ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Discussing the process of the companies’ merger after four months, Kate Worlock, director of EPS/Outsell, Inc., said: "We’re working on the back end of the business, taking a look at sales and advertising functions, and we’ll be restructuring the organization’s product architecture, developing new products … we’ll keep the best and weed out the rest."
Barbara Brynko
Editor in Chief
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Barbara and I did a couple of joint meetings today. Lucky vendors: two editors for the price of one. Sitting with Jack Abuhoff, the company CEO, Barbara asked an insightful question: “What does the name mean?” It is, it turns out, hyphenate of two merged companies. More significantly, however, it mirrors the combination of the company’s parallel “processes.” Okay, this is one of those companies that everyone feels does good work but remains a bit of a mystery. Barbara and I did a bit of interrogation and it turns out that Isogen were content technology experts and Innodata were experts in project management. Abuhoff says that this seemingly disparate union yields the ability to help publishing companies of all kinds streamline content process. Wisely, the company has recognized that this is a difficult “solution” to pin down. Thus, it has opted to, and I quote, “product-ize” its offerings in to more comprehensible a la carte menu of vertical publishing solutions that will, according to Abuhoff, help publishers “develop a product quickly, at a lower cost, to delivery timely information.”
–Michelle Manafy, Editor of EContent & Barbara Brynko, Editor of Information Today
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Fascinating talk with Jean-Paul Chauve, VP of Nstein’s e-publishing division. I’m guessing his title will give it away, but the company is no longer seeking to provide indexing and categorization solutions to multiple industries. The company will focus on its core strength: the publishing industry. Nstein announced a partnership with Eurocortext, a European content management company with deep roots in publishing over here and the rumor is this will be more than a partnership. While Jean-Paul was mum on any details, he did allude to some interesting news coming later this week about an acquisition that will allow them to provide a unified end to end solution to the publishing industry that will leverage Nstein’s core competencies, as he said, “help publishers make the publishing process faster and leverage multiple business models—with content created by the publishers and their readers.”
–Michelle Manafy
Editor, EContent, Intranets, the Enterprise Search Sourcebook
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Fun seeing so many EContent 100 winners here at the show. Always interesting insights too. Clearly, digital delivery is Knovel’s thing, but Barbara Dixie, international sales manger, emphasizes that “there’s a clear place for digital and a clear place for print. Digital is suited to looking for a specific answer, for research”, gee, like using Kovel tools for research, perhaps?
–Michelle Manafy
Editor, EContent, Intranets, the Enterprise Search Sourcebook
Pictured: Barbara Dixie, Catherine Cable, and Dinesh Fernando of Knovel
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
Let’s get our brains in gear for the day with some trivia questions. See if you know the answers to these. (If you attended the first session today on social software, you already know the answers!)
1. How many blogs are there now at Microsoft?
2. How many at IBM?
3. How many people subscribe to the IBM employee wiki?
Watch for a posting about the value of social networking software later today by my colleague Jim Ashling, where he will give you the answers.
Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today
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ITI Bloggers November 29th, 2006
The many conference attendees staying at the Hilton Olympia were roused and evacuated by a shrieking fire alarm at 7:15 AM this morning. A good-spirited crowd gathered on the street in front of the building.
Martin White, outgoing Conference Chair, and his successor, Adrian Dale, were spotted enjoying the activity. (Were they planning another ineresting way to get everyone up and ready for the conference?)
Quite a start for day 2 of the conference!
Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today
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I ran into Johan van Halm, an information consultant based in The Netherlands, at a party hosted by Ovid tonight at a private club in Central London.
Johan told me he has also been to all 31 Online Information meetings.
Around 1976, he recalled investing 8000 guilder (a pretty good sum) to buy a Texas Instruments Silent 700 terminal, which put him online over phone lines at the then amazing speed of 300 baud (300 bits per second).
Thirty years ago the TI-S700 (not to be confused with a T-1 line) was the state of the art for online searching. Johan began his information consultancy about the time of the first online show, and clearly his initial investment turned out well, for here he is now.
Dick Kaser
ITI V.P., Content
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Thomson Scientific hosted customers tonight at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. The legs of the guest in the foreground belong to the museum’s signature cast of a Diplodocus dinosaur, which arches its elongated neck into the rafters of the museum’s cavernous entrance hall.
Dick Kaser
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Pictured left to right at the annual Free Pint party, hosted tonight by Will Hahn, were Pam Foster, Editor of Free Pint premium service VIP, Neil Infield, Editor of SLA Europe newsletter (in his day job, Neil is Senior Business Industry Specialist, The British Library), and Janice Lachance, CEO, SLA.
Dick Kaser
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I caught Pierre Buffet in the Questel*Orbit stand just as he was putting on his coat to leave the show and head home to Paris.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have another winner.
Buffet, Directeur Général Délégué, Questel, SA, has attended all 31 London Online shows, including this one.
He remembers giving a talk at the first Online Information meeting in 1976. The subject? The PASCAL database, one of the first bibliographic databases,now published by INIST. "It was my first baby," he said.
[Thanks to Pete Rusch for the tip. Pete also confirms that Harry Collier, pictured further down the blog is also a 31-year vet, as I suspected.]
Dick Kaser
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