Telligent’s Founder and CTO Rob Howard Named to Dallas Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40”

Dallas, TX, June 26, 2011 --(PR.com)-- This distinguished group of honorees includes executives and entrepreneurs under the age of 40 who are at the top of their game professionally. Moreover, these honorees have personally demonstrated a commitment to the North Texas community through their philanthropic service.

“The entire Telligent family congratulates Rob on this achievement,” says Patrick Brandt Chairman and CEO of Telligent. “Rob continues to fuel innovation and advancements in technology at Telligent. We couldn’t be more proud of him.”

Rob Howard received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and, before founding Telligent, was a founding member of Microsoft’s ASP.NET team and helped build and run the popular Microsoft ASP.Net community. At Telligent, Howard developed the first-to-market integrated online community software with a focus on community analytics, paving the way for companies to integrate online communities and social capabilities in a new way.

Howard serves as Telligent’s CTO and visionary leader behind new product development and innovation and sits on Telligent’s Board of Directors. Howard is recognized throughout the industry as a pioneer in online community software, authoring several books on software development and speaking at conferences worldwide.

About Telligent
One of the pioneers in enterprise social community and workforce collaboration software, Telligent helps companies worldwide to implement social communities for their employees, customers and partners. Its powerful community development platform allows customers and partners to customize their community experiences and build award-winning applications on top of the platform.

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Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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