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Engaging the Digital Customer
Digital media technology firm Komli Media has launched a new company focusing on mobile app re-engagement for marketers. The Economic Times brought this news to our attention in their article, “Digital media technology firm Komli Media launches new company.” The new company, RevX, has built a core set of performance advertising technologies in the programmatic and mobile…
Read MoreUsing Taxonomies to Organize Associations
as·so·ci·a·tion (ə-sō′sē-ā′shən) We use taxonomies and ontologies to organize document collections. But controlled vocabularies (of a sort) are also used to organize the aisles in a grocery or hardware store, clothes in the closet, and your kitchen. In the last two cases, the subject matter expert (SME) is definitely you! If you are more comfortable…
Read MoreExpress Yourself
Express yourself may have been Madonna’s instructions but it also comes from our parents, grandparents, and especially our teachers. Middle school teachers, apparently, are holding funerals for “boring words”—necessary standards like “said,” “go,” “walk,” “see,” “run”—and eulogizing them with more “sophisticated” words. Splice Today brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tarting Up the Language.”…
Read MoreRecords Management Update
The annual Records Management Self-Assessment from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was recently released. The assessment evaluates whether or not the United States federal agencies are performing their records management duties and responsibilities adequately. Fierce Content Management brought this interesting information to us in their article, “NARA releases surprisingly candid federal agency self-assessment.” 98…
Read MoreMaking Content Findable
Elsevier recently introduced its Chemical Resistance Database: Plastics and Elastomers. It characterizes the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment, and other exposure media. This database enables organizations to search for materials and substances properties data that includes information about both commercially available and “retired” plastics. The data is carefully curated from various sources, including commercial…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Future
Artificial intelligence programs have not went by the wayside. As a matter of fact they are developing more programs that can mimic, adapt and interpret the complex semantic patterns that were previously unrecognizable to logical, mathematically driven machines. In other words, we’re just getting started folks. DATAVERSITY brought this to our attention in their article, “How…
Read MoreTalk About the Weather
The weather professionals have been puffed up and posturing with graphs, maps and all their Doppler mechanisms for several weeks now trying to predict what the winter of 2015-16 will be like. Will there be blizzards like we’ve never seen? Will there be ice storms that shut down cities, airports and interstates? Or will it…
Read MoreWorking Together Creates New Resources
The Global Academic Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) has entered into an agreement with Silverchair Information Systems to migrate its extensive portfolio of journals and many of its online products to a new publishing platform powered by Silverchair’s SCM technology. PRWeb brought this news to us in the release, “Oxford University Press Announces Agreement with…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Divests NICEM Information Assets
Access Innovations is proud to announce the sale of its publishing arm, the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) to Graham Carter-Dimmock. Graham’s expertise and experience includes audio and video production, localization and marketing, database design and electronic publishing. He has been involved in NICEM project development on several occasions over the years. NICEM…
Read MoreSharePoint Fest Coming Soon
At SharePoint Fest – Chicago, you will be able to attend technical classes and workshops that are all taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers and Microsoft MVPs. The topics will cover Enterprise Content Management, Power Users, Social SharePoint, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Office 365, Workflow, Business Intelligence, Special Topics & SharePoint Development. There are sessions created for…
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