EContent articles from June 2008

EContent archives from June 2008

I'll know it when I see it.(edit this)
June 1, 2008... I don't understand knowledge management. Yes, it is among the things we cover, but I swear it is the one of the most elusive. While content may be reduced to something as ephemeral as zeros and ones or bits and bytes, knowledge is one of the...

Metrics.(Statistical data)
June 1, 2008... Methods Used by U.S. online Video Viewers to Discover Online Videos July-August 2006 (% of respondents) Come across videos as you browse the web 69% Hear about videos from friends 61% Have a set...

The WhyPhone.(follow the money)
June 1, 2008... I am not the gadget geek my friends and family believe me to be. No, really. As a tech reviewer for a dozen years I remain perpetually cynical toward the hot new media platform toys. Portable digital book readers? I sniffed at them in 1998 and...

Faces of econtent: ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Sean Dolan of Insight24 )(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Name With The Face: Sean Dolan Job Title: Campaign Manager Organization: Insight24, a service of ON24 URL: www.Insight24.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Job Function: Steve Dolan is responsible for setting up content on...

How Barack Obama is using the web to further engage voters.(content news)
June 1, 2008... The web has been part of politics for some time. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Democratic Gov. of Vermont Howard Dean made effective use of Meetup, Inc. to organize meetings and used his website to gather donations. Almost all of the...

ContextWeb, Inc.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ContextWeb, Inc., a contextual advertising company, announced that Michael J. Kelly has joined the company as a senior advisor to the board of directors. Kelly is the former president of AOL Media Network and the...

ECNext.(peopleware)(appointment of Katie Brennan)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... ECNext, an online media company, announced that Katie Brennan has joined the company as VP of advertising sales. In this role, she will be responsible for driving advertising revenue, increasing client growth and retention, optimizing campaign...

Dow Jones acquires Generate.(news & product briefs)
June 1, 2008... Dow Jones & Co. has acquired Generate, Inc., a company that enables business intelligence. As part of the acquisition, Dow Jones will form a new business unit called Business & Relationship Intelligence in its Enterprise Media Group that will...

salesforce.com and Google introduce Salesforce for Google Apps.(news & product briefs)
June 1, 2008... salesforce.com, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Google expanded their alliance to introduce Salesforce for Google Apps. The combination of the Google Apps suite of productivity applications and...

Socialtext launches Business Social Software solutions.(news & product briefs)
June 1, 2008... Socialtext, a provider of business social software, announced that it has built upon its wiki foundation to launch a broad set of Business Social Software solutions. Two products--Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People--are intended to...

Scopus' Journal Analyzer helps librarians and researchers determine who's best.(content news)
June 1, 2008... With tens of thousands of journals housed within the Scopus database, tracking and analyzing a journal's performance throughout the year can prove to be a daunting task for researchers and librarians. On May 17, Scopus aimed to enhance...

Oce Business Services.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oce Business Services, a provider of document process management and electronic discovery, announced that it has named Greg Duke as VP of sales for the company's Records, Compliance, and Legal Solutions (RCLS)...

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, a not-for-profit membership organization for everyone involved with the development and use of competitive intelligence, announced the appointment of its new executive director, Ken...

Yahoo! acquires IndexTools.(news & product briefs)
June 1, 2008... Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Tensa Kft., more commonly known as IndexTools, a provider of web analytics software for online marketing. The acquisition...

SpringCM raises $14 million.(news & product briefs)
June 1, 2008... SpringCM, a provider of on-demand document management and workflow, announced that it has raised an additional $14 million to fund its growth. The financing includes two major components: a $10 million Series B Preferred equity round led by...

By the book: the recovery effort at Tulane University.(content news)
June 1, 2008... With all the talk of FEMA trailers, insurance fiascos, and rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, it's easy to forget that Hurricane Katrina hit area libraries hard. Tulane University officials came back to campus after the storm to find that 8' of...

Coveo Solutions.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coveo Solutions, a provider of search-powered applications, announced the appointment of Barry L. Lieberman as VP, U.S. sales. In this role, Lieberman will be responsible for overseeing all U.S. sales and maintaining...

OpenX.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... OpenX, a developer of an open source ad server, announced both the appointment of former Yahoo! SVP Tim Cadogan as CEO and the move of its head office from London to Los Angeles. The news closely follows the recent appointment of Jon Miller,...

HighWire Press.(peopleware)(appointment of Dominic Mitchell)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... HighWire Press announced the appointments of Dominic Mitchell, who will establish HighWire's first full-time European presence in his role as U.K.-based journal manager, and Xenia Prionas Siller, who will fulfill a technical manager role based...

Endeca Technologies.(peopleware)
June 1, 2008... Endeca Technologies has announced the appointment of Jeff Murphy to SVP of sales. Prior to Endeca, Murphy held sales roles at companies such as SAP, Oracle, Storage Networks, and Yantra. At Yantra, Murphy was the EVP of sales and services.

Dieselpoint opens a pipeline to further improve the flow of search technology.(content news)
June 1, 2008... Dieselpoint announced a new product in late April, called OpenPipeline, which is open source middleware for crawling, parsing, analyzing, and routing documents. The product was announced at the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston, where...

eBookwise1150 eBook Reading Device.
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you live in a big city and find yourself on public transportation, try the following test one day: Look around and count how many people are reading, how many people are playing with their cell phones or...

Wealth management: how to make the most of rich media.(Cover story)
June 1, 2008... Not that long ago, if you took a look into an enterprise content repository, you were likely to see a whole lot of text files. You might see a few pictures, such as the company logo and some product shots. What you weren't likely to find were...

The missing link.(agile minds)
June 1, 2008... Predictably, mobile content delivery scenarios require publishers to develop made-for-mobile sites and destinations. It's not a mammoth task for major publishers, but it can be a huge headache for eager independent publishers or smaller content...

The search for dynamic navigation.
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A typical web search can be time-consuming and ineffectual. To get to the information you actually need, you have to know the exact words in order to bring up the right results (or wade through masses of results). If...

Reaping information: dynamic navigation helps users.
June 1, 2008... Remember Pong, the black-and-white video game where players attempted to score points by hitting a pixel ball with a vertical straight line? The game caused quite a sensation when a home video version was released in the U.S. in the early '70s....

Knowledge in the information age.(i column like i cm)
June 1, 2008... In his Content Management Bible, Bob Boiko defines content management (CM) as having three major phases: The first phase of CM is the creation or collection of content from various sources. The middle phase is managing the storage and retrieval...

Dr. Freelove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love $0.00.(info pro)
June 1, 2008... It seems like everyone's talking about free information again: The old meme that "information wants to be free" appears to be recycling in the web's hive-mind. I am still not convinced that information cares one way or the other, but I do know...

A case of analytical improvements.(case study)(Case study)
June 1, 2008... Company: SMARTBRIEF SmartBrief is a news aggregation service based in Washington, D.C. The company publishes co-branded, customized daily email newsletters in partnership with trade associations, professional societies, and corporations....

Who's studying your text?(after thought)(Viewpoint essay)
June 1, 2008... I went to Kenyon College and graduated in 1983 with a B.A. in economics. I took only one English class. I got a "gentleman's C," so it's an odd thing that I should end up writing magazine columns, a blog, and some books. Go figure. At...