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Posted 30 Jun 2009
Posted 30 Jun 2009
Posted 30 Jun 2009
Posted 30 Jun 2009
Posted 30 Jun 2009
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Posted 30 Jun 2009
NEWS FEATURES
Gone are those innocent days at the turn of the century when the worst accusations being leveled at peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks were that they facilitated the unauthorized swapping of Metallica songs among tech-savvy teenage boys. The interminable hullabaloo over Napster seemed like ancient history in early May when the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection convened a hearing to discuss the Informed P2P User Act (H.R. 1319), which was crafted in the wake of the discovery of documents on P2P networks that raise strong privacy and even national security concerns.
Just about everyone tweets, pokes, tags, or links in, and tech-savvy businesses are taking notice. Free social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have taken over internet browsers worldwide, connecting millions of users with just the click of a mouse, and smart organizations see the marketing opportunities these networks present. Some companies, though, don't stop at setting up a Facebook page, but instead create branded online networks inviting customers to evaluate products at a deeper level, and participate in a community associated specifically with their brand.
Several years ago, Swedish company Yooba Ltd. needed an easier way to manage the Flash content it used to build interactive online crossword puzzles. It didn't take them long to realize that the in-house Flash management solution they designed to fit into the company's existing content management systems wasn't just something Yooba needed—it was something that web companies struggling to manage online content in separate HTML and Flash systems needed to hear about, too.
If you've been in the market for a new web content management system lately, you may have found yourself overwhelmed by the plethora of choices. There seems to be a never ending list of companies who can satisfy your every need, and each one claims to do it better than the next. Sitecore hopes to set itself apart from the competition with its newest offering, released June 2, the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite.
Despite bad news piling up for businesses worldwide, only 7% of IT professionals are losing sleep at night, according to a recent survey conducted by U.K. service management company Sunrise Software, Inc. While some smaller projects might be getting the knife in IT departments, companies' calls to increase efficiency have given them the opportunity to lead the way toward working, as the mantra goes, "smarter, not harder," according to the survey.
FEATURED STORIES
Today, many business intelligence tools offer an array of event-driven and proactive features designed to provide information and to enable employees to take action. From Google to the Grateful Dead and from direct response fulfillment to sustainability management, interactive intelligence is helping a variety of organizations extend tightly stretched resources to create new avenues of efficiency and profitability.
Social networking for the enterprise is booming. The sector is unquestionably adding revenues for new providers, adding jobs at old companies, and adding profits throughout the industry. In a wave that seemed to begin in earnest just 18 months ago, enterprises now embrace these tools to achieve better (and less expensive) results across most major business functions despite fears over losing control of company secrets.
Businesses rejoice—the paper trail is dead. Before you get the party started, however, allow me to introduce its replacement: the digital compliance trail. The new digital trail may take up less space on employees' desks, but it is no less formidable. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) quarterly filings can weigh in at more than a thousand pages. Pharmaceutical companies monitor hundreds of laboratories and studies daily to ensure Food & Drug Administration compliance. Legal practices must make sure every document they produce meets strict, new digital requirements per the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Federally regulated websites need to be accessible to all Americans, regardless of age, location, or physical ability.
Social networking sites and online collaboration tools make it easier for employees to collaborate and share their knowledge. Add email and instant messaging (IM) to the mix and the result is a knowledge-sharing system that can bolster communication and productivity throughout an enterprise.
To succeed today, content sites must amass huge content collections, yet accomplish this with tighter budgets. At the same time, content consumers need to be enabled to find exactly what meets their needs. There are several strategies that can be employed to achieve web publishing's Holy Grail: the Triangle of Content Success.
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Technology providers who not only recognize the necessity and difficulty of the local and global content marketplace, but are there to help: From analytics to location awareness, content management to translation management, translation services to language specific search solutions, there are a range of solutions that will enable organizations to adapt to the needs of the new consumer.
Appropriate and effective content management solutions not only enable ease of use, effective interactive communication, and dynamic marketing experiences, they deliver what all organizations seek: measurable return on investment.
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Plustek Technology's BookReader transforms printed words into audio output, which can be saved in MP3 format for future access. With the press of a button (and some editing) the Plustek BookReader converts printed text into an audio file, which can then be read to you in a digitized voice.
GroupSwim is a reasonably priced software-as-a-service-based social media collaboration tool. It has enough features to please enterprise users in organizations of any size. It's easy to set up and simple to use with many of the features one would expect, as well as some interesting advanced features. Yet, markedly, it lacks a blogging tool.
COLUMNS
Generation gaps are influenced by many factors: Some are moral, religious, and sociopolitical, while others are little more than quibbles over style. (Though at 18, fashion can take on fairly grandiose connotations.) While some gaps can be measured in hair or skirt lengths, others are almost unquantifiable in scope: shaped by political transformation, war, economic collapse.
Our little Twitter is growing up. The time has come for us to come to terms with this fact, and take our Tweets to the next level. Mature Twitterers (those of us who have been around longer than Ashton Kutcher) are tired of the noise, and certainly don't want to be the ones creating it. So, we've taken matters into our own hands.
CASE STUDIES
Founded in 1979, Whitelaw Twining is a Vancouver, Canada-based boutique law corporation. The firm is highly specialized, with about 25 lawyers focused on litigating for customers in the insurance and construction industries. Because of the firm's highly specialized nature, it is fairly large, with about 15,000 open cases.
In 1885, when The Dallas Morning News first started covering the area in and around Dallas, it had a circulation of 5,000. Published by A.H. Belo, a Texas-based publisher, The Dallas Morning News now covers 65 communities in the Dallas area and has a circulation of more than half a million. Not to be left out of the internet loop, it created its web counterpart, www.dallasnews.com, which now logs more than a million views a day, and neighborsgo.com, a social networking site that focuses on community-generated news.
FACES OF ECONTENT
"Success is typically measured in small forward steps."
‘I get to meet the people with whom I frequently work virtually.'
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