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¤ 2005
Information Industry Summit, February 1 & 2 at
Gotham Hall in New York City. Click here to register now and save
$200
¤ The Rich Data Opportunity - a
Primer -
presented by SIIA & American Business Media -
October 13, 2004 | McGraw-Hill HQ, New York, NY
Register here.
¤ SIIA Content Division announces new Board of
Directors
¤ Go!(SM) - Outsell's
Signature Event - September 19-21, 2004 | Leesburg,
Va. Click
here to learn how SIIA Members get discounted
registration.
¤ SIIA
Executive Roundtable Series Presents: Douglas W.
McCormick, Chairman & CEO, iVillage,
Inc. Click here to
register for the ERT
breakfast October 5, 8:00 am -
9:30 am, at JPMorganChase
Headquarters
¤ A weekly summary of Information
Industry news is now
available in the SIIA Content Week in
Review. Click here to see the current
issue and click here to subscribe and
receive a weekly summary of the headlines from around
the Information Industry.
¤ 2004 Content Forum: Show Me the
Money! - May 17 - 18, San Francisco,
CA. Over 100 industry leaders got together to
discuss new ways of making money on content. If you
missed it, you can read coverage about
it:
Shore Communications
Coverage
Information Today
Coverage
EPS-USA Coverage (must be EPS
client for access)
SIIA
Announcements:
¤ 2005 Information Industry Summit (IIS) -
2/1-2/2/05 SIIA is pleased to announce
the 4th Annual Information Industry Summit (IIS) will be
held on February 1 and 2, 2005 at Gotham Hall in New
York City. IIS brings together executives from
throughout the information industry to discuss the
current outlook for the industry, how they are preparing
for the future and their unique perspectives on the
industry today. In 2004, IIS was sold out as it
attracted over 350 industry leaders. Click here to ensure your attendance
and to save $200 on your registration for IIS
2005.
¤ The Rich Data Opportunity - a Primer
-
October 13, 2004 - SIIA and ABM have teamed up to create
a basic/how-to conference for providing rich data
products. Come hear industry leaders discuss how
they are making their content smarter by extending their
information into workflow and other intelligent
applications. Click here to see who is
speaking and to register. | McGraw-Hill HQ,
New York, NY
¤ SIIA Content Division announces new Board
of Directors - Click
here to view
the current Content Division Board of
Directors. Click
here to view
the current SIIA Board of
Directors.
¤ Now Accepting Codie
Nominations - The Software & Information Industry
Association is accepting nominations for the 2005 Codie
Awards competition. Based on member feedback, we have
made significant changes to the categories for the
Content Division Codies awards for 2005. Click here to view the updated
category list. SIIA's Codie Awards provide the
opportunity to:
-Gain instant prestige,
industry recognition, media attention and
increased
awareness for your company.
-Get products in
front of members of the press and potential
customers and
partners.
-Receive extensive exposure
to software and technology
professionals and
consumers along with key media and
analysts.
Learn more about the Codie Awards
categories and nominate online at http://www.siia.net/codies/2005/.
The deadline for all nominations is October 15,
2004. Finalists will be announced in January, 2005 and
the winners will be revealed in May.
A list of
the 2004 Code Award Winners can be found at
http://www.siia.net/codies/2004
Contact
Cristina Stensvaag at cstensvaag@siia.net with
questions.
¤
Outsell's Go! & SIIA -
SIIA is pleased to announce that SIIA members can
get discounted registration on the upcoming Go!
conference. Go!(SM) - Outsell's Signature Event is being
held September 19-21, 2004 at the Lansdowne Resort in
Leesburg, Virginia. Currently slated to speak at Go!
are: Harry Beckwith, bestselling author of Selling
the Invisible, and industry leaders from Factiva,
RSiCopyright, Current Analysis, Inxight Software,
KnowledgeStorm, IBM Americas, ECNext, and others.
To get the discounted Outsell client price, click here.
Enter your
user information and create a username and
password. Check the CLIENT PRICE
box. Enter the following code in
the Promotion Code box: SIIAMEMB (case
sensitive). SIIA
is proud to be a marketing partner for Outsell's Go!
¤ SIIA MarketMaker brokers
business relationships through pre-arranged meetings
between enterprise customers and emerging technology
vendors as well as between technology investors and
emerging technology companies seeking funding.
To participate,
or for more information, please click on the appropriate
link below:
Emerging technology
suppliers
offering enterprise products/services. Companies must
have corporate revenues of less than $100M.
Enterprise
customers
responsible for evaluating new technologies within a
department, division or across the enterprise.
Technology
Investors
representing VC firms, corporate/strategic investors and
other private equity firms.
¤ SIIA members can now attend Executive Roundtable
(ERT) breakfasts at no
charge - -
SIIA's Executive Roundtable (ERT) breakfast series
brings influential senior executives together with
recognized leaders from around the nation to discuss
important industry issues at 8 breakfasts a year.
ERT breakfasts are held at the JPMorganChase Corporate
Headquarters in New York, NY. Click here to
register for the October
breakfast featuring
Douglas W. McCormick, Chairman & CEO,
iVillage, Inc. October 5, 8:00 am - 9:30 am, JPMorganChase
¤ Information Industry Salary
Survey
- SIIA and Outsell's joint study on salary and benefit
practices in the Information Content industry.
www.outsellinc.com/salarysurvey/buy.htm.
¤ Contracts in the Information
Industry IV | Peter Marx, editor -
examples of forms for content licensing and
distribution, web hosting, linking, database use, web
site development, copyright authorization, branding and
marketing, click wraps and dozens of other
relationships. All agreements are also provided on an
enclosed CD -- in Microsoft Word format -- to facilitate
your own drafting. (October, 2003) SIIA Member
Price: $50.00, Non-Member Price: $195.00,
Click here to order
¤ SIIA Industry
Daily now available - Receive a free
daily email of relevant software industry news.
Subscribe
now.
Industry
News & Member Company
News:
Industry news and Member Company News are now
available on a weekly basis in the new newsletter - SIIA
Content Week in Review. Click here to see the current
issue and click here to subscribe and
receive a weekly summary of the headlines from around
the Information Industry. You can also subscribe
to the Industry
Daily.
People on the Move:
Please send news about comings and
goings to Jeff
Cutler
CAS Appoints Brian Bergner as
Information Technology V.P.
Wolters Kluwer appoints Mark
Sherman as Chief Human Resources Officer for North
America
TACODA Systems Opens West
Coast Office Naming Bill Matthews VP/Western Region
Publisher Sales
William C. Jaris Joins TACODA
Systems As Director, East Coast Publisher Sales
TACODA Systems Promotes
Charles C. Smith to Vice President of Publisher
Sales
Curtis G. Viebranz Joins
TACODA Systems As President & Chief Operating
Officer
Thomas Kemp Joins Veronis
Suhler Stevenson as Managing
Director
Elsevier appoints Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Erik Engstrom appointed as
Elsevier CEO
Madelyn Hammond
Named Publisher of
VLife
Factiva Appoints Tony Hall as
Director of Factiva Government Solutions
CQ Writer Wins Award for
Excellence in Political Journalism
Vin Caraher Named President
& CEO of Thomson Scientific
MarketWatch.com Hires Top
News Talent for Thomson Financial Partnership
Thomson Financial appoints
Douglas Taylor as Managing Director of Customer Segment
Management & Marketing in Asia
Wolters Kluwer Health
Appoints President and CEO of Medical Research Unit;
Responsible for Ovid and Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins
Wolters Kluwer appoints
Caroline Wouters as Vice President Corporate
Communications
Dialog Appoints Craig Lathrop
as Chief Technology Officer
François R. Roy Joins Veronis
Suhler Stevenson
Highbeam™ Research Appoints Joseph B.
Mcwilliams, Jr. as VP Of
Advertising
Government Affairs/Public
Policy
¤ SIIA's Government
Affairs program aggressively promotes and
protects the interests of its member companies in legal
and public policy debates by working with state, federal
and international policymakers, organizing grassroots
activism and participating in landmark legal decisions.
SIIA is the leading voice on key issues affecting the
software and information industry, particularly with
regards to electronic commerce and the digital
marketplace.
¤ Intellectual Property
Committee Update (8/30/04)
* CBO
Issues Report on Possible Copyright Reforms
*
Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Induce
Act
* FBI Takes Action Against P2P “File
Sharers” in Operation Digital Gridlock
* Ninth
Circuit Holds P2P Services Not Contributorily or
Vicarious Liable for Their Users’ Copyright
Infringements.
Court Rules That ISP Can be Ordered to
Reveal Names of P2P Users
¤ Court Issues Injunction
Against Enforcement of Utah Spyware Control Act
(7/9/04)
¤ Suggested changes to HR 2929
(as reported)
(7/7/04)
¤ SIIA Comments on HR 2929 (as
reported)
(7/7/04)
¤ Calf District Court Concludes
SB 1 Not Preempted by Federal Privacy
Laws
(6/30/04)
¤
Consumer & Industry
Groups Write to House Energy & Commerce on
Revised H.R. 2929 (SPY
ACT)
(6/23/04)
¤
"Spyware" Legislation Moving
Quickly in the House (6/18/04)
¤ Intellectual Property
Committee Update
(6/1/04)
¤ Privacy Committee Meeting
Materials
(5/26/2004)
¤ SIIA Comments on Spyware
Legislation
(5/20/04)
¤ SIIA Update on "Spyware" and
Related Developments (5/4/04)
¤ Intellectual Property
Committee Update (5/4/04)
¤ Intellectual Property
Committee Update (4/1/04)
Edited by Jeff
Cutler
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