Josh Bernoff to Present Prestigious 2009 Forrester Groundswell Award to Symantec & Zuberance for Word of Mouth/Social Media Program
Award Ceremony to be held on Nov. 11, 2009 at Welcome Reception for CMO Thought Leadership Summit in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA (November 3, 2009) - Forrester Research's Josh Bernoff, the co-author of the highly-acclaimed business best-seller Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, will present a prestigious 2009 Forrester Groundswell Award to Symantec and Zuberance on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at the CMO Thought Leadership Summit in San Francisco.
Zuberance, the leading Word of Mouth company that delivers sales now, was named a winner of a prestigious 2009 Forrester Groundswell Award for the Norton Advocates program in the highly-coveted Energizing, Business-to-Consumer category. Norton Advocates is the largest and most successful Brand Advocate program in the world today and one of the most successful examples of leveraging Word of Mouth and social media to drive measurable increases in sales.
Bernoff will present the Forrester Groundswell Award on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at the welcome reception for the CMO Thought Leadership Summit. The reception will occur from 6 PM to 8 PM in the Savoy Room on the 30th floor of the Marriott Hotel, Union Square in San Francisco. Erin Hintz, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Consumer Business Unit, Symantec Corporation and Rob Fuggetta, Founder & CEO of Zuberance will accept the award.
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