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Contributing Enterprise Content Management Analyst Fal Sarkar is moving on to the vendor side of the aisle. Fal has always been a pleasure to work with, and I expect we'll be working together again before long, just in a different way. Fal has a great new job that looks like a perfect fit for him. He is "... responsible for marketing EMC's Content Management and Archiving products (Documentum, Captiva, Document Sciences, etc.) in a geography that ranges from Pakistan to the Philippines. The largest market in the region is India." Fal's Gilbane email address will continue to work for a while, but his new contact info is below.

Fal Sarkar
Head of Marketing South Asia
Content Management and Archiving
EMC Corporation

UPDATE:
Oops!
Sarkar_Falguni@sun.com should be Sarkar_Falguni@emc.com
Direct: +91 80 66228013
Mob: +91 9742264725

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In case you missed yesterday's announcement, I am happy to announce that Neal Hannon has joined us as Senior Consultant, XBRL Strategies. XBRL has been coming for a while, but with mandatory XBRL reporting requirements now kicking in, companies really need to get serious both with reporting requirements and internal use of XBRL. XBRL requires more than XML expertise, and Neal's financial background and involvement in XBRL provide deep domain expertise, and are a great complement to our existing XML strengths. Neal will be working with Bill as part of the XML Practice. Neal's bio is posted at: http://gilbane.com/consultant_bios.html#nhannon

Neal's email is: neal@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 155.

Welcome Neal!

I am happy to announce that Larry Hawes has joined us, starting today, as Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Enterprise Social Media Practice, along with Geoff. This has been an important area of coverage for us since we started writing about enterprise use of wikis and blogs over 4 years ago - it is hard to believe how unusual such a thing was then. Not so now, and it is great to have Larry aboard to help IT and business managers understand the role of social media tools in corporate and government applications.

Larry has most recently spent 6 years with IBM Global Business Services as a Consultant and Program Manager in collaboration and knowledge management, focused largely on public sector clients. Larry also spent 3.5 years at Delphi Group as an analyst and consultant where he worked with both vendors and enterprise customers. Larry's bio has not been posted on our site yet, but can be found at: http://lehawes.wordpress.com/about-larry-hawes/, and of course on LinkedIn.

Larry's email is: larry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 154. You can follow Larry on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/lehawes

Welcome Larry!

I am happy to announce that long time SGML/XML expert consultant Barry Schaeffer has joined us officially as a Senior Analyst, XML Strategies & Content Management. Barry joins our XML Practice, and has already posted the XML blog.

Barry sold his company, X.Systems Inc., to XyEnterprise last year, and has had extensive experience with large and complex SGML/XML projects, including a number for federal, and state governments over the years. I don't remember exactly when I met Barry but it was in the early 80s and he was already involved with SGML projects. Mary, Bill, and Dale have also known Barry for some time. Our XML practice has some serious critical mass, and Barry's experience with government, NGO, and enterprise consulting add considerable depth to the team. Barry's bio has been posted.

Barry's email is: barry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 213.

Welcome Barry!

We've started using Twitter in multiple ways, and while our use of it will certainly evolve, I thought it would be helpful to point how what we are doing with it. (I'll save thoughts about how it could or should be used for another time.)

• We are a business, so we have a company handle that any of us here can use to tweet or retweet information about us or the industry and topics we cover. http://twitter.com/gilbane.
• We also have a Twitter handle associated with our "NewsShark" industry news blog and email newsletter. http://twitter.com/NewsShark - just one more channel to choose from for news updates.
• We have a handle for our San Francisco conference that our conference group will use for conference updates. http://twitter.com/gilbanesf (we'll also be using #gilbanesf as a hashtag).
• A number of us have twitter handles. Mine is http://twitter.com/fgilbane. Our most active twitterers are Bill Trippe http://twitter.com/billtrippe, and Leonor Ciarlone http://twitter.com/Lciarlone.

Any suggestions on how else we might use Twitter?

We have added OpenID support to our login and registration pages at gilbane.com. Our blogs also support OpenID for registering to comment.

What the heck is OpenID?
The simple answer is that it is a way to login into tens of thousands of web sites using the same login and password, and is supported by Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, AOL, and many more. You may already have an OpenID and not know it, e.g., if you have a Yahoo! login. You can find out more about OpenID here and here.

How does it work at gilbane.com?
When you first register at gilbane.com, you have the option of using an OpenID. If you choose to use it, some of the information in the registration form will be automatically populated. What gets populated depends on what OpenID supports and what you have included in your OpenID identity. Whenever you return to gilbane.com you can use your OpenID to login. Note that you don't need to associate your OpenID so you can ignore the next paragraph.

If you are already registered at gilbane.com, and you want to be able to use an OpenID in addition to your current login, you need to associate your OpenID with the site. This is a one-time process, and is accomplished by logging in to gilbane.com, and clicking on "Manage your account", where you will find a link to associate your gilbane.com registration with your OpenID. Members can add and remove OpenIDs to their account. Members can have any number of OpenIDs associated with their account; however, each OpenID can be associated with at most one account. Remember that your OpenID will only work if your OpenID is already associated with your account.

If you have any questions about using OpenID at gilbane.com, contact customer service.

I am happy to announce that Karl Kadie has joined us officially as a Senior Analyst. Karl has actually been working with with Leonor and Mary in the Content Globalization Practice for 6 months as a Contributing Analyst, and was a co-author of our recently released report Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Organizations Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain. Karl has been a great addition to the team, and will continue to focus on content globalization.

Karl's bio can be found at http://gilbane.com/consultant_bios.html#kkadie, and his email address is: kkadie@gilbane.com and his phone extension is
210.

Welcome Karl!

Fred is our newest contributor, and has already posted his first blog entry. Fred pokes at the challenging tension in search between intent and context, especially over time as context (or intent) changes. Lynda has also posted about intent, and the subject also came up in discussions of search quality around Udi Manber's talk at our conference in this past June.

Fred brings the welcome perspective of a serious software developer, and will be blogging on a few different topics, so he may be posting here on on one of our other blogs. Welcome Fred!