Author: Frank Gilbane (Page 46 of 74)

We hope to see many of you at our opening keynote panel at Gilbane Boston (December 2, 8:30 – 10:00am at the Westin Copley), but whether you are there physically or not, you can participate by asking questions in advance. K1. Opening Keynote Panel – A Conversation About Content, Collaboration & Customers includes:

Moderator: Frank Gilbane, CEO Gilbane Group
Panelists:
Susan Parker, Director, Mass.gov, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution
Luuk de Jager, Senior Director, B2C Organizational Empowerment, Central Marketing Office Online, Philips Consumer Lifestyle

See the complete description of the panel at: http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html#K1

Four ways to ask questions:

1. email questions to questions@gilbaneboston.com – be sure to identify which session the question is for
2. include questions as a comment on this blog post
3. Tweet your questions using the conference and session hash tags (see below)
4. DM your question to http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston

A note on hash tags:

#gilbaneboston is the event hash tag. For individual sessions we’ll use the session codes listed with the session descriptions, for example #k1 for K1. Opening Keynote Panel – A Conversation About Content, Collaboration & Customers. For sessions with multiple codes, simply use the first, so for W9/E13/I7. Open Source CMS Powwow use #w9. For Pre-conference workshops use the workshop codes. For example for worksop A: How to Select a Web Content Management System use #a.

Ask away!

For Immediate Release:

Cambridge MA, September 29, 2009. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced that Bill Trippe has been promoted to Vice President & Lead Analyst, Content Strategies. In his new role at Gilbane Group, Bill will be a core part of the management team, and will be focused on continuing to grow Gilbane Group’s strategy consulting and advisory business.

Trippe was previously Lead Analyst for Gilbane’s XML Technologies and Content Strategies Consulting Practice, where he led efforts helping businesses, publishers and government agencies build successful strategies especially for large and complex content management and publishing requirements. His new role reflects his success and the need to grow the management team to accommodate the growth in consulting business.

“Bill and I have worked together in variety of capacities for many years, and I’m thrilled that we’ll be working together even more closely.” said Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group. “Bill’s expertise and experience combined with his strong interpersonal skills keep him in high demand from both customers and colleagues”.

“Clearly articulated content strategies are essential to getting business case funding in today’s economic climate,” comments Mary Laplante, VP Client Services, Programs and Consulting. “Bill’s new role is a response to growing demand by users and buyers for help with developing sustainable content strategies that deliver measurable value.”

“I am excited to be taking on this new role at Gilbane. The content management landscape continues to be dynamic and compelling, and I look forward to helping our clients leverage technology for productivity, new product development, and overall growth and success.” said Bill Trippe, VP & Lead Analyst, Content Strategies.

Tweet this: Gilbane Group Appoints Bill Trippe VP, Content Strategies http://bit.ly/1Ju6mM #gilbane

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 60 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Our next event is Gilbane Boston, December 1-3, 2009 – http://gilbaneboston.com/. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at https://gilbane.com.

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We are ramping up for our annual Boston conference, and the program is mostly complete. Our tagline this year is “Content, Collaboration & Customers”, and as usual, we’ll be discussing a wide range of related topics and covering all the important trends. Four areas we are paying extra attention too are:

Managing enterprise social content. This should not be a surprise. The increasing use of social software in business and government environments for both internal and customer communications means more content, of a different kind, to be managed.

Managing enterprise mobile content. Smartphones are replacing noteboooks and desktops as clients  for many enterprise applications, and complementing them for even more. Mobile is another enterprise channel with unique content requirements.

SharePoint & Office 2010 and web content management. As the SharePoint surge continues with the upcoming release of 2010, early signs point to increased emphasis on web content management and integration between WCM, Office and SharePoint. How will this affect the content management market?

E-government & transparency. We are seeing a lot of activity here among both state and federal agencies, and there are special content management challenges that in many (most?) projects mean integrating new technologies and practices (e.g., social software) with established information management approaches (e.g., XML, XBRL).

Stay tuned for updates, or follow the conference on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston.

We’ll be rolling out the complete program for this year’s Gilbane Boston conference over the next couple of weeks, but the overall conference schedule is now available. Note that it is subject to change, although it seldom changes very much.