Writing

Jean Bedord writes on a variety of research topics relating to search, web technologies, electronic publishing and the online information industry. She is available to write by-lined articles for both online and print publication. Topics she has covered:

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

Reprint rights are available for articles Jean has authored.

Published articles include:

"Distance Education: Choices, Choices and More Choices", Searcher, October, 2007, pp. 18-22.
"Enterprise Search in Your Future?", Insight Article for VIP (Free Pint Limited), September 2007, pp. 16-21.
"New Rules of Search", Software & Information Industry Association UPGRADE Magazine, April/May 2007, pp.9-12.
"Enterprise Search Deployment, Usage and Trends," Research report for Information Today/Shore Communications, March 2007.
"Findability Factors Found: Leading Customers to Content', EContent, January/February 2007, pp. 38-43.
"Internet Librarian Blog: Internet Librarian 2006: Mashups and Social Computing Enhance Information Services", Faultline, San Andreas Chapter, Special Libraries Association, November/December 2006
"Promoting Information and Search Skills", Feature article, Free Pint, No. 185, June 30, 2005
"Sold-Out InfoCommerce 2004", Information Today, November 2004.
"Internet Librarian Blog: Internet Librarian 2004: Technology Shapes the Library", Faultline, San Andreas Chapter, Special Libraries Association, November/December 2004.
"Report from the Field: 2004 SIIA Content Forum", Information Today, July/August 2004.
"Guide to eBook Buying Decisions for the Library", Shore Communications Report, March 12, 2004
"The eBooks Marketplace: A New Evaluation", Shore Communications Report, October 13, 2003
"Online Copyright Compliance", Licensing Executives Society (LES) les Nouvelles, September, 1996, pp. 135-138.