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¤ Clare Hart, CEO of Factiva to Kick of 2005 SIIA
CEO Breakfast Series on March 8
¤ Brown Bag Lunch Panel: Business Models for
Content – Lessons Learned from Successful Companies
on March
23
¤ Board Elections - Run for the
Content Division Board
¤ SIIA Enterprise Technology Forum in New York on
April 20
¤ 2005 SIIA Content Forum on May 24 & 25 in
Universal City, CA
¤
Find new customers or investors -
register for MarketMaker
¤ 2005 Codies Finalists
Announced
¤ Coverage of Information Industry Summit
(IIS)
SIIA Announcements:
¤ March 8 -
SIIA CEO Breakfast Series, Clare Hart, CEO of Factiva:
"The
Enterprise of the Future and The Evolution of Content
Aggregation" - The enterprise of the future
is moving to an ultra-personalized, role- and task-based
environment, one where systems are smart enough to
understand the totality of what you do and to anticipate
your needs. At the same time, the world of content
aggregation must evolve in order to incorporate the
rapidly multiplying new sources and volume of
information from the Web, including IM, blogs, wikis and
more. These applications will use text-mining
technologies and visualization techniques to communicate
large amounts of complex data in simple ways. Clare
Hart, President and CEO of Factiva, will speak about the
trends and innovations that will shape this new
environment. Register at https://www.siia.net/events/prereg.asp?eventid=441
¤ March 23 - Brown Bag Lunch Panel: here.
¤ Upcoming Brown Bag Lunch Panels:
April 28 - Alphabet Soup - XML, RSS, Prism -
What you need to know about Evolving Standards in the
Information Industry -
April 28, New York and
videoconference.- Register at http://www.siia.net/events/prereg.asp?eventid=443
May
11- Business Models for
Content – Strategies for Online
Content -
May
11, Chicago and
videoconference - Register at http://www.siia.net/events/prereg.asp?eventid=444
¤ Read extensive
coverage of the Information Industry Summit
(IIS)
- Over 380 people attended the
4th annual IIS on February 1st and 2nd at New York
City’s Gotham Hall at the Software & Information
Industry Association’s fourth Annual Information
Industry Summit (IIS). Read about the
controversial keynote delivered by author and columnist
Michael Wolff as well as key speakers including, FTC
Chairman Majoras, Grand Central's Halsey Minor, Wolters
Kluwer's Nancy McKinstry, AOL's Ted Leonsis, WPP's Sir
Martin Sorrell, and Microsoft's Dan’l Lewin among many
others.
¤ 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 26 in California. If you are interested in running,
please submit your short nomination statement to
Anne Griffith or contact
her at 202-789-46469 for details. Click here to view the
current Content Division Board of Directors.
¤ Save the Date - West Coast Content
Forum will be held May 24 & 25, 2005 in
Universal City, CA. Join our
sponsors Factiva, Highbeam Research, Copyright
Clearance Center, Valeo IP, LexisNexis, Mark Logic, and
Context Media. The 20th Annual Codies Gala will be held
the evening of May 25. Registration is now open at
http://www.siia.net/cf/2005/registration.asp
¤ SIIA
Enterprise Technology Forum - SIIA's
bi-annual conference brings together three key
constituencies of the enterprise IT economy:
Enterprise Customers, Software & Information
Companies, and Venture Capitalists. Early bird
registration ends April 1. Register at http://www.siia.net/events/prereg.asp?eventid=445
¤ MarketMaker - SIIA
MarketMaker arranges introductory meetings for you with
enterprise customers and/or investors. It only takes a
minute to register for MarketMaker, and SIIA members
enter their profiles for free. Our next SIIA MarketMaker
meetings take place on April 20 in NYC and on May 25 in
LA, in conjunction with the Content Forum. To be
eligible for meetings on April 20, you must register in
SIIA MarketMaker this month. Register
here
¤ Content Division Working Groups
- The Content Division board has
formed 2 new working groups to explore items of
particular interest to member companies. A group
focused on Business Models and one on Standards join the
existing group focused on Content
Anti-Piracy. Click here to see a
list of the current working groups. Please contact
Anne Griffith if
you would like to join a group or
committee.
Standards Working Group
- Ken Ficara, Wall Street Journal, Chair; The Content
Standards Working Group will serve as a resource to SIIA
members who are interested in adopting standards for
content format and management, but who are confused by
the plethora of choices and confusing claims. This group
will also attempt to bring a business focus to standards
discussions, in the hope of influencing standards groups
to concentrate on solving the problems that publishers
and editors are faced with.
Business
Models Working Group - Judy Hsieh, BusinessWeek
Online, Chair. The Business Models Working Group will
focus on assessing and providing information on best
practices for business models for electronic content.
The goal will be to conceptualize how buyers and sellers
of data are successfully managing distribution of
digital content today.
¤ Looking for new contacts or
prospects? - You can
access a list of member companies with hotlinks to the member web sites at
http://www.siia.net/membership/memberlist.asp .
¤ SIIA Content Week in Review - A
weekly summary of Information Industry news is now
available. Click
here to see the current
issue of the SIIA Content Week in Review and
click here to subscribe and receive a weekly summary
of the headlines from around
¤ CEO
PERSPECTIVES issue of UPGRADE is now available.
Click here to read Ron Klausner of ProQuest's
unique perspectives on how Publishers can create
opportunity from the Open Access movement. The
entire December 2004/January 2005 Issue is available at
http://www.siia.net/upgrade/
¤ Information Industry-focused issue of SIIA's
UPGRADE magazine will be available online at the end
of March. Look for it at siia.net/upgrade.
Industry News & Member Company
News:
Industry news and Member
Company News are now available on a weekly basis in the
new 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.
¤
Copyright Clearance Center Releases New Report on
Copyright in the Digital
Workspace - DANVERS, Mass., December 15, 2004
– Copyright Clearance Center, the world’s premier
provider of copyright licensing and compliance
solutions, today released a new report titled Copyright
in the Digital Workspace. Available for download at
www.copyright.com/digital, the report helps businesses understand the ways
employees are using copyrighted information and their
practices with respect to copyright law. It also offers
specific recommendations for reducing the risk of
copyright infringement.
¤ Thomson Releases New Study
on Open Access Journals - Thomson Scientific, a
business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX:
TOC), released a new White Paper entitled: "Open Access
Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of
Impact Factors and Citation Patterns."
Industry
Research &
Opinions
¤ Reduced Price for Information Industry
Salary Survey - For a limited time,
SIIA and Outsell's joint study on salary and benefit
practices in the Information Content industry is
available for the discounted price of $295. For
details, click on http://content.outsellinc.com/coms2/salary_survey
¤
Complimentary
download of Neighborhoods of
the Information Industry -
Outsell,
Inc.'s complimentary reference guide to the
"neighborhoods of the information industry" shares a
total view of who's who, what's going on, how the
different neighborhoods relate and get along (or not),
and what that means for the industry's future
success. Click on http://www.outsellinc.com/subscribe/guide.htm to
download.
¤ Models for Success: 2005 Ushers in
an Era of Major Shifts in Content Business
Models
| Shore Communications
¤ Outlook 2005: Free Download - Power
Play In
The Information Industry
|
Outsell
Inc.
¤ EContent 100 | EContent Magazine - Click on http://www.econtentmag.com/EContent100/ to read.
¤ 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
People on the Move:
Please
send news about comings and goings to Jeff Cutler
The New York Times Company Names
Martin A. Nisenholtz Senior Vice President, Digital
Operations
Wolters Kluwer Corporate &
Financial Services Division Appoints New President and
Chief Operating Officer to its Financial Services
Business
Alan Scott Promoted to Chief
Marketing Officer at Factiva
Dow Jones Newswires Makes Two Key
Appointments in Europe
Dow Jones & Company Nominates
Hemenway & Barnes' Elefante to Its Board of
Directors
Tad Smith Promoted to Executive Vice
President of RBI-US
Peter Warwick Named President and
CEO, Thomson West
Thomson Taps Wilens to Drive
Integrated Business, Product Development Strategy for
Legal Businesses in North America
Thomson West Names Sue Schway Vice
President of Customer Experience Operations
Linda Jackson Appointed as European
MD of Thomson Financial’s Corporate Group
Roger Barton Joins Thomson TradeWeb
Europe
Mary Lynne Price Joins Glasser
LegalWorks as Client Team Director
The New York Times Company Announces
Nomination for Board of Directors and Director
Retirements
The New York Times Announces Joseph
Nocera as New Business Columnist
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 &
Content
Anti-Piracy
¤ Intellectual Property Committee
Update -
email Keith Kupferschmid
at kkupferschmid@siia.net to
receive the monthly "IP Update" via email
March
2, 2005 - Highlights in March IP Update:
¤
Update
on Status of EU Software Patent Directive
¤ President Submits 2006 PTO Budget
¤ Template Held to be Noncopyrightable
February 4, 2005 - Highlights in
February IP Update:
¤ Copyright Office Announces Orphan Works
Study
¤
FECA
Introduced in Senate and House; Bill Then Passed by
Senate
¤
First
Criminal Conviction for P2P
Piracy
¤
SIIA
News - Kathy Hahn of Intuit and Paul De Giusti of
McGraw-Hill have been appointed the new co-chairs of
SIIA's Intellectual Property Committee. They will
officially take over at our next meeting, which will
take place on February 16th.
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