Press Room

Jean Bedord welcomes inquiries from the media, and is available for interviews, expert comment, and background information for upcoming stories. Her California location in Silicon Valley, home of the search engine industry, gives her a unique perspective on emerging technologies.

She has written on various aspects of web technologies for publishers, ebooks, and the online information industry. View her published articles and speaking engagements.

Areas of Expertise:

Findability and search engine optimization
Enterprise search engines
Distance education
Web 2.0 technologies, including social media, blogs and wikis
eBooks

Contact Jean Bedord:

phone: 408-257-9221
email: jean AT EContentStrategies DOT com

Brief Bio:

As a search analyst and consultant, Jean focuses on improving customer web findability for products developed by content producers and content technology companies, providing strategies for digital products, new markets and channels of distribution. She brings a background in search engine technologies and managing IT to the real world of implementation. She speaks at information industry conferences, and is widely quoted in leading business publications. Jean's experience extends over fifteen years in the online information industry, with eleven years at Dialog managing database products. Jean also teaches Online Searching for San Jose State University graduate School of Library and information Science. She has an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MA in anthropology from the University of Wyoming, and a BA in mathematics.

Press mentions have included:

Quoted in Business Management US Article: " Searching for clear and present data.", August, 2007

Quoted by Anuradha Shukla , "Information Today finds Search Engine Applications Focus of New Research", TMCnet, April 2, 2007

Interview with Neil Sutton, " Harlequin hopes e-book offerings will seduce more readers: Romance publisher supports multiple formats to distribute content", ITbusiness.ca, Canadian Technology News, August 22, 2006.

Commentary included in Hamaker, Chuck, "Deep Linking-Beyond Journal Articles", Against the Grain, November 5, 2005.

Interview with Michael Rogers, "Librarians, Publishers, and Vendors Revisit E-books", Library Journal, April 15, 2004.

Interview with David Becker, "Have e-books turned a page?", CNET News, August 27, 2004

Interview with Paul Taylor, "A brighter future for e-books," Financial Times, September 21, 2004