Events News & Articles

We’ve been all over it for the last couple of days now, this new proposed Content Management Specification. But do you really understand what it’s all about and what it could mean to you? EMC wants to be sure you do, so they are having a live Webcast on Thursday, September 18, 2008 and you are invited.

We’ve mentioned it before, but now have a lot more detail on the upcoming jboye08 conference scheduled for November 4-6 in Denmark. It’s shaping up to be an event you won’t want to miss.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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?

Two words: Las Vegas. Two more words: Malcolm Gladwell. Granted they are not the words usually associated with the city of lights, but in this case they make sense.

December 8-10, Gartner presents its Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, a conference dedicated to service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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.

We recently told you about the upcoming goings on at UX Week 2008 in San Francisco in August. But there’s more to UX Week 2008 than just the user experience. The Subject to Change book fiesta, for example.

On Wednesday, August 13 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM (PST), the authors of Subject to Change (O’Reilly Media) offer registrants an opportunity to learn more about this innovative book, as well as to “dig deeper into the emerging field of experience strategy and design and meet some of the best in the industry”.

September signifies the beginning of many things: school, autumn, major league baseball playoffs. It also brings the Web 2.0 Expo. Scheduled for September 16-19 in New York City, Web 2.0 Expo is set to make attendees a part of the 2.0 experience by offering on-stage sessions, keynote presentations, workshops, panel discussions and demos, as well as opportunities for participants to engage face-to-face.

What better excuse to go to San Francisco in August than to attend UX Week 2008.

Touted as the premier user experience conference, UX Week 2008 offers a mix of inspiring presentations from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills. Intended for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers and practitioners — the schedule offers day-by-day registration and features engaging and interactive daily themes.

After a summer spent relaxing and keeping a low profile (as if!), why not plan to re-energize your career with a trip to the IDEA Conference? Scheduled for October 7-8, 2008 in Chicago, designers, media artists and information architects alike are sure to learn new ways to reinvigorate and approach the way complex information is designed.