EContent articles from December 2006

EContent archives from December 2006

Show me state.(edit this)
December 1, 2006... a plane hit a building in New York. I saw it on the evening news. The evening news saw it on YouTube. Right in the middle of the broadcast, the anchors cut to a YouTube video of the tragic event. The audience is making the news these days. ...

Metrics.(Statistical table)(Survey)
December 1, 2006... Whether to Charge for Online Content 2006 % Currently charge 37 Not currently, but 20 plan to in the next 12 months Do not...

The revenue streams of 2007.(follow the money)
December 1, 2006... Perilous as it may seem, I will once again mark the EC100 issue with a look ahead to next year's emerging revenue models, which we may well be calling old hat this time next year. RSS finally came into its own last year, as Google and...

InSites: the EContent team suggests some sites, projects, and resources that--while outside the scope of the ECONTENT 100 list--are well worth a closer look.
December 1, 2006... Unlike many social networks today, The Content Wrangler ensures that the content on its site is posted by experts in the content management field. Founded in 2003 by Scott Abel, president and CEO, The Content Wrangler provides free access to a...

Info pro on the edge.(info pro)
December 1, 2006... Sometimes the pace of change scares even me, and I'm generally an early adopter. I got one of the first PC-compatible iPods hot off the assembly line, a set of Bose headphones when they first came out--heck, I was a beta-tester for Verizon's...

Resourceful CMS selection.(i column like i cm)
December 1, 2006... In Econtent's 2005 year-end roundup of the Content Management System marketplace, I (amazingly) found 1,879 distinct CMS products listed in 20 directories around the world. I have received dozens of requests for my spreadsheet listing all the...

Blogs I bookmark.(Website list)
December 1, 2006... A collection of blogs hit by EContent 100 team members on a regular basis. Click and learn. IN OUR OWN WORDS Want to get to know the inner workings of the EContent team members' minds? Then check out their blogs, which are well worth...

Welcome to the sixth annual EContent 100:--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.(Introduction)
December 1, 2006... All good things must come to an end. The good news is that the EContent 100 list is not one of them. However, despite the steady march of consolidation and the rapid clip of innovation, our list bears at least a third, if not half, of the same...

Categories.(Category Descriptions)
December 1, 2006... Content Commerce Grease must be applied to the wheels of commerce lest they squeak--nay, grind to a halt. When what is being bought and sold is measured in bits and bytes, solutions that enable the buying and selling of digital content are...

Meet the EContent 100 judging team.
December 1, 2006... Robert J. Boeri has over 30 years of experience as a publishing and content management professional, with recent special emphasis on XML systems. Boeri has worked in many industries with IT content management systems, as an individual...

EContent 100 companies.
December 1, 2006... 37signals WWW.37SIGNALS.COM 37signals was formed in 1999 to fill a gaping hole in the online realm: website design. That remained the company's main focus until 2003 when 37signals' president Jason Fried and his colleagues realized...

Taking charge of content.(agile minds)
December 1, 2006... Access to simple tools empowers us to mix and mash, blog, and mesh. We create content on our terms and share the results with social networks we have chosen to join based on common interests and expertise. What's more, the proliferation of...

Content 2.0: Titans & Lilliputians.(info insider)
December 1, 2006... As we started 2006, I saw the "Clash of the Titans" metaphor as a way to view the struggle to dominate our content tools: Google and Microsoft were the titans, locked in mortal combat. The past year has seen Google working to extend its...

Content technologies, circa 2007.(the content watcher)
December 1, 2006... Large mergers this year at the top of the content technologies marketplace (IBM swallowing FileNet, Open Text buying Hummingbird, Autonomy taking Verity) have led some to opine that these markets are finally maturing. I'm not so sure. All...

Shortcut literacy.(disContent)
December 1, 2006... Year's end is a time for Big Ideas or Jeremiads. These days, Big Ideas seem unfettered by deep analysis and support--because nobody has time. Deep analysis requires reading long texts, thinking about them intently, concentrating. That's hard...

Who put the "E" in Econtent?(online insider)
December 1, 2006... Ever get a song stuck in your head? The other day, for me, it was Barry Mann (or maybe The Viscounts, who also recorded Mann's lyrics) singing, "who put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp?" Or was it the "bomp in the bomp bah bomp?" Or the "bop...

From here to maturity.(behind the firewall)
December 1, 2006... As an intranet consultant, I certainly get to see the world--. even if it means contending with severe security restrictions at Heathrow for a short four-day trip from London to Sydney. Luckily, the only major problem on that flight occurred at...

Really simple marketing.(after thought)
December 1, 2006... On the web, marketing and communications has shifted from the one-way, one-size-fits-all approach of TV advertising to delivering just-in-time and just-right content to consumers and internal audiences. Successful web marketers understand that...