Meadows Publishing Solutions (MPS) announced that they have released MPS Index Builder, a software module for QuarkXPress users that creates catalog indexes. Using the new software, catalog publishers can reduce the production time of creating a catalog index from hours to minutes. MPS Index Builder, compatible with QuarkXPress 6.5, is now available from MPS and its distributors. MPS Index Builder was designed for catalog-specific workflows. Index entries can be entered by hand at any time, or imported from a tab-separated text file. In addition, AutoPrice users can also extract SKU information to include in the final index. You can import existing indexes, make changes, and start tagging for the future. Index entries can also be saved, exported and shared by any other workstation. Included is a built-in batch processing feature that will process any number of individual QuarkXPress documents in a single session. www.meadowsps.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 208 of 469)
This category includes editorial and news blog posts related to content management and content strategy. For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Content management is a broad topic that refers to the management of unstructured or semi-structured content as a standalone system or a component of another system. Varieties of content management systems (CMS) include: web content management (WCM), enterprise content management (ECM), component content management (CCM), and digital asset management (DAM) systems. Content management systems are also now widely marketed as Digital Experience Management (DEM or DXM, DXP), and Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM) systems or platforms, and may include additional marketing technology functions.
Content strategy topics include information architecture, content and information models, content globalization, and localization.
For some historical perspective see:
https://gilbane.com/gilbane-report-vol-8-num-8-what-is-content-management/
Five New York State agencies presented the lessons learned and benefits gained from their participation in the Center for Technology in Government’s (CTG) XML Testbed. The Testbed served to assist New York State agencies in examining the benefits as well as the challenges of Web site management using the emerging technology of XML. The Testbed was undertaken in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (GOER), the Office of the Chief Information Officer
(OCIO), and the Office for Technology (OFT). Beginning in the summer of 2005, five New York State agencies were selected to take part in CTG’s XML Testbed and underwent six months of intensive hands-on training and workshops, which led to an XML-based Web site prototype and a business case analysis for each agency. The five participating agencies are the NYS Department of Civil Service, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal, NYS Higher Education Services Corporation, NYS Office of Cultural Education, State Education Department and NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. In the second phase of the Testbed, CTG will examine the Testbed activities and the agency results to produce a set of practical guidelines and case studies that draw on the experiences of Testbed participants to provide guidance for others trying to improve the management, performance, and value of their Web sites. In addition, the Testbed will produce a sharable library of XML technical resources to be made available in the spring of 2006. More information on the XML Testbed Project can be found at:
As Tony over at CMS Watch says, he has been nagging us for a long time to do a conference in Washington DC focused on content technologies for federal government applications. Tony got his wish but only by agreeing to help!
Our new conference will be at the Reagan Building, June 13 -15, 2006, and is being produced in conjunction with CMS Watch with Tony as the conference chair. We’ve done a fair bit of work for the government over the years and are looking forward to doing more in DC, and to working with Tony on the event. There is a call for papers, and the deadline for submissions is February 28, 2006.
For Immediate Release:
New Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government Set to Take Place June 13-15, 2006 in Washington D.C.
1/24/06
Produced Together with CMS Watch, the Event will Provide Government and Industry Leaders a Forum to Share Best Practices and Latest Techniques in Managing Enterprise Content; Call for Papers Due February 28th
Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-323-6006
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com
Cambridge, MA, January 24, 2006. The Gilbane Report, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch today announced the launch of The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government, taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 13-15, 2006. Modeled after the overwhelming success of its Boston and San Francisco events, this end-user driven event will offer attendees real-world, actionable advice for managing enterprise content to meet today’s Federal requirements. Information is available at: http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/.
At the Content Technologies for Government Conference, topics covered will include:
- Enterprise content management technologies, business applications, and solutions
- How to get your content management project funded
- Content technologies and 508 compliance
- New standards in content interoperability
- Enterprise architecture and enterprise content management
- Latest enterprise search and text-mining technologies: beyond the hype
- Comparative approaches for using XML to manage authoritative content
- How different agencies have successfully implemented records management solutions
- Comparative approaches to e-mail archiving
- Role of new media technologies – blogs, wikis, and RSS – in public agencies
- Best practices in content governance and web operations management
- The future of the federal government Web
In addition to two days of conference sessions, attendees can participate in introductory tutorials on key topics.
The call for papers is now available at: http://lighthouseseminars.com/washingtondc/ConferenceProgram.html. The deadline to submit speaking abstracts is Tuesday, February 28th. An advisory board of leading federal and industry experts will shape the final program.
“Worldwide, the volume of digital content doubles every three years. The ubiquitous management difficulties this presents have become particularly acute for the Federal government. Federal websites, file systems, and e-mail repositories are bulging with content at a time when managers face unprecedented demands to share information across agencies and with business and citizens. This conference will offer attendees access to industry analysts that study and report on the latest content management technologies on a daily basis as well as government users of content management solutions who will impart what works and what does not work for them,” said Tony Byrne, CMS Watch founder and Conference Chair.
“We are very pleased to be working with our colleagues at CMS Watch on our newest event,” said Frank Gilbane, Managing Director, Lighthouse Seminars. “Tony Byrne is one of the most highly respected leaders in the content management industry. Tony and his team are tracking Federal government content management needs closely, and will help us meet the rapidly growing demand from government IT and business managers for high quality information about content management technologies.”
For more information about attending or exhibiting contact: info@lighthouseseminars.com
About CMS Watch
CMS Watch(tm) is an independent source of analysis and advice on content management and enterprise search. In addition to the freely-available articles on its website, CMS Watch publishes vendor-neutral technology reports that provide independent analysis and practical advice regarding web content management, records management, and enterprise search, and portal solutions. These reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements. For more information, visit www.cmswatch.com.
About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works(TM) case study program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Digital Media, a Division of Open Text, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INSS), Context Media (Oracle, NASDAQ:ORCL), Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Idiom, Mark Logic, Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX), SDL International (London Stock Exchange:SDL), Vasont Systems, Vignette (NASDAQ:VGN), and WebSideStory (NASDAQ:WSSI). https://gilbane.com
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com
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The Gilbane Report, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch announced the launch of The Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government, taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 13-15, 2006.
Modeled after the overwhelming success of its Boston and San Francisco events, this end-user driven event will offer attendees actionable advice for managing enterprise content to meet today’s Federal requirements.
At the Content Technologies for Government Conference, topics covered will include: Enterprise content management technologies, business applications, and solutions; How to get your content management project funded; Content technologies and 508 compliance; New standards in content interoperability; Enterprise architecture and enterprise content management; Latest enterprise search and text-mining technologies: beyond the hype; Comparative approaches for using XML to manage authoritative content; How different agencies have successfully implemented records management solutions; Comparative approaches to e-mail archiving; Role of new media technologies – blogs, wikis, and RSS – in public agencies; Best practices in content governance and web operations management; and, The future of the federal government Web.
In addition to two days of conference sessions, attendees can participate in introductory tutorials on key topics. An advisory board of leading federal and industry experts will shape the final program. Information and the call for papers is available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-conference-washington-dc-2006/
SAXOTECH, a software development and systems implementation company serving the publishing industry, and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), announced an OEM partnership that will bring search features to SAXOTECH’s web publishing application platform for online media sites, as well as other SAXOTECH products. SAXOTECH will integrate FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, its web publishing platform developed exclusively to enable the rapid flow of content from news sources to dynamic, multimedia Web sites. By integrating FAST InStream with SAXOTECH Online, SAXOTECH’s customers can realize real-time indexing of content from multiple sources, a useful service to new media sites that typically produce hundreds of new articles and online classified advertisements per day. General availability of the initial FAST-integrated, search technologies will be with the mid-2006 release of SAXOTECH Online. http://www.saxotech.com, http://www.fastsearch.com
Alfresco Software Inc. announced that it has partnered with BitRock to enable Alfresco to be installed in minutes as part of an integrated open source stack, to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for installation, upgrades and management. The joint offering provides an installer and configuration wizard for Alfresco and the surrounding open source ECM stack. It also provides a management and delivery tool for Alfresco to provide updates to its software, and to other stack components such as MySQL and JBoss. The stack supports a variety of Linux distributions and Windows versions. The new Alfresco installer will perform all required configuration tasks, so users will have a complete, ready-to-run ECM system as soon as installation is complete. , http://www.bitrock.com
Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 3D, new desktop software that helps extend document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities to virtually anyone across global organizations. With Acrobat 3D, design engineering, technical publishing and creative professionals in manufacturing industries such as automotive, aerospace and industrial machinery, as well as the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market, can convert 3D models from a wide variety of major CAD formats and embed them into Adobe PDF files-regardless of whether the user has the native CAD application. Acrobat 3D is available in English, French and German language versions. The Japanese language version is expected to be available in February 2006. The product has an estimated street price of US$995. Registered users of Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Acrobat 6.0 Professional can upgrade to Acrobat 3D for estimated street prices of US$545 and US$699, respectively. The product is available for Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 2), Windows XP Professional, Home and Tablet PC Editions, and IBM AIX 5.2, HP UX 11.0, SGI IRIX 6.5, and Sun Solaris 2.8 (for Acrobat 3D Capture utility). http://www.adobe.com/acrobat3d
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