Gilbane Group News & Articles

Gilbane San Francisco 2008, the annual West Coast shindig for Web CMS and myriad other geekage, is currently accepting proposals for panels and presentations. Your stable of appropriate topics may include:

• Web CMS
• Enterprise wikis, collaboration, blogging (erg)
• Content globalization and localization
• “Enterprise 2.0,” enterprise search, or semantic technologies
• Enterprise CMS
• Digital rights management
• Publishing technology

(Guys, please don’t make this a Twitter-fest.)

Your deadline is January 15, 2008. Hurry and submit a proposal.

The conference will take place at Westin Market Hotel, San Francisco, from June 17-19. Marketh thy calendars.

Global CMS and infrastructure purveyor Day Software has announced plans to air its suite of Web 2.0 offerings at Gilbane Boston from 27-29 November.

You can catch it all at the Westin Copley, where the Gilbane Boston conference has oft been held.

Trying to work out how to bring innovation to the archaic practice of document imaging?

Prick your ears up for this webinar sponsored by KnowledgeLake. It takes place on Thursday November 8, 12 PM CCT.

Listen in as Bill Trippe of Gilbane and Bob Bueltmann of KnowledgeLake discuss the practical aspects of SharePoint, enterprise CMS and various platform strategies. The event is sponsored by KnowledgeLake.

Register with them. When you do, you’ll receive a white paper on SharePoint and the “platform approach” to document imaging solutions, courtesy of the smart folk at Gilbane.

Some time ago Forrester pointed out that the biggest obstacle to “realizing ROI with (Enterprise) web CMS projects” is the failure of users to adopt the product and integrate it into their daily work lives.

Does that sound surprising? Probably not.

Here’s the real surprise: we can guide users to more productive behavior. Gilbane Group promises to show us how.

But to get there, prepare to think long and hard about web usability; in particular, how it can bring users what they want.

Mary Laplante of The Gilbane Group will discuss state-of-the-art content practices for technical publications during a free, interactive one-hour webinar.

The event, sponsored by Idiom Technologies and EMC, will feature interviews by Bill Rabkin, Globalization Evangelist at Idiom and EMC Senior Product Marketing Manager Greg Dierickse.

How does one organization manage the business development, content-building and IT challenges associated with managing multiple Web properties without falling flat on its face in a pool of lawsuits and unnecessary expenses?

There isn’t really an easy answer, but it helps to get guidance from eagle-eye analysts and organizations who’ve been there and succeeded. The Gilbane Group and Oracle join forces to bring forth Multiple Web Sites: Driving You Crazy, or Driving Your Business?, a webcast for addressing business challenges in deploying and managing multiple websites.