NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Dice Holdings,
Inc. (NYSE: DHX) announces today that its WorkDigital unit has won
the Top Innovator in Social Data award at DataWeek 2014.
EventGraph, a social media listening product, combines natural
language processing with location data to provide more context to
online conversations. With more than one billion individuals
using apps that provide location data, EventGraph allows global
brands to track conversations about their services, while adding
the ability to understand where those conversations are occurring
and view the profiles of the professionals engaged in those
conversations.
"Social listening is an important space and we're excited that
our use of real-time location monitoring combined with semantic
tools enables us to deliver a smarter platform," said Howard Lee, CEO of WorkDigital. "A brand merely
provides the place and time to monitor, while our service captures
social media activity and runs it through our natural language
processing engine to tag and structure the data, ultimately
providing actionable intelligence."
EventGraph leverages rich profile data from Dice's Open Web™, a
recruiting tool that consolidates valuable, public information
about professionals in one place. This additional data allows
brands to get a clear picture of the individuals behind the public
status updates found on social media.
"This is the second product from WorkDigital to win this award
in two years and is great recognition for our continued efforts,"
said Michael Durney, President and
CEO, Dice Holdings, Inc. "We are creating products of
enduring value using data to reveal fresh opportunities for
companies to grow."
WorkDigital will be officially recognized for its award at the
DataWeek +API World 2014 Conference & Expo, - San Francisco's largest Data + API conference
, with more than 100 talks lead by executives from Google,
IBM, The Economist, ReadWrite, HP, Dun & Bradstreet, and
others.
To learn more about EventGraph contact Ben Oakshott at ben@workdigital.co.uk.
About WorkDigital
WorkDigital, a Dice Holdings, Inc. division, creates
cloud-based, enterprise HR & CRM data products making use of
proprietary natural language processing algorithms.
About Dice Holdings, Inc.
Dice Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) is a leading provider of
specialized websites for professional communities, including
technology and engineering, financial services, energy, healthcare,
hospitality and security clearance. Our mission is to help our
customers source and hire the most qualified professionals in
select and highly skilled occupations, and to help those
professionals find the best job opportunities in their respective
fields and further their careers. For more than 20 years, we have
built our company by providing our customers with quick and easy
access to high-quality, unique professional communities and
offering those communities access to highly relevant career
opportunities and information. Today, we serve multiple markets
primarily in North America,
Europe, Asia and Australia.
Media Contacts:
Rachel
Ceccarelli, Courtney
Chamberlain and Carrie
Gray
212-448-8288
dicemedia@dice.com
SOURCE Dice Holdings, Inc.