Events
Upcoming events:
¤ Brown Bag Lunch and Webcast Series
¤ Executive FaceTime Series
¤ Information Industry Summit
News
¤ Join the Content Forum Steering Committee
¤ CODiE
Awards Nominations are now open!
¤
Sign up for the Content Week in ReviewNew Members
Member Press Releases
Member Job Postings
Member White PapersUpcoming Member Webinars and Events
Government Affairs/Public Policy Updates
¤ EVENTS
¤ Brown Bag Lunch and Webcast Series
These programs inform, educate and provide updates on topics of interest to the
information industry. Participate in person in New York
City to network with your peers or participate virtually online. If you are
interested in speaking at or hosting a Brown Bag Lunch in your city, please
email your ideas and a brief bio describing how you or your proposed speaker
can add value to the session.
Upcoming:
Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of
Social Networking in the Information Industry
October 31, 2007
New York, NY
Archived Brown Bag Lunches:
Think Small: Why Widgets are the Next Big Thing for Content Distribution
Tapping
into User Generated Content
Meeting
the Challenges of Declining Print Revenues
Click
here to view additional SIIA Brown Bag Lunches
¤ Executive FaceTime Webcast Series
Join Hal Espo for these live one-on-one webcast conversations with leading industry executives, or visit the SIIA’s
Executive FaceTime page to view past conversations.
Upcoming:
Marty Kahn - CEO of
ProQuest October 4, 2007
Bob Cullen -
President & CEO of Thomson Healthcare November 6, 2007
Archived Webcasts:
John Lervik -
CEO of FAST
Pat Tierney - CEO, Harcourt Education
Howard Ratner - EVP/CTO of Nature Publishing Group
Click
here to view
additional SIIA Executive FaceTime webcasts
¤ Information Industry Summit
Register now to attend the 7th annual SIIA Information Industry Summit
conference to address the transformation of the digital world. Click here for
schedule details.
¤ Global Information
Industry Summit 2007 recently took place
September 7-9 in Berlin, Germany.
Market leaders from around the world gathered to learn and network. View
presentation PowerPoints at
https://www.siia.net/giis/2007/presentations.asp. For press coverage click
here
https://www.siia.net/giis/2007/press.asp.
¤ NEWS
¤ Join the Content Forum Steering Committee
Help plan and implement the 2008 Content Forum. The Content Forum Steering
Committee kick off meeting is scheduled October 9th at 11:30 am ET. Contact Jenny Hansen at
jhansen@siia.net to find out more
about steering committee involvement, responsibilities and how to join.
¤ 2008 CODiE Nominations are open!
For 23 years, SIIA's CODiE Awards have been the leading honor for the software and information industry's finest
products and services. CODiE Awards judges work to identify the "best-of-the-best" from hundreds of nominees -
over 1,000 in 2007. Become a finalist -- or better yet, win -- a CODiE Award and you'll have a great reason to reach out to journalists
and remind them of your superiority. Don't miss out on your product's chance to be awarded the status it deserves!
Enter your products today at www.siia.net/codies.
¤ Sign up for the Content Week in Review
Receive weekly communications on upcoming SIIA events and the latest headlines in the content industry from Shore
Communications. Visit
http://www.siia.net/enewsletters/siia_daily/subscribe.asp to subscribe.
¤ NEW MEMBERS
Connotate Technologies
Gina Cerami, Director of Marketing
Connotate Technologies: New Brunswick, NJ. Connotate's premium solution goes far
beyond search allowing non-technical and technical end-users to create
actionable intelligence from the Web and other disparate sources. Its
machine-intelligent Agents can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine,
analyze, mashup and deliver high-value content on a fully-automated, 24 x 7
basis.
Global Insight, Inc. - Financial Markets Division
Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist
Global Insight provides the most comprehensive economic, financial, and
political coverage of countries, regions, and industries available from any
source-covering over 200 countries and spanning more than approximately 170
industries-using a unique combination of expertise, models, data, and software
within a common analytical framework to support planning and decision making.
Groxis, Inc.
Randy Marcinko, Chief Executive Officer
Groxis, Inc.: San Francisco, CA. Groxis, Inc. was founded in 2001, by a team of
experienced executives and distinguished directors and advisors to address the
challenges associated with the emerging trends in information management and
communication. Together they created GrokkerT, a web-based enterprise search
management platform that leverages the power of federated content access and
visualization to maximize the value of information assets for enterprises,
content publishers, libraries and other research-intensive organizations.
¤ MEMBER PRESS RELEASES
• McGraw-Hill Professional Enhances Library Access to Medical and Engineering Resources
¤ Big Fish, Small Pond: How the Largest Business Website on the Internet is Driving Success for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
¤ European Research Resources
¤ Leading Business Research Site Aggregates Company Information from the World's Best Publishers Into One Profile
¤ FAST Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant Report
¤ Symbian selects FAST ESP to Unlock the Value of Global Human Capital
¤ Franklin Electronic Publishers expands its investment banking relationship with North Haven Partners
¤ WikiAnswers Up 50% Since Start of Summer
¤ DeSilva + Phillips client Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy forms exclusive 25-year strategic alliance with Reed Exhibitions
¤ MEMBER JOB POSTINGS
SIIA members may send notices of job openings to cwr@siia.net and we will run ads here with a link to the posting.
¤ MEMBER WHITE PAPERS
¤
SIIA members may share white papers through the content Week in Review by
sending them to
cwr@siia.net.
¤ MEMBER WEBINARS AND EVENTS
¤ Beyond the Book - Copyright Clearance Center
¤ 2007 RSuite User Conference - Really Strategies
¤ Improving Internal Communications with RSS -
NewsGator
Members are invited to advertise upcoming content related webinars via the Content
Week
in Review and Member Monthly. Please send event links to
cwr@siia.net.
¤ 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 digital content industry, particularly with regard to electronic commerce and the digital marketplace.
For a list of recent policy papers http://www.siia.net/govt/.
¤
POLICY UPDATES
The following updates and commentaries have been recently posted:
9/18 - SIIA
Joins Immigration Voice in Call for Green Card Reform
8/16 -
SIIA Announces First Content Piracy Case Settlement
7/11 -
SIIA Announces the Ten Most Significant eCommerce
Developments of the Last Decade
You are receiving this information because you are a member of SIIA's Content Division or have expressed interest in receiving information from us about our Content Division Activities. If you no longer wish to receive this update, please unsubscribe by e-mailing Becki Lake. To update your personal or company's record, please edit this form.
Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
1090 Vermont Avenue NW Sixth Floor Washington, DC 20005
+1.202.289.7442
|
