BuzzLogic, a social media software company, has closed a $9.6 million Series A equity financing round led by Adams Capital Management, Ackerley Partners, and Transcosmos Investments & Business Development. BuzzLogic's first product is an on-demand enterprise software service designed to enable marketing and communications practitioners to identify key influencers within specific conversations taking place in social media such as blogs. Marketing and communications practitioners can use these insights to understand influence and who wields it, to manage their brands, reputations, products, and customer relationships.

(www.buzzlogic.com; www.acm.com; www.ackerleypartners.com; www.transcosmos.com) 

Workshare, an information security company and a provider of secure content compliance, has closed $23 million in Series B funding from California and New York-based Steelpoint Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and London-based Quester. This capital infusion positions Workshare to extend its reach worldwide by investing in acquisitions, new markets distribution, and new service delivery models. Steelpoint Capital Partners, a late-stage investor, led the round. Steelpoint managing director Roy Thiele-Sardiña will take a board seat at Workshare.

(www.workshare.com; www.steelpointcp.com; www.intelcapital.com; www.quester.co.uk)

PR Newswire, a provider of commercial news distribution, and Technorati, a source for citizen media, have announced that readers of press releases can track online conversations in the blogosphere directly from press releases on www.prnewswire.com.

All individual press releases distributed through PR Newswire will include a 'Technorati' button, linking readers to a search result page hosted by Technorati that will display a list of blogs discussing and linking to the news release, and relevant excerpts from those blogs. Once on the search result page, the reader can set up an automatic watch list on Technorati to notify them when any new blog posts are published. The Technorati link is available when viewing press releases from PR Newswire's public website. All PR Newswire releases will carry the Technorati link at no additional cost. Technorati is a free service, requiring registration by users.

Visitors to any press release on PR Newswire's public website can also access RSS feeds of press releases categorized by industry and subject, and post press releases to both del.icio.us and digg, two social networks.

(www.technorati.com; www.prnewswire.com; www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

EBSCO Publishing has announced that it will offer formal Continuing Medical Education credits (CMEs) through its DynaMed point-of-care reference database. The CMEs available through DynaMed are American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American Medical Association (AMA) prescribed credit for documented point-of-care learning activities. The new Get CME option in DynaMed provides a means for obtaining CME credits from applicable CME accreditors. Credits may be awarded by any Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) accredited CME provider. AAFP and AMA approve 0.5 prescribed credits for every point-of-care learning activity that utilizes an approved point-of-care CME source. DynaMed is currently approved as a source of point-of-care learning CMEs in the United States.

Additional enhancements have also been made to the DynaMed interface designed to improve the research experience of users at the point-of-care including the following: improved result screen navigation and usability allows for a larger viewing area for DynaMed articles and more rapid navigation to key DynaMed content; a new Print Preview functionality allows users to review the content of their selected articles prior to printing; new email functionality provides users with a preview of their selected text to be emailed prior to being sent; an expanded list view to increase accessibility of recently updated information; and DynaMed customers may elect to subscribe (at no additional cost) to the new DynaMed Weekly Update, a weekly email newsletter comprised of one to five articles of interest to clinicians.

(www.ebscohost.com)

BrainKeeper has released its Enterprise Wiki software. The BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki is designed to enable the creation of community, and provides features needed to manage corporate knowledge. The features within the Enterprise Wiki are specifically designed and developed to work within established business processes. Getting knowledge out of the system can be done in a variety of ways: a robust search engine, content tags, shortcuts, and dynamic hierarchies are designed to help users find information fast. For a Free Trial Account or an online demo, visit the BrainKeeper website.

(www.brainkeeper.com)

LinkedIn, a business network, has launched LinkedIn Answers, an answers service that leverages the user's professional network to receive business-related advice. LinkedIn Answers was designed to allow members to ask their business-related questions, and receive answers from their personal networks and the hundreds of thousands of experts in the LinkedIn network as a whole. The service gives the site's nine million users a way to get industry specific answers to business questions and to build upon their professional reputation by responding to questions relevant to their expertise.

Questions and answers are tied to professional profiles and the relationships between askers and experts. Questions can be targeted to specific members of one's network, as well as opening it up to the entire LinkedIn network of more than nine million professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries. The service is free and currently allows users to ask ten questions a month.

Experts receive expertise credentials for every best answer they provide--this becomes part of their LinkedIn profile, informing other users that they are a proven expert on that topic. For those consistently able to provide expert answers, LinkedIn will promote their expertise to other users, providing an opportunity for consultants, contractors, and other service providers to build social capital and market their services to professionals whose questions they answer.

(www.linkedin.com)

Blackwell Publishing, a society publisher, has announced its newly re-designed online delivery platform, Blackwell Synergy. Blackwell Synergy enables its users to search 1 million articles from over 850 scholarly journals across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and medicine. The redesign is intended to provide easier navigation, faster loading times, and improved access to tools for researchers, as well as meeting the latest accessibility standards (ADA section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA). The new Blackwell Synergy website retains all the benefits that researchers, librarians, and authors value and uses the same URL structure. In addition to a new look and feel, features have been repositioned to highlight options more clearly to users and enable them to make best use of the suite of tools available such as most read and most cited articles, citation alerts, download to reference manager software, and the ability to email the article to a friend. Full-text online access to the journals on Blackwell Synergy is available at thousands of institutions worldwide.

Key site features for researchers include: clear search and browse functions and ability to search within other databases; abstracts and sample issues free to all users; many articles are also free after a certain time or as open access through the OnlineOpen initiative; articles available in PDF and full-text HTML--HTML articles include embedded references, figures, and tables; OnlineEarly and OnlineAccepted articles available online before issue publication; quick links to the most-downloaded and most-cited articles by journal reference links and citing article links allow users to follow the research export citations of articles directly into reference management software; the ability to receive e-alerts for tables of contents, topic and author research alerts, citation alerts, and OnlineEarly and OnlineAccepted alerts; all e-alerts available as email or RSS newsfeeds; personalization features including favorite journals and articles, your e-alert settings, and more are displayed on your My Synergy page; and a link to the journal home page to submit an article or find out more.

Key features for librarians include the ability to upload a library logo to display on every page, downloadable COUNTER-compliant usage data, IP and Athens access, OpenURL linking, MARC21 records, and Z39.50 compliancy. Access to Blackwell Synergy is available at the website.

(www.blackwell-synergy.com; www.blackwellpublishing.com; www.atypon.com)  

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation and provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has announced that ISI Web of Knowledge users have a new personalization option-EndNote Web. EndNote Web provides users with online storage for their references, and the ability to instantly format bibliographies in their word processor. Integration with ISI Web of Knowledge, a search and analysis platform for scholarly information, is designed to enable researchers to work faster by organizing their personal reference collections and storing references between search sessions. EndNote X.0.2 transfers references between EndNote Web and desktop libraries, creating a collaborative environment where researchers can share knowledge and publish results.

The EndNote Web bibliographic solution supports users with varying degrees of sophistication-from undergraduates with a course-by-course bibliographic challenge, to advanced researchers collaborating in preparation to publish in scholarly journals. Academic and government institutions that subscribe to ISI Web of Knowledge, or have an EndNote desktop sitewide license, receive access to EndNote Web automatically. With EndNote Web, users can: search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed and hundreds of library catalogs directly; import references from hundreds of online bibliographic databases; store up to 10,000 records; use over 2,300 publishing styles to format in-text citations and bibliographies; link to Times cited, Related Records, and the full ISI Web of Knowledge record for access to information on a reference article; and collaborate with colleagues and peers by sharing their EndNote Web folders with other users.

With the appropriate plug-in, users can take advantage of the Cite While You Write technology that enables them to locate citations and format bibliographies instantly in Microsoft Word. Users can cite references from both EndNote and EndNote Web in a single document. A web browser plug-in for Internet Explorer and Mozilla is designed to enable users to access their EndNote Web library and create a new reference when exploring the web. EndNote Web is available as an annual sitewide subscription that includes upgrades at no additional charge. Subscriptions are available through Thomson ResearchSoft, Thomson Scientific, and partners worldwide.

(www.isiwebofknowledge.com; www.endnoteweb.com; www.scientific.thomson.com)

JuryTest.net, a provider of online mock trials since 2002, has launched on-demand access to its suite of online case presentation and evaluation tools. The JuryTest system is designed to enable attorneys to record, edit, and analyze case presentations any time of day or night. JuryTest case evaluations usually cost $1,000 - $3,000, depending primarily on case-length and number of jurors. After a lawyer records a case argument using the JuryTest recording line (1.888.JURYTEST), the recording pops up in the lawyer's casefolder on the JuryTest website, where the lawyer can add documents, photographs, or witness video and select questions for jurors to address.

(www.jurytest.net)

CMS Watch has announced its "Predictions for 2007" call for technology buyers to seek simpler solutions to complex content problems. Some of these analyst predictions include: Google de-googles its appliance--The Google Appliance will continue to disrupt the enterprise search market, but its ever-expanding feature set will inevitably make the appliance harder to administer; Rediscovery of workflow--Those considering compliance, document, email, or content management solutions to resolve the issue of lost and irrelevant information are coming quickly to the conclusion that complex processes need to be defined and enforced before new technologies are adopted; Falling seat prices-- Lower-priced options will create a buyers' market for content and document technologies; AJAX UI backlash--Many software vendors are working on revamped, AJAX-based interfaces to simplify the user experience, but early results suggest that many of these slick interfaces are less than functional and reliable; and portal platforms diversifying--As portal technology becomes increasingly strategic and widespread, more vendors will offer multiple different portal platforms to fit enterprise requirements, rather than "one ring to rule them all" uber-products.

(www.cmswatch.com)

SDL International, a provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, has announced that Siemens Automation & Drives (A&D), an electrical engineering and electronics company, has endorsed the SDL TRADOS Certification Program as part of its implementation strategy. The SDL TRADOS Certification Program is a technology based certification and provides corporations with a standard when looking to utilize the services of freelancers and Language Service Providers within the translation supply chain.

All the localization engineering teams across Siemens Automation & Drives will be undergoing SDL TRADOS Certification. Siemens is aiming to have all its localization engineers go through the initial stage of certification before the end Q1 2007. Starting in March 2007, certification training will be undertaken with the aim of having all localization teams certified by the end of the German fiscal year, September 2007.

(www.sdl.com/certified; www.sdl.com)

Vivisimo, a provider of enterprise search software, has announced its selection by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to enhance searching on www.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM, a biomedical library, will leverage Vivisimo's enhanced search functionality to provide access to information on linked web pages. Vivisimo will also enable search functionality for the NLM's consumer health websites, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and MedlinePlus en español (http://medlineplus.gov/spanish), aggregators of medical and health information from government agencies and other authoritative organizations. Visitors of the sites will be able to search for health topics such as 'arthritis' or 'back pain,' and access the data from the respective site's pages. Furthermore, users can hone in on specific questions like "what causes Chickenpox?" or "what are the symptoms of Lupus?" and receive answers.

(www.vivisimo.com; http://medlineplus.gov)  

Readex, a publisher of online historical collections, has announced that it will begin adding a new series of fully searchable newspapers to its ongoing America's Historical Newspapers archive in May 2007. Complementing three previously launched series, the two new collections Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922 and Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922 will expand the coverage of America's Historical Newspapers by adding more than 200 new titles, including newspapers of historical importance, regional weeklies, and big-city dailies.

Together, these two new series feature U.S. titles of great historical significance, including The Liberator, Albany Evening Journal, Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, Gaceta de Texas, Hokubei Jiji, Nevada Territorial Enterprise, New Orleans Daily Creole, North Star, Siwinowe Kesibwi and more.

In addition, both new series offer regional weeklies and dailies from across the nation to highlight important themes and eras in American history, including the New York Herald, Boston Press and Post, Chicago Inter Ocean, Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Connecticut Herald, Hawaiian Gazette, Idaho Recorder, Milwaukee Journal of Commerce, Mississippi Free Trader, Nebraska Press, New York Spectator, Oregon Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, South Carolina Gazette and many others. Future series will expand the coverage of America's Historical Newspapers beyond 1922 to provide coverage from 1690 to 1980.

(www.readex.com)