Semiconductor meets Web 2.0 – SemiNeedle Lets IC Professionals Learn and Collaborate
SemiNeedle provides an online community for engineers and scientists in the IC business
Fremont, California – March 4, 2008 – InfoNeedle today announced the availability of SemiNeedle, a community for semiconductor professionals, (http://www.semineedle.com), at the CMP-MIC conference in Fremont, CA. The site provides resources for companies and engineers to collaborate with peers, experts, and suppliers on industry-related topics. Companies use SemiNeedle to refine product roadmaps, expedite go-to-market strategies, improve marketing effectiveness and increase revenue through enhanced customer loyalty. Professionals use the site to excel in their careers.
SemiNeedle is designed as a gated community to insure that members and topics are relevant and focused on high quality professional interaction. SemiNeedle offers subtopic areas for all phases of IC manufacturing, including design, packaging, lithography, chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) among others. In these areas, users will find technology professionals, experts, and supplier forums where issues and ideas are discussed and solutions found.
“Most social networking sites today are focused on consumers. The few existing business sites are too broad and too shallow. To correctly meet the needs of high value professionals, the community needs to be designed specifically to address the intricacies and requirements of its industry.” says Robert Petrossian, President and CEO of InfoNeedle. “We wanted to create a site that was on-topic for semiconductor professionals, was easy to adopt and would allow for high value interaction. That’s SemiNeedle.”
In addition to access to the latest industry news and blogs, SemiNeedle is focused on collaboration and user generated content. The site targets users and companies alike. Professionals join SemiNeedle, free and anonymously, to collaborate with colleagues and suppliers, within public or private settings, to learn, network and advance their careers. Companies join the site and create sub-communities to address marketing, business development, recruiting, users group and knowledge management needs. Companies can set up these communities in such a way to ensure the required secrecy and confidentiality enforcement. Users are encouraged to collaborate through structured dialogue to facilitate the widest community participation, analytics and real-time industry trending.
Registration on SemiNeedle is free and takes less than a minute. For further information and inquiries, contact marketing@semineedle.com.