Today we launched a new blog specifically for Gilbane Group conference, webinar, and other event announcements and news. Of course there are RSS and Atom feeds availble for the new blog so those of you who prefer to keep up with all our event activity can subscribe to those. We will still mention conference activity here, but but mostly in an editorial context. The new event blog will contain all the PR material, and also information about call-for-paper deadlines etc. The new blog is at:
https://gilbane.com/eventsblog/
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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/.
We have now published tutorial and session descriptions for our Fall conference (November 28-30, 2006 Westin Copley Place, Boston MA) and registration is also now open. Speaker details will be added soon.
Conference track descriptions:
http://gilbaneboston.com/06/ConferenceProgram.html
Conference session descriptions:
http://gilbaneboston.com/06/Conference-Sessions.html
Pre-conference tutorial descriptions:
http://gilbaneboston.com/06/Conference-Tutorials.html
Complete conference schedule:
http://gilbaneboston.com/06/Conference-Grid.html
Listen to Lisa Welchman’s interview with Frank Gilbane and Tony Byrne about the upcoming Gilbane Government content management technology conference in this podcast.
Our friends over at CMS Watch have released an updated version of their Enterprise Search Report. The report suggests a healthy enterprise market and covers 28 vendors. There is a free excerpt available. A few of the findings (taken from the press release) are:
– IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft continue to struggle to rationalize multiple search technologies and strategies. Oracle’s “Secure Enterprise Search 10g” product may be the most straightforward offering of the three, but it has not yet seen extensive customer testing.
– Smaller search vendors continue to exploit Microsoft’s inability to develop effective search solutions atop SharePoint. Mondosoft, Coveo, dtSearch, and others are likely to continue offering value-added capabilities after the release of Microsoft’s new search services in SharePoint 2007.
– Google’s search appliance has disrupted the market, but customer testing still often finds the appliance lacking in “tune-ability” and integration capabilities.
– Faceted or “guided” navigation capabilities originally associated with enterprise search vendor Endeca have gone from product differentiator to widespread feature. Customers can obtain faceted navigation capabilities from several low-cost search vendors. Now, the key differentiator is the extent to which a search system can successfully autogenerate a useful set of metadata “facets” with minimal customer intervention.
Steve Arnold, the main author of the report, will be leading a couple of sessions on Enterprise Search at our upcoming conference with CMS Watch in Washington DC June 13 -15. Join us there and get more details from Steve.
Well of course there are lots of obvious reasons it matters. But what is under-appreciated by many of us in the private sector is how often the government leads the way in developing, fostering and exploiting technology. This is especially true with information technology. The reason is simple: they have a bigger information management problem than anyone else combined with more resources than anyone else. For example, the US (as well as other governments) were building sophisticated markup-based content management, and electronic publishing applications a decade before the Web and browsers existed. While many of those SGML and electronic technical manual applications may seem primitive today, they were very forward-thinking and advanced then, and provided valuable lessons for today’s HTML and XML applications. Also, it is arguable that the entire (non-Google) search technology industry has been kept on life support for the last 20 years because of government investment.
So paying attention to government information technology initiatives is something all IT strategists should be doing. For our June 13-15 conference on government technologies in Washington, Conference Chair Tony Byrne is gathering a broad range of government speakers and experts who have, and are, building powerful content applications. It is a great place to get up-to-speed.
Speakers include:
GAO, FAA, NASA, FirstGov, Navy, Forest Service, EPA, OMB, World Bank,
PostNewsweek Tech Media, NPR, Government Computer News, White House,
GPO, International Trade Commission, Department of Energy, Social
Security Administration, DOT, and many more.
Topics include:
Content management, enterprise search, XML, business cases, content
modeling, open source CMS, best practices, records management, content
security, publishing, text mining, and new technologies being used for
government applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and Podcasting.
The full program is at:
Here are some comments on our conference in San Francisco 2 weeks ago. This is a partial list, but it is already long enough that my plan of introducing and commenting on the comments is history. So, I’ve decided to just list them to get them out since some of them are very useful. They are bunched by author. The Podcasts at the bottom were all produced by Rahel Bailie. Thanks Rahel!
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http://ykm.typepad.com/yerfdogs_knowledge_manage/2006/04/gilbane_confere.html
http://ykm.typepad.com/yerfdogs_knowledge_manage/2006/04/cm_pros_summit__3.html
http://www.drmwatch.com/enterprise/article.php/3601771
http://creese.typepad.com/pattern_finder/2006/04/gilbane_confere_1.html
http://creese.typepad.com/pattern_finder/2006/04/gilbane_confere.html
http://bill.cava.us/index.php/2006/04/28/a-monolog-a-dialog-a-catalog/
Podcasts:
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/index.php/weblog/blogcentre/frank_gilbane_on_content_management_trends/
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/index.php/weblog/blogcentre/tony_byrne_on_cms_trends/
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/index.php/weblog/blogcentre/kay_ethier_simplifies_xml_for_content_authors/
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/index.php/weblog/blogcentre/theresa_regli_talks_taxonomies/
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/index.php/weblog/blogcentre/janus_boye_takes_a_hard_look_at_content_management/
I know we just finished San Francisco, and we have our government conference in June, but since many of you miss the speaking proposal deadlines regularly, keep in mind that the deadline for proposals for Gilbane Boston in November is May 15 – a little over a week away! Here are instructions and guidelines. Here is a list of our events.
We have posted the results of our survey to date on the questions we’ll be asking our keynote panel at our conference next week. We’ll comment later, but wanted to let everyone see what topics attendees are most interested in. Some of these questions will also be covered in our analyst panel.
You can still vote the list of questions we have put together, and suggest additional questions. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to one of our conferences. Of course you can also still join us (expo-only attendees can attend the keynote panels).
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