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Newstex President Larry Schwartz participated on a panel discussion on November 17 in NYC as part of the SIIA’s terrific Brown Bag Lunch series. These events are a way for information industry executives to gather to hear a topic of interest in an informal atmosphere.
A very interesting take from John Blossom at Shore Communications on blogs in a corporate environment. Shore is a leading research and advisory service focusing on organizations that create, market, purchase, deploy and use professionally-oriented content and the technologies that enable its value in individual and collaborative environments.
As we've known in the news business for decades tagging news content makes it more valuable. Adding things like category codes, PeopleTickering, company stock tickers and other forms of tagging is extremely valuable for helping people find what they need.
We read a terrific analysis by John Blossom of Shore Communications called Vanishing Frontier: Online Premium Content Pioneers Adapt to a Crowded Neighborhood.
The management team at Newstex has been sharing around this terrific, wide ranging article from the MIT Technology Review.
Several Newstex executives will be attending the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference.
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced today that our own Larry Schwartz has been elected to the Content Division's Board of Directors.
Larry Schwartz, Newstex President, will be speaking on a panel called Who's Paying Who and How? at the SIIA Content Forum. This year's Forum will be held in Los Angeles May 24 and 25.
Everyone here at Newstex is thrilled to launch "ContentOn Demand" our new offering for content distributors and enterprise customers.
We will be attending the Buying & Selling EContent 2005 conference which will be held at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale Arizona next week - April 10-12.
Recently there's been a boatload of articles, reports, and posts about journalism and journalists. Many of these stories predict various "deaths" (the death of the newspaper is a common theme).
Not too long ago, the only way for corporations to influence news was for their PR people to issue a press release (intended for reporters only) or hit the phones to talk up friendly journalists.
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