Oxford University Press and HighWire Press Announce Agreement
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed an agreement for Stanford University's HighWire Press to host its entire journals collection, beginning January 2005. Through this partnership OUP and HighWire aim to develop a leading online...
Fashion Forward: Digital Opportunities and Disruption
I could spend hours looking at images of couture gowns, fashion shows, and the latest luxe shoes and handbags. Since an "It" bag can easily set you back $12,000, and there's a months-long waiting list, I'm unlikely to ever own one of these items. But the world of high...
Navigating the Mobile-First Global Content Market
The Preplanning StageMany factors need to be considered carefully and challenges overcome before embarking on a content globalization effort for your mobile app or site. For example, think about how the content you create for one market may get shared...
How to Know Where Your Leads are Coming From
Many companies have no idea where their leads come from or how sales are finalized. They also go through periods when leads are higher or lower than normal, but they don't know what's causing these peaks and troughs.If someone has discovered you and become interested...
AI, the IoT, and Content: Ethics and Opportunity
During a recent visit to my brother’s house, my sister-in-law pointed out their new Amazon Echo Dot. “It’s so cute,” she said, before showing me her primary use case: “Alexa, tell me a joke!” The sound of Jimmy Fallon’s voice...
GoXML.com Offers Data Transformation Solution
Xenos Group, Inc. has announced the launch of GoXML.com, a new Web site providing resources, tools, and tips designed to help developers quickly solve data integration challenges, accelerate data transformation projects, and streamline the conversion of transactional...
Hummingbird Launches Exceed onDemand 6; Releases Connectivity 2007
Hummingbird Ltd., a provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) and network connectivity solutions, has unveiled Exceed onDemand 6 with an X11 remote access application solution for Linux desktops. A provider of X Window technologies, Hummingbird has...
The Financial Times Acquires MandateWire
The Financial Times has acquired MandateWire, a London-based provider of information on European pension mandates. This acquisition further consolidates the FT’s global position with fund management groups, following the acquisition of Money-Media in 2008....
How Email Marketing Has Transformed Political Campaigns
Whether you're with Hillary Clinton's campaign or Donald Trump's, it's impossible to ignore the fact that the 2016 presidential race is a game-changer, in more ways than one. It's not just because of the historic nature of the candidates--it's about how these...
Create Once, Use Many: Content Management and Digital Publishing
Content Management—Solutions?Content management software vendors seem to disagree as to the effect an automated system will have on a company's bottom line. Some claim that within two to three years, the initial purchase price of a CMS is recovered by increased...
The Challenges of Multilingual Chatbots Are Worth the Reward
As technologies go, chatbots are not always popular among users. According to research from the online community Chatbots.org, 54% of users in the U.S. found chatbots to be either “not effective” or only “somewhat effective.” Respondents...
Seven Reasons Why Most Chatbots Launched in 2017 Are Dead on Arrival
Chatbots are hot right now. They’re rapidly changing from just a buzzword within the creative and marketing industries into a real emerging marketplace and new interface with the potential to radically alter the mobile landscape-—and the mobile moments...
3 Reasons Why Language Technology Should Be Your Globalization ‘Cobot’
Collaborative robots (aka cobots) are usually defined as physical robots interacting with human workers in complex product supply chains. But it’s not unreasonable to consider language technology solutions as cobots for globalization purposes. Their role has...
AI Needs Content Strategy More Than Ever
Last year, I was working with a telecommunications software company that wanted to integrate a chatbot into its solutions. Like many companies, it was looking to reduce support costs including calls and TWC (time with customer). The company researched a handful of...
Why Everyone Should Be a Content Creator
Everyone can write. Not everyone can write well, but we can all do it. Moreover, we're doing it all the time-in text messages, emails, Facebook updates, and Instagram hashtags. Even emojis (sort of) count as writing. From the standpoint of a professional journalist,...
GDPR for Content Design, Development, and Deployment
Building Trust, Step by StepIncreased trust should, over time, encourage customers to share more PI, as long as they see the demonstrated benefits of doing so. Walters says, “The key thing in building trust is delivering concrete benefits” when a user does...
3 Content Suggestion Tools that Can Help You Save Time and Effort
Marketing professionals know how important Twitter can be. But it's also bewildering just how hard it can be to manage a social media presence, even if the length of each post, technically, is only 140 characters. Twitter is a fast-moving platform and the only way to...
Assembling a Winning WCM Project Team
WCM projects are hard. Selecting the right technology, migrating content, software customizations, and business change are inherently complex activities. In addition, the interdisciplinary nature of web CMS projects requires strong teamwork and excellent...
The Importance of Storytelling, Big and Small
In the creation of content, storytelling is a valuable and necessary skill. For those who consume content, a good story makes consuming the content that much easier. It is often assumed that simply having good content or having a good idea will translate into good...
The Mercurial Consumer Behaviour of Millennials
Understanding the nature of customer behavior, and the factors that influence it, has never been an easy task for marketing managers. However, there is one specific group of consumers that is even more difficult to comprehend - millennials.If you were born between...
