Gilbane Washington DC 2007: April 2007 Archives

June 5-6 Event Focused on Latest Techniques for Managing Enterprise Content; Program Addresses Government and Non-Profit Agencies Requirements

WASHINGTON - April 24, 2007 - The Gilbane Group, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch today announced that the second annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Washington D.C. will take place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 5-6, 2007. This is the industry’s most comprehensive forum for bringing together government, association, and industry executives to share content management best practices. Information is available at: http://gilbanedc.com/.

The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies will focus on concrete lessons learned and best practices for industry and government specialists alike. The conference program offers three tracks – Web Content Management, Enterprise Content Management and Government (covering both Web and Enterprise Content Management). The first day will focus on the special challenges facing Association web managers.

Special pre-conference tutorials will offer vendor-neutral tours of key technology marketplaces, as well as explain best practices in such topics as web operations, deploying SharePoint, and understanding Web Analytics.

Sessions within the Web Content Management track include:

* Social Networking: The Association Experience
* Content Management meets Association Management
* Top 10 Success Factors for a Content Technology Project
* "How are we doing?" Search and Website Analytics meet Web 2.0
* Lessons from the 250k Club: Managers of huge websites share tips and tricks
* Best practices in integrating CMS and SEO
* Web Content Management Meets Web 2.0

Sessions within the Enterprise Content Management track include:

* Developing a multi-channel publishing strategy
* Everything you wanted to know about MOSS 2007 (but were afraid to ask)
* The new collaborative workplace
* "Tagging, Folksonomy, Taxonomies: What, How, and When?"
* What is "ECM Lite" and how can you start today?
* DITA: not just for TechDocs
* The enterprise search technology landscape

Sessions within the Government track include:

* Building a business case for an agency Web CMS: lessons learned
* Web Governance: successful models
* Authors at our agency actually tag content
* Chicken or the egg: synchronizing agency website redesigns and CMS implementations
* Enterprise Portals: federal lessons learned
* Web 2.0 in government: blog and wiki case studies
* Architecture Matters – Building Enterprise Records Management On a Solid Foundation
* FEA and content integration

To view the full conference visit: http://gilbanedc.com/session_descriptions.html

To register, visit: http://gilbanedc.com/registration.html

To exhibit, contact: Marc Goldstein at 781.821.6652, or mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com

About CMS Watch
CMS Watch is an independent source of analysis and advice on content management and enterprise search. In addition to the freely-available articles on its website, CMS Watch publishes vendor-neutral technology reports that provide independent analysis and practical advice regarding web content management, records management, and enterprise search, and portal solutions. These reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements. For more information, visit www.cmswatch.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.

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
Jeffrey V. Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com

We just finished Gilbane San Francisco last week and it's now time to focus on our Washington DC conference, produced together with CMS Watch. This will be our second annual Gilbane Conference in DC and will take place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 5-6, 2007. This is a conference especially designed to bring together business & technical managers from government agencies, integrators and industry associations. The Gilbane Conference in DC will focus on concrete lessons learned and best practices and is chaired by Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch. The conference agenda is available at: http://gilbanedc.com/conference_grid.html. General information is available at: http://gilbanedc.com/.