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Bob Doyle at CMSReview has once again generously devoted his time and resources to record and produce one of the events at our recent Boston conference. David Berlind from ZDNet, who has tracked the controversial Massachusetts decision to standardize on OASIS's ODF on Between the Lines (a blog you should subscribe to) in more detail than anyone, interviewed lobbyist Morgan Reed from the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) before a live audience at Gilbane Boston. ACT, who lobbies for small businesses, but also Microsoft, is against the Massachusetts decision - Morgan was gracious enough to submit to David's penetrating skepticism. Bob Doyle says he keeps this interview on his video iPod! Bob says you should use the QuickTime player. Here is the full interview, or you can choose chapters below:

Frank Gilbane - the Background    

The Debaters - Morgan Reed and David Berlind    

Lobbyist for Microsoft (MS) and Small ISVs    

How Much Money Spent Lobbying Open Formats?    

MS to Mass: Do you respect IP?    

MS Press Release: Mass ODF Plan has failed!    

By 2007 only ODF-compliant applications?    

Does Massachusetts have any leverage with OASIS?    

What if MS OpenOffice was chosen as standard?    

Do MS and Internet Explorer encourage non-standard HTML?    

Vince Wicker & Mike Wayne of The XBRL Show recorded our session on XBRL - Current State of the Art at the Gilbane Boston conference, and created a very useful 20-minute-or-so podcast. Thanks Vince & Mike!

Bob Doyle of CMS Review was kind enough to film the "CMS Idol" competition at our recent Boston Conference. Tony Byrne of CMSWatch hosted and the judges were Theresa Regli, Lisa Welchman, and Erik Hartman. This was a big hit and you can now view Bob's video, which is encoded as QuickTime suitable for Podcasting (iPod 320x240). (You should use the latest QuickTime player.) Vendors included Ektron, FatWire, Interwoven, RedDot, Stellent, and WebSideStory. All did a great job!

We hope to see you at our upcoming Boston conference. But whether you join us or not, you can contribute to the keynote discussion by including questions in a comment on this blog entry. Below is the session description with links to the participant's bios and their blogs. Let us know what technologies you think we should be discussing. Comments and trackbacks are on.

Keynote Panel: New Technologies You Need to Consider for Content Management Strategies
The pace of information technology development continues to increase as organizations develop experience in implementing content applications, and as software vendors vie to incorporate their customer's feedback into product technologies ahead of the competition. As most enterprise applications become more content-oriented, content technology developments are coming from a broader base of suppliers and developers. This session will look at a couple of technologies relevant to content-oriented applications you may not be aware of, or may not think of in the context of content management strategies. Complementing this session are the analyst panel, and the keynote debate on Enterprise use of Blog and Wiki technology.

Moderator: Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair, Editor & Publisher, The Gilbane Report --- Blog

Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld --- Blog
Coach K. Wei, Founder and CTO, Nexaweb --- Blog
Jean-Philippe Gauthier, General Manager, Sympatico / MSN
Bob Wyman, CTO and Co-founder, PubSub --- Blog

We are getting ready for our upcoming Boston conference and hope to see you there. But whether you join us or not, you can contribute to the debate by commenting on this blog entry. Below is the session description with links to the participant's bios and their blogs. Comments and trackbacks are on.

Keynote Debate: Blog, Wiki, and RSS Technology - Are they Enterprise Ready? Applicable? Or a Passing Tempest in a Teacup?

Most of you have probably not seriously considered using these technologies in enterprise applications. Yet there are companies using these technologies for collaboration, knowledge management, and publishing applications in corporate environments, and there are vendors marketing products based on these to businesses like yours. Do these companies only represent the experimental fringe, or are they early adopters of technologies that will soon be part of every IT department's bag of tricks? In this session we'll take a look at the suitability of these for corporate use and hear from both skeptics and proponents of, for example enterprise or group blogs. You will come away from this session able to discuss these issues with your colleagues back in the office.

Moderator: Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair --- Blog

David Berlind, Executive Editor, ZDNet --- Blog
Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext, Inc. --- Blog
Bill Zoellick Senior Analyst, The Gilbane Report --- Blog
Charlie Wood, Principal, Spanning Partners, LLC --- Blog

We updated our survey on enterprise use of blog, wiki and RSS technology for our presentation on the same subject to a group of documentation and training managers yesterday. With 91 respondents the results are a little more respectable. The only obvious differences from our earlier results were an increase the use or planned use of RSS, and the amount of support provided by IT for blogs, wikis, and RSS. We are not sure if there is real "hockey stick" growth going on here - our results don't show it - but there just might be. Chris Shipley thinks their numbers show it. Perhaps they do, but we need to know more about the demographics. Our own demographics are very broad and include a sizable non-technical component, which could explain the difference. There was certainly strong interest among the doc and training folks yesterday, but deployment was almost non-existent. The only other sort of relevant survey we are aware of is Technorati's, but that was aimed at bloggers so is a very different animal.

Based on all the evidence, my inclination is to believe the growth is hockey-stick-like. We'll try and come to some more concrete conclusions on this in time for our keynote debate on this in Boston next month.

Almost forgot to mention the new Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (pdf). If you thought most internet users knew what RSS was you had better read this.

Addendum: Here is more info on the demographics and methodolgy we were looking for re the Guidewire/Edelman survey mentioned by Chris Shipley we referenced above.

The brochure for our Fall conference is at the printer, but there is a PDF available and the site with the program schedule, session descriptions, exhibitors-to-date, registration, etc., has been live for a few weeks.

Note that the CM Pros Fall Summit is once again co-located with our event, so it will be a jam-paked few days.

Two quick reminders:

• The Gilbane Content Management Conference in Amsterdam (co-located with XTech 2005) is only a week and a half away. See the conference program.
• The call for papers deadline for Gilbane Boston is Monday May 16th. Proposal guidelines are here.

Reminder: The deadline for submitting speaking proposals for our Boston conference on November 29 - December 1, is May 15. In fact, it helps to send proposals even sooner since we are already outlining the program. We'll be covering our usual range of content management technologies, but will have a special focus on new technologies, and which ones are ready for prime time and what business applications they are appropriate for. Enterprise blog, wiki and RSS technologies will certainly be one major focus. There is some early guidance on this year's topics here. If you are new to our events, you can see our typical content coverage and conference structure at last year's Boston program, or this month's San Francisco program.

See the instructions on how to submit proposals.