Call for Nominations Now Open for Computerworld's "Best Practices in Green IT" Awards Program

Market Wire, June, 2008

Computerworld's Green IT Symposium is seeking IT user-organization case study submissions for its inaugural "Best Practices Green IT" Awards Program. Computerworld's Green IT Symposium Awards Program identifies and acknowledges excellence among early adopters and industry leaders in the green movement.

The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, August 1, 2008 and can be made at: http://bestpractices.computerworld.com/2008/GreenIT/ .

Eligible nominees are exclusively IT end-user organizations. Nominations of IT end-user organizations are accepted from IT users themselves, their public relations representatives, or vendors on behalf of their IT end-user customers. Multiple submissions of case studies describing different deployments per IT end-user/organization will be considered.

Five Finalists will be chosen in each category and honored at Computerworld's Green IT Symposium, to be held September 17-18, 2008, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, DC. Award Honorees will be recognized on the event website ( www.greenitsymposium.com ), in an event press release, and may be featured in a special Computerworld supplement.

Honorees and Finalists will be recognized in each of the following five categories:

--  Best Practices in Energy Efficient Computing
--  Green IT in the Data Center
--  IT Leadership in Embracing Change with Green IT: Corporate
    Responsibility
--  Reducing IT Complexity Increases Green IT
--  ROI in Green Computing
    

All approved IT end-users nominated will be eligible and invited to attend Green IT Symposium, September 18, 2008, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, DC with a complimentary registration.

Please contact Kelly McGill at 508-820-8653 with questions about Computerworld's "Best Practices in Green IT" Awards Program.

Additional information about Computerworld's Green IT Symposium can be found at http://www.greenitsymposium.com/ .

About Computerworld

Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site ( www.computerworld.com ), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest (40 edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in 2007 Computerworld's then editor in chief, Don Tennant, received the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2 million unique, monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,222,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2007).

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