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¤ SIIA members can now attend Executive Roundtable (ERT) breakfasts at no charge - Next event - March 12

¤ Brown Bag Lunch - Hiring and Salary Trends in the Information Industry - March 24, New York and Videoconference around US

¤ 2004 Content Forum: Show Me the Money! - May 17 - 18, San Francisco, CA

¤ SIIA Content Division Board of Directors Election: Nominations being accepted

¤ SIIA Board of Directors Election: Nominations being accepted

¤ What Today's Digital Technology Offers B-to-B Publishers American Business Media - March 25 | New York Register here.

¤ Information Industry Summit (IIS) Coverage - We will soon be posting streaming audio recordings of the keynotes and panels from IIS.  Check back at www.siia.net/iis for coverage.

SIIA Announcements:
¤  Announcing the 2004 SIIA Content Forum: Show Me the Money! to be held May 17 & 18 in San Francisco, CA. This event will include industry leaders discussing the ways they are making money in the Information Industry today. Panels will focus on successful business models; using tools & technologies to provide a financial advantage; how to sell content in today's market; and emerging trends that will affect how content is sold. The forum will also provide significant networking opportunities with the people who are responsible for publishing, licensing and distributing content to enterprises, individuals and channels. Click here to register.

¤ SIIA members can now attend Executive Roundtable Series  (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 March breakfast featuring William Krepick, President & CEO, Macrovision speaking on DRM Technologies and Implementations.  March 12, 8:00 am - 9:30 am

Upcoming ERT presenters include:

- April 14: Wayne Jackson, Global Leader and Blake White, US Leader, Digital Media Management Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Entertainment & Media Practice
- May 12: Sean Parker, Founder and President, Plaxo

- June 23: Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO, Red Hat

For information on registering, visit the SIIA Events Calendar.

¤ SIIA Content Division Board of Directors Election: Call for Nominations: There are a few seats up for election on the SIIA Content Division's Board of Directors. The Content Division Board of Directors is a volunteer group of 19-25 industry leaders that plan the activities and agenda of the Content Division.  These are your representatives, and you will want to have the best possible advocates for your interests. Any full or associate member of the Content Division who would like to be more involved in planning the activities and agenda of the division and can agree to attend at least 3 of 4 quarterly meetings per year, is eligible to run for a seat on the Content Division board.   The next quarterly board meeting will be scheduled at the end of the Content Division Forum on May 19 in San Francisco. If you are interested in running, please submit your nomination to Jeff Cutler or contact him at jcutler@siia.net for details.

Click here to view the current Content Division Board of Directors.

¤  SIIA Board of Directors Election: Call for Nominations: It’s time for the 2004 Election of the SIIA Board of Directors. The SIIA Board of Directors is the team that makes decisions and sets priorities for the Association at large.  SIIA prides itself in having an open process for electing its volunteer leadership.  Any full member of SIIA who feels they can commit the time and energy is eligible to run for a seat on the SIIA Board of Directors.  The SIIA Board has eighteen seats. In the upcoming election, we will elect eight new Board members to two-year terms. The eight new Board members will join the returning eight members. This new Board will then appoint two additional Board members to one year terms. If you, or a person from your executive team, are interested in running for the SIIA Board, please have a brief campaign statement (not to exceed 200 words), sent to Marnel Williams (mailto:mwilliams@siia.net?subject=SIIA Board Nomination (from Content Division Newsletter)) no later than Monday, March 29, 2004. The campaign statements will be bundled together and emailed to the principal contact at each SIIA Full Voting member company. Members will be able to vote online through a password secure system.  Members can be self-nominated. 

Click here to view the current SIIA Board of Directors.

¤ Codie Finalists Announced The 2004 Codie Awards will be presented at a black-tie gala on Tuesday, May 18 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.  Full information about the 2004 Codie Awards Program is available at: http://www.siia.net/codies2004/.  For a complete list of 2004 Codie Awards finalists, visit http://www.siia.net/codies2004/finalists.asp.
 

¤ Open Source: Strategies for Licensing/Development

The rapid embrace of open source software by many in the software industry raises novel issues that impact the life-cycle of the software product at a number of stages. Ted Sabety, principal of Sabety +associates, will provide insight into effective strategies for creating value through project management techniques, due diligence and contracting, product licensing terms, and important considerations regarding the risks and rewards of developing or using software products that have open source components.  Examples of open source licenses will be included. April 7 - webcast - Click Here to Register

¤ SIIA's new MarketMaker program brokers business relationships through pre-arranged meetings. Specifically, we arrange for emerging technology vendors to meet with enterprise IT Buyers and/or investors.  MarketMaker meetings take place at two SIIA MarketMaker events - June 16 and November 17 - and throughout the year at the request of enterprise customers &/or investors.  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 $55M.
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.

¤  Information Industry Salary Survey - SIIA and Outsell released their First Annual joint study on salary and benefit practices in the Information Content industry. The study - the first systematic analysis of salary and staffing issues in the industry - identified a shortage of appropriately skilled professional talent as the most pressing workplace challenge now facing Information Content executives. The survey is available at the Outsell online store at www.outsellinc.com/salarysurvey/buy.htm.

¤ Contracts in the Information Industry IV | Peter Marx, editor - Here in one place, are template agreements from leading industry companies providing 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, download order form
Non-Member Price: $195.00, download order form
or contact Anne Griffith at 202-789-4469 to order by credit card

¤ The 2004 Information Industry Summit (IIS) was held on January 27 and was attended by over 300 senior executives in the digital publishing community.  If you missed the event, visit the following links for coverage of the 2004 IIS:

Click here to view pictures of the event and see who spoke and who was there.
Click here to read the full text of Martin Nisenholtz's keynote speech.
Click here to read Shore Communications coverage of  each panel and speech at IIS on PaidContent.Org.
Click here to read PILOT Online Learning's coverage of the keynotes and each panel.
Click here to read Outsell's coverage of IIS.

¤ SIIA Industry Daily now available - Receive a free daily email of relevant industry news.  Subscribe now.

Industry News:

Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine (3/8) |Information Today

Can RSS Relieve Information Overload? (3/8) | EContent

InfoSpace to add XML feeds (3/5) | eWeek

RSS Delivery Gets Around with NewsGator Upgrade (3/5) | EContent

Ask Jeeves to buy owner of Excite.com (3/5) | San Jose Mercury News

Search Engines Prepare for New Battles (3/3) |ECommerce Times

Factiva Previews New Interfaces (3/1) | Information Today

OneSource Signs Merger Agreement; Enhances Synergy Solutions (2/23) | Information Today

Open access threat to Reed's publishing empire (2/29) | The Guardian

Reed Elsevier:No Meaningful Recovery In B2B Markets Yet (2/19) | Dow Jones Business News

Google and Newspapers (2/17) | Editor & Publisher

W3C Delivers Standards for the "Semantic Web" (2/16) | Information Today

Member Company News:
Please send news and press releases to James Kim

Spiking The Big Lie: Outsell Busts Up Fee vs. Free Content Debate (3/8)

The McGraw-Hill Companies sells J.J. Kenny Drake to Rafferty Capital Markets, LLC (3/8)

Full year results 2003- Performance in line with expectations as business stabilizes and improves. Wolters Kluwer (Euronext Amsterdam: WKL), a leading multinational information services company, reported today its results for the year ended December 31, 2003.(3/8)

Training Magazine Honors LexisNexis as One of the Best in Training and Developing Employees (3/8)

Elsevier signs agreement with UMIC/FCCN (3/8)

Variety.com Wins Two Categories in Min's Best of the Web Awards (3/4)

TACODA Launches "Audience Management System - Target®" Offering Behavioral Targeting at Lower Cost (3/3)

Factiva Wins “Most Innovative Company” Award in First-Ever
International Business Awards(SM) (3/3)

Thomson Gale to Distribute Professional Education Titles for Linworth Publishing, Inc. (3/2)

Thomson Financial Forms Research Team To Leverage Market-leading Data, Analytics and Media Commentary (3/2)

ECNext Launches E-commerce Site for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones Publication (3/1)

PilotOnline.com First to Use TACODA Systems Audience Management System to Target B2B Audience (3/1)

New Medstat Patient Segmentation System Reveals Detailed Information on How Patients Use Medications (3/1)

New release of SCIRUS platform facilitates faster and easier web searching(2/27)

Pfingsten Publishing, L.L.C. Agrees to Acquire Advanstar Communications, Inc.'s Art Group (2/26)

Thomson Elite Builds on Success with Significant New Business (2/26)

Factiva Adds Nikkei BP and Nikkei BP Asia to Global Content Collection (2/25)

Dialog Launches DialogPRO NewsEdge, Latest in a Series of Business Intelligence Services for Small Businesses Worldwide (2/25)

Dialog NewsEdge Is "Highly Recommended," Says Information Advisor (2/24)

Comtex Signs New Distributor Agreement With Globaltec Solutions
(2/24)

LexisNexis Reaches New Milestone With 3 Million Case Summaries (2/23)

Copyright Clearance Center Adds Elsevier to its Digital Licensing Offerings (2/23)

21st Annual Design News Awards Honor Engineering's Best (2/23)