EContent articles from March 2009

EContent archives from March 2009

How prevalent are staff blogs?(metrics)
March 1, 2009... How Prevalent Are Staff Blogs? Number of Staff Blogs Small Papers (%) Big Papers (%) None 37 0 1-9 48 22 10-19 11 ...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.
March 1, 2009... Job Function: When she began working at Deakin University in 2007, Jan Weaver focused on developing a medical and health sciences library collection to support the new School of Medicine. "I work closely with medical school academic staff...

Show me the (real) money.(follow the money)
March 1, 2009... As the eyes of old print, radio, and TV media turn to the internet for a bridge to take them across the current media business abyss, one troubling fact is becoming abundantly clear: The "real money" isn't there yet. Top executives at TV...

Consumer privacy advocates: seek search engine solution.(content news)
March 1, 2009... No one knows more about us--our ailments, significant others, favorite music, what we're thinking about buying, and how much we spend--than our search engines. However, this is stuff we probably wouldn't choose to share with a multimillion...

Lionsgate acquires TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com for $255 million.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2009... Lionsgate and Macrovision Solutions Corp., a digital entertainment technology provider, announced an agreement for Lionsgate to acquire the TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online properties from Macrovision for $255 million in consideration. The...

IT security spending will increase in 2009.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2009... Finjan, Inc., a provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, announced the findings of its IT security survey conducted in December 2008. Finjan conducted an online survey among 200 IT and security professionals. The...

Hoover's, Inc. launches new mobile product line.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2009... Hoover's, Inc. and its parent company D&B, a provider of global business information, tools, and commercial insight, launched a new mobile product line. Hoover's Mobile and Hoover's MobileSP allow users to access customer and partner...

Play nice: RIAA battles Project Playlist.(content news)
March 1, 2009... In the next iteration of the protracted battle between the recording industry and online music networks, both MySpace and Facebook have agreed to remove the popular Project Playlist widget from their sites. Succumbing to pressure from the...

Dow Jones acquires database assets of Library House.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2009... Dow Jones, a News Corp. company and provider of global business news and information services, announced it has acquired the database assets of The Library House, Ltd., a provider of data on emerging private companies in Europe. With the...

Elsevier challenges contestants to solve information overload dilemmas.(Reed Elsevier N.V.)
March 1, 2009... Elsevier, a global healthcare and scientific publisher, announced the four finalists chosen in the first Elsevier Grand Challenge on Jan. 6. The competition invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the ever-increasing amount of...

Yahoo! Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yahoo! Inc. announced that Carol Bartz has been named CEO and a member of the board of directors. Prior to becoming executive chairman of Autodesk in 2006, Bartz led that company as CEO for 14 years.

Swets.(retirement of Arie Jongejan at Swets Subscription Service)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Arie Jongejan, CEO of Swets, decided to fulfill his plan to retire. Over the past 4 years, Jongejan led the company through a change in ownership and helped establish a relationship with the new shareholders and supervisory board. Swets...

Dialog, LLC.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... Dialog, LLC, a provider of online information services for professional searchers, named Morten Nicholaisen as VP of global sales. Nicholaisen was most recently executive director of North American sales.

Ingram.(appointment of James Gray and Mike Lovett)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The Ingram content companies announced that James Gray has been named chief strategy officer for the content group. Gray was most recently the president and CEO of Ingram Digital Group. In addition, Mike Lovett, the former CEO of Ingram Book...

Exalead.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... Exalead, a provider of information access software for business and the web, announced the appointment of Gregory Grefenstette as chief science officer. Most recently, Grefenstette worked as a senior expert at CEA (the French Atomic Energy...

Mom 3.0: marketing to high-tech moms.(content news)(Survey)
March 1, 2009... Gone are the days of handwritten grocery lists and family calendars hanging on the fridge. Moms today have gone high-tech. From cell phones to blogs, more and more mothers are using technology to organize their busy lives. According to Maria T....

Wikimedia Foundation.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, announced the appointment of Roger McNamee to the Foundation's advisory board. McNamee is managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners.

Brickfish.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brickfish, a social media advertising network, announced the addition of Becky Carroll as director of social media. Before joining Brickfish, Carroll was the president and founder of Petra Consulting Group, a...

Canon U.S.A., Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... Canon U.S.A., Inc., a provider of digital imaging, announced that Tod Pike will become president of its subsidiary, Canon Business Solutions, Inc. (CBS). Pike joins CBS from Canon U.S.A.'s Imaging Systems Group, where he was SVP and GM since...

MasterControl.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... MasterControl, a provider of GxP process and document management software solutions, announced that Paul Herd has joined the company as director of MasterControl EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). Most recently, Herd served as VP of sales...

Abacast, Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... Abacast, Inc., a hybrid content distribution network (CDN), announced the appointment of John Morris and Jim Kott as co-presidents and Kristy Surovic as VP of administration. Morris has been with Abacast since April 2001, recently serving as VP...

Nirvanix, Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nirvanix, Inc., a "cloud storage" platform provider, announced the appointment of Jim Zierick as its president and CEO. Previously, Zierick was CEO of Aspyra, a provider of clinical and diagnostic information...

SpacePilot.(DECISION-MAKER review)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We live in a 3D world. However, since the beginning, computer space has been dominated by 2D. It's almost as if the guys who created the original interfaces arbitrarily decided: "Hard drives and computer screens are...

Building content bridges.(info insider)
March 1, 2009... Mergers and acquisitions are all too common, as are company reorganizations. SharePoint is an increasingly popular repository option. The increasingly common end result: More and more enterprises have important content in at least two...

Policing the journalistic frontier.(Cover story)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As with anything on the vast internet, finding examples of egregious lapses in editorial judgment and traditional journalistic ethics is as brain-dead simple as a shallow Google search. To wit: In early...

Content in the cloud.
March 1, 2009... While "cloud computing" might qualify as the most overused buzz term of 2008, the concept of internet-based development and delivery of technology has been around for quite a while. Earlier incarnations including grid computing, hosted...

Assessing open source web content management.(Company overview)
March 1, 2009... Open source software always seems attractive because of the absence of license fees. However, as we'll see, not all open source tools are free of cost, and, at the end of the day, you may actually spend more money going the open source route....

The forgotten factory.(eureka)(Column)
March 1, 2009... Imagine for a moment that your company has built a factory and filled it with machinery. Or perhaps your company has built a large, new office building with a sizeable parking lot and a good cafeteria. These additions represent considerable...

A case of story time.(case study)
March 1, 2009... Company: SPEAKABOOS Conceived by publisher Neal Shenoy as a partnership between [212]MEDIA, a venture development firm focused on building digital media companies, and audio engineering group Bang Music, New York City-based Speakaboos...

Can you read me?(disContent)(Editorial)
March 1, 2009... They're at it again--the doom-criers who assert that reading is disappearing--or at least the right kind of reading. Digital content? Sorry; that's not really reading. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) produced "Reading at...

Armed with social media.(after thought)
March 1, 2009... Recently, I was checking out a bunch of people on Twitter who began to follow my updates (I'm @dmscott). When I went to @AFPAA, I was surprised to see the Twitter ID belonged to the U.S. Air Force. At the time, there were fewer than 200 people...