EContent articles from May 2009

EContent archives from May 2009

News unfit for print.(edit this)(Column)
May 1, 2009... By the end of the year, I wonder if anyone will still be putting the words "news" and "paper" together. I just read a report on The New York Times site that the San Francisco Chronicle may be shutting down. I've been following the disheartening...

Media used by U.S. internet users, 2006-2008 (% of respondents).(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Media Used by U.S. Internet Users, 2006-2008 (% of respondents) 2006 2007 2008 Major network TV news 71% 65% 65% Local newspapers 69% 62% 63% Local TV...

Daily online activities of U.S. internet users, April-May 2008 (% of respondents).(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Daily Online Activities of U.S. Internet Users, April-May 2008 (% of respondents) Email 60% Online search 49% Check news 39% Check weather 30% Research...

Indicate to what extent: the following items are part of your approach and processes fro search.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Indicate to what extent the following items are part of your approach and processes fro search: Optimized, In some parts, Note a current general being developed practice ...

U.S. user-generated content consumers, 2008-2013 (millions and % of internet users).(metrics)
May 1, 2009... U.S. User-Generated Content Consumers, 2008-2013 (millions and % of internet users) 2008 115.7 (60%) 2009 123.5 (62%) 2010 131.4 (64%) 2011 139.2 (66%) 2012 146.9 (68%) 2013 154.8 (70%) Source: eMarketer,...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
May 1, 2009... Job Function: As half of the two-person content division of the SIIA, the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry, Jenny Hansen wears a number of hats to keep the division running smoothly. "Internally, I...

Getting mobile's signal.(follow the money)
May 1, 2009... No, this is not another column instructing publishers to extend their brands to mobile. I think that case has been made already to almost all parties on the consumer side and to an increasing number of business information providers. At this...

All the news that's fit to download: the print media must evolve or face extinction.(content news)
May 1, 2009... Amid wall-to-wall news coverage about banks, insurance companies, auto manufacturers, and other pillars of the American economy that are buckling under the oppressive weight of the global financial crisis, the fact that the print media outlets...

Hulu launches social network.(news & product briefs)
May 1, 2009... The NBC Universal/News Corp. video site is adding a social network, called Hulu Friends. With Hulu Friends, users will be able to create their own profiles and share videos with each other. According to reports, Hulu is adding the social...

eZ systems announces eZ publish 4.1.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... eZ Systems has announced the release of eZ Publish 4.1, which is designed to power web properties working with rich and various content assets. This eZ Publish 4.1 release focuses on user experience, scalability, and performances. eZ Publish...

U.S. public access policy made permanent.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... President Obama signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires...

zAgile releases Wikidsmart, enterprise wiki.(news & product briefs)
May 1, 2009... zAgile, Inc. announced the availability of Wikidsmart, an application that leverages zAgile's semantic web infrastructure. Wikidsmart's semantic wiki features for Atlassian's Confluence enterprise wiki enable users to enter content in a...

Competing for stimulus money: puts new demands on researchers.(content news)
May 1, 2009... Most of the country has been looking at President Obama's stimulus package and wondering just what's in it for them. Among the millions of people wondering what economic relief might come their way are researchers--people whose success, and...

Apture gets $4.1 million funding.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Apture has received $4.1 million in its first round of funding, led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Apture allows content creators to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages. Publishers can add hover pop-ups on...

ADAM 4.4 released.(News & Product Briefs)
May 1, 2009... ADAM Software, a global software vendor of marketing platform technologies, released ADAM 4.4, the latest version of its enterprise digital asset management platform. ADAM offers search options, improved logging, rich metadata, data source...

Getty images and Flickr launch imagery collection.(News & Product Briefs)
May 1, 2009... Getty Images, a creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr, a Yahoo!, Inc. service and photo sharing community, announced the launch of the Flickr Collection, a creative imagery collection available...

Ebooks rewrite the rules of education.(content news)
May 1, 2009... Between spending huge amounts of money on books--only to have them bought back for a fraction of the price--and lugging behemoth texts all over campus, the relationship between coeds and their textbooks is strained at best. So it makes sense...

Copyright Clearance Center.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a provider of copyright licensing solutions, has named Miles McNamee as VP of licensing and business development. McNamee will succeed Bob Weiner, SVP, licensing and rightsholder...

Dow Jones & Co.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... Dow Jones & Co. announced that it has made four new hires, including Ian Rosen, global director of strategy solutions management for Dow Jones investment banking solutions; Christopher Young, global director of strategy solutions management for...

Oxford University.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... Oxford University has appointed Nigel Portwood as the new chief executive of Oxford University Press (OUP). Portwood is currently EVP, global operations for the Penguin Group, based in New York.

CBS Interactive.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... CBS Interactive announced that Sarah Cain has been promoted to VP, communications for CBS Interactive. Cain, who previously served as director of communications of the division, joined CNET Networks in 2002.

eZ Systems.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... eZ Systems AS announced that Todd McElroy has joined the company as managing director North America. McElroy joins eZ from Reddot (OpenText), where he was director of channels and alliances. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The H.W. Wilson Co.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... The H.W. Wilson Co. appointed John Regazzi to the newly created position of chief strategy officer. Regazzi will focus on a range of initiatives, including new products, product enhancements, business development, and marketing. ...

Taking on chicken little: entrepreneurs fight doomsday economic predictions.(content news)
May 1, 2009... Over the past few months, from scattered corners of the web, the sentiment "enough already" has slowly emerged. Yes, we're in a recession; friends and family members are losing jobs, retirement savings, and homes; people are scared and...

FatWire Software.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FatWire Software, a web experience management (WEM) provider, announced that Wai Wong has been appointed as an independent outside director of the company. Wong recently served as EVP of products and GM of WebLogic...

Atlantic Media Co.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... Atlantic Media Co. announced the appointment of Matt Dunie as GM of government executive media group. As GM, Dunie will oversee all aspects of Atlantic Media's business-to-business product offerings targeting the government market.

VerusMed.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... VerusMed, a medical information business unit of ConnectivHealth, Inc., has been sold to Intellerus, LLC, and Roscoe Smith has become chairman and CEO of VerusMed. Smith was most recently CEO of Agent Media Corp.

John Durham, Curt Viebranz, and Mark Walsh have formed a board of advisors for Inflection Point Media (IPM), the recently launched intent-driven ad network.(peopleware)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... John Durham, Curt Viebranz, and Mark Walsh have formed a board of advisors for Inflection Point Media (IPM), the recently launched intent-driven ad network. Durham is CEO and managing partner of Catalyst. Viebranz was an EVP at AOL and was...

Press-sense.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... Press-sense announced they have named Amir Rosentuler president of EMEA and APAC. Prior to Press-sense, Rosentuler was the GM and VP of international sales for Magic Software, a provider of enterprise application development and integration...

Bizo, Inc.(peopleware)
May 1, 2009... Bizo, Inc., a B2B advertising and targeting network, announced that Bill Furlong, the president and founder of SearchChannel and B2BWorks and former managing director of Crain Communications' BtoB magazine, has joined the company as an advisor....

GroupSwim Collaboration.(DECISION-MAKER: review)(software as a service)
May 1, 2009... GroupSwim Collaboration is an online collaboration program available in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) format. That means you simply sign up, log in, and pay for the number of users in your organization. You don't have to worry about software...

It's taxonomy time.(info insider)(Column)
May 1, 2009... In April, when this column is printed, Americans will be engaged in the annual ritual of calculating and paying state and federal taxes. Although tax activity is most intense in April, we all pay taxes daily in many forms, such as sales tax....

Search for success: information discovery in the effective enterprise.
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The word "discovery" has an element of magic to it: an uncovering of something never before seen, a new truth or direction. Yet buried as we are in information all day long, the term "information discovery" can lose...

DAM good: making the most of your assets in a multimedia world.
May 1, 2009... Chances are, you watch almost as much video content on your computer screen as you do on the television set in your family room. When you head to the beach for this summer's family vacation, you could likely be one of a growing number of...

Search, well-done.(eureka)
May 1, 2009... Over the past few years I've discovered that I enjoy cooking. The reason I'd not learned this earlier was not so much that I would or could not cook, but rather because my wife is so good at it. However, Cynthia provides first-aid support for a...

The triangle of content success: building the perfect combination of editorial and user content, infused with the intelligence of social connections.
May 1, 2009... Today, even the most resistant old-school publishers know that they need to develop an effective online strategy. According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project study, one of the tipping points occurred last year: More people in the U.S....

Not me, Inc.(disContent)(Column)
May 1, 2009... I am not a brand... I am a free man!" (Apologies to Patrick McGoohan; may The Prisoner rest in peace.) How much time do you spend worrying about your brand? Not your company's brand, yours. If you believe some marketing and new-media...

A case of publishing in reverse.(case study)
May 1, 2009... Company: THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS In 1885, when The Dallas Morning News first started covering the area in and around Dallas, it had a circulation of 5,000. Published by A.H. Belo, a Texas-based publisher, The Dallas Morning News now covers...

After everyone's gone, the conference goes on.(after thought)(Column)
May 1, 2009... Quality, conference-centric web content can provide an ideal confluence of on-site and online. Smart organizers create all kinds of different content that helps people to make the decision, prior to the event, to buy a ticket (or not). The...