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SIIA Announcements:
¤  2005 Information Industry Summit (IIS) - February 1&2
SIIA is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Information Industry Summit (IIS) will be held on February 1 and 2, 2005 at Gotham Hall in New York City. Speakers include FTC Chairman Majoras, AOL's Leonsis, Sorrell from WPP, McKinstry from Wolters Kluwer.  IIS brings together executives from throughout the information industry to discuss the current outlook for the industry, how they are preparing for the future and their unique perspectives on the industry today. In 2004, IIS was sold out as it attracted over 350 industry leaders. Click here to ensure your attendance and to save $200 on your registration for IIS 2005.

¤ 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 Jeff Cutler 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.

¤ West Coast Content Forum planning committee - Please contact jcutler@siia.net if you are interested in serving on the planning committee for the SIIA Content Forum, to be held May 24 & 25, 2005 in Universal City, CA. Save the Date.

¤ Looking for new contacts or prospects? - You can access a list of member companies at http://www.siia.net/membership/memberlist.asp with hotlinks to the member web sites.

¤ 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 the Information Industry.

¤ 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. If you missed being eligible for meetings at the SIIA MarketMaker event on November 17, please register and complete your corporate profile in MarketMaker now to be eligible for the next event. Register here
 

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



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.

¤ Dow Jones To Acquire MarketWatch for $18 a Share | Dow Jones News Release

¤ Outsell 100 Companies Show Dramatic 15% Growth In First Half Of 2004; Forecast Slowing To 7% Growth In 2005 | Outsell Inc.

¤ Let it Rain: Reuters and Dow Jones Adapt to the User-Controlled Flow of Content | Shore Communications Commentary

¤  Can the Open-Source Model Work for Content? | Greenhouse Associates, Now that Linux has proven the effectiveness of open, collaborative authoring of software, such open-source models could be adapted for building content. One example of such a model of open collaboration is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia written by thousands of volunteer contributors. Read More...

Industry Research & Overviews

¤  EPS releases white paper documenting the business case for digital object identifiers (DOIs) in content distribution

¤  The New Aggregation: Models for Success in Creating Content Value | Shore Communications- Content aggregators face flat or declining revenues while new players carve out highly profitable business models for aggregation. The New Aggregation focuses content and technology suppliers on the capabilities that best suit the changing needs of content audiences. Shore President John Blossom defines in detail how content aggregation can succeed in this changing marketplace.

¤  Outlook 2004: Issues In The Information Marketplace

¤  Information Industry Salary Survey - SIIA and Outsell's joint study on salary and benefit practices in the Information Content industry. www.outsellinc.com/salarysurvey/buy.htm.

¤ 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

Patrick Kerr to join Reed Elsevier

Factiva Adds Industry Talent to Expanding Consulting Group

Highbeam™ Research Appoints Keith Powell As Chief Technology Officer

BusinessWeek strengthens its leadership team

Tom Bogan Joins ClearForest Board of Directors 

Kent Zimmermann Named President, Glasser LegalWorks

The Wall Street Journal Promotes Penny Abernathy to Senior Vice President, International and Development

Dow Jones & Company Names Amy Wolfcale Vice President of Corporate Communications

Dow Jones Newswires Names Sten Stovall as Equities Assistant News Editor

Jeffry Gitter New Ad Director for NY 411 Directory

Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine announces his return to an editorial development role at The Lancet

George Bizos Named as Winner of the 2004 Bernard Simons Memorial Award

Congratulations to Nobel Laureates David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek

Congratulations to Nobel Prize winners Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck

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 Committee Update (11/3/04)
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