Jennifer Leggio

Current

• Social Business Blogger at ZDNet
• Director, Strategic Communications at Fortinet

Past

• Senior Manager, Strategic Communications at Fortinet
• Senior Manager, Public Relations and Analyst Relations at Fortinet
• Corporate Communications Manager at Hyperion (acquired by Oracle in 2007)

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Education

• California State University-Fullerton

Recommended

24 people have recommended Jennifer

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Jennifer Leggio’s Summary

Jennifer Leggio is passionate about all things social media, especially enterprise, security, privacy and reputation issues, and writes about these issues for ZDNet’s Social Business blog. She has been a communications professional for more than 15 years and currently works at the cross-section of social media and security as director of strategic communications for Fortinet. Jennifer has led or supported interactive social networking efforts for industry conferences includingSOURCE Boston, RSA Conference and Black Hat USA, and founded the Security Twits, a community for network security professionals. She co-hosts the Quick’n'Dirty Social Media Podcast with Aaron Strout. Jennifer was profiled in Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal’s “40 Under 40″ edition, as a rising star for 2009.

**Speaker**
Blog World Expo
Twitter Conference
Learn About Web
Silicon Valley Marketing Association
Social Media Club
Silicon Valley Geek Breakfast
PRSA
Podcamp

**Contributor**
"Twitter Means Business: How Microblogging Can Help or Hurt Your Company" (2008)
"Enterprise 2.0: How Technology, E-Commerce, and Web 2.0 Are Transforming Business Virtually" (2009)

Jennifer Leggio’s Specialties:

Social media / social business; security research; analyst relations; market share reporting and competitive analysis; crisis management; reputation management

Additional Information

Jennifer Leggio’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Jennifer Leggio’s Honors:

Silicon Valley Business Journal "40 under 40" 2009
Top Tech Communicator, PRSourceCode, August 2008
Excellence in Execution Award, Hyperion, 2004
"FortiChamp" corporate excellence award, Fortinet, October 2007
Marketing Spotlight Award, Fortinet, March 2007
News Writing Excellence Award, Orange County Press Club, 1999

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