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Here are some comments on our conference in San Francisco 2 weeks ago. This is a partial list, but it is already long enough that my plan of introducing and commenting on the comments is history. So, I've decided to just list them to get them out since some of them are very useful. They are bunched by author. The Podcasts at the bottom were all produced by Rahel Bailie. Thanks Rahel!

Here is a quick update on next week's event:

New Sponsors & Exhibitors
Adobe has joined us as a Gold sponsor - their Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group in particular. See announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown from our 50+ exhibitors.

New Debates
In addition to our popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate. And of course, don't forget CMS Idol.

Keynote Survey
The early results from our survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order:

• (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months?
• (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for?
• (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market?
• (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies?
• (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications?
• (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications?
• (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today?
• (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output?

UPDATE: You can see partial final results of the responses to all the questions here, and contribute to the survey here.

Content Globalization
Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event - there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services - some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion.

We have over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. Conference program .

And don't forget to look into the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit

We have posted the results of our survey to date on the questions we'll be asking our keynote panel at our conference next week. We'll comment later, but wanted to let everyone see what topics attendees are most interested in. Some of these questions will also be covered in our analyst panel.

You can still vote the list of questions we have put together, and suggest additional questions. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to one of our conferences. Of course you can also still join us (expo-only attendees can attend the keynote panels).

Our colleagues over at CMS Watch have published a new report on enterprise portals. As our earlier reports here and here on the portal market suggested, the list of vendors covered in the report shows the market is now dominated by infrastructure players. Janus Boye, the author of the report is giving a tutorial on Enterprise Portal Software: Architecture and Products - Intensive Review & Roadmap for Product Selection at our upcoming conference in San Francisco, and also speaking on Challenges in Integrating Portals & Content Management Systems. The report, tutorial, and conference session would be a great way to get fully up-to-speed on corporate portals and content management.

CM Pros has grown substantially since last year. With well over 600 members it has become an invaluable resource, and a great way to take advanatge of the experience and expertise of the members is to meet them at the next summit. Content Management & the Customer Experience is the theme of the fifth CM Pros Summit, scheduled for 23-24 April 2006 in San Francisco, in conjunction with Gilbane San Francisco. Topics include Actionable Content, Customer-Centric Content Management and a special poster session on the Content Lifecyle. Plan to be there in time for the opening keynote at 1:30 PM local (CST) time. See the call for papers, or register!

The brochure for our April Conference on Technologies for Content Applications and our Conference on Enterprise Digital Rights Management has been mailed. A 765k PDF version is available. Naturally, the speaker and exhibitor listings on the event website are already more up-to-date, but the PDF version has the schedule and session descriptions.

Hopefully you got to hear Mary and Bill on today's radio show. Next up is Leonor, who will join O'Reilly's C.J. Rayhill in a webinar next Wednesday, February 15 at 2:00pm EST to talk about how O'Reilly Media expanded into the textbook publishing market by creating a custom publishing platform that enables educators to produce more targeted and less expensive teaching materials using MarkLogic Server.

See more details or Register today.

Also see Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg's blog post.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention you can read Leonor's case study!

Some of you have likely listened to the excellent technology radio show at MyTechnologyLawyer.com. Gilbane Report Senior Editor Mary Laplante and I will be talking about the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conferences on content management and digital rights management. The interview will be at 1:00 Eastern time tomorrow, Thursday, February 9, and you can listen live here.

UPDATE: If you missed the live broadcast, you can listen to recorded versions here (Real Media) or here (Windows Media). Among the topics discussed at some length were DITA and Enterprise DRM.

The full schedule and program descriptions for both our Content Management Technologies and Enterprise Digital Rights Management conferences are now posted. 60+ speakers have been chosen so far and they will be posted in a few days. Both conferences take place at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, April 24 - 26, 2006. Note that we have added quite a bit of new content.

Registration is also open.

Hard to believe if you just joined us in Boston 2 weeks ago, but we are already deep into planning Gilbane San Francisco, which will be at the Sheraton Palace again this year. The dates are April 24 - 26, 2006. We are expanding our content coverage, and in addition to our Content Management, Content Technology and CTW Case Study tracks, we are adding a track on Enterprise Search, a track on Enterprise Blog, Wiki and RSS (and Atom!) Technology, and a special track on Automated Publishing for Marketers.

We have also added a new companion conference on Enterprise Digital Rights Management, which will be chaired by expert Bill Rosenblatt, Editor of DRMWatch.

To submit a speaking proposal for either the Content Management Technologies Conference or the Enterprise Digital Rights Management Conference, see the instructions, and don't delay - we will be completing the program in January, and even though the deadline is January 9 we will be well along by then.