It’s me, Maria, blogging again. Lisa’s letting me take over this space again to announce two exciting new partnerships for Revenue.

We are very pleased to welcome Mike Moran as our new columnist for The Searchers. I’m sure many of you have heard of Mike, but for those who don’t know, he’s the man, as far as search goes. His day job at IBM as Distinguished Engineer and the Manager of Site Architecture for ibm.com keeps him fairly busy, but he still manages to write books and make personal appearances. We are very happy he’s decided to add a bimonthly column to his jam-packed schedule.

If you’re still not convinced, here are his credentials:

•Has worked at IBM since 1998
•Led the product team that developed the first commercial linguistic search engine in 1989
•Has been granted four patents with two more pending
•Is a member of Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society

If that’s not exciting enough, we’ve also sealed a deal with Dave Taylor to contribute to our monthly newsletter. You’ve heard of AskDaveTaylor.com, right? He’s the man you go to when you need technical info. Dave has been in the tech industry forever and pretty much knows everyone and everything.

If you don’t know Dave, here’s his abbreviated story:

•Worked for HP
•Founded The Internet Mall, Inc., the first online shopping directory
•Wrote approximately 20 books
•Has written for most major tech magazines
•Founder of Intuitive Systems, a consulting business

So if you have a tech question for Dave, send an email to askdavetaylor@revenuetoday.com with “Ask Dave Taylor” in the subject line. Dave will check out the submissions and answer at least one question in our newsletter every month.

Cool, eh? Yeah, we’re pretty proud of ourselves for scoring 2, count ‘em, 2, industry hotshots in one week. It’s good to be Revenue.

maria@revenuetoday.com

P.S. Don’t forget about Inside Track, the new personnel section of our newsletter. It debuts in February, so we’re accepting submissions now. To submit a candidate for consideration, send an email to InsideTrack@RevenueToday.com with “Inside Track” in the subject. Please include the candidate’s name, their new title and full company name, the date they started their new position, and their previous title and company. We will also be accepting photos. They need to be jpeg or gif format, and should be no larger than 200 dpi.

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