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Conference update

May 6, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

There are only 4 more weeks until our annual San Francisco conference. If you haven’t already made plans to attend, you should check it out. We have more content than we have ever had in San Francisco, so whatever kind of enterprise web or content application project or responsibility you have, you’ll find learning and networking opportunities.

Our marketing group has been posting updates on our announcements blog and on Twitter. But for those of you who only read this stream, here is a quick update:

The early discount rates have been extended to May 8th.
Gilbane conference room rate of $220 at the San Francisco Westin includes complimentary daily guest room internet use, valued at $14.95 per day.
There are 46 conference sessions, workshops or product labs, 90 expert speakers, 36 sponsors/exhibitors.
Keynotes from Microsoft & Adobe on the future of web platforms and customer engagement
Keynote analyst panel with Forrester, IDC, Gilbane, and WelchmanPierpoint.
We’ll be using #gilbanesf as the hash tag.

See you there.

Microsoft now a platinum sponsor at Gilbane San Francisco

April 22, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

More on this later, but the title of the keynote by Microsoft’s Tricia Bush, “The Web Platform of The Future”, should suggest Microsoft’s presence will be interesting.

Join us at: http://gilbanesf.com

Wordle for Gilbane San Francisco program

April 16, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

A quick way to get a feel for the topics in this year’s conference program. Compliments of Wordle

Twtpoll on eBook reader use

April 7, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Bill http://twitter.com/billtrippe has set up tweet poll:

What eBook device are you using today? http://twtpoll.com/31yn5r

#twtpoll

Welcome Larry Hawes – yes another one!

March 16, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

I am happy to announce that Larry Hawes has joined us, starting today, as Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Enterprise Social Media Practice, along with Geoff. This has been an important area of coverage for us since we started writing about enterprise use of wikis and blogs over 4 years ago – it is hard to believe how unusual such a thing was then. Not so now, and it is great to have Larry aboard to help IT and business managers understand the role of social media tools in corporate and government applications.

Larry has most recently spent 6 years with IBM Global Business Services as a Consultant and Program Manager in collaboration and knowledge management, focused largely on public sector clients. Larry also spent 3.5 years at Delphi Group as an analyst and consultant where he worked with both vendors and enterprise customers. Larry’s bio has not been posted on our site yet, but can be found at: http://lehawes.wordpress.com/about-larry-hawes/, and of course on LinkedIn.

Larry’s email is: larry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 154. You can follow Larry on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/lehawes

Welcome Larry!

Welcome back Kaija

March 13, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Our colleaugue, Kaija Pöysti, has posted mostly on the content globalization blog, but also here in 2007-08. She took some time off to move back to Finland, get re-engaged with board work, and write a book on corporate use of social media with co-author Leenamaija Otala. She is now back and will be posting on both globalization and social media topics. Welcome back Kaija!

Welcome Barry Schaeffer

March 9, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

I am happy to announce that long time SGML/XML expert consultant Barry Schaeffer has joined us officially as a Senior Analyst, XML Strategies & Content Management. Barry joins our XML Practice, and has already posted the XML blog.

Barry sold his company, X.Systems Inc., to XyEnterprise last year, and has had extensive experience with large and complex SGML/XML projects, including a number for federal, and state governments over the years. I don’t remember exactly when I met Barry but it was in the early 80s and he was already involved with SGML projects. Mary, Bill, and Dale have also known Barry for some time. Our XML practice has some serious critical mass, and Barry’s experience with government, NGO, and enterprise consulting add considerable depth to the team. Barry’s bio has been posted.

Barry’s email is: barry@gilbane.com and his phone extension is 213.

Welcome Barry!

Gilbane SF conference program posted

March 2, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

The conference session descriptions have now been posted at including bi-directional links with the schedule. The program (and the page) are about 90% complete – there are a couple of session descriptions to be added and not all speakers are listed yet. The speaker bio page is also posted at with many of the speakers listed. Bi-directional inks between the speaker bios are conference sessions are being worked on now. And attendee, speaker, and press registration are open at: .