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Ten highlights of SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

September 2, 2013 By

SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

What are your hot issues around digital content and media?  With over 40 speakers, twenty panel sessions and workshops, over a dozen round tables and plenty of networking sessions, there’s sure to be answers at the SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit on 23-25 September at One Wimpole Street, London.

Here’s my personal top ten highlights of the programme, designed to provide new ideas on digital media survival skills, plus plenty of practical tips to grow your revenues across web, mobile, data, video, events and communities.

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Digital Content & Media Summit will Address Trends in Mobile Magazines, Multiplatform Publishing, Content Paywalls, and More

August 27, 2013 By

SIIA will hold its Digital Content & Media Summit – the premier conference for digital media and publishing executives – on September 23-25 at One Wimpole Street in London. The Digital Content & Media Summit will feature presentations from leading media pioneers who are tackling digital content in innovative ways and will examine how major media businesses are creating digital content for international audiences.

The conference will bring together industry-leading executives, prominent analysts, publishers, media owners, and members of the media to discuss key trends and practical tools to survive in the rapidly changing world of digital content.  Topics will include adapting content for multiple platforms, using free content to extend market reach and convert users to paid services, and more.

Keynote speakers at the Digital Content & Media Summit:

  • Natasha Christie-Miller, CEO, EMAP
  • Benedict Evans, consultant, Enders Analysis
  • Julie Harris, CEO, WGSN & Planet Retail

Other speakers of note include:

  • Adrian Barrick, Chief Content Officer, UBM
  • Tim Brooks, CEO BMJ Group
  • Ben Heald, CEO, Sift
  • Paul Lomax, CTO, Dennis
  • Richard Londesborough, CEO, Business Monitor International
  • Tony Macklin, Director of Product Development, Immediate Media
  • Audra Martin, VP, Advertising & operations, The Economist
  • Alex Martinez, CEO, Sigaria
  • Colin Morrison, Non-Exec Director, Centaur, Travel Weekly
  • Peter Phippen, Deputy Chairman, Immediate Media
  • Andy Rice, MD Sport & Music, Future
  • Julian Turner, CEO, Electric Word

The Digital Content & Media Summit will also feature SIIA’s Previews Program, which showcases the next generation of digital content innovators that are transforming the information industry. Several companies selected for the Previews Program will present at the conference.

Read more about the SIIA Previews companies here.

For a complete schedule of events, visit: http://siia.net/london/2013/schedule.asp

Carolyn Morgan has launched, acquired, grown & sold specialist media businesses in print, web and events. She launched the Specialist Media Show in 2010 and grew a community of ambitious publishers keen to grow their digital activity. SIIA acquired the Specialist Media Show in 2013 and Carolyn is now Programme Director for SIIA UK. Follow Carolyn on twitter at @siiauk.

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Do not be Embarrassed

August 26, 2013 By

Russell Perkins, ICG

Post by: Russell Perkins, ICG

”If you’re not at least a little embarrassed by something you just launched, you probably waited too long to start it.” So says Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit and a number of other high profile web media products.

This statement, provocative as it is, actually is little more than a smart synthesis of the current state of play in the world of online product development. You no doubt hear variants of this theme regularly, sometimes expressed as ”minimum viable product,” ”rapid iteration,” and even ”fast fail.” They all embody the philosophy that it’s more important to launch a new product quickly than launch a really good new product. I credit Google for raising this practice to high art by teaching users that the word ”beta” appended to any product name excused the product from delivering much value, or even working properly, for an often extended period of time.

I certainly agree that there is an imperative for speed in the world of online content. We’re surrounded by hordes of competitive start-ups, many of them explicitly attempting to disrupt market incumbents. But before we decide to emulate these companies, it’s important to note their typically distinctive business models.

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DataContent 2013 The Science of the Deal

August 7, 2013 By

Can the art of the deal be turned into the science of the deal?

Neal Goldman has raised nearly $90 million to prove it can be done and his newly minted company, Relationship Science is off to a fast start. Debuting less than a year ago, it has already built a database of almost 2.5 million influential professionals at over 1 million organizations, and already has landed 150+ clients. During The Science of the Deal session at the DataContent 2013 conference, that will take place 15-17 October, Neal will describe his philosophy and his methodology and convince you why and how Relationship Science is redefining the culture of business development.

Relying on 500+ employees and 30 patent pending technologies, the company compiles deep handcrafted data sets and then uses analytics to map paths among people and organizations to pinpoint a connection that users didn’t know they had. 

  • Neal Goldman, Chairman & CEO, Relationship Science. Neal is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Relationship Science (RelSci). Previously, Neal was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital IQ, Inc. until its sale to McGraw]Hill/Standard & Poor’s, and prior thereto a banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers. Neal is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Young Presidents Organization and a board member of Hatzalah and the Jerusalem Foundation. Neal received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School where he has also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member.

Learn more about Relationship Science and their innovative business development culture by attending DataContent 2013. Early bird registration rates expire on September 9th so register today.

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A New Push to End Passwords

August 5, 2013 By

Russell Perkins, ICG

Post by: Russell Perkins, ICG

I hate passwords.

But I don’t hate passwords as a concept. Certainly I understand the need, but password protection implemented poorly creates friction and often frustration, and that’s not good for business or for my own personal protection. Now there’s a new initiative out of Silicon Valley called the “Petition Against Passwords.” It’s not proposing a specific alternative, but the basic premise is that we can do better. And the initiative seems to be getting some early traction.

Sure, let’s start talking about eliminating passwords. But first, let’s acknowledge that a lot of the problem is self-inflicted by the way in which we have implemented passwords.

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DataContent 2013 Discusses Private Company Data: Is it Doable? Usable? Credible?

August 1, 2013 By

Private company data is known as the ”final frontier” for good reason; it’s incredibly difficult to get accurate timely information on the 8-12 million private companies. Accurate private company data is not a nice-to-have piece of data in 2013, it’s critical for today’s marketers, sales teams, application developers, data brokers and others who are leveraging this information.  

During the Private Company Data: Doable? Usable? Credible? session at DataContent 2013 conference, taking place October 15-17 in Philadelphia, find out from those who go where most fear to tread, creating and maintaining private company data, what the current best practices are, what the quality and timeliness standards are. Understand what the challenges are in collecting data that is almost impossible to find, how they monetize it, and how they differentiate themselves in the marketplace.  Then judge for yourself whether this data is worth leveraging in your business.  

Speakers:

  • Michael Bird, President, NetProspex. Michael has over 20 years building high performance organizations across the electronic publishing and social media industries. Prior to NetProspex, Michael was the SVP of Sales and Business Development and a member of the executive team at the social media and engagement marketing pioneer, BzzAgent. Michael is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, quoted often in the business press and has been a regular guest on multiple Fox Business News programs.
  • Sam Hamadeh, Founder & CEO, PrivCo. Sam is a veteran media entrepreneur, corporate attorney, and financial expert based in New York. In 1997 Sam co-founded VAULT.com, the web’s leading career information website, upon graduation from the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2009, Sam then founded the leading private company financial data provider PrivCo and has since served as PrivCo’s Chief Executive Officer.
  • Eric Irani, Associate, S&P Capital IQ, Eric Irani is a Senior Financial Content Specialist for S&P Capital IQ. The Content Organization represents the content capability across S&P Capital IQ that provides high quality and timely content and overall content support to internal and external customers. The subject matter expertise of the content organization execute and implement new ideas and initiatives to continuously improve the value of products and services through the introduction or integration of new content.

If you are interested in joining the conference, register now to save your spot. Our Early-Bird rates expire September 9th.

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Measuring the Unmeasured at DataContent 2013

July 29, 2013 By

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Big data and mind-boggling technological advances are inspiring data producers to capture and tame data in ways we have never seen before or thought possible. During the Measuring the Unmeasured session at DataContent 2013, taking place October 15-17, you will have an opportunity to learn from four companies that have created new benchmarking products. Together they will help you to look at data in an entirely new way for your company:

    •  John Crimmins, VP of Strategy for RetailNext will describe how RetailNext turns in-store behavior into data by tracking shoppers through their cellphones. It then turns this data on many millions of shopping trips into intelligence retailers can use to gauge their individual performance as well as track broader shopping patterns, conversion, and average transaction value. 
    • John Ernsberger, Co-founder, of Stella Service will discuss how Stella Service, one of this year’s Models of Excellence, rates online customer service by paying thousands of mystery shoppers daily to buy items from online retailers, call customer service teams, and ask questions; then return products. Their detailed notes are converted into a database and diagnostics tool online retailers use to continually monitor how they stack up, and get early warning of where improvement is needed.  
    • John Lawler, Chief Executive Officer of Buyers Lab will explain how Buyers Lab provides a different type of hands-on data. For more than 50 years it has run over 15,000 digital imaging products through their paces at their US and UK labs. The results of this testing are relied on for purchasing decisions, product development, competitive positioning and, sales and marketing support.
    • Mark Piening, Founder & CEO of Circle Media will show how Circle Media puts metrics around the driving force in marketing today–experiences. It measures the impact of sponsored events using what it calls “Even Performance Index”–a single number that tells what degree of cultural splash a particular event creates, and in essence, reducing buzz to a number.     

RetailNext, Stella Service, Buyers Lab, and Circle Media are only one segment of our powerful line-up at DataContent 2013. Throughout the content you will hear from data thought-leaders who know that data is different–it has its own application, business, content, and distribution processes. At DataContent 2013, we’ll examine them all and identify best practices and trends, providing you with an insider’s view of what’s working and where things are heading. Combined with great networking and our Models of Excellence showcase, DataContent 2013 is the place to be!

Our super-early bird promotion ends July 31 so register now to reserve your spot and save $600 on conference registration. When you register, enter the promotion code DCSEB in the shopping cart to receive your super-early bird savings.

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