About the authors

Both Richard Vines and Bill Hall have experienced many youthful wonderings in their careers. However, both have had extended periods in the print and publishing and the document and knowledge management systems environments.

Richard Vines ( see www.richardvines.cgpublisher.com )
Richard Vines is an industry analyst and knowledge management specialist with many years involved in the media and publishing industries. He has developed specialist expertise in understanding the impact of digital technologies on the nature of work itself. He started his career in forestry in 1981 and has worked for the following organizations:

* Director of Project Lessons with many consultancies in the print and publishing industries; * The Printing Industries Association of Australia; * The Australian Industry Group; * The Monash ANZ Centre for International Briefing; * The Japan External Trade Organisation; * VicRoads; * Local Government in Victoria; * The Forestry Industry in Tasmania

Richard is a former board member of the Dried Fruits Research and Development Council. He currently works as a knowledge broker engaged by the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare. This work is part of an emerging partnership between the Centre for Excellence, the Community Services Sector and the University of Melbourne.

Bill Hall ( see: www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net )
Bill Hall’s journey within the media and publishing industries started more than 50 years ago when he learned manual typesetting and page design in his year-long high school printshop course. Bill subsequently started his higher education with a major in Physics and then earned a doctorate in evolutionary biology from Harvard (1973). He is presently working as a documentation systems and knowledge management analyst for Australia's largest defense contactor. His professional career spans disparate disciplines of organismic and evolutionary biology, cytological genetics - with a diversion into the theory of knowledge and the history of scientific revolutions; and more recently, computer journalism, technical writing, documentation systems analysis and organizational knowledge management.

Bill is currently a:

• National Fellow with the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne.
• Visiting Faculty Associate Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney