BroadVision Launches Webinar Series To Help Businesses Develop Social Business Expertise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), the leader in cloud-based social business solutions, today announced the introduction of a free monthly webinar series designed to help businesses learn about the benefits and best practices of social business. An offshoot of the successful Clearvale SecondFloor speaker series, the webinars will be led by industry experts and thought leaders who will share their knowledge about various aspects of social business, such as social media strategies and enterprise 2.0 processes.

The new webinar series is the latest component of Clearvale SecondFloor (see http://secondfloor.clearvale.com/ ), BroadVision's worldwide community, where Enterprise 2.0 customers, partners and thought leaders can meet, learn from each other and collaborate on projects. The ongoing speaker series brings BroadVision technology and strategy experts together with consultants and customers to share knowledge, experiences and best practices. Previous guests of the speaker series have included author and Altimeter Group founder, Charlene Li; LEGO Head of Community Development, Tormod Askildsen; author and technology consultant, Geoffrey Moore; and new media thought leader and author, Brian Solis.

The series will kickoff this week with two webinars. On Tuesday, March 15th, Director of Product Strategy, Richard Hughes will lead, "Help Your Customers Join the Social Business Revolution" (see https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/258431830 ). Hughes will teach participants how to build a business and sell services to their entire ecosystem of customers and partners, in the cloud, using Clearvale's latest enterprise social networking platform, Clearvale PaasPort.

That event will be followed up Wednesday, March 16th with "Best Practices in Social Media Marketing and Customer Service," (see https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/634314630 ) led by BroadVision CMO, Giovanni Rodriguez and Human 1.0 partner and co-founder, Francois Gossieaux. The two will discuss how companies can leverage social media to optimize their marketing efforts.

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About BroadVision Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN) is an innovative provider of web-based commerce, communication, and collaboration solutions. Our solutions -- including BroadVision Clearvale, the world's first "network of networks" for enterprise collaboration over the cloud -- enable companies around the globe to conduct business on the web. Our customers include Baker Hughes, W.W. Grainger, Hilti, Iberia, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Company, SINA, Sony, U.S. Navy, Vodafone, Xerox and more. For more information, visit www.broadvision.com .

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