Premier Farnell's element14 Community honoured with 2012 Jive Award for social customer engagement

Premier Farnell's element14 Community honoured with 2012 Jive Award for social customer engagement PR Newswire LONDON, Oct. 12, 2012 -Award underscores element14's success inspiring, educating and supporting design engineers and electronics hobbyists LONDON, Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier Farnell [LON:PFL], global electronics distributor and parent company of element14, the first collaborative community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, today announced that it received the 2012 Jive Award in the "Engage Customers" category at the JiveWorld '12 conference in Las Vegas. The award category recognises organisations that build solutions to improve customer satisfaction while increasing loyalty and engagement. Premier Farnell The element14 Community leverages social engagement to provide engineers with the tools and resources needed to simplify and reduce their design process. It functions as a centralised hub for peer collaboration, discussions, deep technical information, new product reviews, expert support, quality design services, and purchasing engineering components. As an industry pioneer, element14 was one of Jive's earliest social technology adopters, employing Jive's Social Business software in 2009 when the community began.