Gilbane Events & Announcements

• 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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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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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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For Immediate Release:
Authored by Search Expert Stephen Arnold, report includes practical advice, market map and profiles of 24 companies

Cambridge MA, March 4, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the launch of a new special report, "Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work", by Stephen Arnold. The 250-page report also includes a "beyond search" vendor market map, a chapter on Google’s next generation plans for behind-the-firewall search, and a glossary. For a more complete description and to sign-up to be notified when you can purchase the report at the introductory price, go to http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html.

According to Lynda Moulton, Gilbane's Lead Analyst for Enterprise Search "Over the past decade, companies and government agencies that have invested in major search technology have done so at great expense. This study recognizes that there are many large search systems out there that are in need of serious remediation or replacement. Mr. Arnold devotes over 40 pages to remediation options before presenting 24 'beyond search' technologies. These include both mature versions of established search products that have evolved to a stage of easier deployment, implementation and maintenance, and some new entrants that support highly specialized retrieval challenges within organizations. He leaves the reader with a feast for thought about how to meet enterprise search needs head on with both fix and replace options". See Lynda's blog at http://gilbane.com/search_blog/.

See Stephen Arnold’s "Beyond Search" blog: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

Availability
The report will be available for purchase and download in early April. A workgroup license (up to 10) is $895 ($795 if ordered before April 15, 2008); an enterprise site license is $1595 ($1495 if ordered before April 15, 2008). http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.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, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

Contact:
Mary Laplante
Gilbane Group Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 212
mary@gilbane.com

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Decades of experience with XML technologies and content strategies provide unique ability to help organizations make appropriate technology choices and leverage industry best practices. New blog at http://gilbane.com/xml

Cambridge MA, January 29, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the launch of a new practice area dedicated to helping organizations of all types utilize XML technologies and best practices. Well-known industry expert and long-time Gilbane associate Bill Trippe will be the practice’s Lead Analyst. Trippe is joined by industry veterans and Gilbane senior analysts Leonor Ciarlone and Mary Laplante.

Gilbane’s XML Technologies and Content Strategies Practice is designed for IT and business managers who need to gain control of critical content, increase collaboration across enterprise applications, improve efficiencies through faster and more flexible information distribution between business partners and customers, and implement new business models that can keep pace with today's internet-speed competitive requirements. The amount of XML content being generated today is staggering, as large infrastructure providers like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle, and others offer tools and technologies that generate and manage XML information, While many organizations are taking advantage of XML within departmental applications, most companies are not even close to taking advantage of the XML information being created and utilized by popular applications including office software and database repositories. Significantly, many executives are unaware of the XML content and data that are untapped assets within their organizations.

“As most of our customers know, XML (and before that SGML) technologies and applications have always been core to our content and information technology consulting and coverage." said Frank Gilbane, Gilbane Group CEO. "Our team has deep expertise that comes from roles in enterprise IT organizations, software development, standards bodies and industry associations involved in development and adoption of markup language technologies for key business and government applications. While XML cuts across all our analyst and consulting activity, today's proliferation of XML content means that many businesses need to consider XML as strategic to their information infrastructure. Our group's experience and market knowledge uniquely qualify Gilbane to provide that expertise. I am thrilled that Bill Trippe, who is always in demand, will be the lead analyst and consultant for the Group."

“Project leaders, IT managers, and business executives have always depended on Gilbane Group to help them understand the value of applying standards and technologies to their businesses,” said Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst, XML Technologies and Content Strategies Practice. “With this new practice, we are bringing together research, best practices, and advice and guidance on XML implementation and technology acquisition that they cannot get from any other single source.”

To learn more about Gilbane Group’s XML Consulting and Advisory Practice, visit the group’s new blog launched today at http://gilbane.com/xml/ or send an email to xml@gilbane.com.

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Event Offers Alternative to Traditional Tradeshows with Heavy Focus on Providing Independent Research and Insight from Multiple Industry Analyst Firms

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that last week’s fourth annual Gilbane Boston event (http://gilbaneboston.com) at the Westin Copley Place hotel, drew over 70 exhibitors and had an 18 percent increase in attendance, making it one of the largest and most important annual content management events. Attendees from companies such as Caterpillar, General Motors Corporation, Hilton Hotels, Morgan Stanley and Staples participated in the event to obtain independent analysis of technologies and trends from the large gathering of industry analysts and to view the latest solutions introduced by the exhibitors.

In 2008, Gilbane will build on its recent momentum by hosting two events, one in San Francisco, June 18-20 and one in Boston, December 2-4. The events will continue to focus on a variety of key content management topics including Enterprise Search & Text Analytics; Semantic Web Technologies; Content Technologies & Strategies; Web Content Management; Collaboration & Social Computing; Global Content Management; and Enterprise Publishing Technology. For more information on these events visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/FutureEvents.html

“The Gilbane conference was one of the best conferences of the year for our company,” said Mark Chartier, sales director, IntelliSearch. “The speakers and the content of the sessions spoke directly to the concept that Content management and Enterprise Search is not just an application but a strategy. The people that showed up for the conference were exactly the people we were looking to talk to about our enterprise search solution. We also liked the exhibition format with respect to the technology demonstrations as there was a constant flow of new faces during the exhibition and a wide range of vendors from content management to enterprise search like ourselves.”

Separating this event from other tradeshows and conferences is the large contingency of industry analysts ready to share research with attendees. At last week’s event, analysts participated from 451Group, CMS Watch, Gilbane Group, Forrester Research, IDC, Outsell, Jupiter Research, and other firms. In particular, the Gilbane Group launched seven research studies at the event covering a variety of topics including Web content management, enterprise collaboration and social computing, enterprise search, enterprise digital rights management and more. To obtain additional information on these reports visit http://gilbane.com.

“Attendees are looking to obtain information that they can use to help them make the right decisions when it comes to purchasing and implementing content management technologies within their enterprise. Our event provides attendees with substance and this is reflected in the rapid growth of the event year over year. We are bringing together industry thought leaders, technology innovators and enterprise users together to learn, share and debate what information technologies will help increase revenue opportunities and improve operational efficiencies both internally and externally,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair.

To learn more about 2008 exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.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, 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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Study Topics Include Web Content Management, Enterprise Search, Collaboration and Social Computing, Digital Publishing, Enterprise Digital Rights Management, e-Books, and “Beyond Search”

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilbane Group Inc. announced today at the 4th annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com) that they have seven research studies underway that will be published over the next few months. The research for some of these studies is already complete, and preliminary results will be discussed at this week’s conference at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, Tuesday through Thursday (On-site registration is available).

The 7 studies are:

Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience – From our Web Content Management Practice, led by Tony White. Learn more at the conference. See: http://gilbaneboston.com/session_descriptions.html#wcm1

Enterprise Collaboration and Social Computing: A Report on Industry Trends & Best Practices – From our Social Computing and Collaboration Practice, led by Geoffrey Bock. Learn about some of the preliminary results at the conference. See: http://gilbaneboston.com/session_descriptions.html#csc3

Digital Magazine & Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia.

Enterprise Search Markets and Applications: Capitalizing on Emerging Demand – From our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton.

Enterprise Digital Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice. Study led by Bill Rosenblatt.

Digital Platforms & Technologies for Book Publishers: Implementations Beyond “eBook” – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia.

Beyond Search: What to do When you’re Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work – A study authored by Steve Arnold, from our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton.

Stop by the Gilbane Group booth at Gilbane Boston to learn more about any of these studies, or send an email to info@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.

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Successful Event Attributed to Strength of Content Delivered by Leading Industry Analysts, End-User Case Studies and Focused Technology Showcase

WASHINGTON, DC - The Gilbane Group, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch today announced that last week’s Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Washington D.C. was a major success by delivering attendees and exhibitors alike a focused event that provided concrete lessons learned and best practices for industry and government IT professionals. In only its second year, the event doubled the number of Federal, State & Local and association attendees and attracted leading industry analysts and journalists.

The Conference, chaired by Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch (www.cmswatch.com), an authoritative, vendor-neutral source for comparative evaluations of content management and search technologies, featured many great forums for sharing and learning about the latest content technologies. Highlights of the event included the keynote panel comprised of industry analysts debating the future of content technologies, “Pump My Website!” - a session that pit three consulting firms against each other to re-imagine an association website and online strategy (winner voted by attendees) and “Stump the Consultant!” - a session that allowed attendees to challenge analysts with a content technology conundrum or content management project challenge.

“The Gilbane Conference series continues to provide us with direct interaction with companies and organizations looking to go beyond tire kicking but working to fulfill actual RFPs,” said Bill Rogers, CEO of Ektron. “In addition to speaking with potential customers, the events offer our team access to multiple industry analysts who share their insight with us on the latest market trends. The DC event was an excellent forum for us to showcase our latest web content management and authoring solutions to government and association attendees. We look forward to participating in future events.”

The conference planning committee led by Tony Byrne is now looking for speakers for the 2008 event. To submit a speaker, contact Tony at tbyrne@cmswatch.com, or send a proposal to speaking@gilbane.com.

“We recognize that the Federal government and Associations each have their own unique set of content challenges and requirements,” said Byrne. “With that in mind, we are building an event to provide these organizations with discussions around real-world best practices related to managing content. We look forward to coming back to Washington DC next year.”

Gilbane Boston, November 27-29, 2007
The next event in the Gilbane series is Gilbane Boston (http://gilbaneboston.com), taking place November 27-29, 2007 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Conference will focus on the broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications, including widely deployed technologies like web content management, enterprise search, text analytics, and publishing. The event will also look at the use and applicability of newer “social software” technologies for corporate content applications, especially blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS, and .other collaboration and semantic technology tools.

In addition to the keynotes, conference sessions, and exhibit hall, Gilbane Boston has been home to CMS Idol, a fast-paced set of competitive vendor demos. Also taking place is the fifth annual CM Professionals Summit being hosted in conjunction with Gilbane Boston. The one-day CM Pros Fall Summit will kick-off with an industry keynote followed by roundtable discussions and workshops.

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

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WASHINGTON, DC -- The Gilbane Group, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch today announced two keynote sessions that offer attendees direct access to independent industry analysts as well as C-level executives on how to best manage content throughout the enterprise. The event takes place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 5-6, 2007 and is rapidly becoming the regions most sought after content management conference due to the strength of its speakers. It is the industry’s most comprehensive forum for bringing together government, association, and industry executives to share content management best practices.

To view the entire conference program, visit: http://gilbanedc.com/conference_grid.html.

On Tuesday, June 5th from 8:15am-9:30am the keynote session, “Analysts Debate the Future of Content Technologies” will take place. 2007 has proven to be an invigorating year for content technologies. Microsoft transformed SharePoint into an ECM platform. IBM and Yahoo! released free search as an alternative to the Google Appliance. Web CMS vendors are falling over themselves to introduce new, Ajax-based, Web 2.0-powered platforms. What does it all mean? What should managers be on the lookout for in 2008 and beyond? This session will be moderated by Tony Byrne, Founder of CMS Watch and will include Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group, Ann Rockley, President, The Rockley Group, Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch, Erik Hartman, Consultant, Hartman Communicatie BV Benelux Steering Committee Member CM Professionals, and Priscilla Emery, President, e-Nterprise Advisors.

On Wednesday, June 6th from 8:30am-10:00am the keynote session, “CIOs Grapple with Content” will take place. In most enterprises, digital content doubles every three years. At the same time, customers and constituents want access to more of it, in the format they want, at the time they need it, organized carefully around their needs. Meanwhile, enterprises are accountable more than ever for the information they produce, publish, keep, and destroy. What's a CIO to do? This panel of CIOs will discuss how they have dealt with the explosion of demands in their enterprises. This session will be moderated by Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal at CMS Watch and will include Heidi W. Byerly, CAE, IOM - Chief Information Officer, Society for Human Resource Management and Alan Mlinarchik - Chief Information Officer, KCI Holdings.

“Rather than having one individual pontificate on a specific technology, we believe that our keynote panels offer a 360 degree view on how to address today’s challenging requirement for managing content,” said Tony Byrne, Conference Chair. “In putting together our keynotes as well as the regular conference sessions it is our intent to provide attendees with actionable, best practice information so they can deploy technologies suited for their specific environments.”

In addition to the Wednesday keynote session there will also be a closing town hall session “What are the Key Take-Aways?” that will be led by Rand Ruggieri, Program Manager, Office of the CIO, Commerce Department and Atle Skjekkeland, Vice President, AIIM.

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://www.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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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

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Registration is still available on site at the Palace hotel through Thursday. The main conference start this afternoon. If you can only get away for one day, make it Wednesday for the keynote with Adobe, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. The technology showcase opens on Wednesday (with a reception) and Thursday. htt