CCV chooses Webjam to provide social networking interaction for avid book readers

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/20/2010 -- CCV Publishing, part of The Random House Group, has partnered with social networking solution provider, Webjam, to design, develop and host an interactive online community for its Vintage imprint. The 'Vintage Reading Group' not only lets book lovers discuss their latest reads, write reviews and interact with like-minded people about literature – but also allows them with one click to run their own personal reading group.

Through the Vintage Reading Group community portal, CCV hopes to interact more closely with its readers whilst giving them the opportunity to discover and discuss new books. The social network also allows readers to interact with those passionate about reading anywhere in the world. Within the Vintage Reading Group portal, readers can also develop their own reading group, bringing a traditional off-line community online. Readers can invite members of their reading groups to join their own private social network focused around genres, authors, interests, books or simply to interact with their book-loving friends wherever they may be.

Claire Wilshaw, Vintage Marketing Manager, CCV Publishing, comments, "The Vintage Reading Group is a community of reading groups – where members can share ideas, recommend books and gain inspiration. Webjam allows us to forge a group of like-minded readers to engage in debate and receive feedback and ultimately, drive more sales of our books."

CCV has embraced the spirit of social media by making its portal open to everyone interested in books. This makes the portal an ideal platform for other literature-focused organisations, such as libraries and bookshops, to create their own sub-networks to let their customers interact easily and engage with other readers worldwide.

Commenting on the launch, Lexie Mendelson, Director of Business Development at Webjam, said: "The publishing industry is changing as are their customers in both the way they consume books and communicate with each other. By launching a social network and personalized reading groups CCV is putting a stake in the ground for the industry by innovating for the future whilst recognising the continued importance of the physical book to readers worldwide. A social network provides the perfect forum for readers to discuss with others what they really feel about the books they're reading."

About Webjam
Webjam helps companies to connect with their customers and employees by providing them with an easy, affordable solution for social publishing and engagement. Our clients manage their own branded and customisable social media environment in which content is created and shared easily, communities grow naturally and social media networks integrate seamlessly.

Founded in 2006 and based in London, Webjam is a Guardian Tech Media 100 company and its platform is being used across a variety of sectors, from the world's largest media and directory companies, to consumer brands and professional organisations.

For more information about Webjam, visit http://www.webjam.com/about_us/newsroom

About CCV
CCV focuses on publishing quality literary fiction and non-fiction and is made up of eight different imprints: Chatto & Windus, Harvill Secker, Jonathan Cape, Yellow Jersey, The Bodley Head, Pimlico, Square Peg and Vintage.

Vintage in the UK was created in 1990 to publish paperback editions of the fiction and non-fiction books published by the literary hardback imprints in The Random House Group. In 2007 the list expanded to include Vintage Classics. This meant that the greatest writers from previous centuries, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Henry James, were published alongside writers like Philip Roth, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. This move was in keeping with the ambition of Vintage as a whole: to bring the best writers of yesterday, today and tomorrow to as wide a readership as possible.

About The Random House Group
The Random House Group is one of the largest general book publishing companies in the UK. The Group is based in London and has subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand and India, with a joint venture in South Africa called Random House Struik.

The Group comprises five publishing companies: Cornerstone Publishing, CCV, Ebury Publishing, Random House Children's Books and Transworld Publishers, boasting more than 40 diverse and highly respected imprints. The Random House Group distribution business services its own imprints as well as 60 other UK publishers.

The Random House Group is an independently managed subsidiary of Random House Inc in the US, the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest and most diversified integrated media companies.

Press Contacts:
Marc Campman
Director of Marketing
Webjam
Tel: +44 7545 328 921
Skype: marc Campman
Email: marc.campman@webjam-ltd.com

Toby Brown
Buffalo Communications
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7 292 8680
Email: webjam@buffalo.co.uk

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Advertising agency selects Webjam to create platform for staff in the UK to collaborate and share ideas

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/11/2009 -- JWT London, the WPP owned advertising agency, has selected Webjam to create an online internal collaboration community.

The completely bespoke platform will, for the first time, allow JWT London's 300 staff in the UK to share ideas, inspiration and creativity across a network of co-edited blogs and forums, maximising campaigns and internal processes. The site also enables different departments to have real time conversations and work more effectively as a team.

A key feature of the internal site is the Community Network tool which allows each department across the agency to create sub-communities at the touch of a button. By having this unique feature in place, campaigns are hugely enriched as staff at all levels and departments can have full input into the development of a project, meaning less time spent receiving and collating feedback and more time spent creating award winning advertisements.

Ben Hopkins, Creative developer at JWT London, said, "We chose to partner with Webjam because it offered the most diverse and robust platform to accomplish our creative aspirations. It seamlessly blends functional elements while keeping community at its core. We are confident that WOW will make a great addition to help build our already close-knit creative community."

Webjam Business Development Director, Lexie Mendelson, commented, "We are thrilled to be working with an innovative agency such as JWT. Webjam are setting the internal collaboration scene of the future by providing internal social networking solutions to forward thinking businesses such as JWT London."

Notes to the editor:

About Webjam
Webjam helps companies to connect with their customers by providing them with an easy, affordable solution for social publishing and engagement. Our clients manage their own branded and customisable social media environment in which content is created and shared easily, communities grow naturally and social media networks integrate seamlessly.

Founded in 2006 and based in London, Webjam is a Guardian Tech Media 100 company and its platform is being used across a variety of sectors, from the world's largest media and directory companies, to consumer brands and professional organisations.

For more information about Webjam, visit http://www.webjam.com/webjam/press/

Press Contacts:

Marc Campman
Director of Marketing
Webjam
Tel: +44 7545 328 921
Skype: marc Campman
Email: marc.campman@webjam-ltd.com

Toby Brown
Buffalo Communications
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7 292 8680
Email: webjam@buffalo.co.uk

About JWT London
JWT London put the hole in the Polo, the Mr Kipling in cake and invented the 30" spot. We pioneered the world's first unbranded, interactive commercial for Smirnoff and have created some of the most memorable advertising campaigns in history; Beattie (for BT), 'Have a Break. Have a Kit Kat' for Nestle, 'They're Grrrreat' for Kellogg's Frosties, the Andrex puppy for Kimberly Clark, Snap Crackle and Pop for Kellogg's Rice Krispies, the list goes on...

In 2008/2009 we have continued to create groundbreaking, innovative campaigns for our clients that creatively cut though the cluttered new media landscape and have sold more products to more people.

The world has changed in the last 18months. In light of the recession we were the first agency to realise the power of a well-loved brand icon in the Andrex Puppy – our 'Fake' commercial ran in December 2008, long before other brands launched their 'heritage' campaigns.

JWT London, which celebrates its 143rd anniversary this year, ranks as the largest advertising agency brand in the United States and as the fourth largest full-service network in the world with 9,600 employees in 89 countries. Its parent company is WPP.

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Webjam today launches full range of Social Media Enterprise Solutions for managing online reputation, building online communities or enhancing social engagement between customers, members or employees of an organisation.

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/03/2009 -- Webjam takes a major step forward in its development as a social media solutions provider, by announcing a full range of social media products and services for enterprises. This announcement is in line with Webjam's positioning as a social publishing and engagement solutions provider helping companies to connect and engage with their customers, members or employees.

Webjam's solutions portfolio now consists of Webjam's social publishing platform to host the social media environment, the managed services to stay in control of the social media deployment and the consultancy and creative services to translate the client's requirements into a unique, engaging and visually attractive social media solution.

Part of this announcement is the introduction of two versions of Webjam's social media platform. Webjam Enterprise Edition with all the functionality to develop a fully branded and customisable social publishing and engagement environment. And Webjam Enterprise Plus for those customers who need larger networks, more control over layout and infrastructure and the ability to up-sell Premium services to their end-users.

Yann Motte, CEO and co-founder commented: "Webjam is now ideally positioned to advise our clients on how to structure, design and implement their social media strategy. Whether this is for managing online reputation, building online communities or enhancing social engagement between customers, members or employees, working with Webjam helps our clients to drive revenues and boost client satisfaction. Building on our expertise in the media, consumer brands, directories and membership organisations, we are now in an excellent position for a stellar 2010".

As part of this announcement Webjam has upgraded its website http://www.webjam.com.This new site, built on Webjam's own solution, brings together all elements of Webjam's value proposition while engaging with the various Webjam communities from business partners to editors.

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Make Your Mark chooses Webjam to provide social networking solutions for Global Entrepreneurship Week

London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/16/2009 -- Make Your Mark, the campaign to increase entrepreneurial behaviour in the UK, has teamed up with social networking solution provider Webjam, to design, build and host a fully interactive online community with over 80 local country community web sites, for Global Entrepreneurship Week, running from 16 – 22 November, 2009.

The worldwide event will connect young business brains from over 80 countries through local, national and global activities designed to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. To compliment and sustain the campaign throughout the year, Make Your Mark is using Webjam's highly customisable social publishing platform to allow entrepreneurial people from around the world to connect, run events, share ideas, collaborate and open up new opportunities for each other.

Webjam's platform also allows host countries to use editable site templates to create their own interactive network within the main site. Host countries and their representative communities will then be able to blog, promote events as well as post comments, pictures and videos creating, for the first time, a high-tech online community for the global event.

Marilise Saghbini, International Manager at Make Your Mark, co-founders of Global Entrepreneurship Week, commented, "Last year's Global Entrepreneurship Week was a brilliant example of what can be achieved by bringing together different countries and cultures around the theme of enterprise. This year, Webjam's expertise and social networking platform has allowed us to maximise connectivity amongst the Week's event participants – they will be able to join our community and network virtually with other entrepreneurial people, whether they are in Portsmouth or Palo Alto."

Webjam Business Development Director, Lexie Mendelson, added, "We are thrilled to be involved in such a worthwhile global initiative. It illustrates how companies use Webjam to roll out multiple community sites while keeping brand consistency and full editorial control. By using the power of our social networking platforms, Make Your Mark is bringing the leaders of tomorrow together in one online community, allowing the finest young minds around the world to interact, engage and share content in relation to their common interests."

Notes to the editor:

About Webjam
Webjam helps companies to connect with their customers by providing them with an easy, affordable solution for social publishing and engagement. Our clients manage their own branded and customisable social media environment in which content is created and shared easily, communities grow naturally and social media networks integrate seamlessly.

Founded in 2006 and based in London, Webjam is a Guardian Tech Media 100 company and its platform is being used across a variety of sectors, from the world's largest media and directory companies, to consumer brands and professional organisations.

For more information about Webjam, visit http://www.webjam.com/webjam/press/

Press Contacts:
Marc Campman
Director of Marketing
Webjam
Tel: +44 7545 328 921
Skype: marc Campman
Email: marc.campman@webjam-ltd.com

Toby Brown
Buffalo Communications
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7 292 8680
Email: webjam@buffalo.co.uk

About Make Your Mark
Make Your Mark campaigns to increase entrepreneurial behaviour amongst people in the UK - to encourage them to have ideas and make them happen.

The campaign is run by Enterprise UK, which was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations – the British Chambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors. Their Director Generals sit on Enterprise UK's board, which is chaired by entrepreneur Peter Jones. Enterprise UK is supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and is endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
For additional information: http://www.enterpriseuk.org

About Global Entrepreneurship Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week (16 – 22 November 2009) is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality. It was co-founded by Make Your Mark in the UK and the Kauffman Foundation in the US.

Last year, there were 24,966 events and activities run in 77 countries, attended by more than 3.06 million people (644,000 of which were in the UK).

For additional information: http://www.unleashingideas.org

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