EContent articles from September 2008

EContent archives from September 2008

Downsize me.(edit this)
September 1, 2008... The heyday of small, independent bookstores has passed. Our local bookstore--where I used to visit to buy books, get recommendations, and chat about the latest releases from my favorite authors--is now a place I rarely visit, except maybe for...

Attitudes of U.S. Internet users toward digital entertainment by age, October 2007 (% of respondents).(metrics)(Table)
September 1, 2008... Attitudes of U.S. Internet Users Toward Digital Entertainment by Age, October 2007 (% of respondents *) Millennials Generation X (13-24) ...

Mode of communication preferred by adult Internet users in North America when dealing with businesses, April 2008 (% of respondents).(metrics)(Table)
September 1, 2008... Mode of Communication Preferred by Adult Internet Users in North America When Dealing With Businesses, April 2008 (% of respondents) Currently In 5 years EMAIL ...

Online activities of U.S. broadband users, 2007 (% of total time spent online).(metrics)
September 1, 2008... Online Activities of U.S. Broadband Users, 2007 (% of total time spent online) Leisure or entertainment 27% Communication 27% News or Information 19% Personal...

Tactics that can jump-start a viral marketing campaign according to U.S. marketers, April 2007 (% of respondents).(metrics)
September 1, 2008... Tactics that can jump-start a viral marketing campaign according to U.S. marketers, * April 2007 (% of respondents) B2C B2B Blogosphere mentions 37% ...

Vertical values.(follow the money)
September 1, 2008... Another day, another vertical. Earlier this year the press release mill worked overtime announcing that every imaginable media brand and ad entrepreneur was launching some sort of vertical network--either of content, ads, or (usually) both....

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Chris Howard)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Job Function: "My job is great because so much is happening with content and the way content is used," says CCC's principal software engineer, Chris Howard. A significant part of his job is to ensure that CCC products facilitate licensing...

Questionable accounting: practices at FAST cast a pall on Microsoft acquisition.(content news)
September 1, 2008... In its eagerness to make an impact in the enterprise search marketplace--a sector it has yet to satisfactorily conquer--Microsoft may have overlooked, or been inclined to dismiss, a number of apparent accounting irregularities on Fast Search &...

Guardian News & Media acquires ContentNext.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Guardian News & Media announced the acquisition of ContentNext Media, a B2B media company that covers digital media, the entertainment and technology sectors, and publishes paidContent.org. It has been widely reported that the Guardian paid...

Microsoft acquires Powerset.(news & product briefs)
September 1, 2008... Microsoft reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join the Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural language technology...

Yahoo! opens search technology infrastructure.(news & product briefs)
September 1, 2008... Yahoo!, Inc. introduced a new open web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to rerank and control the presentation of web...

Springer launches content solutions for industry.(news & product briefs)
September 1, 2008... Springer Science+Business Media announced the release of Springer Content Solutions for Industry, which features customized collections of professional, scientific, technical, and medical books, journals, reference works, and protocols....

Studies suggest that enterprise social media will change the face of business.(content news)
September 1, 2008... There may be an ocean between them, but the U.S. and the U.K. are on the same wavelength when it comes to Enterprise 2.0 tools. These tools are increasingly in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. Recently, Trampoline Sytems--a London-based...

Nokia WidSets Selects MCN.(News & Product Briefs)
September 1, 2008... Mobile Content Networks (MCN), provider of real-time federated mobile search solutions, announced that Nokia's WidSets service has selected its white label platform, MobileSearch.net, to power WidSets Search. WidSets Search will allow users to...

Progress Software announces Progress EasyAsk.(News & Product Briefs)
September 1, 2008... Progress Software Corp., supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate, and manage business applications, announced the availability of Progress EasyAsk for Operational Business Intelligence (BI) 11.0. With...

ONSITE3 releases eView 2.0 review platform.(News & Product Briefs)
September 1, 2008... ONSITE3, global provider of litigation support and electronic evidence solutions for law firms and corporations, announced the availability of eView 2.0 review platform. eView 2.0 includes workflow management capabilities for streamlining and...

Pringo adds microblogging to social networking solutions.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Pringo, provider of white-label online community platforms, announced that the latest versions of its social networking solutions will include microblogging features. This social networking platform allows customers to employ Twitter-like...

Unexpected consequences: the Copyright Office (finally) goes digital.(content news)
September 1, 2008... When one thinks about the attacks of 9/11, and the ensuing national security hysteria, anthrax scares, and the impact it all has had on daily life and our government, the first thing that comes to mind probably is not the workings of the United...

Swets.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Swets announced the appointment of Jack O'Toole as its new director of global accounts. O'Toole will work with Swets' commercial management team and sales and joins Swets from Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc., where he spent the last...

ProQuest.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... ProQuest has named Suzanne BeDell as Dialog GM. BeDell is a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry, with roles in publishing, sales, and product development at Thomson, Mosby, Inc., and McGraw-Hill. She joined ProQuest in 2001 as VP and...

Thought Equity Motion.(peopleware)(Sal Siino )(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Thought Equity Motion, supplier of online motion content licensing and management services, announced the appointment of Sal Siino as EVP of worldwide sales. Siino will oversee the company's U.S. sales operations, as well as its international...

National Information Standards Organization.(peopleware)(Oliver Pesch and Chuck Koscher)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) membership has elected new leadership for the 2008-2009 terms. Oliver Pesch has been elected to serve as chair, and Chuck Koscher has been elected to serve as...

APCO Worldwide.(peopleware)(Jonathan Winer)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Jonathan Winer, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, has joined APCO Worldwide as SVP. Winer was one of the architects of U.S. international policies and strategies in financial services regulation...

Thomson Reuters.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced that Michael Phillippe has joined the company as director of sales. In his new position, Phillippe will be responsible for managing relationships with customers...

OCLC.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... OCLC, provider of library management and user facing services, announced Ted Fons has joined the OCLC management team as director, OCLC WorldCat Global Metadata Network. In this new position, Fons will direct the performance of WorldCat global...

Google, Inc.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Google, Inc. appointed Patrick Pichette SVP and CFO. Most recently, Pichette served as president of operations at Bell Canada, a global communications company. During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO....

GSMA.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, has announced the appointment of Michael O'Hara as its new CMO. Formerly GM for marketing and industry management for the communications sector at Microsoft...

Fios, Inc.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Fios, Inc., which delivers electronic discovery services to corporations, announced the addition of new consultants Casey Bailey and David Ray. Bailey has spent the past 10 years working as a senior network engineer and assistant VP with The...

Listen and learn: students put Zune players to the test.(content news)
September 1, 2008... The holidays came early to 125 high school students when Microsoft gave Zune players to students in exchange for research data, in hopes of expanding its products into schools across the country. Devices were given to 100 Fort Sumner High...

TERMINALFOUR.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... TERMINALFOUR, a European enterprise content management company, announced the appointment of David Miller as COO. Miller joins TERMINALFOUR from eSpatial, where he was COO for 5 years. Prior to this, he held a number of senior positions with...

Coutts Information Services.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Coutts Information Services, the international supplier of books and electronic content to libraries, announced that Stephen Pugh has been named VP sales USA and Asia Pacific. Previously, he served as SVP, international division/managing...

Inform Technologies.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Inform Technologies announced that it has named Josh Kirschner CMO. Kirschner joins Inform from Marsh, Inc., where he served as SVP of global product development. Prior to that, Kirschner was a managing director at Standard & Poor's. In his new...

Really Strategies, Inc.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... Really Strategies, Inc., a technology services and solutions firm, appointed Mark Dash to lead the RSuite CMS partner program. Dash is a recognized publishing industry professional with expertise in electronic product development and strategy...

US Search.(peopleware)
September 1, 2008... US Search, a people search company on the web, announced that it has named Jeffrey A. Pullen as its president and CEO. Most recently, Pullen served as CEO of QFour Digital, Inc., which he formed with GTCR Golder Rauner. Prior to forming QFour...

Disney's latest destination: bringing sites--and people--together at Family.com community.(content news)
September 1, 2008... For more than 70 years, Disney has been engaging children and adults alike with clean, wholesome entertainment. Now, as the world of online content and media expands, Disney.com is following suit, implementing new features to bring the familiar...

Publish once, distribute everywhere.(agile minds)
September 1, 2008... Publishers that think they have mobile sewn up simply because they launch a mobile site should think again. Granted, it's imperative to cater to the needs of the almost 1 billion consumers accessing web content on their mobile phones...

NoteScribe.(DECISION-MAKER review)(Product/service evaluation)
September 1, 2008... My colleagues and I often laugh that our college term papers might have been a lot better if we had had computers instead of typewriters, onion skin paper, and white-out. "Yeah, I would have written more than one draft," is the common joke....

Work in groups.(i column like i cm)
September 1, 2008... Working in groups with free online tools has become an American passion. In his great 19th-century, two-volume work Democracy in America, Alexis deTocqueville estimated that there were more independent associations in America than there were...

Interactive content management.
September 1, 2008... While content management has empowered our content to do more than sit static on a page, the latest applications of content management go well beyond simply organizing it for reuse--they enable highly interactive content experiences. Content...

EMC: Brand Management 2.0: new marketing platforms enhance brand with improved customer experience.(EContent White Paper Series: Interactive Content Management)
September 1, 2008... Google, YouTube, Facebook, Blogger and others have reshaped our thinking about the brand experience. At the same time, declining effectiveness of traditional advertising and mass media channels have us questioning what really works. The...

EPHOX: How the family court of Australia empowered staff to manage their own web content.(EContent White Paper Series: Interactive Content Management)
September 1, 2008... The Family Court of Australia is Australia's superior court in family law and helps Australians resolve their most complex family disputes. It has approximately 700 staff in over 23 locations throughout the country. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

They said what? Monitoring your brand and reputation online.(Cover story)
September 1, 2008... There's no question that the internet serves as a great megaphone for organizations that want to conduct business around the globe. The web can communicate your message to more people and more locations than any previous communications channel...

Risky business: managing the email security risk.
September 1, 2008... It's a rare week when the news doesn't include a report about a corporate data breach--putting personal, financial, or medical records at risk for theft. Often--all too often, say security experts--these breaches are caused by a lack of a solid...

Going global: navigating the complexities of global content delivery.
September 1, 2008... It takes a lot of time, effort, and money to build your company's brand and corporate identity, and when you move into foreign markets, you don't want your message to get garbled or, worse, literally lost in translation. When it comes to...

The three-dimensional internet.(info pro)
September 1, 2008... I have been on the road for much of the last few months, and I have begun to dream of the day when I could appear virtually for some of my workshops and presentations. I have also been spending more time in virtual communities and networks, and...

A case of eBook smarts.(case study)(Company overview)
September 1, 2008... Company: BENCHMARK EDUCATION Benchmark Education Co. (BEC) is a sole-source provider of instructional materials and services for teachers and students in grades K-8. Over the past decade, the Pelham, N.Y.-based developer of research-based...

Unlearn what you have learned.(after thought)
September 1, 2008... The techniques that lead to marketing success online are dramatically different than traditional marketing taught in school or that you've likely learned on the job. In fact, to succeed with web marketing, your existing knowledge about...