ThomasTech will now be able to offer DocNet s content delivery platform for both digital and hardcopy documents. Factiva, a joint venture of Dow Jones and Reuters, has launched a portal for the providers of Factiva s business news and information. The Content Community portal provides publishers with tools, news, and industry updates regarding electronic delivery of information. For example, a recent story on the site covers XML and how sites can adopt it for easier content delivery. The portal is available to all publishers who provide content to Factiva, including 8,000 sources from 75 countries.
Many newspapers provide content to the service.
Later this year, Factiva plans to add a password-protected area to the Content Community so members can track the content quality and delivery statistics of their articles, as well as their royalty and usage information. According to Palmer, ongoing maintenance of portals presents organizations with an unexpected, underappreciated, and unnecessarily high cost associated with portal ownership. He believes the increasing cost of portal maintenance will be one of the most significant issues facing organizations in the near future. In this forward-looking webinar, Palmer will illustrate the benefits of taking a Lifecycle Management approach to portal ownership. In addition to maintaining full-time jobs, Internet developers today must stay abreast of the latest Internet technologies in order to advance their skills and job prospects.