This month, I celebrate my first year in Knovel product management. So far, I’ve been impressed with the level of interest our user community takes in contributing suggestions for delivering engineering information – fast[er]  and [more] reliably.  Recently, I’ve been involved in a rolling out our Design Partner Program, to engage users actively in our product design and development process.  I’ve done this quite successfully in past lives, and know that when users get a chance to be in the design game, innovative things happen.

John Patrick is a Knovel Board member, former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, and one of the leading Internet visionaries as a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994. Most importantly, John is a tremendous asset to Knovel in helping to guide our strategy. His blog is closely followed by many thousands of readers and I am sure he will blog about being a Key Note Speaker at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting in Washington on June 17, 2009. One of his most successful on-going blog posts is IBM Happenings and he has suggested that Knovel’s many followers will benefit by our delivering an update on Knovel every month or so – so here it is…Knovel Happenings.

Today Knovel launches a new subject area, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.