We’ve added a 6th pre-conference workshop:
F: Making the Business Case for Content Globalization
Instructor: Andrew Draheim, Principal, Kidd & Draheim
Author: Frank Gilbane (Page 45 of 71)
The main conference program for Gilbane San Francisco 2009 will be published in a week or two, but the 1/2 day pre-conference workshop descriptions for June 2nd have been posted:
- How to Select a Web Content Management System
Instructor: Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here - Making SharePoint Work in the Enterprise
Instructor: Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo, Inc. - Managing the Web: The Fundamentals of Web Operations Management
Instructor: Lisa Welchman, Founding Partner, Welchman Pierpoint - Getting Started with Business Taxonomy Design
Instructors: Joseph A. Busch, Founder and Principal, & Ron Daniel, Principal, Taxonomy Strategies LLC - Sailing the Open Seas of New Media
Instructor: Chris Brogan, President, New Marketing Labs, LLC
Forrester Sr. Analyst Jeremiah Owyang discusses the findings of their latest report on community platforms, “Forrester Wave: Community Platforms, Q1 2009” on his blog. He also provides a lot of information about their methodology, including how they reduced the number companies to include from 100 to 9. The full report is only for Forrester clients, but Jeremiah provides a summary which you can read here. Here’s a snip from his post:
What did we find? First of all, this is still a very young market, with the average tenure of a company being just a few years in community. Despite the immaturity, we evaluated nine and were impressed with Jive Software and Telligent Systems who lead the pack because of their strong administrative and platform features and solution offerings.
Next, a group of vendors ranked as strong performers: KickApps and Pluck enable large Web sites to quickly scale with social features. Also in the strong performer category, Awareness, Lithium Technologies, and Mzinga enable brands to build branded communities while LiveWorld offers brands agency-like services. While Leverage Software is not on par with the others in the category, they are ideal for medium-sized businesses and due to their cost-effective platform could have a strong position during this economic downturn.
A 12 minute podcast on how to make the most out of attending a conference from someone who attends lots of them. He was interviewed by someone promoting the VizThink conference, but his advice applies to any conference.
As I mentioned in November, Dale Waldt has joined us as a senior consultant, and yesterday he started posting on the XML blog. Check out his first post on “Why Adding Semantics to Web Data is Difficult“.
While XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), has been in use on a voluntary basis for awhile, the long slow road to making it a requirement ended this past December with the SEC’s announcement officially mandating it for large public companies (requirements for smaller companies will be phased in). We have argued for years that, as important as XBRL is from a regulatory point of view, its benefit for internal corporate and inter-company financial operations is reason enough to adopt it.
Given the current mess in the financial markets, XBRL has even more potential. Mark Cuban suggests using XBRL to help track the bailout money. Sounds like a great idea, and hopefully others will think of additional uses of this already-existing tool.
Thanks for the tweet Andrew!
The call for papers deadline for Gilbane San Francisco is January 14th, 2009.
See: https://gilbane.com/blog/2008/12/call_for_papers_deadline_gilba.html
The call for papers deadline for Gilbane San Francisco is January 14th, 2009.
Please see the conference description and topics below, and then follow the instructions and guidelines for submitting proposals at: https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html. Send any questions to speaking@gilbane.com.
The lines between many content technologies continues to blur, as they do for example, between Web publishing and social media. Web content management is not just about web pages in repositories, but is part of an integrated platform for presenting and interacting with customers, partners, employees, and other enterprise applications.
Social media outlets with varying characteristics are now channels that need to be included in content strategies. This does not mean you "manage" the content in the same way, or even at all in some cases, but it does mean you need to consider and understand the content and its flow, whether it is used as a new way to informally communicate, for project collaboration, or for engaging customers. Also the variety of tools you might use say, for improving project collaboration, managing regulated content, building an employee knowledge center, or multi-channel publishing, is quite diverse.
Given this evolution of technologies and products, squeezing topics into arbitrarily defined technology categories becomes, well, a bit arbitrary. So, at Gilbane San Francisco this year we are focusing on four broad areas of enterprise use of Web and content technologies. We’ll still be covering all of the technologies we traditionally cover, but are organizing them in a way that will make it easier for you to pick a customized conference track that meets your specific business objectives. We’ll also provide more guidance on specific business applications. For example, if you are interested in adding multi-lingual capability to your product support infrastructure, we’ll identify each conference session that would be appropriate to that task.
The four tracks are:
- Web Business & Engagement
- Managing Collaboration & Social Media: Internal & External
- Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing
- Content Infrastructures
In addition to covering "best practices", technology coverage within these four tracks includes:
- Web Content Management (WCM)
- Authoring
- Enterprise & Site Search, Text Analytics
- Semantic Technologies
- Social Media & Networking
- Multilingual Technologies
- Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
- Publishing
- XML
