Conference Articles

Open Text kicked off its global Content World conference today in Orlando, Florida. The ECM giant expects it to be the largest conference in history with more than 1500 participants registered to attend.

Pre- and post-conference workshops, breakouts, training, GlobalStar awards, partner schmoozing, showcasing its ECM solutions, Universal Studios trips… Open Text is going to be busy in the next few days.

The event features a conference-within-a-conference program. Attendees tailor their conference experience: product/technology-specific tracks are available in the morning, with broader enterprise views offered in the afternoon.

One of the coolest things about this event, aside from all the wealth of OT and Enterprise CMS knowledge, is that there’s no printed conference brochure. Open Text went green and provided all attendees with wireless PDA-like devices instead of a paper booklet. Delegates can use the device for polling, conference program navigation, attendee profiles search and text messaging.

Conferences are usually coupled with major announcements. Today, Open Text announced that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) under the name the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text. As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text’s document capture solution Invoice Capture Center, from Open Text’s recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name optical character recognition (OCR) option for SAP Invoice Management.

Open Text clearly shoots for being the ultimate ECM provider, and is here to prove it with all the recent product releases, acquisitions and partnerships. We’ll hear more from Open Text in the next few days, stay tuned! In the meantime, watch daily podcasts on YouTube and follow #OTContentWorld on Twitter.

In the world of search, all that once was lost can now be found. Be it through Google Search, semantic search, green search or using your nose to sniff through the web-o-sphere, search functionality and optimization is the latest and greatest trend.

Capitalizing on this, O’Reilly introduces a new conference, simply called Found.

Touted as a search acquisition and architecture conference, Found has been scheduled for June 9-11, 2009, at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, CA.

Know of an organization that is behind the times? The Social Media Strategies Conference might be able to offer some knowledge to help change that.

New social media technologies like social bookmarking, social networks, forums, podcasts, video, RSS, wikis, blogs and microblogging are propelling some companies to the top while others remain static and behind the times. Businesses need to adapt to stay ahead of the competition.

If you were unable to attend BlogHer’s conference in San Francisco last week, never fear. BlogHer, the community for women who blog, have announced that they are taking the show on the road in a spectacle called the Reach Out Tour 2008.

They will be condensing their annual event into six one-day extravaganzas in Boston, DC, Nashville, Greensboro, Atlanta and New Orleans. BlogHer will focus on topics that seem to resonate strongest in each city and look for your local bloggers to lead the discussions. The one-day conference will also feature a broad range of topics and speakers, cocktail parties for networking and socializing, and a little bit of local flavor.

Do you know where you should be on May 29? Why in San Diego of course. Attending the Enterprise 3 conference and learning lots of stuff about portals, collaboration and Web 2.0. Come on now, embrace the enterprise and take a walk along the yellow brick road.

It’s that time again. Clickability time. For the third year in a row, Clickability is holding it’s User Conference May 5-7, 2008 in San Francisco. Share strategies, interact with Clickability, it’s partners and other customers. Oh and don’t forget to have a margarita or two for us!

Educational web managers are often lonely, misunderstood geeks who are crucial members of the communications staff but get unfairly lumped in with IT.

These dedicated souls must synthesize content for a variety of audiences (faculty, administration, parents, alumni, students) while also single-handedly updating calendars, uploading forms, and managing schedules.

Heads up North American CMSers, CMS Watch will be front and center at the AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the granddaddy of all content and information events in North America.

CMS Watch will be leading a conference session designed to help IT professionals discover how to turn content into a powerful business tool.

March 3-6, 2008 hearlds the annual AIIM International Expo and Conference in Boston, MA. Sponsored by AIIM – The ECM Association, it should be a very enlightening and educational experience for anyone who works in the content and information management field.

It’s soon time for the annual SharePoint Conference. This year it’s being held March 3-6, 2008 in Seattle Washington at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.

Here’s a look at what you can expect to see and do while you are there…

Our coverage of the Executing Social Media Conference continues as Dan Greenfield presents the Five Immutable Laws of Corporate Blogging and Alicia Dorset shares a corporate blogging case study for one of the largest companies in the world.

Atlanta welcomes the leading minds in marketing and public relations for day one of the Executing Social Media Conference, which we’ll be covering live.

Executing Social Media is a two day event with the ambitious goal of bringing together experts on the use of social media: blogging, RSS, podcasting, online video, virtual communities, and consumer generated content.

Day 1 started off with an session on how communications between company and customer/consumer have changed in recent years. Of primary interest were three major guidelines for starting a corporate blog.

As PHP continues to gain momentum and earn respect from organizations both big and small, language luminaries from across the globe are preparing to meet in San Francisco October 8th through 11th for the so-called world’s largest gathering of of the PHP community.

mobiSiteGalore, the company that tried bringing standards to mobile Web design, is ringing in another high-billing first for mobile: a complete mobile-oriented Web 2.0 conference.

And it’s called Mobile Web 2.0 Conference.

It’s time to set the stage for a tech conference that’s just for women. She’s Geeky is an “(un)conference” for that one coding chick among many man geeks.

Make your appearance from October 22-23, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

As a designer seeking to improve my skill-set, I appreciate a conference that realizes that I am a one-woman show: Usability specialist, content manager and information architect all wrapped into one, with a bit of SEO and flash mixed in for good measure.

Which explains why I am excited for the upcoming Voices That Matter: Web Design conference hosted by New Riders, the leading publisher of web design books and resources.

We’re at the end of the Web Content conference path. At the end of the long trip we find Kamal Kapur, Director of Product Development for FatWire Software.

At the risk of obsolescence, your website must cater to the individual. Remaining relevant is crucial to an online experience. What is relevancy? Kapur describes relevancy as factors that affect the outcome of a user engagement, such as accuracy, ease, correlation of user path.

Reporting live from Web Content 2007 here in Chicago, I attended (rock star and creative director of Duo Consulting) Yvonne Doll’s Designing Content for Usability session this morning. Yvonne stated her case clearly, reminding those on hand that all website projects succeed or fail for the same reason — communication.

The second day of the 5th annual eZ Conference opened with a keynote address by Jo Christian Oterhals, Head of Development at VG Multimedia, Norway’s largest newspaper and media group.

He spoke on his group’s experience with developing VG Nett, which consists of the online version of the VG newspaper and a suite of complementary web properties such as communities, blogs, photo sharing and so on.

The 5th annual eZ Conference, the biggest content management conference in Europe, begins with the International Partner Day, which this year brought 130 eZ Partners from as far away as Mozambique and Japan to Skien, Norway.

This eZ Conference report begins with a summary of events from International Partner Day.

This June 6-8, the Ibsenhuset Conference Center of Skien, Norway will play host to the 5th annual eZ Conference. For some, this is the biggest content management event in Europe.

The Ruby Conference concluded Sunday with Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s talk on Mongrel — entitled Building Custom Mongrel Handlers for Speed and Concurrency — and a discussion on Rubinius by Evan Phoenix.

To highlight the merits of their offerings they note a few philosophical issues with Ruby and Rails, respectively.

While our host waxes poetic about dinosaurs, I’m going to take an opportunity to update you on all the good that’s gone down this morning.

Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Tor Norbye kicked us off this morning with Ruby Tooling: State of the Art. For those expecting the him to get dangerously gung-ho about Ruby’s merits (Sun is, after all, getting quite intimate with jRuby), we (yeah, we) were mildly disappointed.

In case you haven’t caught onto this Web 2.0 thing yet, now there is help. On April 15-18, San Francisco’s Moscone West will host Web 2.0 Expo, an event so grand it doesn’t even need an article to precede its name.

The second annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. on June 5-6, 2007. Presented by The Gilbane Group, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch, this conference aims to bring together government and industry executives to discuss content management best practices.

With a concentrated focus on previous lessons learned and best practices, the conference will be chaired by Tony Byrne. “Washington, DC is perhaps the most content-rich city on earth,” said Byrne. “Among associations, non-profit organizations, publishing firms, consultancies, universities, and of course the federal government, we see enterprises generating much more digital content than they have systems today to adequately manage. This conference can help them get a much better handle on the problem.”