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 ReviewNew Members
Member Press Releases
Member Job Postings
Government Affairs/Public Policy Updates
¤ EVENTS
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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
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¤ 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)
¤ McGraw-Hill Professional Launches Online Science Encyclopedia on New Media-Rich Platform
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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
6/26 - Intellectual
Property Update 6/15 - Policy
Update: High-skilled Immigration
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