Sunday, February 8, 2009

Introducing Product Data Insider

Welcome to the first installment of Product Data Insider. The purpose of this Blog will be to provide education, best practices, and to aid subscribers in producing and sustaining world class product content. In addition we welcome questions and comments about topics you'd like to see covered. It is our intent to post new Blogs at least monthly and more if we find subscribers are checking back more often.

Some housekeeping notes. You will regularly read a switch in terminology between the words "data" and "content". Although, the IT community, depending on who you talk to, may have distinct difference between these terms, Product Data Insider, uses them interchangeably. Other terms you may see exchanged are Taxonomy vs Categorization, Item vs Product, software vs technology, among others. When in doubt, please email and ask for a clarification and I will be more than happy to oblige.

We hope to develop a community that welcomes the sharing of ideas and thoughts as well as challenges that professionals face so as to enable education as well as practical suggestions and solutions to content challenges for the MDM, IT, Marketing, e-Commerce and Product Information Management communities.

Welcome to Product Data Insider,

Jeff Bertrand
Sales & Marketing