Knovel is proud to have employees with diverse interests, experiences and hobbies. For example, when we hired Louis-Michel Menard to be our Regional Sales Manager for Canada we knew that he was a fantastic salesman, but we didn’t know that he is also a competitive cyclist. Louis-Michel races for Les Yables, a competitive racing team which Knovel is proud to sponsor this year. Louis-Michel will update us throughout the season…

Crowds are not new to Manhattan, yet getting to Knovel’s New York City office during this busy holiday season is a bit more challenging than usual. You have to maneuver your way through throngs of people who are shopping, gawking at festively decorated windows, and milling around Rockefeller Center to see the tree and ice skaters. It’s a season of giving and receiving in a year that has challenged many….

Three things struck me about this development: 1 – It looks like Elsevier is outsourcing the work. This seems like a good choice as it is not a core competency. We have spent a massive about of time and money (for us) on figuring out how content can be usefully integrated into a technologists workflow. We are only now beginning to understand it such that we can make intelligent investments…

Ken Wong’s blog - Virtual Desktop/Desktop Engineering – captures Knovel’s value to engineers well – he even introduces an element of humor (I smiled at the embedded video’s reference to American Idol – you’ll have to see for yourself) which is hard to do with engineering content. So if you’re trying to better understand the value of content to design engineers and want to pass on the learning take a look…

Beth Stackpole of Design News gave me the opportunity to speak with her last week about how Knovel is helping engineers with mathmatical calculations with our introduction of Knovel Math.  We keep hearing from Mathcad users how offering calculations from reference works in Mathcad format will save them 6, 8, or even 10 hours of effort.  And we’re glad to help. After our talk, Beth posted Knovel Simplifies Math Equations…