The recording of the Internet radio broadcast that Bill and I did last week with Scott Draughon is now available for listening and download. Scroll down to May 1 on the past programs page on mytechnologylawyer.com. The broadcast focused on hot topics at Gilbane San Francisco, June 18-20.

One highlight of the show is the segment with Bill Rosenblatt, recognized authority on enterprise rights management and progam lead on Gilbane's upcoming research on Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness. Bill provided an overview of ERM technology and its use for enterprise content, which will be the focus of a panel in San Francisco. Read more about our upcoming report on ERM adoption. There's still time to take the survey.

The broadcast also featured a segment with Brad Kain, co-founder and president of Quoin, who's talking about XML content strategies in San Francisco; a summary of our coverage of enterprise search topics; and a nod to the session on software-as-a-service, with senior executives of some of the leading suppliers of SaaS solutions for content management.

We'll be doing at least one more Internet radio show prior to Gilbane San Francisco. Please send us an email if there's a topic of specific interest to you and your colleagues.

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• The number of business-to-business (B-to-B) publications offering digital editions has increased over 300% from 2005 to 2007, with total subscriptions also increasing over 300%.
• The number of consumer publications offering digital editions has increased over 200% from 2005 to 2007, with total subscriptions also increasing over 200%.
• Digital vs. print penetration of B-to-B subscribers is up from 13.3 to 15.0%, while digital penetration of consumer publication subscribers is down from 2.2 to 1.4%.

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Summit to Take Place on June 17 Prior to Start of Gilbane Conference; Full-Day Event to Focus on Dynamic Delivery Across Multiple Media Channels
 
San Francisco, CA – May 6, 2008 – The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, today announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17 to coincide with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com).  The CM Pros Summit offers attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business drivers and technical issues of managing and delivering dynamic content.
 
Content Management Systems are viewed by many as being comprised of three predominant components: acquisition, management, and delivery.  This summit will empower attendees with tangible and tactical real world solutions for the delivery component of content management. 
 
"The Summit program focuses on content management delivery and the increasing demands of content presentation,” said Andrew Wilcox, CM Pros Technology Director and Summit Program Manager.  “We have packed a one-day program with sessions that will deliver practical, real-world solutions and provide attendees with a competitive industry edge. The program includes 'Quiz the Experts', a lively game show format offering attendees the opportunity to ask questions of industry experts, and introduces the 'Use Case Challenge' where CMS vendors demonstrate their solutions for publishing content from one source to multiple channels.”
 
The CM Pros Summit includes users, practitioners and vendors of every aspect of content and digital asset management including: information architecture, usability, implementation, metadata and taxonomy, search, change management, software and tools. At the CM Pros Summit, speakers and attendees will:

• Leverage best practices for dynamic delivery
• Hear the latest research, case studies, and best practices
• Share experiences with others and learn from peers
• Network at the event
• Identify next steps in content management implementations
• Collaborate for solutions. Meet with partners, suppliers, and potential customers
• Hear about new aspects of content management; drive new technology development

Keynoting the summit is Steve Powers, Senior Analyst with Forrester Research.  Enterprises are increasingly using rich internet applications (RIA) frameworks - such as Ajax, JavaFX, Flex, and Silverlight - to provide more interactive and dynamic customer experiences on their Web sites, and this has prompted many to question their investments in Web content management. In this session Steve will address how usage of RIAs may force organizations to re-think Web content management strategies.
 
“We are extremely pleased that the CM Pros Summit will take place in conjunction with our annual conference in San Francisco,” said Frank Gilbane, Chair of the Gilbane Conferences.  “Partnering with CM Professionals only increases the value we offer attendees in providing actionable information on current content management technologies that attendees can implement immediately.”
 
Attend the Summit and join CM Pros for $75, a 25 percent discount off the regular fee.  To take advantage of this offer, visit www.cmprofessionals.org and enter discount code: GILBSPR2008. Current members who renew before June 17 will also receive the discount with a year added at the date of renewal.  Also, CM Pros members receive a $200 discount off the cost of the Gilbane conference.  
 
Program
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/program?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Presenters
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/presenters?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Register
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/register?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Summit Home
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008
 
About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, consulting & advisory services, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.
 
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://lighthouseseminars.com
 
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Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com
 
Jeffrey V. Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com
 

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(Cross-Posted from the WCM Blog)

While many of our clients use analytics applications to support their WCM projects and e-commerce initiatives, other clients not yet using analytics often ask what value can be derived from doing so. The answer depends on the purpose of the client’s website.

For online commerce sites, analytics functionality can be invaluable in that it allows companies to track user behavior on the site and to correlate user behavior with conversion rates, average sales prices, and other useful sales metrics. The bottom line is that analytics almost always increase online revenues. Analytics can also be of great value to non e-commerce clients by enabling them to monitor content consumption rates and to gauge the relevance and effectiveness of content through the analysis of consumption patterns. This naturally makes analytics (sometimes built into “campaign management” modules) indispensable to marketing professionals interested either in optimizing content dissemination on information-based sites (“content portals”) or in maximizing profitability on retail sites.

Please join us on May 8, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern), for a webinar sponsored by Bridgeline Software entitled: “Marketing Trends: Enabling Intelligent, Analytics-Driven Content.”

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... and radio! Mary Laplante and I will be on the MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show this Thursday, discussing the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conference. We'll be on the air live for an hour starting at 4:00 Eastern, and will be discussing a wide range of topics about the conference, with some focus on the sessions I am coordinating. The host, Scott Draughon, is a great guy and really does an excellent job interviewing his guests on a wide variety of topics. Mary and I have done the show before (this time last year as well) and it was a pleasure. Be sure to tune in!

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The deadline for submitting proposals for the Gilbane Boston conference, December 2 - 4, 2008 is June 15. See: http://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html

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Udi Manber, Vice President of Engineering for Search, Google to Kick-Off Annual Gilbane San Francisco Content Management Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--April 22, 2008. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, today announced that Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will kick-off the annual Gilbane San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google's search quality and continued innovation. Now in its fourth year, the conference has rapidly gained a reputation as a forum for bringing together vendor-neutral industry experts that share and debate the latest information technology experiences, research, trends and insights. The conference takes place June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com).

"Google's success in search is widely thought of as being a result of their use of link activity and PageRank to supplement keyword search. In fact, link behavior is just one of many signals that help provide users with the most relevant results," said Gilbane Group CEO Frank Gilbane, "Udi Manber is the engineering vice president in charge of this ongoing, and necessarily secret effort. What Udi is able to share about improving search will be interesting to all, but especially valuable to knowledge workers whose need for quality search is critical".

Gilbane San Francisco has gained a reputation for helping attendees move beyond the mainstream content technologies they are familiar with, to enhanced “2.0” versions, which can open up new business opportunities, keep customers engaged, and improve internal communication and collaboration. The 2008 event will have its usual collection of information and content technology experts, including practitioners, technologists, business strategists, consultants, and the leading analysts from a variety of market and technology research firms.

Topics to be covered in-depth at Gilbane San Francisco include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Media; Content Globalization & Localization; XML Content Strategies; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and Publishing Technology & Best Practices.

Details on the Google keynote session as well as other keynotes and conference breakout sessions can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-grid.html. In addition to the conference portion of the event, there is a technology demonstration area hall where vendors showcase their latest solutions giving attendees the opportunity to talk one-on-one with the industry’s technology innovators.

Media sponsors of the Gilbane San Francisco event include Business Wire, CMSWatch, CMSWire, eContent, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine. The event’s Platinum sponsor is FatWire, and the event’s Gold sponsors include CrownPeak, Lionbridge, RedDot, SDL Tridion, and Sitecore. A full list of sponsors and exhibitors to date are listed at: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

To register visit: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

To exhibit or sponsor visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibit.html

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, consulting & advisory services, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://lighthouseseminars.com

Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com
or
Lighthouse Seminars
Jeffrey V. Arcuri, 508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com

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Thursday, May 8, 1:00 pm ET

Customers expect more than a one-size-fits-all web experience. They want "my-size-fits-me" content every time they interact with your company. Or they don't come back.

In this webinar, marketing managers learn the latest approaches to using knowledge about visitors and behaviors to drive dynamic content delivery. Tony White, Gilbane's lead analyst for web content management, and Brett Zucker, CTO for Bridgeline Software, discuss emerging technologies for serving up analytics-driven content that attracts customers, engenders loyalty, and improves site ROI. The webinar is sponsored by Bridgeline Software.

Registration is open.

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For Immediate Release:
Authored by Search Expert Stephen Arnold, report includes practical advice, a "beyond search" market map, profiles of 24 companies, and a glossary.

Cambridge MA, April 8, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a new special report, Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work, by Stephen Arnold (http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html). The 270-page study contains a discussion of how-to’s, so you can fix your broken enterprise search system. You will also find a detailed discussion of today’s market for search and content processing systems, with profiles of 24 selected vendors.

Enterprise Search
According to Stephen, "The study - a first in analysis of search and content processing - represents more than a year of research into text processing and information access. 'Enterprise search' has become devalued and is misleading, out-of-date, and a cause of the on-going confusion about information access." He adds, “Who wants a system that is expensive, slow, and makes the employee with a real information need do more work. Shouldn't search should make the employee’s job easier?”

Google
Mr. Arnold’s previous work on Google’s engineering, The Google Legacy (2005) and Google Version 2.0 (2007), provided a foundation for Beyond Search’s most remarkable revelation about Google. Sidestepping the routine description of the Google Search Appliance and Google Apps, Beyond Search reveals important, little-known information about Google’s dataspace technology. This technology - if commercialized by Google - has the potential to transform search and retrieval, adding greater potency to the “beyond search” idea.

Vendor Profiles
In the profiles of up-and-coming vendors, Mr. Arnold provides candid evaluations of each vendor’s technology plus practical comments about what the vendor’s core competency is. Steve says, “Each profile contains what I call a ‘net net’ section. I try to sum up in about 100 words exactly what you need to know about each vendor. There’s no ‘pay for coverage’ in this study. Vendors had a chance to push back on my assessments, but no vendor paid for an inclusion in this report. IT professionals often struggle to figure out if a report is objective. There’s no confusion in Beyond Search - vendors are included on merit alone.” Vendor profiles include: Access Innovations, Attensity Corporation, Bitext, Brainware, Inc., Cognition Technologies, Inc., Connotate Technologies, Dieselpoint Inc., Exalead, Exegy, IBM Corporation, Information Builders Inc., Intelligenx, IntelliSearch Inc., ISYS Search Software, Lexalytics Inc., Linguamatics Ltd., Microsoft Corp., PolySpot SAS, Recommind, SchemaLogic Inc., Siderean Software Inc., Thetus Corporation, Vivisimo Corp., and ZyLAB.

See an abbreviated outline.

Availability
The report is in electronic form in PDF format, and is available for immediate purchase and download. A workgroup license (up to 10) is $895 ($795 if ordered before April 25, 2008); an enterprise site license is $1595 ($1495 if ordered before April 25, 2008). Order and download now on our secure e-commerce site or see more detailed ordering information at http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html.

There are a small number of review copies available for qualified press. To request a review copy send email to beyondsearch@gilbane.com

About Gilbane Group Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

Contact:
Sarah G. Dionne
Gilbane Group Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 114
sarah@gilbane.com

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When: April 9, 11:00 am ET

What: Inconsistencies in source documentation and their impact on translation costs and downstream processes, and how your company can address the problems

Who: across Systems, language services provider Argo Translation, Inc., Quad/Graphics, and Gilbane Group

How: Register now.

For more information, visit the Gilbane globalization blog.

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