BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- "Where Content Management Meets Social Media" is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com/ [1]), set to take place December 2-4, 2008 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. The event is focused on helping 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. This year, over 50 content management vendors will introduce and show their latest technology innovations.
Mapping to the event's conference tracks, vendors will showcase a wide variety of solutions within the following categories: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing; Content Globalization & Localization; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); Publishing Best Practices; and XML Content Strategies.
The following provides a sampling of technologies, services and solutions that will be on display:
Diamond Sponsor
On Wednesday, December 3rd, FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta will deliver a keynote address on Online Engagement - The Key to Success in Good Times and Bad, detailing how companies can use the web as a key channel for converting prospects into customers, and customers into engaged advocates. The following day FatWire CTO, Dmitri Tcherevik offers his perspective in a discussion on a Web Content "Management State of the Industry" detailing the most important concerns business managers and IT professionals face in planning for and executing WCM initiatives over the next year.
Gold Sponsors
Sitecore Certified Solution Partner Hedgehog Development [3] will co-panel a session on Integrating Social Media with Content Management. [4] Dan Galvez, Founder and Senior VP of Solutions at Hedgehog will describe his experiences developing several very successful social networking consumer websites with Sitecore, including full multimedia websites which are leaders in lifestyle experience marketing for wedding planning and newlyweds in married life. Dan's panel session is on Thursday, December 4, at 2:00 EST.
Exhibitors
In addition, the 2008 CM Pros Fall Summit will take place in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Dec 2nd.
The CM Pros Fall Summit will focus on all aspects of the content lifecycle. This highly interactive day puts attendees in direct contact with senior CMS practitioners. The event kicks off with two keynote addresses followed by a panel of CMS experts that will field questions from the attendees. The afternoon will be devoted to interactive roundtable discussions as participants tackle the challenges of moving content through the lifecycle. For more information, visit: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/ [6]
Media sponsors of the Gilbane Boston event include Business Wire [10], CMSWire [11], eContent Magazine [12], KMWorld [13] and MultiLingual Magazine [14].
About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, consulting & advisory services, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com [15].
About Lighthouse Seminars Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and "content technologies" in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com [16]
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