PENTON TO LAUNCH ONLINE TRADE SHOW INITIATIVE.Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. (Cleveland Cleveland, former county, England Cleveland, former county, NE England, created under the Local Government Act of 1972 (effective 1974). It was composed of the county boroughs of Hartlepool and Teeside and parts of the former counties of Durham and , OH) will launch B2Bshowplace.com, a business-to-business online trade show network that will serve 16 vertical markets, beginning in July. B2Bshow-place.com will be organized into five sector-specific "halls" serving targeted market segments in the Design Engineering, Manufacturing and Distribution, Architectural Design/Facilities, Engineering and Construction, Leisure and Hospitality, and Aviation industries. The virtual shows will include exhibitor booths, monthly webcast conferences, virtual training workshops and special industry events, product locators, market research libraries, bookstores and career centers. Virtual booths will offer such features as rotating ro·tate v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates v.intr. 1. To turn around on an axis or center. 2. product showcases, software downloads, literature, video screens, conference rooms and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. capability. Penton coo Daniel Ramella said "we expect the online trade show network to be a key component of our growing integrated media platform in print, online and in person. B2Bshowplace.com will launch in July with seven virtual sites going live. The remaining sites will launch throughout the year and into the first quarter of 2001. HVACRshowplace.com, Penton's first online trade show launched in January, will become a part of the new network. In related news, Penton will launch "Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the World Wireless" on Feb. 21-23, 2001 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The event will focus on the latest technologies and applications of wireless systems for Internet and network applications. |
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