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Friday, Sep 5 2008

The folks at MarketingProfs are always offering new ways to help organizations and companies learn about digital marketing.

In an effort to guide marketers around the twists and turns of web marketing and digital media, MarketingProfs presents a Digital Marketing Mixer: A Forum on Email, Search and Social Media. The event is scheduled to take place on October 22 — 23, 2008, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Wednesday, Sep 3 2008

Most of the connectors we see for SharePoint are focused on search, content repositories and social networking. Here’s one that fits a different bill - ADAM Software offers a connector for SharePoint to improve it’s Digital Asset Management capabilities — to a degree.

Tuesday, Aug 26 2008

When you think of the rebellious and loose nature by which blogging is often described, it might be that Las Vegas is the perfect location for the Second Annual BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Scheduled for September 20, adding to what is already a busy weekend for bloggers, the expo will feature advice, insight and experiences as shared by senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and industry thought leaders, all of whom attendees can learn a thing or two about how to implement social media.

Monday, Aug 25 2008

The 12th annual KMWorld and Intranets Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for September 23 – 25, 2008, in San Jose, California. This year’s theme, Driving Enterprise Innovation and Achievement: User-Focused Tools and Practices, emphasizes the myriad of new ways to communicate, collaborate and exchange knowledge within the enterprise.

The event will also cover such hot topics as ECM, intranet and portal strategies, enterprise 2.0, knowledge sharing, enterprise search and much more.

Thursday, Aug 21 2008

They’ve been banged up a bit lately in the news with their less than spectacular financial results, but they’ve also been the recipient of some awards that demonstrate their commitment to Web 2.0 and the entire web experience as a whole.

So what do you do when you want to better understand how this enterprise content management provider can appear to have two different faces? Why you attend their yearly conference Vignette Village. Because anyone who’s anyone with Vignette will be there.

The new media revolution is alive and well. Whether it be news aggregation or marketing your company’s message effectively, the quest for conquering the ways of Web 2.0 are constant. However, there’s no shortage of help to aide you in your efforts.

On Wednesday, August 28 at 1 p.m. EST, Aquent presents a webcast called The New Media Revolution: Tips for Marketers Coping With a World Where Messages Don’t Matter. Featuring award-winning writer and content marketing consultant specializing in technology and new media, Paul Gillin, the web cast aims to “sort out the chaos in new media.”

Wednesday, Aug 20 2008

Mark your September calendars! Gartner will present its 2008 summit on Portals, Content and Collaboration September, 17 - 19, in Los Angeles, CA. Gartner’s events are always fun due to their reputation as a well-known technology research and advisory firm and this sure looks like an event worth attending.

With a focus on innovation, Gartner will hold its first ever Innovation Panel, in which the CEOs of open innovation network organizations will share their insights on innovation. They will coach us on how to look for and find innovation and, most importantly, on how to protect innovative ideas.

Tuesday, Aug 19 2008

The Gilbane Group has announced its Boston conference agenda, as well as the pre-conference workshops. The conference is scheduled to take place December 2-4, 2008, at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. While the full conference program is not yet published, we already have some insight into what will be on Gilbane’s menu this time around.

The agenda includes two days filled with all kinds of enterprise search, WCM, content strategies and social media fun. And this is just a tip of the iceberg!

AIIM, one of the oldest organizations in the world focusing on ECM, ERM and BPM, prepared a special treat for all of us in the ECM world – a free, one-day seminar on Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) and traditional ECM technologies.

The goal is to get educated on whether SharePoint is really the tool for you to reach your organizational goals, or is it simply yet another application among many others used to build a content management solution. In other words, is SharePoint enough?

Monday, Aug 11 2008

Remember the whole AP Blogging debacle? It’s as resolved as it can be. But that’s no reason why we can’t continue to discuss the issue. If you’re not going to Paris in September, you can opt to go to Ohio.

The Poynter Institute joins Kent State University for a Media Ethics Workshop on September 18 at the Kent State main campus in Ohio.

Tuesday, Aug 5 2008

Many of us may grumble from time to time about our jobs and may even boast about how we deserve to be paid so much more than we are. But when was the last time we really investigated how much we, the designer, developer or information architect are worth?

Thursday, Jul 31 2008

Not tired of hearing about SharePoint training? Good, because here’s another one that crossed our path. Tony Byrne of CMS Watch will be conducting a SharePoint Symposium, a Satellite Event at KMWorld & Intranets 2008 on September 26, 2008 in San Jose McEnery, CA.