helping professionals share
knowledge with each other in order to make IT decisions and solve IT
problems.
-- April 1999: ITtoolbox Advertising
ITtoolbox introduces ROI focused advertising opportunities within its
growing online community.
-- February 2000: ITtoolbox Groups
E-mail based discussion groups that allow members to ask and answer
questions in all segments of the IT market. Today, the ITtoolbox
Groups program includes nearly 700 active discussion groups that
distribute over 100 million e-mails monthly among members.
-- May 2003: ITtoolbox Blogs
A pioneering community where over 300 professionals write about real
issues from the IT front line.
-- July 2005: ITtoolbox Wiki
The first community-edited IT reference guide that enables the IT
community to collaboratively define IT topics and build step-by-step
how-to guides. Currently, more than 250,000 professionals visit
ITtoolbox Wiki each month.
-- September 2006: ITtoolbox Professional Networking
Tools that allow professionals to create their own home pages,
connect with other professionals, and communicate with the IT
community in a productive environment. Over 360,000 profiles have been
created by the IT community since its launch.
-- August 2007: ITtoolbox Acquired by CEB
ITtoolbox was acquired by the Corporate Executive Board.
-- February 2008: ITtoolbox Vendor Research Directory
An interactive directory for the IT market that blends practical
user-generated content about IT products and services with content
from the technology vendors to create a comprehensive and objective
tool for evaluating IT purchasing decisions.
-- June 2008: Top Ten Social Networking Sites
ITtoolbox was selected as a one of the "Top Ten Communities to Watch"
by Outsell, the leading research and advisory firm focused on the
publishing, information, and education industries. The research firm
listed the top 10 in their June report, "Social Communities & Expert
Networks in B2B."

About ITtoolbox

ITtoolbox is an online community, enabling peers to share professional
knowledge about information technology. Since 1998, ITtoolbox has helped
professionals make IT decisions and stay current in the rapidly changing
technology market through peer collaboration. The ITtoolbox platform
incorporates a professional network, blogs, discussion groups and a wiki,
facilitating targeted community interaction in which IT advertisers can
participate through a proprietary contextual matching system. This
combination of community and advertising value has made ITtoolbox a
leading destination for professionals and a leader in online advertising,
performing for more than 800 clients, including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle,
Dell and HP. ITtoolbox is a division of the Corporate Executive Board
(NASDAQ: EXBD). For more information visit www.ITtoolbox.com.

About the Corporate Executive Board

The Corporate Executive Board (NASDAQ: EXBD) provides analysis and
authoritative guidance to the world's most successful organizations. With
a member network of over 80% of the Fortune 500, the Corporate Executive
Board delivers indispensable resources for timely decision-making on all
issues related to strategy, operations and general management. For more
information, visit www.exbd.com.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Kim Miller
for ITtoolbox
kmiller@tieronepr.com
617-610-0583

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