SIIA Calendar of Events

SIIA CEO Roundtable: Closing the Deal

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hosted by Accenture

Schedule:
9:00 - 9:30 - Presentation of SIIA Member Survey on the sales pipeline by Timothy Jellison of Accenture
9:30 - 11:30 - Roundtable Discussion on "Closing the Deal" by Jeff Gaus of Prolifiq

New technologies, networks and channels are making it easier than ever to find prospects, but how do you turn them into customers? This facilitator-led discussion will focus on how you and your peers are dealing with the changing landscape. How are you compensating your sales team? How can you manage and scale your operation to keep up with demand?

Brown Bag Lunch: It's not about Ashton and Oprah: how to engage a professional audience using Twitter

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This will be a hands-on (thumbs-on for Blackberry users) workshop focused on ways to utilize Twitter effectively in your content business.

We'll start with a brief discussion of Twitter best practices for business audience engagement. Speakers will present insight on how they have incorporated Twitter into their businesses, and we'll take a close look at live examples and why they work (or don't work).
Participants (in-person and online) are encouraged to ask and Tweet questions or observations throughout the event - use #siiabbag to join the stream.

Ready to have your own Tweets critiqued against a baker's dozen of best practices? Contact session organizers Barry Graubart (barry.graubart@alacra.com) or Robin Neidorf (robin.neidorf@freepint.com) with your submission.

Moderator:
Barry Graubart, VP, Alacra
Barry Graubart has spent the past 20 years applying technology to content to develop high value business-to-business information products.

Barry today serves as Vice President, Product Management for Alacra, a leading content technology company. Previously, he served as EVP & Chief Marketing Officer for Leadership Directories, a provider of biographical and organizational content.Prior to Leadership Directories he spent four years in various roles with ClearForest, an emerging leader in the text analytics market. At ClearForest, he helped open the publishing and federal intelligence markets.

Previously, he held general management, product development and marketing roles with b2b content businesses including divisions of Primedia, Nelson Information (now Thomson Financial), Kaplan/Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers.

Barry is also author of the Content Matters blog (www.ContentMatters.info). He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany.

Panelists:
Robin Neidorf, General Manager, FreePint LTD
Robin has been working with FreePint since 2004, and, since joining full time in 2006, is responsible for strategic planning, product development, relationship management, research and communications.
Robin Neidorf ran a research and communications consulting business for 10 years, prior to joining Free Pint Limited. As a consultant, she focused on strategic planning, using information to make better decisions, and creating effective audience-focused communications across different media.
Robin has worked with a wide range of organisations in the for-profit and non-profit sector. She has developed online communities, publications and distance learning modules for a range of business purposes. She is the author of Teach Beyond Your Reach: An instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more (Cyber Age, 2006) and the co-author of E-Merchant: Retail Strategies for e-Commerce (Addison-Wesley, 2001).

Michelle Leder, Founder, Footnoted.org
Michelle Leder first became interested in SEC filings early in her career, while writing about a small Florida bank that was engaged in aggressive accounting during the last real estate boom. As a reporter, and later editor, she spent 10 years at daily newspapers in Florida, Connecticut and New York. As a freelance business journalist, her work has appeared in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Portfolio and Slate, among others. Leder has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, the Today Show and has been quoted in dozens of newspapers both in the US and abroad, about digging into SEC filings. Financial Fine Print (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) is her first book. She holds a degree in Economics from Brandeis University. She blogs from footnoted.org world headquarters in Peekskill, NY, where she lives with her husband, Scott, and dog, Kumara, whom she has trained to dig through SEC filings.

Catherine Ventura, Social Media Content Strategist
Catherine Ventura is a Social Media Content Strategist with a background in documentary, advertising, and feature film production so she brings a fairly unique perspective to the Social Media world. She was most recently with Brouillard, a WPP agency, where she produced over 40 mouth-watering hamburger ads.

Enterprise 2.0 Webinar: How to accelerate your business performance with enterprise 2.0 approaches and technology

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

-- Identify where the business value is for your needs and cut through the hype --

This session aims to demystify Enterprise 2.0 benefits and to focus on pragmatic strategy by providing real world experience on viable tactics for budgeting, definining your value proposition and measuring your desired results.

Fresh from their presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, Oliver Marks & Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group aim to help you unlock the value of these rapidly maturing and increasingly important social constructs to meet your specific business needs. And we'll address how they can significantly augment the value you get from your current technology investments with greater employee and partner performance.

FISD Europe: Amsterdam

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

FISD General Meeting

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Schedule:
March 22nd
* 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm FISD Executive Committee meeting
* 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Constituency Group Meetings
* 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Welcome Reception

March 23rd
* 8:30 am - 9:30 am Breakfast/Networking
* 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Program
* 12;30 pm - 2:00 pm Networking Lunch
* 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Program
* 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Networking Reception (to be held Off-Site)
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Fees:
General Meeting
Members: No cost (includes constituency group meetings)
Non-Members: $750

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Constituency Groups (Choose only ONE)
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Pre-Registration is required for all.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing to Becki Lake either by fax (202-289-7097), email (blake@siia.net), or postal (SIIA, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005).

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Netherlands - FISD Women's Group

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

FISD Women's Group Luncheon

Cost:
$60 (USD)for Members
$60 (USD) for non members

Deadline to register: March 18

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Schedule
11:30 AM - 13:30 PM
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Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in
writing to Becki Lake either by fax (202-289-7097), email
(blake@siia.net), or postal (SIIA, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW,
6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005).
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Success in 2010: What Cloud Computing Means for Finance

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As a software, SaaS or cloud business, you need to make sure your financial management system is cost effective, increases the productivity of your limited staff and can easily scale as your business begins to grow.

Cloud computing provides the answer. A recent CFO survey showed that 84% of businesses who have switched to cloud-based applications would never go back, with companies seeing 75-200% ROI by making the switch.

Attend the webinar "Success in 2010: What Cloud Computing Means to Finance" on March 25th, 11 AM PT, 2 PM ET and gain real-world advice on cloud computing based on the experiences of companies like yours. You'll learn:

-How cloud computing applies to the finance department and how companies are using it to transform their financial processes and improve department effectiveness.
-What Service Level Agreements are, why they are critical to your success, plus the specific guarantees you should demand from your vendors.
-How to negotiate the best prices for any cloud-based systems you are considering, including what tactics vendors are most likely to respond to.
-How to calculate the ROI of cloud computing versus on-premises software.

Panelists:
*Dan Druker, SVP, Intacct
*Bryant Tolles, Vice President, Finance, OpSource

SaaS/Gov 2010

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Accelerating Cloud Computing Adoption: Developing an Integration Strategy for ISVs

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Analysts have frequently cited integration as the #1 obstacle faced by Cloud and SaaS providers as buyers are no longer willing to bear the burden of the extensive IT and development resources required to connect to your application. Join Cloud industry experts from Boomi and Saugatuck Technology to explore best practices to ensure you aligned with the integration needs of your customers, and able to deliver an integration strategy that is scalable as you grow your business. Learn more about the following road map for success:

-API Design and Best Practices
-Meeting the needs of complex SaaS and on-premise integration scenarios with a flexible integration platform
-Productizing repeatable integrations

Richard Broome, VP Operations, from Host Analytics will present a case study based on their own experiences in developing and executing a successful integration strategy for their Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution.

Speakers:
Mike West, Vice President, Saugatuck Technologies
Rick Nucci, CTO & Co-Founder, Boomi
Richard Broome, VP Operations, Host Analytics

Managing Data within the Enterprise

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced

FISD Members: $600 USD
Non-Members: $700 USD

Group Registration Discounts:
* 2 people from the same organization receive $200 discount on each
* 3 people from the same organization receive $300 discount on each registration
* 4 people from the same organization receive $400 discount on each registration
* 5 or more people from the same organization receive $500 discount on each registration

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing to Becki Lake either by fax (202-289-7097), email (blake@siia.net), or postal (SIIA, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005).

* Full refund if received prior to March 31, 2010 (less U.S. $75 processing fee)
* 50 percent refund if received prior to April 7, 2010
* NO REFUNDS after April 7, 2010
** Substitutions are permissible.

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Brown Bag Lunch: Beyond eBooks: eReaders and Information Content Opportunities

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By all indications, we are in the midst of a �tipping point� in the adoption of portable devices for consuming digital information content, especially content traditionally delivered in print. Given the implications for the book publishing industry, it isn�t surprising that the majority of public discussion has focused on eBooks generally, and trade book publishing specifically.

The goal of this Brown Bag session is to focus instead on the implications of the widespread adoption of eReaders, tablets, and increasingly capable and prevalent smart phones for other media and information services, including information products targeted to more specialized business, professional, and education markets. How should developers of new information products respond?
Where do the emerging devices solve real user and/or provider problems, and where do they fall short?
What has been learned already from the development and adoption of mobile content products in business, professional, and education markets?
What new opportunities can be addressed?
How should business models be adapted?

Moderator:
Steve Sieck, President, SKS Advisors
Steve Sieck has over twenty-five years� experience helping the world's leading content and enabling-technology providers develop new products, enter new markets, make strategic investment decisions and align organizational resources with strategic and financial objectives. Clients have included such companies as Reed Elsevier, Thomson, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, IDG, CMP Media, Primedia, BellSouth and IBM.

In 2007, Steve formed SKS Advisors, Inc., an independent consultancy that enables media and information companies to accelerate innovation and capitalize more effectively on new business and corporate development opportunities. Previously, he led the U.S. market entry of EPS, Ltd, a London-based provider of information industry advice, analysis, and industry intelligence. Earlier, he directed the Media & Entertainment practice at e-commerce integrator iXL/Scient and managed critical strategy consulting engagements at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services. He also helped lead interactive media research pioneer LINK Resources from small startup to major division of IT industry research leader International Data Corporation.

Sydney - FISD Local Meeting

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TBA

Re-Thinking Data

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Online Course
Instructor: Tee Williams, TW Associates

FISD Members: $600 USD
Non-Members: $700 USD

Group Registration Discounts:
* 2 people from the same organization receive $100 discount on each
* 3 people from the same organization receive $150 discount on each registration
* 4 people from the same organization receive $200 discount on each registration
* 5 or more people from the same organization receive $250 discount on each registration

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing to Becki Lake either by fax (202-289-7097), email (blake@siia.net), or postal (SIIA, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005).

* Full refund if received prior to April 1, 2010 (less U.S. $75 processing fee)
* 50 percent refund if received prior to April 8, 2010
* NO REFUNDS after April 8, 2010
** Substitutions are permissible.

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Data Creators - A New Strategic Vistion

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Online Course (Central Daylight Time)
Instructor: Tee Williams, TW Associates

Members: $600 USD
Non-Members: $700 USD

Group Registration Discounts:
* 2 people from the same organization receive $200 discount on each
* 3 people from the same organization receive $300 discount on each registration
* 4 people from the same organization receive $400 discount on each registration
* 5 or more people from the same organization receive $500 discount on each registration

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing to Becki Lake either by fax (202-289-7097), email (blake@siia.net), or postal (SIIA, 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005).

* Full refund if received prior to April 2, 2010 (less U.S. $75 processing fee)
* 50 percent refund if received prior to April 9, 2010
* NO REFUNDS after April 9, 2010
** Substitutions are permissible.

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Tokyo - FISD Local Meeting

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TBA

Singapore - FISD Local Meeting

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TBA