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NEWS FEATURES
The Ladies Who Launch team views social and online networking as a necessary component for business today. However, unlike many social networking sites, this one relies on paid membership to sustain its business model. The benefit of a paid membership, according to site co-founders Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeld, is that it helps ensure an elite and quality-controlled social networking site.
Twing.com, a property of Accoona Corp., is a free service that aims to help users search for opinions, information, and conversations that match their particular interest—however obscure that particular interest may be.
The 27 European Union Member States don’t just have a variety of national languages; their markets and laws are equally diverse. As the internet and mobile communication devices become ever more popular, these countries face a new conundrum: how to protect creative online content and make it available to all EU citizens. Content developers and the online industry are unable to take full advantage of the potentially huge EU market and consumers are missing out on a wide range of online content.
Humans, by nature, are social beings. Teenagers, by nature, are social machines. The advent of online social networking giants Facebook and MySpace—among others—has reshaped the face of a mainstay within teenage culture: socializing. A new study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “Teens and Social Media,” shows that teens today are more connected than ever, and with the help of the web, they will become even more intertwined.
Javien, Inc. is a well-known provider of content commerce technologies, primarily because of its platform product, Javien Digital Payment Solutions (DPS). The technology is aimed primarily at new media companies, such as digital music sites, to deploy and manage subscriptions, pay-per-view, downloads, micropayments, and alternative billing. In late January, the company announced the release of its New Media Payment Gateway, a product that allows customers to directly process payments for their content.
FEATURED STORIES
Offering a variety of gateways to access—from the familiarity of a web browser to the hand-held reader in an easy chair-—ebooks are here to stay. However, as the market matures, they continue to change … and to change the way we think about their print counterparts.
Given the wide range of content and the many different objectives, it is difficult to evaluate the return on investment (ROI) on content. One way to get a handle on this information is to use web analytics software to help you identify a range of metrics that, depending on your goals, help you decide if you are getting a decent ROI.
Out on the limitless frontiers of the wild wild web, the right to privacy can’t always be enforced for the simple reason that the existing laws don’t apply to this new medium, or the medium is just evolving too quickly for the laws to keep up. The other side of this issue is that the notion of privacy is evolving itself as web users increasingly live public lives online. So where's the harm in exchanging just a bit of data for content online?
Companies eager to implement Web 2.0 for collaboration purposes in the enterprise, and those vendors with products to sell, will be better positioned to succeed by preparing themselves for the fundamental changes that these technologies will bring to their organizations.
The art, science, and craft of typography are thousands of years old. Today, more than 550 years after Gutenberg, anybody with a personal computer can self-publish and anyone with an internet connection can be read by millions. But somewhere in the democratization of the displayed word, many of the traditional lessons of message and meaning have been forgotten.
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PRODUCT REVIEWS
Interest in building a compelling presence on the mobile web has never been higher, but neither have the technical barriers. Bango’s solution is designed to remove the pain from this process, enabling publishers—even individuals who want to distribute the content they create—to deliver content from their internet sites directly to customers' mobile devices without having to adapt it to run on the plethora of handsets and devices on the marketplace.
The suite includes previously released updates to FrameMaker, Captivate, and RoboHelp, with some integration features not available in the stand-alone products. It provides a comprehensive technical writer toolkit for a reasonable price, but if you are looking for true single sourcing, Adobe is not quite there yet.
COLUMNS
I threw away my dictionary. Tossed it. Considered my cluttered desk and decided it was time to take a critical look at what was crowding this valuable real estate. I gathered a stack of books I’ve always kept near at hand and, as I wiped the dust off of them, came to the realization that, while I look up the occasional tricky bit of grammar in my tiny, trusty Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, I literally haven’t used my dictionary or thesaurus in years.
I admit that I have been a longtime skeptical observer of the digital magazine format, although 6 or 7 years after its introduction the platform is getting some traction with readers and publishers. Generally designed as facsimiles of printed periodicals, the digi-mag always seemed to fill an unnecessary niche between old and new media, between physical magazines and websites. It has the interactivity and rich media potential of a digital product (hot links, embedded multimedia), but it retained the lush design sense of print. But was this a solution in search of a problem?
CASE STUDIES
Attenex provided SQ Global the opportunity to address efficiency, productivity, and quality control measures in just one product. SQ Global primarily used Attenex’s Document Mapper.
MWW Group turned to Socialtext to better manage projects, track news in real time, gather information updates, and ease communications for its own disparate workforce, as well with as clients around the world.
FACES OF ECONTENT
‘We want a one-stop shop for ordering.’
'Sometimes customer service is like walking a tightrope.'
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| CONFERENCE CALENDAR |
| 9th Annual Buying and Selling eContent Conference, Camelback Inn Scottsdale AZ. April 13 - 15, 2008 |
| Apr 13, 2008 - Apr 15, 2008 |
| Buying & Selling eContent has an established reputation as the industry meeting where you can build valuable relationships and explore potential partners and deals. The 2008 Advance Program will be available shortly. Remember to reserve the dates April 13-15th 2008. For Sponsorship Information Contact Walter McQuillan 609 654-6266 |
| Henry Stewart's Digital Asset Management, Workflow Automation and Marketing Operations Conference New York City's Marriott Marquis , May 12th & 13th 2008 |
| May 12, 2008 - May 13, 2008 |
| Digital Asset Management, Marketing Resource Management, and Best Practices in Marketing Operations. These strategies & technologies include Marketing Automation & Software, Digital Archives, Video & Publishing Workflows, and DAM integration with other software packages, such as Adobe Creative Suite. |
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