This is the reminder that September 3rd is the last day to sign up for the User Conference.
Auctori:city, a web content management system designed for municipalities and built for SEO, is a sponsor of the National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW) National Conference which will be held at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri September 22-24, 2010.
A silo of the search engine optimization friendly web content management system, Auctori, an innovation of Unidev, the Auctori:city solution provides cities with the opportunity to strengthen their Internet presence and their overall brand reputation by giving users a professional city website design and the power to maintain their web content in real-time.
“We are looking forward to attending this highly anticipated conference and introducing Auctori:city to the NAGW community,” said Andrea Bemis, Brand Manager, Auctori. “Our unique CMS integrates controls that give individual departments the power to edit components of their website, such as news, community calendars and business directories, making the general maintenance of a city website very straightforward and less time consuming for webmasters.”
CMS Made Simple© “Geek Moot” Conference
CMS Made Simple hosts its annual conference, “Geek Moot”, in Amsterdam September 15th – 17th
PHILADELPHIA – CMS Made Simple© (“CMSMS”), an open source content management system, is hosting its annual international conference, “Geek Moot”, scheduled to take place September 15 through 17, 2010, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Geek Moot is the official international conference for the CMS Made Simple content management system platform. CMS Made Simple founder Ted Kulp will be presenting “The State of CMS Made Simple” on September 16th; also celebrating the recent milestone achieved of generating 1 million downloads.
Attendees of this conference will consist of CMS Made Simple users of all expertise, including technology firms, marketing and advertising agencies, web designers, developers, and other users and fans of the platform.
September 15th, the first day of activities, will be filled with pre-conference educational workshops discussing various topics facilitated by experts in their respective fields. These topics will consist of “Advanced Design Integration, “Instant Modules”, SEO & CMS Made Simple”, “A Beginner’s Walkthrough of CMS Made Simple”, “jQuery”, and “CMS Made Simple Extensions”.
September 16th & 17th are going to be information-packed conference days, full of sessions discussing topics such as the much-anticipated launch of version 2.0, current and future marketing efforts, e-commerce, mobile, modules and development, front-end users, flash video, along with time for Q&A with members of the development team.
Registration for Geek Moot Amsterdam is only €150. All attendees will be able to attend two full days of sessions and lunch will be provided. Register at http://geekmoot2010.eventbrite.com/. All workshops are priced individually.
To learn more about “Geek Moot” Amsterdam 2010, please visit http://geekmoot.com/2010/.
Content management system to celebrate at its annual “Geek Moot” conference in Amsterdam in September
PHILADELPHIA – The developers of CMS Made Simple© (“CMSMS”), an open source content management system, announced that it just hit one million downloads as of August 12, 2010. The content management system (CMS) will celebrate this milestone at its annual conference, “Geek Moot,” scheduled to take place September 15 through 17, 2010, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The CMS Made Simple website, which was recently redesigned with an enhanced user-interface, will soon launch an Alpha version of the much anticipated 2.0 version of the platform.
“We are pleased to see how fast new users have adapted to utilizing the updated platform,” said Ted Kulp, creator of CMS Made Simple. “One of the biggest challenges we previously had was that a portion of the audience associated the platform with having the ability to only create simple websites because of its name. However, the reason behind the name is that the platform is much simpler to use compared to almost all of the open source content management systems currently on the market.”
CMS Made Simple is also great for end-users. Having an extremely user-friendly admin panel, CMSMS distinguishes itself from most other platforms in the market by making it very easy to update, create and modify content without having any technical knowledge of how the backend of a website works.
The LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies (September 29–October 2 in San Diego) is sure to be one of this year’s best conferences. Now in its 8th year, LavaCon has expanded from its technical communication and training roots to include topics of interest to all professional communication pros. Whether you are a marketing manager trying to develop a plan to manage a social networking campaign, a technical writer trying to get control of your content creation, management and delivery processes, or an business or project manager trying to understand the rapidly-changing content technology landscape, this event is for you.
This year’s theme — How to develop, manage and publish digital content that enhances the customer experience, reduces production costs and promotes your online brand — has broad appeal and should attract a diverse audience of content professionals seeking insight into how they can solve some of today’s most pressing digital media challenges.
Jack Molisani, executive director, lavacon
“To attract and engage the next generation of tech-savvy customers, we must do more than just write content—we must deliver user-optimized content when the customer wants it, where the customer wants it, and in the format the customer wants it,” says LavaCon Executive Director, Jack Molisani.
“But before we can do that, we first have to discover what our customers need and want, estimate cost and ROI, build a business case for securing the needed resources, recruit and manage the right people, select and implement the right tools, assess and manage stakeholder expectations, create and publish the content, translate the content into multiple languages for multiple platforms—and, of course, bring the project in on-time and on-budget while overcoming office politics and resistance to change along the way,” he adds.
Jolynn Atkins
Day one (September 29) starts off with a three-hour Social Media Marketing Bootcamp taught by Jolynn Atkins, Manager of Consulting Solutions, Escoe Bliss Professional Resources.
Later that day, DK of MediaSnackers presents a two-and-a-half hour workshop entitled, Social Media for Executives, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, which is immediately followed by a two-hour workshop from Social Media Consultant CJ Lucke and Events Marketer Richie Edquid entitled Foursquare Marketing Workshop for Bars, Restaurants and Retail Stores.
That evening the organizers present a welcome reception and offer a walking tour of the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego.
Neal Schaffer
Day two kicks off with an opening presentation from Neal Schaffer, author and president of Windmills Marketing, whose opening session, “The State of Social Media in 2010: Why Every Business Needs a Social Media Strategy…NOW!” looks great.
Ann Rockley
Following Schaffer is a must-attend session on Intelligent Content by Ann Rockley, president of The Rockley Group, and author of Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy and DITA 101: Fundamentals of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for Authors and Managers.
Fourteen more sessions are offered throughout day two on topics including: documentation in agile environments, branding yourself and your projects, media-rich interactive content, collaboration technology, calculating ROI for social media, online branding strategies. A special lunchtime features session by Crosby Noricks of Red Door Interactive entitled You’re Only As Good As Your Last Tweet promises to offer up some twitterific advice for those still struggling to master to popular microblogging service.
Scott Abel
Day three kicks off with yours truly, Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler. My session, Get Ready for Socially-Enabled Everything, will cover the features that make social networks so popular and that help us create better customer experiences. Attendees will discover how socially-enabled eBooks, training materials, mobile phones, product documentation, video games, music, and cable television are changing the way we work, socialize, learn ann interact.
I’m followed by Rahel Bailie of Intentional Design, whose session Creating a Content Strategy will explore the issues, challenges, and tasks involved in creating a content strategy designed to support your business goals.
The remainder of day three is chocked full of 16 presentations covering topics including social media, dynamic content, controlling vocabulary, content reuse, Sharepoint, 3D training and demonstration videos, and minimalism.
Mark Fidelman
I’d be remiss if I didn’t also highlight the luncheon presenter for the day, Mark Fidelman of MindTouch Software whose session Why Content Strategists are the Next Corporate Rock Stars. I’m excited about this presentation as I have called myself a content strategist for 7 years now and I think it’s finally catching on. Mark has great insight into the issues surrounding the importance of content being treated as a business asset worthy of being managed efficiently and effectively, in short, governed by a strategy and implemented by content strategists. Don’t miss this session!
DON’T miss the behind-the-scenes tour of seaworld
The final day of LavaCon includes 20 individual sessions on topics including: effective machine translation, XML authoring and DITA, single-sourcing, mobile content, eLearning, and HTML . A lunchtime presentation from Senior Product Evangelist, RJ Jacquez of Adobe Systems will serve as the closing keynote, although don’t plan on leaving at the end of the day. There’s an off-site event planned that will blow your mind: A behind-the-scenes-tour of Sea World.
Overall, I’d say LavaCon is one of the best conference values around this year. It’s an intimate event that should attract content professionals from a variety of industry sectors. Whether you’re interested in content marketing, content management, social networking, mobile content, technical communication, or digital publishing, this is one event you don’t want to miss.
A few weeks ago, CMS Report was asked to become a media sponsor for this month’s DrupalCon in Copenhagen. Between the late invitation and my decrease in Internet activity this month, I have some doubts there is much time to “complete the deal”. Promoting last Spring’s San Francisco DrupalCon was a lot of fun and is an example of how less involved folks like me can help give back to the Drupal community. So, regardless, of whether this site is a media sponsor or not for this conference, I still want to do my part in helping promote DrupalCon Copenhagen.
DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupal developers and users to learn about, discuss, and contribute to Drupal, networking with other Drupal community members in the process. At almost every DrupalCon, you will have the opportunity to meet Drupal community leaders, top developers, your favorite module maintainers, dojo trainers, members of the Drupal Association, potential business partners, and future employees. If you attend a DrupalCon, I promise you that there is plenty to do and see at the conference.
Keynote speakers for DrupalCon Copenhagen include Dries Buytaert (Drupal Project Lead), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP Project Founder), and Jeremy Keith (Author of “HTML5 For Web Designers”). What’s interesting is you’ll find an appreciation for the keynote speakers that are not fully embedded in the Drupal community. As much as I enjoyed Dries’ “The State of Drupal” speech at DrupalConSF, the awesome talks given by Tim O’Reilly, David H. Cole, and and Andrew Hoppin still whispers in my head today. Attending a DrupalCon just doesn’t improve your game with Drupal but DrupalCon can also help improve yourself as a well-rounded IT professional.
If you’re in Europe this August and have a chance to stop by Copenhagen, it would be one foolish move on your part to not attend DrupalCon Copenhagen. It’s definitely not too late to buy your tickets for DrupalCon CPH. You better hurry though, because all indication are that those ticket prices are going to go up on August 16th.
Check out the latest case study about the University of New Brunswick’s use of the Cascade Server WordPress connector.
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced that its first annual customer conference – the Kentico Connection – will be held this year at the Andel’s Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic on October 18-20.
“The purpose of the Kentico Connection 2010 conference is to get the whole Kentico community together and enjoy three days of learning, sharing experience and getting answers to your questions,” notes Petr Palas, Kentico CEO and founder. “Anybody who is already using Kentico or plans to use it in the future is welcome to attend the conference. This three-day event will provide valuable content and an opportunity to talk to the Kentico development team.“
The conference highlights include detailed technical sessions on the Kentico technology platform, an “Ask the Experts” panel discussion where you can meet the Kentico development team, a sneak peak into Kentico CMS 6.0 and what Kentico is planning for upcoming year, and a sharing of your experience with fellow colleagues and partners. All sessions are organized into two tracks – the Business Track, focused on content editors, marketers and anybody who wants to get high-level information about Kentico CMS, and the Technology Track, focused on web developers, web designers and project managers who want to create great websites.
The Kentico Connection 2010 venue will be in Andel’s Hotel in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic and one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In 1992, the historical core of the city was listed in the UNESCO Register.
The early bird price is $650 and expires on August 31, 2010. Attendees can register at the Kentico Connection 2010 website (http://connection.kentico.com/) and follow ongoing news about the event on (http://twitter.com/kenticocms).
I spent time last week at the UPenn Wharton UI Conference 2010 in Philadelphia, where I was treated to a session that was music to my ears.
“Your CMS is Not a Toaster,” led by Jen Yuan, an IT communications analyst in Penn’s IS and computing department, hit the nail on the head: CMS is NOT the greatest thing since sliced bread. It’s a tool to help you achieve your website goals. Nothing more, nothing less.
There was a lot to take in from her session (more in a later post) but it was her research into CMS systems currently being used on campus that really made my eyes pop out.
A few months ago, Yuan conducted a survey targeting anyone who manages CMS or CMS-like systems on campus. In all, 64 people responded. The slate of questions included one asking which CMS a given group or department was using.
Care to guess how many CMS systems are in play at Penn? Five? Ten? Go higher.
Yuan’s survey identified approximately 20 (yes 20) CMS or CMS-like systems in play at Penn. The leader by far: open-source Drupal, being used by at least 14 separate departments or groups on campus, followed closely by “custom systems” (eight) and Joomla (seven).
And, old friend WordPress was cited six times by respondents, recalling for me the debate we sparked here at the Myth a few months back with our post, “Is WordPress a CMS?” But I digress.
Rounding out the remainder of the systems consisted of a who’s who of systems and tools: Adobe Contribute, Documentum eRoom, Open Text/Red Dot CMS, Expression Engine, DotNetNuke, Sharepoint, PaperThin CommonSpot … the list goes on.
Granted, Penn’s like any other large, decentralized university operating with many, many fiefdoms that don’t easily roll up into a central web authority. But it would seem a natural to try to rationalize at least some of the systems in an attempt to standardize, save on costs, reduce the range of programming expertise required, and so on. I know – easier said than done.
It begs the question: How many CMS (or CMS-like) systems are in play at your organization? And, what are you going to do about it?
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Identifying 10 online professionals that are making a difference in the industry was as fun an exercise this time around as when we first did it in 2009. Twitter remains a truly diverse medium with people using it to communicate on a wide variety of topics; mostly useful, but at times less relevant in a business context.
I have myself previously complained about noise on Twitter and proposed a simple quantity-rule to get around it.
Just like last year, the list includes some familiar faces as well some names new to Twitter and perhaps new to you as well. For each of them I have picked a selected tweet to give you a taste of their style. Enjoy!
@BGleba: Beth Gleba is currently Employee Internet Portal Project Leader at IKEA based in the Greater Philadelphia Area. She’s been with IKEA since 2001 and has developed their award-winning Intranet by focusing on key employee roles and required information needs.I like it! “We let (internal com) our blog comments be anonymous, this allowed comments to soar!” #10CCM Nicole Foster.
@bjfogg: BJ Fogg is the famous Stanford innovator. He appears on Fortune’s list of 10 gurus you should know and has spent the past years in the field of persuasion, including work on Facebook and mobile (and both). As our 2007 and 2009 Aarhus Conference keynote speaker, he’s made significant contributions to our programmes. He’s once tweeted that he regrets 20% of his tweets. “Email cheapens our lives” I explained at a Stanford event in 2007. One reason: Email can undermine our closest relationships
@BrianBentzen: Brian Bentzen is online communications manager at Servicestyrelsen (The National Board of Social Services) in Odense, Denmark. Moreover, he has previously acted as Lecturer of Communication Studies and worked at a local digital agency.Content Farming – SEOs Get It, Journalists Don’t http://bit.ly/aY9dLT #contentstrategy #SEO
@ernstdecsey: Ernst Decsey has been working for UNHCR in Geneva Switzerland for the past 12 years. As part of the intranet team, he uses Twitter mostly to share recommended articles.Medecins Sans Frontieres: Social Media Lessons from the Haiti Crisis http://bit.ly/aUn8qY
@healthythinker: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn founded THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, in 1992 after 10 years as health care consultant in firms in the US and Europe. Jane focuses on the nexus of health and technology. Phonecare works – remote telecare for people with cancer, pain and depression; FCC #broadband implications #mhealth | http://bit.ly/d7uEbZ
@izahoor: Zahoor Hussain is a busy and recognized UK consultant. He co-founded a business which was later acquired by digital agency LBi. Zahoor is very good at engaging in conversations on Twitter and also regularly shares pointers to interesting reading.Defining & Defending The Meaning Of “Community” an Open Source imperative http://bit.ly/9kTH7W #cms
@kreidy: Kathleen Reidy is a respected Boston-based analyst at The 451 Group covering content management and collaboration technologies. I haven’t yet been successful in getting Kathleen to speak at one of our events, but hopefully it will work out in a not too distant future. technical founders / CEO / CTOs – if you hire a high-profile marketing exec, let him/her do the briefings – really
@lwelchman: Lisa Welchman is the founder of WelchmanPierpoint, a Baltimore-based consultancy. She has pioneered the field of Web Operations Management by distinguishing Web strategy, governance, execution and measurement as it pertains to large Web sites.opps. was it a Freudian slip to say For Web Managers and the Managers that “mange” them…..? hmm
@markgr: When Mark Greenfield is not at conferences, he is busy as the Director, Office of Web Services at University of Buffalo. Mark is also an Associate Consultant with Noel-Levitz, a US higher education consulting firm. He was first introduced to our community at the recent conference in Philadelphia and has accepted an invitation to speak on the higher education track at the Aarhus 10 conference.Why do so many high profile blogs make it impossible to print? For that matter, the same applies to many websites #petpeeve
@stephlemieux: Stephanie Lemieux used to work as taxonomy practice lead at Earley & Associates, but just announced that she has started as Director of Search & Content Mgt at the Yellow Pages in Montreal, Canada.in a presentation on using a wiki to display enterprise metadata to users – divorce management from presentation layer #EDW10 #metadata
This list enables you to easily follow all 10 on Twitter.
Who do you follow on Twitter? Whose tweets do you hate to miss? If you think we have left out any unmissable online professionals, please feel free to drop a comment!