1158188400Content Wireadminadvertisements,advertisers,Advertising,broadband,broadband service,Companies,consumers,content creators,contracts,creators,customer service,environments,home networking,Internet,internet,launch,Media,mobile content,networking,relationships,senior analyst,tagging,web pages,wireless technologiesBT does user-generated contentBT has partnered with the creators of the US PodShow Network to launch BT PodShow, a British version of the broadband Internet site that enables creative individuals, media production companies and record labels to distribute their content direct to consumers. Annelise Berendt, Senior Analyst and Service Manager says that 'This is an interesting and strong move for BT': "By partnering with the creators of a successful venture in the US, BT is getting know-how and expertise in the user-generated content (UGC) arena, and most importantly expertise that knows how to monetise UGC through solid advertising relationships. PodShow in the US is funded by big brand advertisers more akin to the TV broadcast network model, rather than the click-through approach of the Internet. This model will be replicated in the UK, although BT says that subscription may become a possibility further down the line. For PodShow's founders looking to enter the UK market, BT provides a ready-made broadband customer base, a reliable network and over the longer term, potentially a way into the networked home. PodShow will become part of BT Vision's IPTV offering, due to launch later this year, and will be offered to BT broadband users, as well as being available to all UK Internet users via a URL. It will also be available on mobile. BT also represents a trusted name on which to draw in the big brand advertising community. But whether the BT brand is such a good idea in terms of drawing in the punters remains to be seen. Tagging a corporate giant's name onto a UGC service may reduce its appeal to the generation of consumers-turned-content-producers that has built the social networking giants including MySpace, YouTube and Bebo. BT will never be a 'cool' brand, and BT PodShow is right not to attempt to replicate these sites. BT says that the venture is a hybrid between social networking and a media network; essentially it is using the social networking element to support the aggregation of quality content. But getting the message across to consumers as to exactly what this service offers them may prove more difficult than expected" www.ovum.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/bt-does-user-generated-content1153436400Content Wireadminadvertisements,architecture,collaboration,enterprise content,intelligence,Italy,journalism,Journalism,records management,relationship,relationships,signs,vice presidentItalian Intelligence and CIA troubled relationshipItalian President of the Republic Mr Francesco Cossiga has made a <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/sezioni/cronaca/sismi-mancini-3/pollari"> statement today</a> suggesting that Nicola Pollari, Head of military intelligence service 'Sismi', resigns, following new evidence against him that he was directly responsible for the kidnapping of Egyptian citizen and former Milan imam, Abu Omar, in collaboration with CIA agents "After resigning he will no longer be bound by professional confidentiality, and will be free to go to the magistrates and surrender all information and paperwork regarding this case and the relationships between Italy and the CIA" said Cossiga, according to a press report on Italian daily La Repubblica. According to the <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/sezioni/cronaca/sismi-mancini-3/pollari-ordina-rapimento/pollari-ordina-rapimento.html">newspaper</a>, Pollari personally agreed the kidnapping with the head of former head of CIA in Italy, Jeff Castelli. Italian magistrates yesterday <a href="http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200607201934-1236-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia"> requested the extradition</a> to the justice ministry of 26 American CIA agents charged with absconding and with the kidnapping of former Milan imam, Abu Omar. PDM is an Italian journalist abroad. Sponsor Italian Independent Journalism! <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/italian-intelligence-and-cia-troubled-relationship1007596800Content Wireadminaccess digital,advertisements,authoring tool,CMS,computer,constraints,content analysis,content authors,content creation,content management,Content Management,content management capabilities,content management platform,content management system,content management tools,content technology,core team,creative professionals,data access,data management,Data Management,data sources,editors,email,functionality,implementation costs,Information Management,information technology,lasers,launch,logic,management capabilities,management environment,management functionality,management platform,management product,management technology,management tools,match,Media,metadata,metadata,new data,new product,new technology,one of the few,People,proprietary,proprietary technology,relationships,short term goal,single source,source of information,specifically,submission,syndicate,Technology,technology deal,technology platform,time it takes,user interface,Web CMS,web content,web content management,web content management system,word processing,workflow,World,XML,XML content managementContent Management: Power To The PeopleThe effectiveness of a workflow layer depends on how clearly roles are defined.It all starts from identifying the authors, writes Bob Boiko, from his forthcoming book 6 December 2001 In the past, the word author was applied only to a small group of professionals. Today, in the world of electronic information, anyone is an author. Whether authoring a new picture in a digital camera, recording an interview, or writing an introduction to an article, a creative act drives fingers to click, sketch, or type. No computer can tell whether what is created is good. Goodness is entirely a judgment call and completely depends on the context within which the content is created. Who is the author? The term author applies to anyone who creates content, regardless of what official job titles individuals hold. Few organizations can afford the luxury of all their authors being professionals. Instead, authors often are people with other jobs who happen to know about something and can somehow communicate it. Authors are also those who create original functionality for a CMS, say technical authors, as well as people who create original information. Harvesting the creative product The goal of any CMS is to harvest the creative product of as wide an author base as feasible and deliver it to as wide an audience base as feasible. The more organized the system is, the wider is the feasible base. Contributions arrive in any form, written for any audience, and editors end up with a lot of work on their hands sorting it all out. In the end, editors don’t get the definitive content on the subject; they just get whatever anyone takes the time to send. If, on the other hand, content editors are organized, they start by figuring out what they want and who creates it. Understanding how information is created and modified helps. Requesting clearly specified details of the information required via email , asking for specific contributions and offering specific methods of creation and collection could end up yielding ‘definitive information’ , a form of optimized content Much more important, a process is triggered that can continue to yield the most, best content over time. Authoring isn’t a one-time event. People continue to create original content, and editors must prepare yourself to continue to harvest it. A CMS can add a level of organization to your approach to authors that you can never match through more casual measures. This is a good thing. To meet the demands of the wide and diverse author community in most large organizations, you need all the help that you can get. Authoring tools Digital information-processing tools present the most difficult problem of authoring in a CMS. In short, each tool is its own world. Each has its own file format, user interface, and capabilities. In addition, people gather around their favorite tools as if they were sacred objects. Overall, this tendency leads to a balkanization of authoring camps that can cause a lot of additional trouble and expense. A picture is a picture and so any image-authoring tool should do, one may think. Different graphic artists, however, may disagree In addition to the huge contention surrounding the best computer for graphics (with the Macintosh the consistent choice of the artists), another big debate centers about the best image-editing tool. The depth of sentiment is such that trying to find the "best" tool or platform is a losing proposition. Rather, it could be worth take on the extra expense of using multiple tools and trouble for the sake of good will or use economic justifications to judge which tool is the right one for an organization. Author's Attitudes Changing the way authors produce content for their traditional purposes might be a difficult task, yet content produced hosted and distributed via a CMS must be reusable. Given a wide and diverse set of authors and tools, editors need to organize them into groups to most effectively interact with them. The most natural way to organize authors is by what they create. From the standpoint of the CMS, however, the following factors are just as important as content type in organizing an approach to authors: <li>Authoring tools: Different kinds of authors want to (and need to) use different primary authoring tools. Some need only a set of Web forms that you supply; others need to work within a particular word processing environment. Some may use structured XML editors while others may use proprietary media tools that are completely outside the bounds of the CMS. <li> Metadata: Different kinds of authors can deal with more or less metadata entry. Some don't even fill in their name in the correct format, while you can expect others to know as much about the metadata of the system as any <a href="http://www.content-wire.com/Glossary/Index.cfm?cl=21&cls=12&Preview=1">metator</a> <li> Incentives: Different kinds of authors require different levels of incentives to keep them in scope and on schedule. Some need no more than their job descriptions to keep producing, while others need a boost after each submission to stay motivated and on top of their tasks. Other factors that most influence a relationships with different authors: <li> Degree of Technical understanding: how much they know and understand technology. <li> Influence: how close they are to the core CMS team. Analyzing Authors An author analysis for logical design can be more complete if authors and content sources are both taken into account Initial brainstorming with the teams involved may help identify the types of content to be managed, as content may differ in format, data type, purpose and scope. Then, charting out and profiling different kinds of authors will help to craft the best approach. Finally, all the required content classes must be clearly identified to make the best use of all authors. Useful information includes: <li> Content types: Enter the name of the kind of content you’re working on. If you have one, enter the ID of the class as well. <li> Quantity: Enter the approximate number of components in the class that you need at the time that you launch your CMS and how many you need on a periodic bases thereafter (for example, three per week, nine per day, one per year, and so on) <li> Source: Who in the entire world creates content of this sort? Go wide here trying to find all the authors of this sort of content. For each source, add a new row to the table. Enter the name of a person, a group within your organization, or an outside organization. <li> Author: Can this source author content specifically for your CMS effort? A yes or no answer with any additional comments is sufficient. <li> Acquire: Can this source syndicate content to you or at least give you access to raw content? Or can you get this same content from an independent syndicator of content? A yes or no answer with any additional comments is sufficient. <li> Cite: Is citing this source and linking to her content an option? A yes or no answer with any additional comments is sufficient. For each potential author, determine the following design constraints: <li> ID: Assign each author or group of authors a unique identifier for later reference. <li> Name: Enter either the name of a person or of a group. <li> People: This entry is the same as that for the name if the author is a single person. If it’s a group, try to find out the names of the individuals within the group who actually creates the content. Much of the coming design depends on knowing about particulahttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-power-people995842800Content Wireadminacquired,advertisements,assets,assets management,content management,Content Management,content management services,content management software,content management solutions,content management system,content technology,financial management,financial services,intranet,leading technology,management market,management product,management solutions,management technology,marketing,product line,real estate,stock,strategic technology,Technology,technology provider,technology solutions,vertical markets,web content,web content management,web content management systemContent Management Acquires Vertical Knowhow Strategic move expands IntraNet Solutions' reach in vertical markets 23 July 2001, 4 pm GMT IntraNet Solutions, a provider of Web content management solutions, has acquired select assets of RESoft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stonehaven Realty Trust and a leading provider of end-to-end content management solutions for the real estate and legal industries, for 200,000 shares of IntraNet Solutions common stock valued at approximately $5.5 million. IntraNet Solutions will integrate RESoft's SmartCabinet content management product, which is built on IntraNet Solutions' Xpedio Content Management system and designed for vertical markets such as real estate and legal, into its own product line. This move will strengthen IntraNet Solutions' position in these verticals and also enable the company to utilize SmartCabinet's specialized functionalities for other key vertical markets, such as financial services and insurance. Since October 2000, RESoft has used the Xpedio Content Management system as the foundation of its content management software. The first integrated product with RESoft technology is scheduled for the third quarter ending December 31, 2001 of its fiscal year 2002. www.intranetsolutions.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-acquires-vertical-knowhow