¤ NEWS
¤ Content Division Welcomes Newly Elected Board Members
Elections for the Content Division Board were held from February 26 - March 13. An impressive roster of 18 candidates were seeking one of 10 available seats to help guide the Content Division. The following individuals were elected or re-elected to serve on the Board:
        • Barry Bealer, President/CEO - Really Strategies, Inc.
        • Dawn Conway, Vice President Licensing & Content - LexisNexis
        • Jeff Cutler, Chief Revenue Officer - Answers Corporation
        • Matthew Hamel, Assoc. General Counsel and VP, Law, Enterprise Media Group - Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
        • David Justus, Executive Director - The College Board
        • Larry Schwartz, President - Newstex
        • Webb Shaw, Director of Editorial Resources - J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
        • Pamela Springer, President & CEO - ECNext
        • Charlie Terry, President - MarketResearch.com Inc.
        • Keith White, Publisher - Congressional Quarterly

They join the following Board Members who are in the middle of their term:
       • Jack Abuhoff, Chief Executive Officer - Innodata Isogen
       • Stephen Casbeer, Senior Director, Product Technology - Reed Elsevier Inc.
       • Karen Christensen , Chief Executive Officer - Berkshire Publishing Group, LLC
       • Daniel Duncan, Director, Government Affairs - McGraw-Hill Companies
       • Hal Espo, President - Contextual Connections
       • Lee Greenhouse, President - Greenhouse Associates
       • Kathleen Greenler Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer - HighBeam Research
       • Darrell Gunter, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing North America - Elsevier
       • Rob Kirchstein, Senior Director, Marketing - Thomson West
       • Chuck Richard , VP and Lead Analyst Outsell, Inc.
       • Steve Sieck, Managing Partner SKS Advisors, Inc.
       • Rachel Spasser,Vice President, Business Development - KnowledgeStorm, Inc.

¤ Babson Working Knowledge Research Center Announces New Contest
Tom Davenport, author of the new book Competing on Analytics (HBS Press), is leading a new study on how companies drive business results from using B2B Content. As part of this Research, Babson Working Knowledge is pleased to announce a storytelling contest—“Improving Content ROI”— which will help collect and identify best practices. All members of the SIIA community can invite purchasers of B2B content to enter and win up to 10 iPods for themselves and colleagues. For details and to enter, visit the site or contact Glen Kushner.

¤ SIIA Board of Directors Nominations Now Open
Any executive of a Full Member company of SIIA who can commit the time and energy is eligible to run for a seat on the SIIA Board of Directors. To nominate, please send a brief campaign statement (not to exceed 200 words) to Marnel Williams by Monday, March 26, 2007. The principal contact at each SIIA Full Member company will be able to vote online through a password-protected web site during the month of April.

The SIIA Board has seventeen seats. In the upcoming election, we will elect six new Board members to two-year terms. The six new Board members will join the returning nine members. This new Board will then appoint two additional Board members to one year terms. The two Board-selected members are usually picked for balancing purposes, since elections may leave one or more segments of our membership under-represented.