Spend Money on Conferences, Not Xmas

Yes it's true. We are suggesting you forget about that diamond necklace or that life subscription to GQ magazine and spend your money on a conference or two. Forget about Christmas. It's highly overrated anyway.

Now conferences, that's the ticket. Need to get some good networking done, learn some new tips and tricks for content management, Web 2.0, social media, maybe cloud computing. After all, we spend three quarters of our lives working. Here are a few that might tempt you…

Content Management

Gilbane Boston
Held By: Gilbane Group
Description: The primary purpose of this conference is to explore how social media and content management come together. The event’s purpose is to help organizations better understand how to address rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content by implementing the latest technologies to create, manage, share and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper — and often quicker.
Date: December 2-4, 2008 Boston, USA
Price: Anywhere from US$ 495 to US$1,895 depending on the package selected.

Online Information 2008
Held By: Incisive Media, a specialist business information provider
Description: This conference is all about online information and the technology that serves it up. There are six main focuses: online content resources, ePublishing, Library Management Systems, Content Management Expo, Web 2.0 Technologies and Search Solutions.
Date: December 2-4, 2008 London, UK
Price: Depends on the package you select and if you are in a specific industry — like Government, but the rate for the regular attendee is £793 (US$ 1,172.46)

Best Practices SharePoint Conference
Held By: MindSharp is the Premier Sponsor of this event, along with Microsoft Press
Description: Want to understand the best way to utilize and implement SharePoint? This conference is supposed to go beyond just providing lists of best practices by offering real examples of how to use SharePoint. Six tracks are covered for IT Pros, Developers, Information Workers, Information Architects, Project Managers and CIOs.
Date: February 2-4, 2009 San Diego, CA, USA
Price: US$ 1,195.00

Gear-Up 2009
Vendor: Interwoven
Description: This is Interwoven's Annual Global Community conference. It covers real world case studies of customers using Interwoven solutions, will tell you where the market is going and how Interwoven will evolve their solutions.
Date: April 22-24, 2009 San Antonio, Texas, USA
Price: $US 1,595.00

Content Management Strategies - DITA North America
Held By: The Center for Information-Development Management
Description: This conference is in its 5th season. It is directed towards managers and information management professionals who work on content management systems, want to create a single source application and/or are looking at content in XML. Topics include: e-business, content reuse, translations, cost reductions, document models, case studies and of course DITA. Professionals at all skill levels will find this conference insightful.
Date: April 27-29, 2009 St. Petersburg, Florida
Price: Went through the conference website and couldn't find a registration form, just an email address for the sponsor.

Spend Money on Conferences, Not Xmas

Yes it's true. We are suggesting you forget about that diamond necklace or that life subscription to GQ magazine and spend your money on a conference or two. Forget about Christmas. It's highly overrated anyway. \n\nNow conferences, that's the ticket. Need to get some good networking done, learn some new tips and tricks for content management, Web 2.0, social media, maybe cloud computing. After all, we spend three quarters of our lives working. Here are a few that might tempt you...

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