EContent back issues from March 2009:
How prevalent are staff blogs?(metrics)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> How Prevalent Are Staff Blogs? Number of Staff BlogsSmall Papers (%)Big Papers (%) None 37 0 1-9 48 22 10-1911 31 20-293 ...
Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Job Function: When she began working at Deakin University in 2007, Jan Weaver focused on developing a medical and health sciences library collection to support the new School of Medicine. "I work closely with medical school academic staff and their external partners to ...
Show me the (real) money.(follow the money)
Mar 01, 2009; ... As the eyes of old print, radio, and TV media turn to the internet for a bridge to take them across the current media business abyss, one troubling fact is becoming abundantly clear: The "real money" isn't there yet. Top executives at TV networks, magazine companies, and even newspapers ...
Consumer privacy advocates: seek search engine solution.(content news)
Mar 01, 2009; ... No one knows more about us--our ailments, significant others, favorite music, what we're thinking about buying, and how much we spend--than our search engines. However, this is stuff we probably wouldn't choose to share with a multimillion dollar web company. Every major search engine in ...
Lionsgate acquires TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com for $255 million.(news & product briefs)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Lionsgate and Macrovision Solutions Corp., a digital entertainment technology provider, announced an agreement for Lionsgate to acquire the TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online properties from Macrovision for $255 million in consideration. The transaction will be funded with Lionsgate's ...
IT security spending will increase in 2009.(news & product briefs)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Finjan, Inc., a provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, announced the findings of its IT security survey conducted in December 2008. Finjan conducted an online survey among 200 IT and security professionals. The survey focused on determining the trends for ...
Hoover's, Inc. launches new mobile product line.(news & product briefs)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Hoover's, Inc. and its parent company D&B, a provider of global business information, tools, and commercial insight, launched a new mobile product line. Hoover's Mobile and Hoover's MobileSP allow users to access customer and partner information, identify new ...
Play nice: RIAA battles Project Playlist.(content news)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the next iteration of the protracted battle between the recording industry and online music networks, both MySpace and Facebook have agreed to remove the popular Project Playlist widget from their sites. Succumbing to pressure from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), ...
Dow Jones acquires database assets of Library House.(news & product briefs)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Dow Jones, a News Corp. company and provider of global business news and information services, announced it has acquired the database assets of The Library House, Ltd., a provider of data on emerging private companies in Europe. With the acquisition of these data assets, Dow Jones extends ...
Elsevier challenges contestants to solve information overload dilemmas.(Reed Elsevier N.V.)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Elsevier, a global healthcare and scientific publisher, announced the four finalists chosen in the first Elsevier Grand Challenge on Jan. 6. The competition invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the ever-increasing amount of online life sciences information. With cash prizes ...
Yahoo! Inc.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yahoo! Inc. announced that Carol Bartz has been named CEO and a member of the ...
Swets.(retirement of Arie Jongejan at Swets Subscription Service)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Arie Jongejan, CEO of Swets, decided to fulfill his plan to retire. Over the past 4 years, Jongejan led the company through a change in ownership and helped establish a relationship with the new shareholders and supervisory board. Swets also announced that Jose Luis Andrade, ...
Dialog, LLC.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Dialog, LLC, a provider of online information services for professional searchers, named Morten ...
Ingram.(appointment of James Gray and Mike Lovett)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Ingram content companies announced that James Gray has been named chief strategy officer for the content group. Gray was most recently the president and CEO of Ingram Digital Group. In ...
Exalead.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Exalead, a provider of information access software for business and the web, announced the appointment of Gregory Grefenstette as chief ...
Mom 3.0: marketing to high-tech moms.(content news)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Gone are the days of handwritten grocery lists and family calendars hanging on the fridge. Moms today have gone high-tech. From cell phones to blogs, more and more mothers are using technology to organize their busy lives. According to Maria T. Bailey, author of Mom 3.0: Marketing with ...
Wikimedia Foundation.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, announced the appointment of Roger ...
Brickfish.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brickfish, a social media advertising network, announced the addition of Becky Carroll as director of social ...
Canon U.S.A., Inc.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Canon U.S.A., Inc., a provider of digital imaging, announced that Tod Pike will become president of its subsidiary, Canon Business Solutions, ...
MasterControl.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... MasterControl, a provider of GxP process and document management software solutions, announced that Paul Herd has joined the company as director of ...
Abacast, Inc.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Abacast, Inc., a hybrid content distribution network (CDN), announced the appointment of John Morris and Jim Kott as co-presidents and Kristy Surovic as VP of administration. Morris has been with Abacast since April 2001, recently serving as VP of engineering and CTO. Kott, formerly an ...
Nirvanix, Inc.(peopleware)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nirvanix, Inc., a "cloud storage" platform provider, announced the appointment of Jim Zierick as its president ...
SpacePilot.(DECISION-MAKER review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We live in a 3D world. However, since the beginning, computer space has been dominated by 2D. It's almost as if the guys who created the original interfaces arbitrarily decided: "Hard drives and computer screens are paper." They built a computer-space ...
Building content bridges.(info insider)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Mergers and acquisitions are all too common, as are company reorganizations. SharePoint is an increasingly popular repository option. The increasingly common end result: More and more enterprises have important content in at least two incompatible content management systems, and most users ...
Policing the journalistic frontier.(Cover story)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As with anything on the vast internet, finding examples of egregious lapses in editorial judgment and traditional journalistic ethics is as brain-dead simple as a shallow Google search. To wit: In early September, an investment reporter's Google ...
Content in the cloud.
Mar 01, 2009; ... While "cloud computing" might qualify as the most overused buzz term of 2008, the concept of internet-based development and delivery of technology has been around for quite a while. Earlier incarnations including grid computing, hosted environments, virtualization, and software as a ...
Assessing open source web content management.(Company overview)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Open source software always seems attractive because of the absence of license fees. However, as we'll see, not all open source tools are free of cost, and, at the end of the day, you may actually spend more money going the open source route. The best open source projects ...
The forgotten factory.(eureka)(Column)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Imagine for a moment that your company has built a factory and filled it with machinery. Or perhaps your company has built a large, new office building with a sizeable parking lot and a good cafeteria. These additions represent considerable investment. Now, imagine that they have forgotten ...
A case of story time.(case study)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Company: SPEAKABOOS Conceived by publisher Neal Shenoy as a partnership between [212]MEDIA, a venture development firm focused on building digital media companies, and audio engineering group Bang Music, New York City-based Speakaboos offers "storybook videos" with original ...
Can you read me?(disContent)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... They're at it again--the doom-criers who assert that reading is disappearing--or at least the right kind of reading. Digital content? Sorry; that's not really reading. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) produced "Reading at Risk," a report asserting that reading ...
Armed with social media.(after thought)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Recently, I was checking out a bunch of people on Twitter who began to follow my updates (I'm @dmscott). When I went to @AFPAA, I was surprised to see the Twitter ID belonged to the U.S. Air Force. At the time, there were fewer than 200 people following the Air Force, indicating someone ...