Both Mary Laplante and Tony White are giving presentations in two different webinars this week, sponsored by Astoria and AIIM respectively. There is more info on our Events blog here and here.
Author: Frank Gilbane (Page 59 of 74)
The last time I posted on this topic I claimed the controversy over the two applications was no longer interesting. Unless you have to deal with standards organizations’ politics this is still true. However this does not mean that there are not good reasons to keep up with developments of new tools and new (governmental) decisions on adoption of one of the two applications. (Note the use of ‘applications’ is deliberate and correct both from a standards perspective since both ODF and Open XML are ‘XML applications’, and from a product point of view since a decision to use one or the other is, from a practical point of view, a product decision). All our coverage with links to most other historical coverage is here.
For recent updates see:
- An interview with Microsoft’s Tom Robertson, by Mary Jo Foley
- Comments from Microsoft’s Brian Jones, and a podcast of a conversation between Brian and Jon Udell
- Comments from Novell’s Jeff Jaffe’s blog, and
- The latest features of ODF from OASIS.
The new Content Management Professionals board of directors has chosen their officers for 2007. Congratulations to all – especially our very own Mary Laplante, who will be the President. The full lineup is:
- Mary Laplante, President
- Linda Burman, Vice President
- Emma Hamer, Treasurer
- Joan Lasselle, Secretary
- Travis Wissink, Director at large
For more information, see the CM Pros site at http://www.cmpros.org/, and join CM Pros for their Spring Summit meeting in San Francisco in April.
A reminder for all you CM Pros out there, forwarded on behalf of the Elections committee:
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The conference track descriptions and the conference session schedule have now been published. Complete tutorial and conference session descriptions will be published soon, along with the speaker list.
Track descriptions:
Conference schedule:
Nora Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing & Director, UMD Center for Marketing Research at the University of MA Dartmouth, along with co-author Eric Mattson, have finished their study of the Inc. 500 and their use of social media. This follows-up an earlier study from Nora on corporate blogging.
The obviously interesting headline finding, which I’ve pasted from Nora’s email is:
The Inc. 500 are thoroughly involved in social media at an adoption rate more than twice that of the Fortune 500. Best yet, this is probably the most valid study on corporate blogging etc. done to date, with a very low error level of just +/- 3%.
A summary of the findings in PDF is available here. Nora will be publishing more analysis of the research throughout 2007, some of which she will talk about here as one of our guest bloggers.
A quick reminder to submit your speaking proposals before tomorrow’s deadline. We do take proposals after the deadlines but the opportunities dwindle rapidly. For details on how to submit a proposal see: https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html. Email proposals to speaking@gilbane.com.
Gilbane San Francisco – http://gilbanesf.com/, April 10-12, 2007, Palace Hotel.
Call for Papers Deadline: January 3rd, 2007
We launched a new consulting practice and blog yesterday to focus on Enterprise Search. I am thrilled to have Lynda Moulton join us to be the Lead Analyst of the practice. Lynda has a long and deep experience as an expert on research technologies as a software developer, entrepreneur, and consultant. We’ve been getting more calls for help about enterprise search over the past year, as well as increased interest in our Enterprise Search track at our conferences – the topic cried out for a dedicated focus. Visit our new Enterprise Search blog at https://gilbane.com/author/lynda-moulton/, and let Lynda know what questions you have about search technology and its enterprise application.
