Content Management Matters ™

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.