For all the talk about the value of accurate data, few of us are making the effort to calculate the true and total cost of keeping data up-to-date and making it ever richer. Real-time updates, data overlays, metadata appends and other improvements cost time and money. How can we be
The first SIIA INFO Local Meetup took place at Scholz Garten on April 30, 2014. A crowd from diverse information-interested companies came together for an evening of networking and discussing data, social, content, and content marketing. Attendees included representatives from The Daily Dot, Vital Interaction, Leadspace, Planview, Builder Homesite, Do512,
As social media continues its inevitable march toward connecting all forms of sentient life, the issue of whether there is a “bright line” between business and personal information that salespeople cannot cross is coming to the fore. In other words, just because you can now know a lot of personal
The recent Data Council Conference in Austin hosted a dedicated audience focused on managing the technical demands of running massive data-driven services. Attendees came from behemoths like Airbnb, eBay, and Wayfair, as well as representatives from startups that support, accelerate, and anticipate the growth of these massive firms. In the
As information services have evolved they have continually added data feeds to service their customers. Data feeds can be new product announcements, pricing alerts, executive shuffles, or any other sort of timely data with influence on industries and markets. The creation of these data feeds involves different tasks than the
The news that Dun & Bradstreet has acquired Avention brings to a close one of the more interesting chapters in the annals of company information services. The firm came into being as OneSource, a CD-ROM company data aggregator that took the Internet plunge early and had more recently morphed into
There is often a tendency for the folks who build and run information services to adopt a “set it and forget it” approach. These services are tough to build and once they are up and running it’s easy to sit back and focus on renewal marketing. This is a mistake.
The 2014 Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) Annual Conference took place last week in Washington, DC. Once again, it highlighted formidable innovation in this vibrant part of the publishing industry. Among the many things that impressed me this year were: A beautifully realized new information service based on public mortgage
Getting the right workers is critically important for most managed crowdsourcing projects. Success depends on a pool of workers who understand and can do the tasks involved. So, while it’s certainly possible to open a project up to the entire crowd and then start blocking poor performers along the way,
In the 1990s, large manufacturers spent millions on software to streamline their supply chains, and they continue to invest in refining processes to make those supply chains as efficient as possible. For those companies whose business is the manufacturing and sale of information, the redesign of “data supply chains” came
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