EContent articles from October 2008

EContent archives from October 2008

Criminal mind.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I am a college student virtually attending Kaplan University Online. I read your column, "Email Crimes and Misdemeanors" [Manafy, January/February 2008, p. 8], and enjoyed it. I will be using the article, along with a few others, to build my...

Communication 2.0.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2008... I read Nancy Kho's article in EContent magazine July/August issue ["The Blogging Business" pp 24-28]. She has done a very good job of explaining how blogs are and will be important for businesses as well as individuals. I am going to show the...

New names for old tricks.(edit this)
October 1, 2008... A former EContent assistant editor, Kinley Levack, forwarded me an August column from The New York Observer, The Media Mob. Her email bore this subject line: "I will always think of you when I hear this phrase..." Alas, the column was not...

Attitudes toward digital content distribution: among media and entertainment executives in north America and Europe, 2008 (% of respondents).(metrics)
October 1, 2008... Attitudes Toward Digital Content Distribution Among Media and Entertainment Executives * in North America and Europe, 2008 (% of respondents) Agree Disagree Content is...

Who manages the day-to-day e-discovery process for your organization?(metrics)
October 1, 2008... Who manages the day-to-day e-discovery process for your organization? ACG/Senior Counsel 57.1% Litigation Support/Paralegal 21.4% IT Manager/Staff Member 3.6% Other 17.9% Source: "A...

U.S. adult internet users: who believe online content is focused on own age group, by age, February 2008.(metrics)(Table)
October 1, 2008... U.S. Adult Internet Users Who Believe Online Content Is Focused on Own Age Group, by Age, February 2008 (% of respondents in each group) 18-24 76.0% 25-34 73.9% 35-44 55.7% 45-54 35.4% 55-64 22.9% 65+ ...

Comfort of U.S. Internet users: with websites with privacy and security policies that target ads or content to personal interests based on usage, by age, March 2008 (% of respondents in each group).(metrics)
October 1, 2008... Comfort of U.S. Internet Users With Websites * With Privacy and Security Policies That Target Ads or Content to Personal Interests Based on Usage, by Age, March 2008 (% of respondents in each group) Echo Boomers...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... Job Function: Derek Hayes is an implementation and support consultant for KineMatik, which offers enterprise solutions enabling life science organizations to capture, manage, and reuse data and information. In his role, Hayes works...

Who needs a holodeck?(follow the money)
October 1, 2008... Sometimes we get ahead of ourselves in the digital dreams business. We fantasize so extravagantly about the future shape of a technology that we miss some of its more relevant and mundane uses here and now. Take virtual worlds. Environments...

Bizo means business: tackling the ad-targeting dilemma.(content news)
October 1, 2008... Effectively targeting specific audiences is one of the leading objectives of online advertisers. Websites have long used demographic information to help advertisers, but the Sept. 15 premier of Bizo aims to make it easier for...

ProQuest.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Media executive L. Gordon Crovitz has joined the board of directors of ProQuest, a provider of information publishing and a Cambridge Information Group (CIG) business. Crovitz has more than 25 years of U.S. and...

Ex Libris Group.(peopleware)(Carl Grant )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Ex Libris Group, a provider of automation solutions for academic libraries, announced that Carl Grant has been reappointed president of the company's North American subsidiary. Grant brings to Ex Libris 25 years of experience in the library...

OCLC's Australia.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... Chris Thewlis has been named regional manager of OCLC's Australia office. He will be responsible for directing OCLC's Australia and New Zealand operations, including sales, implementations, marketing, training, and staff management. Thewlis was...

Interwoven to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2008... Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content management solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc., an e-discovery provider to professional services firms and corporations. Discovery Mining streamlines the...

Google announces new search appliance.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2008... Google, Inc. announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance integrated hardware and software solution, with a new architecture that can index all of an organization's content, up to 10 million documents, in a single box. In addition to...

IBM releases new eDiscovery Software.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2008... IBM introduced new enterprise content management (ECM) software designed to help clients meet legal discovery requirements. The new IBM eDiscovery solutions extend IBM's ECM software platform to enable organizations to take control of...

Amazon releases checkout by Amazon.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2008... Amazon announced the release of the ecommerce checkout solution, Checkout by Amazon. This solution provides customers with the same secure and trusted checkout experience available on Amazon.com. It offers features, including Amazon's 1-Click,...

Semantra 2.5: searches for business intelligence.(content news)
October 1, 2008... On Oct. 1, natural language search company Semantra will release Semantra 2.5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. With this new product, Semantra seeks to bring effective, efficient search capabilities to the realm of business intelligence (BI)....

SirsiDynix.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... SirsiDynix, global provider of strategic technology solutions for libraries, announced the appointment of Stephen C. Erickson as CFO. Erickson will be responsible for corporate finance and administration functions. Prior to SirsiDynix, Erickson...

Wikimedia Foundation.(peopleware)(Michael Snow and Ting Chen)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees announced the selection of a new chair, Michael Snow, and the appointment of the newest community-elected member, Ting Chen. In 2006, Snow created The Wikipedia Signpost, a community newspaper for the...

Inform Technologies.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... James Bankoff has been elected to the board of directors of Inform Technologies. Bankoff is currently a senior advisor at Providence Equity Partners and advisor to internet and media companies. Prior to joining Providence in 2008, he served as...

PRI and NPR announce deal.(News & Product Briefs)
October 1, 2008... National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Radio International (PRI) have come to an agreement that NPR will acquire Public Interactive (PI), the public media web services company owned by PRI. PI will become a part of NPR, and NPR will involve PRI...

Yahoo!, Inc. announces Fire Eagle Platform.(News & Product Briefs)
October 1, 2008... Yahoo!, Inc. has announced the general availability of Fire Eagle, an open platform that helps users take their location to the web while giving them the ability to control how and where their location data is shared. Fire Eagle offers...

Wrike launches New Enterprise Version.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Wrike, Inc., provider of on-demand project management software, announced its new Enterprise version. Wrike's Enterprise version offers a combination of integrated, web-based project management capabilities and a task dependencies feature. The...

Changing 'EveryZing': about how you interact with multimedia.(content news)
October 1, 2008... Can't find video about the latest news without searching dozens of websites? Are you sick of sitting through 5 minutes of an audio clip just to hear the 30 seconds you're interested in? These problems could be things of the past. Last February,...

Synacor.(peopleware)(Terri Santisi )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Synacor announced that Terri Santisi has been elected to the company's board of directors. Santisi will serve as the company's audit committee chairman and oversee Synacor's accounting practices, internal controls...

ColumbiaSoft.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... ColumbiaSoft, provider of enterprise-class document management solutions, announced that David Pogue has been appointed as EVP of worldwide sales and marketing. Pogue joined ColumbiaSoft as VP of worldwide sales in 2007 after serving 25 years...

Panther Express.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... Panther Express, provider of content delivery services, announced that Mark King has been named as VP, sales & marketing with full responsibility for those functions in the U.S. King was most recently EVP of sales and marketing at TruWave...

eGistics, Inc.(peopleware)(Bob Lund )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... eGistics, Inc., a provider of hosted document solutions, announced the election of eGistics chairman and CEO Bob Lund as vice chairman of the TAWPI board of directors. Lund will serve a 1-year term as vice chair of the TAWPI board, beginning in...

Ephox's EditLive! Brings easier content creation to life.(content news)
October 1, 2008... Those who work in content management systems (CMSs) know that the content creation process can often be time-consuming and unwieldy. Ideally, the best content management system should enable the user to post content to the web seamlessly,...

Composite Software, Inc.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... Composite Software, Inc., the virtual data integration provider, announced the appointment of Helen Vaughan as EMEA sales director. Vaughan joins Composite Software from U.K.-based retailer Tesco, PLC. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Information Security Forum.(peopleware)
October 1, 2008... Howard A. Schmidt has been appointed as president of the Information Security Forum (ISF). Schmidt has served as the CISO and chief security strategist at eBay and as CSO for Microsoft Corp. He was also appointed vice chair of the U.S....

News to go: paper or digital?(info insider)
October 1, 2008... As a subscriber to many print publications, I now have a problem that I believe will soon affect consumers and publishers alike: resistance to increasing print subscription costs. I realized for some time that the problem was coming--print...

X1 Professional Client.
October 1, 2008... My colleagues tease me that when I die they will engrave my tombstone with the phrase "Oh... there it is!" I'm constantly looking for things, either in my office or on my computer. However, since I started using X1 Professional Client, I...

New roles for intranet managers.(behind the firewall)
October 1, 2008... Over the years, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Fortune magazine have been essential reading for me. Both give me insights into the world of business that enable me to engage with senior executives and to understand the challenges they...

Content delivery rides the semantic wave.
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine going to a website that delivers content just for you--based on your unique needs and interests--instead of a one-size-fits-all, generic page. The intelligent systems behind the site don't just display...

Risky business: the importance of data audits for content security.
October 1, 2008... In early July, a Texas man was arrested for allegedly filing more than 160 false tax returns using the Social Security numbers of University of California-Irvine graduate students. The Social Security numbers were reportedly stolen while the...

How semantic tagging increases findability.
October 1, 2008... Findability is about making information easier to find. After all, if it cannot be found, it may as well not exist. Leading information specialists have been saying this for years, and now with the increasing volume of content and increasing...

The tragedy of Andersonomics.(disContent)
October 1, 2008... What's your research and writing worth? Nothing, apparently... if you agree with Andersonomics as it's interpreted by some folks. Your content has no value if you make it digitally available--unless maybe you're a rockstar or already...

A case of document--and organizationwide--collaboration.(case study)(Organization overview)
October 1, 2008... Company: THE WORLD BANK GROUP The World Bank Group was founded in 1944 with the goal of helping developing countries across the globe further develop their infrastructures. Through the technical and financial support the organization...

Trust your employees (or fire them).(after thought)
October 1, 2008... I have had an opportunity to casually explore the attitudes of hundreds of large and small companies whose employees attend my New Rules of Marketing seminars and keynote speeches. Through my process of very unscientific questioning, I estimate...