EContent articles from October 2007

EContent archives from October 2007

The winter of my content.(edit this)
October 1, 2007... I get calls in August about participating in September print content. Well-meaning PR kids trying to get clients covered in a feature article they hear we've got coming call when the issue is already complete. Why do I assume they are kids?...

UGC forecast looks good.(EMail)
October 1, 2007... Thanks for mentioning our sweepstakes in your column ["Viral Video," June 2007, p. 3]. This is the first time I've been included in an article that begins "bad marketing makes me sick." Our contest does offer a $5,000 prize in addition to...

News edgier.(EMail)
October 1, 2007... Impressive scoop on the acquisition of NewsEdge by Acquire Media (though I wonder why they didn't also use the newswires to get the word out). You werethe only news hit that came up on a search on that subject on my news portal for several days...

Search combining with online advertising.(content news)
October 1, 2007... Firms offering large-scale search capabilities were on the prowl for online advertisers earlier in the year as Google acquired Double Click, Yahoo! purchased Right Media, Microsoft bought AdECN, and AOL acquired Tacoda. At press time, all of...

ICopyright.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ICopyright has hired five industry veterans to help accelerate its growth and profitability. Michelle Wolfe has joined iCopyright's Publisher Services Group as senior manager of publisher services. Wolfe previously...

John P. Thomson.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Saepio Technologies, a provider of solutions for managing, distributing, and customizing marketing assets, announced that John P. Thomson has joined the company as president and CEO. Thomson brings more than a decade of experience to Saepio,...

Frank Traynor.(peopleware)(appointment of Frank Traynor at AnswersMedia)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... AnswersMedia, a multi-platform HD video resource, has announced that Frank Traynor has joined the company as the VP of network syndication. Traynor formerly served as head of global media sales and syndication for Bloomberg News, where he was...

Scripps acquires Incando.(news & product briefs)(Scripps Networks Inc.)(Incando Corporation)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Scripps Networks has acquired Incando Corporation, its second new media purchase in less than a month. No details of the transaction were released. Incando is known for its personal media-sharing service Pickle.com and the user-generated...

Hearst Corporation to acquire Kaboodle Inc.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2007... The Hearst Corporation has announced that it will acquire Kaboodle Inc., a social shopping community where consumers discover, recommend, and share products. Kaboodle, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst, will be managed by...

U.S. consumer media usage declines for the first time in a decade.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2007... For the first time since 1997, consumers spent less time with media in 2006 than they did the previous year, as media usage per person declined 0.5% to 3,530 hours, due to changing consumer behaviors and digital media efficiencies, according to...

Will fake Steve change the face of blogging?(content news)
October 1, 2007... Since last spring, there has been a lot of buzz online about The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a blog that contains the musings of an individual openly portraying Apple's chief executive. The writer hit on timely subjects for Silicon Valley...

Ingram Book Group Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of David "Skip" Prichard)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Ingram Book Group Inc. has appointed David "Skip" Prichard, former president and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning, as its new COO. As COO.\, Prichard will report to Jim Chandler, president and CEO of Ingram Book Group, and will be...

BlueCielo ECM Solutions.(peopleware)(appointment of Berend Reinink )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BlueCielo ECM Solutions (formerly Cyco Software) has appointed Berend Reinink to the newly created role of VP of services, strategic planning, and projects. Reinink joined the company as manager of professional...

SirsiDynix.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... SirsiDynix, a provider of strategic technology solutions for libraries, has appointed Matthew J. Hawkins as COO. Hawkins will be responsible for the company's client care, implementation and consulting, and education organizations. Hawkins...

BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki expands collaboration features.(News & Products Briefs)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... BrainKeeper, a provider of corporate knowledge management solutions, has released integrated blogs, enhanced content tagging, and other features aimed at improving adoption to its Enterprise Wiki product, a corporate collaboration solution that...

EBSCO lets customers track package titles.(News & Products Briefs)
October 1, 2007... In response to rising customer demand for tools to manage ejournal package content, EBSCO has developed and launched the E-Journal Package Change Report. Available online, this report lists titles that have been added to or removed from the...

HarperCollins launches mobile browse inside feature for iPhone.(News & Products Briefs)
October 1, 2007... HarperCollins Publishers has announced it will make digital book content available for the iPhone platform. As a pilot program, samples from 14 new titles will be made available online in an iPhone-compatible format through HarperCollins'...

Generate g2: go beyond news to make connections.(content news)
October 1, 2007... Social networking is all the rage online, and businesses are trying to get in on the action. In response, Generate has introduced a new technology designed to provide enterprise-class social networking. Generate g2 was built to help companies,...

Highwinds Network Group Inc.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Highwinds Network Group Inc., a provider of content distribution solutions, has appointed three new members to its leadership team. George Antoniou, Bob Bosco, and Mark Hayes have been brought on board as VPs. The three new executives bring to...

Awareness (formerly iUpload) has announced the addition of four executives to its senior team.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Awareness (formerly iUpload) has announced the addition of four executives to its senior team: John Bruce, CEO; Doug Caldwell, VP of engineering; Steve Richards, CFO; and Eric Schurr, VP of marketing. New CEO Bruce previously served as the head...

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the appointment of Michael Keller of Stanford University as CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow. Keller is university librarian, director of academic information resources,...

ExtendMedia Corporation, a digital content services provider, has added two executives to its management team.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... ExtendMedia Corporation, a digital content services provider, has added two executives to its management team: Paul Nielsen, VP of sales for content distribution, and Chris Gardner, CMO. Nielsen brings over 20 years of experience in sales and...

Talkster Inc.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Mobile communications company Talkster Inc. has announced the appointment of Jim Ferguson as the company's new president. Previously, Ferguson served as president of sales and marketing at Mpower, a business telecommunications services...

CacheLogic.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... CacheLogic, a provider of the Digital Asset Delivery Network, has announced the appointment of Phill Robinson as CEO. Previously, Robinson was part of the management teams for Oracle, Sybase, Siebel, and most recently Salesforce.com. His career...

Social Platform, a social networking software provider of scalable web-based solutions for social applications, has announced the addition of Tracey Henk to its executive management team.(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Social Platform, a social networking software provider of scalable web-based solutions for social applications, has announced the addition of Tracey Henk to its executive management team. Previously, Tracey was VP of business development for...

For Collarity, community is key.(content news)
October 1, 2007... While the internet and its contents are more accessible now than ever before, search tools remain somewhat archaic by comparison. One company tackling the problem, Collarity Inc. was founded in 2005 by CEO Levy Cohen as a response to typical...

Microsoft's has announced that its new Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group will be run by Brian McAndrews, CEO of aQuantive, who will report to Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division (PSD).(peopleware)
October 1, 2007... Microsoft's has announced that its new Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group will be run by Brian McAndrews, CEO of aQuantive, who will report to Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division (PSD). Yusuf Mehdi will...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Name With The Face: Kye Strance Job Title: Director of Product Management Organization: Vocus Inc. URL: www.vocus.com Job Function: In his ten years at Vocus Inc., Kye...

U.S. online video viewers: as a percent of Internet users, by gender, 2006-2011.(metrics)
October 1, 2007... U.S. Online Video Viewers As a Percent of Internet Users, by Gender, 2006-2011 Male Female 2006 71.2% 55.0% 2007 78.4% 66.1% 2008 85.5% 75.0% 2009 88.6%...

Best media for learning about a presidential candidate's position on election issues according to U.S. adult Internet users, March 2007.(metrics)
October 1, 2007... (% of respondents) INTERNET 25.0% TV 21.3% NEWSPAPERS 17.3% RADIO 6.9% MAGAZINES 4.4% PAMPHLETS 3.3%...

Types of content that U.S. consumers say they are "likely" to stream, January 2007.(metrics)
October 1, 2007... (% of respondents) News clips 48.6% Music videos 47.4% Movie trailers 32.6% TV shows 25.7% User-generated videos 20.5% Movies...

Media content with the highest growth potential *.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... According to Media and Entertainment Executives in North America and Europe, Q1 2007 (% of respondents) Short-form videos 53% Video games 13% Full-length...

Adobe Visual Communicator 3.
October 1, 2007... Adobe's acquisition of Serious Magic last year put the company in an enviable position: Not only did Adobe make tools that the majority of creative professionals used, but the acquisition of Serious Magic gave Adobe an even stronger foothold in...

Monetizing the in crowd.(follow the money)
October 1, 2007... I am not a joiner. Never have been. In high school, I was the introspective AV dweeb who brought in the 16mm projector to the jeers of "geek," "brainiac," and "Poindexter" from a room of cheerleaders and cool kids. Hey, I am not resentful. I...

Long live the audience!(disContent)
October 1, 2007... The old paradigms are dead and so is the audience. "Generation C" wants to generate its own content, not consume someone else's. Notoriously, the highest-rated TV series in today's diffuse media space would have been canceled 30 years ago for...

XML: everybody's doing it.(info insider)
October 1, 2007... The long awaited use of XML in office suites has arrived. OpenOffice was the first to migrate to XML, StarOffice 8 provides an extra layer of support for OpenOffice, Corel WordPerfect was an early XML adopter and will soon import/export to...

Service-oriented architecture and enterprise content management: solving business problems with SOA.(EMC)
October 1, 2007... There's no question that today's business executive struggles with IT environments that are too complex, expensive to maintain, and short on flexibility. IT faces its own challenges with tight budgets and dynamic business demands. By and large,...

Less is less.(i column like i cm)
October 1, 2007... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's rallying cry of minimalism in modern architecture was "less is more." Less is not a bad thing. In fact, for those creating the reusable multilingual user-oriented content of today's websites and structuring the...

Surveying the content management empire: for a while there, it seemed like all aspects of content would be assimilated into enterprise content management, given its steady march towards total content domination.(TODAY'S TOOLS AND TACTICS)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Industry giants drove the definition forward, gobbling up smaller players and vertical solutions, and expanding their content dominion to encompass everything from email to audio and video assets. Yet despite the...

Mashing up: Web analytics and web content management: in the web publishing world, managing web content and measuring web results have tended to remain two distinct domains, with different tools (web CMS vs. web analytics packages), different skills (editorial vs. analytics), and different goals (publish vs. measure).(Special Focus)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Increasingly, however, these two domains are converging, as website publishers and marketers seek to take action based on measurable results. Indeed, there is a strong case to be made for integrating your web CMS...

Content that travels well: the global content management challenge.(Special Focus)(Company overview)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Think globally, act locally. While this slogan might remind you to separate your bottles from your cans, it's also been the philosophy of most companies when it comes to managing content--and that's a problem. While...

The courtship of: CRM and CM: for the past 10 years or so, customer relationship management (CRM) and content management (CM) have traveled along parallel paths inside the enterprise.(Special Focus)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While they have a lot in common--both are, after all, databases for collecting and organizing crucial enterprise information--CRM collects structured data about customers and sales, while CM, for the most part,...

It's all about community: prerequisites for Web 2.0 content management.(Special Focus)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Digitaria Interactive of San Diego was hired to rework the Atlanta Falcons online offerings in December 2006, the tech firm was given a mandate: Take them to the "new internet." Though AtlantaFalcons.com was...

Expert tips on: implementing an enterprise content management system.(Special Focus)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's never an easy task moving an enterprise system from conception to implementation, and enterprise content management is certainly no exception. There are so many obstacles to overcome along the way: You have to...

A case of connecting busy bees.(case study)
October 1, 2007... Company: ONE ECONOMY One Economy is a multi-national nonprofit organization that brings broadband to low-income homes and provides a multilingual web portal called The Beehive, which connects people with information and services ranging...

Communications convergence.(after thought)
October 1, 2007... As people use search engines to find the information that interests them on the web and browse from one site to another via links, I'm struck by how arbitrary the fences that many organizations build around their content are. The various parts...