| 英国assignment指导,The Future of Electronic Publishing and the role of Communities Oxford BrookesOctober 2005
 Kate Worlock
 Director
 [email protected]
 +44 (20) 7837 3345www.epsltd.com
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 The network: impact and
 opportunities
 Impact Opportunity
 New business modelsfrom traditional players
 - Music industry
 The network effect: peer to peer interaction
 with knock-on content protection
 implications
 - P2P, DRM
 Development of new business models for
 market services
 - Google AdWords
 Measurable outcomes
 - Advertising paid for by results
 Self-publishing
 - Blogs
 - Institutional repositories
 Democratisation of content – we are all
 publishers now
 Opportunity for hybrid players
 - CompliNet
 Disintermediation of publisher/aggregator
 role
 Business model reversal allows in new
 players, service vendors
 - BioMed Central
 - Ingenta
 Reversal of real world business models
 - Open Accesswww.epsltd.com
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 “Self-publishing”
  The network-driven phenomenon of
 media companies’ customers moving
 outside traditional industry structures to:
  find information and content;
  share information and content;
  draw attention to goods and services;
  find goods and services;
  recruit new staff.www.epsltd.com
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 Blogs
  “A compelling blend of idiosyncrasy, editorial authority and
 community, all set within an appealingly anarchic, contracorporate
 ethos” (Tony Feldman, imi)
  Increasingly valuable to corporates as convincing ‘independent’
 mouthpieces for dialogue with customers, suppliers, investors and
 industry opinion formers
  Very easy to create using tools such as Moveable Type and
 Blogger (Google)
  Increasingly easy to read, either online (on web pages, through
 webfeed readers such as Bloglines or services like MSN) or offline
  Services around blogging:
  Highbeam Research – Blog Enhancer#p#分页标题#e#
  MSN Spaces
  Wikinews
  OhmyNews International open to global contributions (April).
  Revenues: advertising (BlogAds), recruitment, sponsorship, ecommerce,
 donationswww.epsltd.com
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 Blogging: hot air or real
 phenomenon?
  Moving quickly into the mainstream
  58% increase in blog readership during 2004 (Pew Internet
 Survey, January 2005)
  New blog launched every 5.8 seconds, 15,000+ each day
 (Pew Internet Survey, January 2005)
  10 million blogs by the end of 2004 (Perseus Development)
  Major companies offer RSS readers (Yahoo!, Google)
  Hot air, or real phenomenon?
  70% of blogs not updated for 2 months (Perseus
 Development)
  25% created but never updated (Perseus Development)
  3% updated weekly (Perseus Development)
  1% updated daily (Perseus Development)
  No more than 200 generate traffic of more than a million
 page views per month (Jason Calacanis, founder of
 Weblogs Inc)www.epsltd.com
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 Webfeed (RSS) readers
  Allow users to combine news updates from traditional
 sources and their favourite blogs in one place
  Can be online or downloadable
  Current examples: Clovis, NewsGator, FeedDemon,
 Pluck, Bloglines, Google Reader, My Yahoo!, My MSN
  Some can integrate with Outlook
  Microsoft planning to build RSS into its Longhorn
 operating system
  BUT
  Low user awareness of RSS (12% aware, and 4% have
 used)
  27% of users have RSS on their personalised home pages,
 but don’t know it’s RSS!www.epsltd.com
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 Social bookmarking
  del.icio.us
  Store bookmarks online
  Tag all bookmarks, leading to creation of
 “folksonomies”
  Being used by publishers e.g. InfoWorld
  Connotea
  Free online reference management and
 social bookmarking service for scientists
 created by Nature Publishing Group
  Open sourcewww.epsltd.com
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 What do publishers need to
 consider?
 MAKE SURE USERS CAN
 FIND THEIR CONTENT
 Content management: the next generation
 Search technologies: the role of Google
 Digital object identifiers
 MAKE SURE USERS
 CAN USE THEIR
 CONTENT
 Social bookmarking#p#分页标题#e#
 and tagging
 Community and interactivity
 Workflow
 Users on the move: mobile content
 MAKE MONEY OUT OF
 THIS ACTIVITY!
 Subscriptions
 Pay-per-view
 Display advertising
 Recruitment advertising
 Value-add
 services
 Taxonomies, folksonomies and metadata
 Virtual learning environmentswww.epsltd.com
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 Where are we going?
 Feel the buzz!
  Ontology, taxonomy, vocabulary, lexicon
  Metadata, Resource Descriptor Framework, Semantic
 Web
  Technical architectures – web services (XML RPC,
 SOAP, UDDI)
  Persistent identity and multiple linking: DOI
  User identities: DUI
  Information architecture – information engineering,
 even KM
  ….. and forgiving and understanding search
 environments.
  Remember Alanis Morissette!www.epsltd.com
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 To build a knowledge domain, a
 content provider needs:
 Strong brand within the domain
 Internal experts capable of building the
 structure of the domain
 Online visibility
 Content and Technology Partnerships
 Ability to invest in technology
 Strategic vision to see the opportunitywww.epsltd.com
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 Relationship Value CRM
 Functional Value Analysis/Tools
 Contextual Value Database
 Preparation Value Structure/Mk-up
 Inherent Value CONTENT
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 The Content Lifecycle
 Browsers, HTML,
 Use content Display standards PDF
 Payment standards
 Communications
 standards
 Rights language
 NO STANDARDS!
 Metadata
 Creation standards
 Visa
 Internet protocols
 xRML
 DOI, ISBN
 XML, PDF
 Accept payment
 Send out content
 ID rules needed to
 implement business
 model
 Decide on a business
 model
 Tag the content
 Create the contentwww.epsltd.com
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 What Google is trying to do?
  Persuade users that it is pursuing its stated
 mission of organising the world’s information:
  On the free web
  On the “invisible” web
  In offline content
  Capture the interest and page views of users#p#分页标题#e#
 who are valuable to advertisers
  Beat Microsoft and Yahoo!
  Find innovative new revenue streams – they
 are currently very reliant on advertising.www.epsltd.com
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 Fear and Anticipation
  Growing feeling that Google, Yahoo! and MSN
 Search will make a difference to content world
  Uncertainty about whether Google is a threat
 or a useful new gateway
  Google: “We are simply a telephone directory
 – we don’t want to take business away from
 content players, but help users find your
 content.”
  But this is a publishing world where revenue
 growth is increasingly seen in adding value
 through structure, context, taxonomies, search
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 What can content providers do?
  Build niche destinations on the web using
 recognised brands. Use Google effectively as a
 marketing tool for these.
  Build better metadata, taxonomies, A&I and
 other “context” value-add.
  Use librarians more effectively as allies against
 the rising tide of Google: help them find more
 up-to-date ways of educating users in
 information skills.
  Linking of content to workflow tools and
 customer IT systems.www.epsltd.com
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 How are community services
 being used online?
  Yahoo!
  News search now includes blogs, Flickr
 photo and My Web results: augmenting
 professional journalism with grassroots
 journalism
  MyWeb 2.0
  Acquisition and integration of Upcoming.org
  BBC encouraged submission of user
 photos and blogs after London bombingswww.epsltd.com
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 Community empowerment:
 recruitment advertising
  Print newspapers – local and national
  Online job boards
  Free community boards
  Government job boards
  Employers’ own sites
  Indeed.com
  The .jobs domain
 EVOLUTION
 Power shifts away
 from traditional media
 What does
 it take to
 keep up
 with the
 needs of
 jobseekers
 and
 employers?www.epsltd.com
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 The Craigslist phenomenon
  Craigslist costs newspapers in San Francisco approx $50
 million a year in print and online recruitment
 advertising. (Classified Intelligence, Dec 2004) Craigslist is now in
 over 150 cities (though many are just launched).
  How can you compete with a free grass-roots movement like
 Craigslist?
  Kijiji sites launched by eBay in Germany, France, Italy, China,
 Japan and French-speaking Canada (March).
 Craigslist style classifieds boards built strongly around a local
 community. Kijiji = ‘village’. eBay has also hedged its bets by taking
 a 25% stake in Craigslist.
  eBay and Craigslist understand the power of stepping back and
 hoping that local communities emerge, rather than trying to
 impose “organising” services upon the local community.www.epsltd.com
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 How are the newspapers doing?
 Borrell Associates US market study (Jan 2005)
  US newspapers’ print recruitment advertising revenues
 down from $9.1bn in 2000 to $5.5bn in 2003 as ads
 move online (still more than double the total US online
 recruitment market).
  Newspapers have captured some of the online revenues
 but nowhere near as much as they have lost in print.
  Growth of online job boards estimated at three times
 that of newspaper recruitment classifieds during 2004.www.epsltd.com
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 Newspaper success in the job
 board world
  Fish4
  UK NORAS annual survey of UK recruitment sites, released
 Feb 2005
  Fish4 revenues up 120% year-on-year
  Fish4 clear market leader now (1.35m monthly unique
 users v Totaljobs’ 1.05m)
  Sheer breadth and depth of content, as well as improved
 speed and quality have driven this growth
  CareerBuilder
  According to Corzen (November 2004) CareerBuilder is
 gaining on Monster, with 37% growth through the first
 three quarters of 2004, compared with Monster’s 16.5%,
 though its revenues are still significantly below Monster.
  What about the rest?
  US: Cox, Advance Publications, E.W. Scripps and McClatchy
  UK: Johnstonwww.epsltd.com
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 New Breed of Classifieds Search
  Oodle.com searches a range of classifieds
  on local newspaper sites, classifieds sites, eBay & Craigslist
  Indeed.com searches for jobs
  on US newspaper sites, online job boards & corporate
 recruitment pages#p#分页标题#e#
  DirectEmployers searches only on certain employer web
 sites.
  It has been in business since 2001 and is owned by an
 independent not-for-profit employers association. Under
 threat from Indeed in particular.
  New .jobs domain name - could have big implications…
  Allows employers to list their internal vacancies at
 www.companyname.jobs
  Easy for metasearch engines (such as Oodle or Indeed) to
 include all pages with the .jobs endingwww.epsltd.com
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 Thoughts on the future
  Network effects, improved search technology and
 growth of standards make customers better able to
 achieve some of the services publishers currently
 provide without the help of any third parties
  In order to maintain margins publishers will have to
 work to raise the levels of value they can add for
 customers
  The web was designed for sharing and collaboration. The
 ability to interact more effectively with peers is a feature
 of internet technologies which has yet to be fully
 exploited on a grand scale
  Getting as close as possible to the workflow of
 customers, and understanding how and why they want
 to use the network is the best shot that publishers havewww.epsltd.com
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