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The Gilbane Boston Conference announced a new community site for all those involved in Gilbane conferences, or interested learning how to apply content, web and mobile technologies to communicate with their ecosystem of customers, employees, suppliers, partners, and the rest of the world in the most effective and efficient way possible. The site has social features, including blogging, public and private group creation, private messaging, and expanded profiles with areas of interest, and will be kept active in between events to facilitate ongoing discussion and networking. The community site launches with groups representing the four conference tracks at Gilbane Boston 2011: Customers & Engagement, Colleagues & Collaboration, Content Technologies, and Cross-media Publishing. Members can login and join today, and suggest specific topics they would like to see covered - the track chairs will be monitoring these groups. Site members can also create their own groups and get a discussion going. All conference registrants are added to the community site as premium members. The site welcomes those who are not able to attend our conference but who wish to contribute to the conversations, however certain privileges will be restricted to conference attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Membership, and contributions will be moderated. The 2011 Gilbane Boston conference, produced by Frank Gilbane and Lighthouse Seminars, takes place November 29 - December 1, 2011 at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. The Gilbane Conference brings together industry thought leaders from global businesses and technology, analyst, and consulting firms to help organizations learn how to meet the critical issues challenges they face in using web technologies and digital content to more effectively connect with customers and collaborate with colleagues across mobile and web platforms. Sign-up to be a member of the new community site at: http://gilbaneboston.com/community/

The annual analyst keynote panel at the sixth annual Gilbane Boston Conference, produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, to take place December 1- 3, 2009, in Boston, MA, hosts leading industry analysts who will debate What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming in content management and collaboration. Industry analysts from different firms speak at all Gilbane events to make sure conference attendees hear differing opinions from a wide variety of expert sources. A second, third, fourth or fifth opinion will ensure IT and business managers don't make ill-informed decisions about critical content and information technologies or strategies. Some of the topics to be debated are: How the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 with affect the web and enterprise content management, search, and collaboration markets; What organizations are finding when they deploy enterprise social software; What companies should be doing about managing user-generated content; Whether it is time to seriously invest in mobile content applications, and; How companies are engaging customers with multi-lingual web sites. "Industry Analyst Debate: What's Real, What's Hype, and What's Coming" will be a lively, interactive debate guaranteed to be both informative and fun. Participants include moderator, Frank Gilbane, CEO Gilbane Group, and panelists: Melissa Webster, Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC; Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst, Forrester; Dale Waldt, Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group; Kathleen Reidy, Senior Analyst, 451 Group; and Guy Creese, VP & Research Director, Collaboration and Content Strategies, Burton Group. Conference attendees are encouraged to come with questions, and can also suggest questions in advance via our social media channels or email. See http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html#K2, http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston

One of the most closely watched technology trends for 2009 is the need for enterprises to leverage new web platforms while holding down the costs of managing their ever-proliferating content. Even in the midst of the current economic downturn, critical areas related to global business content will see double-digit growth over the next 12 months - including spending on search technologies which is projected to represent almost half of all digital spending by businesses in 2009, along with rising corporate investment in social media tools (Source: Winterberry Group). Reflecting these fundamental shifts in the way enterprises engage with customers and disseminate information, the sixth annual Gilbane San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com) June 2-4, 2009 at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco – will focus on the timely theme “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” Produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, the 2009 Gilbane San Francisco conference will offer enhanced programs tied to the business issues surrounding a company’s marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference tracks have been organized around the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and where they are most likely to invest, including: Web Business & Engagement; Managing Collaboration & Social Media; Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing; and Content Infrastructure. Gilbane San Francisco brings together industry experts from leading technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms who provide attendees with the latest successful content management and new media strategies, technologies and techniques. In addition to the latest best practices, technology coverage within these four tracks will include enterprise and site search; content globalization; semantic technologies; publishing; XML; and social media tools and platforms from Twitter to business blogs, project wikis and microformats. The just-published schedule of conference sessions can be viewed at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-schedule.html. Pre-conference workshops will feature industry thought leaders covering core topics in web content, new media, Sharepoint and more -- the full schedule of workshops can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/workshops.html. IT and business professionals involved in content creation, management, delivery or analytics wishing to attend the conference may register at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html. Technology solution providers wishing to exhibit or sponsor should visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html. Follow the conference on Twitter:
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Lighthouse Seminars announced the opening of the 5th annual Gilbane Boston conference at the Westin Copley hotel. The main conference opens Wednesday, December 3rd with keynotes from Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, and Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution. Technology demonstrations from over 50 exhibitors take place along side the main conference on Wednesday and Thursday. Pre-conference Workshops take place today starting at 1:00pm. Registration is available on-site at the Westin Copley Hotel.

Lighthouse Seminars announced a reminder that the special "early-bird" discount for the Gilbane Boston conference to be held at the Westin Copley hotel December 2-4, is available through November 4th 7th. See http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, announced that it is now accepting speaker proposals for the Gilbane Boston Conference set to take place December 2-4, 2008. The deadline to submit proposals is June 15th. Gilbane conference content is carefully designed to ensure the focus is on what businesses need to know to successfully plan and implement content technology solutions. Topics to be covered at this event include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; Enterprise 2.0 Technologies & Social Computing; Content Globalization & Localization; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and XML & Publishing Technology. To submit a proposal email a proposal that is relevant to the topics described above to speaking@gilbane.com. Additional information regarding speaking guidelines and policies can be found at:
http://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html