Does your sales forecast call for clouds? Cloud computing – in which hosted services are delivered over the Internet – is gaining traction in many industries as companies look for cost-effective ways to manage IT infrastructures and applications such as customer relationship management (CRM). For media companies looking for cost-effective ways to upgrade their aging tech systems, the cloud may hold at least part of the answer.

Aggregate mobile data in the U.S. is expected to reach 20 exabytes (that’s 20 billion gigabytes) by 2013. Another study predicts that mobile data traffic will double every year through 2014.

You could say directories are in Bruce Brownson’s blood.

Brownson's parents founded database company Congressional Staff Directories (CSD) in 1959. When Brownson took over as president and publisher in 1987, he helped transition the company into the online market before selling it in 1996 to CQ Press.

There are similarities between launching an online media brand and a political campaign. Having done both, Plus Three knows both the similarities and the differences.