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Gilbane Group’s use of Twitter

February 26, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

We’ve started using Twitter in multiple ways, and while our use of it will certainly evolve, I thought it would be helpful to point how what we are doing with it. (I’ll save thoughts about how it could or should be used for another time.)

We are a business, so we have a company handle that any of us here can use to tweet or retweet information about us or the industry and topics we cover. http://twitter.com/gilbane.
We also have a Twitter handle associated with our “NewsShark” industry news blog and email newsletter. http://twitter.com/NewsShark – just one more channel to choose from for news updates.
We have a handle for our San Francisco conference that our conference group will use for conference updates. http://twitter.com/gilbanesf (we’ll also be using #gilbanesf as a hashtag).
A number of us have twitter handles. Mine is http://twitter.com/fgilbane. Our most active twitterers are Bill Trippe http://twitter.com/billtrippe, and Leonor Ciarlone http://twitter.com/Lciarlone.

Any suggestions on how else we might use Twitter?

Gilbane San Francisco conference schedule posted

February 18, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

We’ll start posting the full program and speakers next week, but the program schedule is now available at: .

The pre-conference workshop schedule, descriptions and instructors are also now live at: http://gilbanesf.com/09/

Another pre-conference workshop added to Gilbane San Francisco

February 2, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

We’ve added a 6th pre-conference workshop:
F: Making the Business Case for Content Globalization
Instructor: Andrew Draheim, Principal, Kidd & Draheim

Gilbane San Francisco pre-conference workshops posted

January 29, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

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 on Community Platforms

January 16, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

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.

Great advice for conference attendees

January 11, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

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.

Dale Waldt on semantic markup

January 9, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

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“.

Mark Cuban on XBRL

January 4, 2009 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

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!