Business Technology

Speaker: Matt Jacobson: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Matt leads the conception, filtering and execution of Connotate’s services efforts for all clients and prospects. With over twenty years of high tech industry experience, and executive roles in two, Fast 500 companies, Matt has a wealth of knowledge regarding the technology and business life cycles. His experience includes leading software product businesses, consulting businesses, R&D; organizations, customer support and instituting project management best practices. Prior to starting his career at AT&T; Bell Laboratories, Matt received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors from the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Speaker: Chris Brogan: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at chrisbrogan.com (link: https://chrisbrogan.com) a blog in the top 20 of the Advertising Age Power150 (link: https://adage.com/power150,) and in the top 100 on Technorati (link: https://technorati.com/blogs/www.chrisbrogan.com.)

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Speaker: Bill Kasdorf: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Bill Kasdorf is General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a major print and online reference work published by Columbia University Press, and Vice President of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of business services, data conversion, editorial, production, and support services to publishers and other organizations worldwide. With his colleagues at Apex and strategic partners, Bill provides comprehensive workflow and business process consulting that enables his clients to transform their content and processes through the use of best-of-breed technologies, services, and practices, resulting in faster throughput, better staff utilization, lower costs, and richer, more dynamic content. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Bill has led seminars and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), the International...

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Speaker: Kelly Gallagher: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...

Kelly Gallagher serves as the Vice President of Publishing Services at RR Bowker. In this role he manages the implementation of a host of Bowker business intelligence and supply chain products including exclusive sales data reporting tools and EDI ordering for the Canadian, Higher Education, and US Christian markets. This business unit also manages a consumer research panel surveying over 36,000 consumers on media behaviors and purchase trends. Prior to joining Bowker, Mr. Gallagher served as the Vice President of Business Development at the Christian Publishers Association for six years. In this role he managed the development and implementation of industry initiatives including research, technology, and supply chain management. Kelly also serves the book publishing industry as the Research Chair for the Book Industry Study Group. Prior to joining the association, Mr. Gallagher worked for 10 years at Beacon Hill Press serving four years as Publisher. He and his wife and two...

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Speaker: Michael Halbherr: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly ...

Michael Halbherr is Vice President, Social Location in the Services business unit in Nokia. In this role, Michael is responsible for heading the Social Location business including maps and other location based services. Before joining Nokia in 2006, Michael worked for the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the Internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments, including gate5. After that Michael headed gate5 AG, the former leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services, for five years. Since the acquisition of gate5 through Nokia, Michael has been heading the location based experiences in Nokia.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

The Future of Digital Textbooks: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...

By John Warren, Eric Frank, Frank Lyman, Nicholas Smith, Neeru Khosla

Technology is driving change in education as it is in publishing. This session examines the emerging future of digital textbooks in K-12 and higher education, including innovative texts that include multimedia, simulation models, and automated assessments, as well as business models such as open access, subscriptions, bundling, that will allow publishers to survive and thrive in the future.

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Speaker: Jonathan Clark: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Jonathan Clark has been with Elsevier since 1990. He held a number of different positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy, before becoming Publishing Director for the Maths and Computer Science department in 1998. He joined ScienceDirect in 2000 as one of the Directors before spending 6 months in San Diego managing the integration of Academic Press into Elsevier following the acquisition of Harcourt. Since then Jonathan has held various technology-related positions, including 3 years in Philadelphia working for Elsevier Health Sciences. Jonathan returned from the US in 2007 and currently he is responsible for building an e-business in Europe for the medical and healthcare market. Jonathan is Chair and Director of the International DOI Foundation and a member of the STM’s Future Lab Committee.

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Business Solutions Microsoft Press Books - O'Reilly Media

Resources focused on Microsoft business solutions - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Microsoft� System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and knowledge management technologies.

[Publish Date: November 30, 2009]

Agile's Next Challenge: Selling it to the Business - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Timothy M. O'Brien

Agile's next challenge is selling executives on the idea of rapid iterative development without rigorous up-front planning. As Agile becomes a default mode of the development for most technology departments, it will need to be properly positioned in the Board room. How will Agile's evolution affect the way that the business views technology as a "profession".

[Publish Date: September 23, 2009]

A Social Software Adoption Program Accelerates the Business Value of Web ...

By Jeanne Murray

The benefits of Web 2.0 are well documented. Less clear is how to drive adoption once an organization has decided to employ collaborative business practices. Social software adoption is not merely a technology deployment that can be mandated; rather, a social software adoption program must incorporate business validation, include motivation for change, and accommodate existing norms among teams.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]