EContent articles from October 2003

EContent archives from October 2003

Intra, intra: read all about it.(edit this)
October 1, 2003... Corporate communication--oxymoron? Appropriately, the word oxymoron is itself oxymoronic (or at least self-descriptive) because it is formed from two Greek roots of opposite meaning, oxys "sharp, keen," and moros "dull/foolish." And that about...

CERT and ArcSight join forces to battle cyberthreats.(news feature)
October 1, 2003... In an era when cyberterrorism is more than just a nuisance, the need to provide effective means to thwart such attacks is critical for today's leading businesses and universities, as well as the general public. To help create technology for...

TIA: terrorism information awareness or totally inappropriate?(news feature)
October 1, 2003... In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Americans have been willing to concede some personal freedoms for the sake of national security. Three years ago, few would have waited barefoot in airport security lines, taken care to put tweezers or...

Interwoven and iManage merge.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content management for the enterprise, and iManage, Inc., a provider of collaborative content management software for global enterprises, have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in a stock and cash...

BitPass secures series a funding.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Bitpass Inc. has secured $1.5 million in Series A funding. Lead investors in the round are Garage Technology Ventures and Cardinal Venture Capital. Additional investors include Amicus Capital and Constantin Partners. BitPass provides a...

KeepMedia launches digital content archive.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... KeapMedia, Inc. has launched its content service delivering current and archived content from approximately 140 magazines and newspapers in one location. The company was founded in January 2002 by Chairman Louis Borders, also founder of Borders...

IT exec survey looks at integration between portals, enterprise applications.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Vignette Corp. has released the results of a recant study of nearly 400 information technology (IT) executives that shows customers are looking for more sophisticated, out-of-the-box integration between enterprise applications, information...

eMeta offers eRights suite as managed service.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... eMeta Corporation has launched eRightsWEB, a secure hosted version of its eRights Suite, in an effort to offer the content protection and commercialization features of the eRights Suite through an application service provider (ASP) model at a...

Gale updates products.(news & products briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Updates are now available on three of Gale's products: Biography Resource Center, CPI.Q, and Ward's Business Directory. The Biography Resource Center contains more than 40 published volumes containing 80,000+ new and updated biographies as well...

This Fedora's big enough for any DAM project.(news feature)
October 1, 2003... Libraries lead the way in pioneering many digital initiatives, but what the local library implements to manage its ejournal collection or even a more ambitious digital archiving project will rarely scale to enterprise proportions. However, the...

Intro to open access: the Public Library of Science.(news feature)
October 1, 2003... Research scientists live for just one thing--research. Their L word is laboratory not library. Secondary research, looking for articles in their area of specialization, takes a back seat to the thrill of primary research. Yet, every scientist...

Comtex.(peopleware)(Raymond Capece resigns as president and CEO)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Raymond Capece, named president of Comtex in April 2003, has resigned as president and CEO. Comtex has appointed Stephen W. Ellis, chairman of the board of directors, to the additional post of CEO and has named Laurence F. Schwartz, president....

RedDot Solutions.(peopleware)(appointed Kevin Kohn, VP of marketing)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... RedDot Solutions has appointed Kevin Kohn, VP of marketing. Kohn will he responsible for managing the marketing and business development initiatives for RedDot's North American operations. Most recently, Kohn was at Mediasurface where he served...

PCG, Inc.(peopleware)(appointed Arend Kuster European business development manager)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... PCG, Inc., the specialist marketing services division of Ingenta, Inc., has appointed Arend Kuster, European business development manager as part of the company's expanding European presence. Kuster has joined the marketing and sales...

Centra Software, Inc.(peopleware)( appointed Paul R. Gudonis president and CEO )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Centra Software, Inc. has appointed Paul R. Gudonis president and CEO and will add him to the board of directors. Most recently, Gudonis served as chairman and CEO at Genuity, Inc. Tony Mark, who has been Centra's president and COO for the past...

American Psychological Association.(peopleware)(Appointed publishing executive Susan J. A. Harris as senior director, journals)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The American Psychological Association has appointed publishing executive Susan J. A. Harris as senior director, journals. Most recently, Harris was the executive publisher for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, managing a portfolio of 32 society...

iVillage Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... iVillage Inc. has announced that cofounder and editor-in-chief Nancy Evans resigned after eight years with the Internet media company. Kellie Gould, the new editor-in-chief, was most recently senior VP of programming and helped oversee the...

Hearst Interactive Media.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Michael Dunn, formerly CTO and EVP of Encoda Systems, Inc., has joined Hearst Interactive Media as a VP. Prior to his role at Encoda Systems, Inc., Dunn served as corporate CTO for Time Warner Inc.

Board of Directors of United Press International (UPI).(peopleware)(Appoints Arnaud de Borchgrave as interim editor-in-chief)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The Board of Directors of United Press International (UPI) has appointed Arnaud de Borchgrave as interim editor-in-chief. De Borchgrave, currently editor-at-large of UPI, will act as editor-in-chief until a permanent replacement can be named...

Myriad Telecom.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Mark Ryland, formerly of Microsoft, has joined Myriad Telecom as CTO and director of patent licensing. At Microsoft, Ryland led teams in a wide variety of areas, from sales and technical marketing to distributed object systems to...

National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services.(peopleware)(Marjorie M.K. Hlava assumes presidency of NFAIS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Marjorie M.K. Hlava, has assumed the presidency of NFAIS, the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. Hlava, a veteran member of NFAIS, is president of Access Innovations, Inc., a knowledge management company she established...

MuseGlobal Inc.(peopleware)(Emily Fayen is named VP for digital content and access)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Emily Fayen has joined MuseGlobal, Inc. as VP for digital content and access. Before joining MuseGlobal, she was the product manager for Information Quest, RoweCom/divine's online sci/tech database and managed publisher relations for nearly 100...

Faces of econtent.(Management of an intranet service called the EPA Desktop Library)
October 1, 2003... Job Function: The EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment--air, water, and land--upon which life depends. "The EPA Headquarters Library serves around 8,000 EPA staff members who work in the...

WorX Studio.(Hypervision Ltd's WorX for Word and companion tool, WorX Studio)
October 1, 2003... Company: HyperVision, Ltd. Purpose: Supports the structured authoring of XML inside of Microsoft Word. Starting Price: $1000/seat Reviewer's View: WorX for Word and its companion tool, WorX Studio, provide a novel way to bring...

Powerful intranets: strategy and content combined.(behind the firewall)
October 1, 2003... I wonder where the first intranet was installed. I suspect I won't have a definitive answer because the Web-based intranets we know today had their origin in groupware applications that emerged in the 1990s, notably Lotus Notes. It was this...

KM and elearning: a powerful combination: "in two year, KM will be a subset of elearning. Or elearning will be a subset of KM.".(Knowledge management)
October 1, 2003... That Gartner prediction, cited in Rosenberg's book e-Learning, was made three years ago. Neither variation has come to pass. Instead, the interactions of the two fields continue to increase and there seems to be a widespread agreement that...

Are micropayments promising or penny-ante?(follow the money)
October 1, 2003... Online micropayment is an idea that just won't die... nor will it quite come to life. Attractive as it may sound to consumers and some publishers, the idea of spending $2 or $3 here or there for a song, an article, or a day of access to a site...

Business intelligence no longer an oxymoron: some of us may remember a time when, if a business wanted to communicate with a supplier, an executive dictated the letter to a secretary.(News Flash)
October 1, 2003... She (it was almost always a she) took her notes back to her desk, typed them up, and brought the piece of paper back to her boss to sign. He (it was almost always a he) might sign it immediately or let it sit on his desk for a few days before...

Is that all?(infopro)(Success of Google and abilities of information professionals)
October 1, 2003... You know an Internet trend has peaked when it's written up in the New York Times. The Times published a column in late June titled "Is Google God?", in which a vice-president of a wireless services provider was quoted as saying, "If I can...

Blogging for business.
October 1, 2003... Until recently, weblogs (a.k.a. blogs) were primarily the domain of a tightly knit community of personal bloggers offering their insight and opinions on a, variety topics. Much like instant messaging--which recently made the transition to the...

Secure content collaboration with information rights management.
October 1, 2003... Information could be the greatest by-product of our new digital era. Every day enormous amounts of information are created in the form of documents, email, Web sites, and multimedia--all of which is then stored on PCs, much like the one...

Making book: for pure authorial ego-boost, magazines may one-up econtent, but nothing compares to a book.(disContent)
October 1, 2003... Most of what I write is econtent: It's distributed over the Web. Econtent typically provides nearly immediate gratification. You write the material, someone edits it (if you are lucky), and it goes live on a site. End of story. Econtent tends...

NetContent: turning information into power.(Profile)
October 1, 2003... In today's Information Age, the concept of "information" has developed a mixed reputation. Call it the Jekyll and Hyde complex of intent versus perception. When information is needed or wanted by the recipient, it is immediately deemed...

The intranets newsletter: strategies, tips, and tools.
October 1, 2003... The INTRANETS newsletter covers the strategies, tips, and tools required to help organizations develop, deploy, and manage intranets, extranets, portals, and other knowledge and information management initiatives. We recognize that the role of...

I need that quote now!(after thought)(Ecommerce provision of images is now a very big, but rather quiet, sector in econtent market)
October 1, 2003... Poking around the nifty new Apple site to check out the iTunes Music Store, I began to consider all the times when a one-off purchase of an expensive bit of econtent has been critical for my business. I see an interesting similarity between the...