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.
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These posts are about the Gilbane conferences. To see the actual programs see https://gilbane.com/Conferences/. Information about our earlier Documation conferences see https://gilbane.com/entity/documation-conference/.
A quick way to get a feel for the topics in this year’s conference program. Compliments of Wordle
There sure is a lot of news about Web 2.0 these days. It can be hard to take it all in, and there seems to be new tools every day! So how to make sense of it all.
One way to learn more about these tools is to attend the session I will be hosting at the Gilbane San Francisco Conference (http://gilbanesf.com) in June called “My Favorite Web 2.0 Tool“. It will be organized in the fast paced “Lightning Round” style, with 10 speakers covering 10 topics in 60 minutes (yes, that is about 5 minutes each). This unique presentation format allows for presentation of many ideas at once, encourages audience participation, and tends to be fairly hilarious.
Got something to say about Web 2.0 tools? I would love to hear from people interested in participating in this lightning round. Send me a one paragraph description of why your favorite Web 2.0 tool should be included in this session (send to dale@gilbane.com). We’re open to a broad definition of Web 2.0 tools too. We are looking for innovative ideas, game changers, or even just entertaining or fun apps!
We would love to hear from you!. The slots will fill up fast so don’t wait if you hope to participate.
See you in San Francisco!
April 21, 11:00 am ET
A solid strategy for weathering any economic storm is to forcus on finding and serving your most profitable customers. In any region, in any language, across all interactions. How can global enterprises tune their content practices to support this new laser focus on audience engagement and align their processes with corporate strategic objectives?
Gilbane’s Mary Laplante and Sophie Hurst, Director, Product Marketing at SDL, discuss the issues, challenges and opportunities associated with delivering multilingual content that meets today’s mandate for extraordinary customer experience. Using Gilbane’s research and insights on aligning global content with business value as background, topics include:
- Market factors influencing global content management practices.
- Real-world approaches to meeting audience demand for multilingual content, based on Gilbane research and SDL customer solutions.
- Establishing a roadmap for enhancing global content practices to align them more closely with customer experience initiatives.
Registration is open. Sponsored by SDL.
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: .
One of the most closely watched technology trends for 2009 is the need for enterprises to leverage new web platforms while holding down the costs of managing their ever-proliferating content. Even in the midst of the current economic downturn, critical areas related to global business content will see double-digit growth over the next 12 months – including spending on search technologies which is projected to represent almost half of all digital spending by businesses in 2009, along with rising corporate investment in social media tools (Source: Winterberry Group). Reflecting these fundamental shifts in the way enterprises engage with customers and disseminate information, the sixth annual Gilbane San Francisco June 2-4, 2009 at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco – will focus on the timely theme “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” Produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, the 2009 Gilbane San Francisco conference will offer enhanced programs tied to the business issues surrounding a company’s marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference tracks have been organized around the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and where they are most likely to invest, including: Web Business & Engagement; Managing Collaboration & Social Media; Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing; and Content Infrastructure. Gilbane San Francisco brings together industry experts from leading technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms who provide attendees with the latest successful content management and new media strategies, technologies and techniques. In addition to the latest best practices, technology coverage within these four tracks will include enterprise and site search; content globalization; semantic technologies; publishing; XML; and social media tools and platforms from Twitter to business blogs, project wikis and microformats. The just-published schedule of conference sessions can be viewed at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-schedule.html.
Pre-conference workshops will feature industry thought leaders covering core topics in web content, new media, Sharepoint and more — the full schedule of workshops can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/workshops.html. IT and business professionals involved in content creation, management, delivery or analytics wishing to attend the conference may register at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html. Technology solution providers wishing to exhibit or sponsor should visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html. Follow the conference on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/gilbanesf
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/
We’ve added a 6th pre-conference workshop:
F: Making the Business Case for Content Globalization
Instructor: Andrew Draheim, Principal, Kidd & Draheim
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