Free DA/DBA Newsletter Announcement
Re: The Data Administration Newsletter -- http://www.tdan.com/ I am pleased to announce that issue 12.0 of The Data Administration Newsletter has been posted to the TDAN.com web-site. TDAN.com is a free quarterly on-line publication that focuses on the management of data as a valued corporate asset. To register on-line for free newsletter announcements, please visit http://www.tdan.com/registra.htm. This issue features new book reviews, conference & seminar lists, job classifieds, links & resources, ... and of course, a dozen new articles on topics including business intelligence, knowledge management frameworks, e-business, data warehousing, best practices, ... and much more. Several items that may interest you ... TDAN.com 12.0 includes articles by Bill Inmon, Barb Von Halle, Bill Smith, Dave Hay, and several other recognized names ... terrific content delivered by pioneers and experts in the industry. The Job Classified section has been updated with several new openings. This section continues to attract a lot of readers as new positions are posted regularly. If you are having difficulty locating the "right" person for a job, consider posting a position here. Visit http://www.tdan.com/jobclass.htm. The Book Review section has been updated with reviews of Patricia Seybold's book - customers.com -- and Ralph Kimball's Book -- the Data Warehouse Toolkit. Look for a review of Kimball's Data Webhouse Toolkit and a book on SQL Server 7.0 warehousing in the near future. Several others are in the works as well. TDAN.com continues to reimburse reviewers for the price of the book. Visit http://www.tdan.com/bookrev.htm. The Resources & Links page has been expanded to identify several key contributors to TDAN.com's success, a list of recommended industry publication articles from the past few months, and several new and interesting web-based resources. Please notify me if you have read a great article that you would like to recommend to TDAN.com readers. Visit http://www.tdan.com/linksmor.htm. The Conference page has been updated to include lists of Seminars. I encourage the companies that host seminars to send me lists of their events. The Data Warehousing Institute has listed several new seminars they are hosting at locations across the U.S. Visit http://www.tdan.com/conferences.htm. The Association News section now has a list of all Data Management Association (DAMA) International chapters with links to the chapters that have their own web-sites. Many of the chapters post their regular meetings on their sites so please use this section to stay in touch with what is going on at DAMA International and your closest chapter. Visit http://www.tdan.com/associations.htm. During the past few months TDAN.com has been a media sponsor of the Warehouse Repository Architecture Development - WRAD 2000 - conference in Orlando, Florida, and the DAMA International Symposium / Metadata Conference in Wash, D.C. TDAN.com has become a media sponsor of Larry English's Information Quality conferences to be held later this year in Anaheim & London and I will continue to promote the top conferences in the industry and build alliances that will benefit the reader base. The article deadline for the next issue -- TDAN.com 13.0 -- is June 1, 2000. I encourage you to notify me as soon as possible if you intend to submit an article for this next issue. In the future there will be issues with content focused on a particular aspect of data management. I will make the editorial schedule available in the next few weeks. Thank you very much for your interest in TDAN.com. Best Regards. Bob Seiner Publisher - The Data Administration Newsletter - http://www.tdan.com Principal Consultant & BI Practice Director - CIBER, Inc. - http://www.ciber.com