Digital Media News & Articles

Many have made predictions about what’s to come in 2012 on just about every topic. One in particular, about the future of the Internet, caught our attention.

In a struggle to maintain leadership, Adobe announced the restructuring of its business to focus on Digital Marketing and Digital Media. The move cuts hundreds of full-time positions in order to better allocate resources to these areas. 

Rich media is becoming an integral component of everything we do. It's used in sales presentations, conference presentations, websites, web conferences, training and more. That these assets are used everywhere is great, but it also causes issues related to searching, aggregation and just plain trying to find the information we need that may be located within it. Altus365 has the platform to help.

NewsGator (news, site) introduced version 2 of its enterprise collaboration platform Social Sites 2010 last week, but it wasn't done with the enhancements. If you are looking for enterprise level video that includes social capabilities, then the Video Stream Solution package may be just the ticket.

Moxie Software (news, site) is a relative newcomer to the social business software market compared to many other similar platforms. With its latest update today, it continues its focus on rich functionality designed for the way people work. Let's have a look.

Among the trends predicted for business to business marketing in 2011, a focus on intelligence and transparency tops the list. This week, a few companies that provide technologies aimed at driving marketing performance for B2B have unveiled some useful tools that live up to the forecasted trends.

Today, at Open Text Content World, Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer,  addressed the crowd talking about the future and vision of Enterprise CMS. Before we begin to look ahead, Jenkins told us where we’ve been.

What Influences "empowered employees", why is experimentation of new trends and technology so important? We asked a couple of the keynote speakers at Forrester's Content and Collaboration Forum last week and here's what we were told.

Quark (site, news) has been very busy this week, all in the name of digital publishing. At Untethered 2010, a digital media conference in New York that this year focused on Profitable Media in the Tablet Era, Quark announced a few initiatives aimed at making digital publishing more efficient for content creators and publishers across all platforms.
 

This week in web publishing: the New York Times takes its pulse, energy management systems aim to rival the iPad and newspapers show results when they engage digital communities via innovative tools.

A few weeks ago Ben Elowitz, co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social websites, addressed the issue of quality in published content in two parts. First he went through the checklist of what traditionally made content great: credential, correctness, objectivity and craftsmanship and dismantled each one of them.

Magazines dominate this week in web publishing. From print preferences, 48 hour creations and self-publishing, there's never a dull moment.

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal, which combines educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features, all aimed at helping teachers, librarians and students.

Perhaps it was in celebration of National Library Week that the Library of Congress, the mother of all libraries announced that they’d be archiving all the tweets tweeted since Twitter’s creation in 2006.

As many American newspapers and news agencies close down news desks scattered strategically around the world, citizen journalism is filling the gap. By offering local journalists and concerned citizens a platform from which to offer their perspectives on local and global events, coverage of world news is showing signs of life again.