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Content Division Newsletter
August 2007
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  • Events

  •        ¤ Global Information Industry Summit, September 5-7
           ¤ Brown Bag Lunch and Webcast Series
           ¤ Executive FaceTime Series
  • News

  •        ¤ Content Division Welcomes Program Manager Jenny Hansen
           ¤ Join the Content Forum Steering Committee
           ¤ CODiE Awards Nominations are now open! available to SIIA members
           ¤ Sign up for the Content Week in Review
  • New Members

  • Member Press Releases
  • Member Job Postings

  • Government Affairs/Public Policy Updates


  • ¤ EVENTS

    ¤ Global Information Industry Summit, September 7-9, Berlin, Germany - Register Now! Online registration ends August 31st!  Join senior information and publishing executives from Europe, North America and India to gain insight on the global strategies of market leaders, identify new markets well-suited for your company, and meet the partners positioned to help you succeed.

    ¤ 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:
           Think Small: Why Widgets are the Next Big Thing for Content Distribution 
           September 20, 2007 New York, NY

          Archived Brown Bag Lunches:
          Tapping into User Generated Content  May 9, 2007
          Meeting the Challenges of Declining Print Revenues  June 13, 2007
          Managing Channel Conflict July 18, 2007

     ¤ 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:
                John Lervik - CEO of FAST  September 18, 2007
                Marty Kahn - CEO of ProQuest  October 4, 2007
                Bob Cullen - President & CEO of Thomson Healthcare  November 6, 2007

          Archived Webcasts:
                Pat Tierney - CEO, Harcourt Education, June 14, 12:00PM – 1:00PM EST.  

    Howard Ratner - EVP/CTO of Nature Publishing Group
                Robert W. Merry- President & Publisher, Congressional Quarterly
                Tad Smith - CEO, Reed Business Information
                Gordon Crovitz - EVP, Dow Jones & Company
     


    ¤ NEWS

    ¤ Content Division Welcomes New Program Manager Jenny Hansen
    The Content Division is pleased to announce that  Jenny Hansen is the new Program Manager working with Ed Keating. She will be the lead contact for the Brown Bag Lunch and Executive FaceTime series. Contact her at jhansen@siia.net to discuss topic ideas. Prior to SIIA Jenny served as the Business Development Officer, Membership and Conferences at the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, a membership organization dedicated to serving America's microentrepreneurs. Jenny graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in Sociology and Urban Studies.

    ¤ Join the Content Forum Steering Committee
    Help plan and implement the 2008 Content Forum. 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

    10-K Wizard Technology LLC, Martin Zacarias, Chief Executive Officer, Dallas, TX
    10K Wizard (www.10kwizard.com) is a technology company with web-based subscription services, XML data feeds and API solutions based on SEC EDGAR filings and related company and financial data. Used by over 40,000 securities professionals within Wall Street organizations, independent research firms and the nation's top law firms.

    Doane (A Division of Vance Publishing), Steven Lee, Vice President, Lincolnshire, IL
    Doane is an agricultural information and services provider. It publishes a weekly newsletter and provides economic analysis. Available both online via www.doane.com and in print.

    Euclid Infotech Pvt Ltd, Unmesha Tawde, Executive Vice President, Mumbai, Maharashtra India
    Euclid Infotech is a leading infomediary, consulting and KPO/ITES company having expertise in creation of customized content and databases, provision of business information and custom made profiles, services-related business development, bidding, and outsourced business development

    MARKESS International, Sylvie Chauvin, President, Paris, France
    MARKESS International is a market research company specialized in analyzing the impact of the Internet on the transformation and modernization of organizations: private companies and governments. MARKESS International has published over 150 reports and research briefs on IT software and services markets in France, Europe and the US.


     
    ¤ MEMBER PRESS RELEASES

    ¤ MuseGlobal Invests in the Future of Search through Sponsorship of Center for Data and Search Informatics (DSI)
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    McGraw-Hill Professional Launches Online Science Encyclopedia on New Media-Rich Platform
    ¤ ProQuest's PRISMA Grows to More Than 100 Full Text Titles


     
    ¤ 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.


    ¤ 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.

    ¤ Policy Updates
    The following updates and commentaries have been posted in the two months:
    8/1 -   Intellectual Property Update
    6/26Intellectual Property Update
    6/15
    Policy Update: High-skilled Immigration


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