EContent articles from April 2009

EContent archives from April 2009

Free milk and the price of beef.(edit this)
April 1, 2009... When I was a bartender back in my college days, I often marveled at what people were willing to do to get a free t-shirt. OK, it went beyond marveling: Sometimes the bouncers and I would really push it, trying to find a point at which the crowd...

Additional ejournal licensing terms for all publishers.(metrics)
April 1, 2009... Additional Ejournal Licensing Terms for All Publishers Yes No Free Additional Change VLE 50.9% 49.1% Learning Objects 49.7% 50.3% Text Mining 39.2%...

U.S. user-generated content consumers.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... U.S. User-Generated Content Consumers by Content Type, 2008-2013 (% of internet users) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 User-generated video 36% 39.8% 42.5% 44.8% 47.2% 49.2%...

Applications integrated with ERM implementations.(metrics)
April 1, 2009... Applications Integrated With ERM Implementations Content or document management 24% Email/messaging 17% Knowledge management 17% Web portal 16% Groupware or...

Will SaaS emerge as a big winner postrecession?(content news)
April 1, 2009... Few will argue with the idea that in a time of tight budgets, pared-down IT departments, and slashed staffs, it's imperative to do more with less and adopt efficient, streamlined, and easy-to-use solutions. The tanking of the economy last...

Canto releases Cumulus 7.6.1.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2009... Canto, a cross-platform solution that enables companies to organize, find, share, and track digital files, announced that Canto Cumulus 7.6.1 is available for download. New capabilities include the ability for Cumulus to send automated email...

Information inaccuracy spells trouble for user-generated websites.(content news)
April 1, 2009... During the inauguration of President Barack Obama, people across the country put down their political boxing gloves long enough to celebrate the historic event, but behind the scenes a debate was brewing. It started when it was reported on...

ProQuest announces Shibboleth support for the ProQuest platform.(News & Product Briefs)
April 1, 2009... ProQuest announced that all products hosted on the ProQuest platform are now Shibboleth compliant. The Shibboleth System is a standards-based, open source software package for web single sign-on, allowing library sites to make authorization...

Pew releases study on adults and social network websites.(News & Product Briefs)
April 1, 2009... The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the last 4 years, from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking...

EverEZ Systems, Ltd. releases EverDesk Mail and EverDesk Optima desktop solutions.(content news)
April 1, 2009... Most of us only work at one desk. We've got it all there--our computer monitors, our sticky notes, our files and folders, our staplers, the pictures of our friends and family, and everything else we need to get the job done. The developers at...

SirsiDynix.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... SirsiDynix, a provider of library automation technology, announced the appointment of Brad Whittle as its new North American sales and marketing VP. Previously, Whittle was VP of sales and product management at Alpha Bay. [ILLUSTRATION...

Ingram Digital.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... Ingram Digital announced that Frank Daniels has been named chief commercial officer of the company, and Kent Freeman has been named COO. Daniels will be responsible for guiding all the commercial activities of Ingram Digital. Freeman will be...

ON24, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... ON24, Inc., a provider of webcasting and virtual events solutions, announced that Ben Sullivan has joined the company as VP of channel sales. Most recently, Sullivan held the position of executive director of wholesales services at InterCall....

Hosted Solutions.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hosted Solutions, a data center and managed services provider, announced that Noreen Allen has been named VP of marketing. Allen joins Hosted Solutions from Motricity, where she was VP of marketing.

ClairMail, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... ClairMail, Inc., a provider of two-way mobile banking and payment solutions, announced the appointment of Pete Daffern as CEO. Prior to joining ClairMail, Daffern was CEO of technology company, Purisma. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Socialtext offers networking tools to victims of layoffs.(content news)
April 1, 2009... I know what you're thinking: not another depressing story about layoffs and the economy. This one is different, though, I promise. Ross Mayfield, chairman, president, and co-founder of Socialtext--a provider of Web 2.0 solutions for the...

Emulex Corp.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Emulex Corp., a provider of enterprise-class solutions and technologies, announced the appointment of Jeff Hoogenboom to the role of company SVP of worldwide sales. Previously, Hoogenboom held executive positions at...

Nirvanix.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... Nirvanix, a provider of cloud storage for the enterprise, announced the appointment of Joseph Lyons as VP of sales. Lyons joins Nirvanix after serving as the director of services sales for the Americas at Brocade Communications. ...

ACOM Solutions, Inc. has reassigned responsibilities among its senior management.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ACOM Solutions, Inc. has reassigned responsibilities among its senior management. SVP James R. Scott has assumed responsibility for the company's marketing effort, Mark Firmin, previously SVP of marketing, has been...

Robert Olson.(peopleware)
April 1, 2009... SwiftKnowledge, LLC, a provider of web-based business intelligence software, was purchased by Robert Olson, founder, chairman of the board, and CEO for Stellent, Inc. Olson assumes the role of CEO of SwiftKnowledge.

Remote control.(agile minds)
April 1, 2009... For the second consecutive year, I have researched and written the Netsize Guide, a mobile industry almanac that draws from news, reports, and exclusive interviews to document the ongoing impact of mobile on industry sectors ranging from...

The changing face of identity management.(Cover story)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Deciding who gets access to which assets within an enterprise is not a new problem; it's been around since kings gave orders to put the castle drawbridge up or down for an oncoming rider. However, with so much...

Enterprise portals: reborn and transformed by the social web.
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Is the enterprise portal thriving, or has the web evolved in such a way that the very concept is now outdated? Has it been helped or swept into oblivion by the successive waves of progress of Web 2.0 and the...

Open access: battles to democratize academic publishing.
April 1, 2009... The World Wide Web has radically transformed the way we think about content creation. Over the past several years, we have witnessed the democratization of media. We are no longer bound to the owners of the press to print our writing. Today,...

Clouding over.(technology watch)
April 1, 2009... I participated in a demo with an enterprise social software vendor not too long ago in which the vendor explained some new functionality it was adding to its tool. The functionality would allow licensees to support file sharing with external...

Authority control to the people!(info pro)
April 1, 2009... I was recently blogging about a conference presentation I was preparing, and, being a conscientious info pro, I was planning on tagging my blog post (and, heck, my Twitter Tweets too). And suddenly, I realized I was channeling my grad school...

XML for the masses: Scott Abel of The Content Wrangler interviews Quark's Michael Boses about the need for user-friendly XML authoring tools and the role of structured content in dynamic publishing.(QUARK)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... The Content Wrangler: In 2008 Quark acquired In.vision, which brought you and the In.vision XML authoring tool to Quark. Why is XML so important to people who create and publish content? Michael Boses: XML documents offer tremendous value...