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Google & JotSpot vs. Microsoft & Socialtext?

October 31, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

Not as manipulative a headline as you might think! Google announced it had acquired Jotspot today, and Socialtext announced “SocialPoint”, a wiki for SharePoint, on Monday. The timing of these announcements may be accidental, but Socialtext and JotSpot were very competitive and have countered each other’s releases before. In any case this is big news for the enterprise wiki world, and good news for many, including the other enterprise wiki vendors – at least in the short term since the market is so young.

This will obviously be a hot topic in our Collaboration & Enterprise Blogs & Wikis Track in Boston at the end of the month, especially in the Enterprise Wiki CEO/CTO Panel where Socialtext, MindTouch, Traction, CustomerVision, and eTouch will debate – maybe Google can join them… Enterprise wiki vendors Atlassian and SilkRoad will also be there.

Note we are again hosting an “American Idol” type contest along with CMS Watch, but this year it is an “Enterprise Wiki Idol” instead of a CMS Idol. This is a free event in the demo area. More information including the judges and contestants is here.

There is a lot of commentary on this week’s announcements. See what our friends at Between the Lines, Dan Farber and David Berlind have to say, as well as Don Dodge (Microsoft), and Ross Mayfield (Socialtext).

Gilbane Washington DC 2007 Site Now Live

October 16, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

We are repeating our Washington DC conference with CMS Watch on June 5-6, 2007, and the landing page for the event is now live at: http://gilbanedc.com/. We will be returning to the Reagan building.
The deadline for submitting speaking proposals for Gilbane Washington DC 2007 is January 15, 2007. See the Speaker Guidelines page for details on how to submit proposals, and the site landing page to see the topic areas we’ll be covering.
Mark your calendars!

SharePoint ECM Starter Kit Updated

October 12, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

From the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog:

The ECM Starter Kit updated for B2TR is in the process of being published to MSDN. But in the meantime, just thought I’d post an “unofficial” version.
The samples are pretty much the same as in the Beta 2 kit, but there are a few additions:
Whitepaper: How to Add Activities to SharePoint Designer
Records Management Sample: Sample Barcode Generator
ECM Workflow Activity: FindManager activity
Also, the workflow templates come with some WSP solution package files to help with bundling workflows for deployment on production servers.

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Welcome Elizabeth Gooding

October 4, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

I had planned on introducing Elizabeth Gooding, our newest guest blogger, with her initial post, but Elizabeth caught me off guard and already posted twice last week (here and here)! In any case, Elizabeth has a design and consulting company she founded 18 years ago that has been focused ever since on the document design, processing, and delivery needs of financial services companies. Elizabeth is a hands-on CEO who may know more than anyone about technologies and strategies for financial service industry document-oriented applications. Elizabeth brings a new area of important expertise to our blog. Welcome Elizabeth!
Disclosure: I am on her board, but I would still say nice things about her if I wasn’t!

Gilbane San Francisco site is now live

September 29, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

We’ll be focused on our upcoming Boston conference for the next few weeks, but we are already working on our annual Spring event in San Francisco, April 10 – 13. We will be back at the Palace Hotel. The conference site address is now live at: http://gilbanesf.com/

Content Management 2.0

September 27, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

Well, it is a provocative and interesting way to launch a discussion about the changes in the CM market.
Dan Farber reports from DEMO on new products that some might consider Content Management 2.0, and why, from Koral, System One, Serebrum and MindTouch.

For a veteran’s point of view see John Newton’s post on CM 2.0 over on the Content Technology CTO Blog.

Gilbane Group, FatWire, Endeca, & Molecular Webinar

September 25, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Thursday, October 12, 2006, 1:00 pm EDT
Gilbane Group’s Mary Laplante and FatWire’s Jeff Ernst, discuss content, relevancy, and customer experience with invited guests from Endeca and Molecular. Webinar event hosted by FatWire. Register at:
http://www.fatwire.com/gilbanewebinar/

New CTO blog

September 19, 2006 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Over the summer we came up with the idea for hosting a blog for CTOs from all parts of the content and information industry to debate technologies and architectures. We finally got around to launching the Content Technology CTO Blog today. Here is the press release, and more info on how it works and how to contribute. John Newton, CTO of Alfresco and Vern Imrich CTO of Percussion already have posts up. Stop by and comment!