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We are. Even though the Gilbane Group (news, site) was recently acquired, the show must go on.

Gilbane San Francisco, scheduled for May 18 - 20, has just opened up for registration. The conference promises four tracks to serve specific roles in the organization (marketing, IT, a business unit, or an internal function):

Bob Boiko and Erik Hartman are at the J Boye Conference in Philadelphia and they want webmasters, knowledge managers and anyone and everyone who works with information to step up and think of themselves as information managers — and tell everybody.

An open expert roundtable at the J. Boye conference. Panelists included Lisa Welchman, Welchman Pierpoint; Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch; Martin White, principal of Intranet Focus; and moderator and conference host Janus Boye.

Here’s a quick review of the discussion held at the roundtable.

Bob Boiko, author of Laughing at the CIO and a speaker at the 2009 J. Boye conference in Philadelphia, advises information managers to get comfortable with saying no. You don’t do it by practicing in front of a mirror, even if you’re shy. Instead, you practice laying the groundwork to justify the no. In the process, you’ll make better decisions and work with more effective people.

This month marks a new milestone for CMS Report, the blog, news, and aggregated website turned three years old.  When I wrote the first post, I wasn't quite sure where I wanted to take the site, but I knew my enthusiasm for Web content management systems would get me wherever I needed to go.  Three years later, CMSReport.com has seen over 1,700 original articles posted at the site.  Pleasing to me, not all of these posts were written by me as I have always appreciated the contributions of content by others here at the site.

Now in its second year running, Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad is a chance to pitch your products and ideas to some of the biggest names in the Social Media circuit. And in the spirit of “all things Web,” the organizers take the talent show online and challenge would be contenders to wow them via Twitter.

Conversations start on the web.

Customers often have their first interaction with companies on the web. Their actions can be guided effectively if designers can understand how customers act, on what they are naturally inclined to click and ultimately what they are wont to purchase.

Thank goodness designers can turn to decades of research in social psychology, behavioral economics and human decision making to help them make strategic design decisions.

Summer. San Francisco. Content management, social media and other related geekiness. Dreams do come true.

Gilbane just released their conference program for the June 2-4 Gilbane SF 2009 conference. Still under the motto of “Where content management meets social media,” the conference is focused on business implications of content strategies: from general content management decisions to using social media wisely.

As warranted by the current economy, every piece of the program is tied to the business impact of modern content solutions. There are four major areas to be discussed at the conference:

We talk a lot about how important it is for enterprises today to manage their information carefully, keeping track of it and keeping it secure, yet accessible to the right people. Increased regulations have forced many to rethink the strategies and technologies they have in place today.

If you aren't sure what you need to do to get your business processes in order, then attend this one hour webinar called, "New Trends in Ultra-Critical Document Sharing: Case Studies You Can Put to Use Today".

Did you know: Businesses around the world create more than 7.5 billion documents and that 35% of these documents contain legally sensitive information? Thought so.

Yes, we know we have already mentioned the J. Boye Conference coming up in Philly this May. It's just that... some good conferences are really worth mentioning more than once. And this one fits the bill. If you are looking to get more information on web content management and all that comes with it, then this conference is defintely one to attend.

Industry analyst, Steve Paxhia, of Gilbane's Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, will make his top five predictions for 2009 in a free, one hour webinar, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific.

Paxhia is expected to share highlights from a year-long study on digital publishing which included interviews with numerous industry leaders and visionaries.

It's been more than six months since we published our popular list of the Top 5 Wireframing Tools. Since then various readers have been eager to share with us their experience with the tools they have used for wireframing, information architecture and interaction design. We hear you!

Therefore, herewith we are are expanding the list, adding details and tying-in updates on the latest releases.

Continuing professional education can be one of the tools to make you more valuable and marketable in these uncertain economic times. Here’s an opportunity to learn more about SaaS Enterprise Content Management at a webinar hosted by SpringCM and Forrester Research.

Is Enterprise Content Management (ECM) an infrastructure platform or an application? What are the advantages and limitations of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in ECM? These questions and more are to be covered at this webinar.

Did someone say you had MOSS installed in your organization? Still not sure how to use it to its maximum potential? Well then, here's a webinar that may interest you.