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Gilbane Boston 2008 - December 2-4 - Westin Copley
Where Content Management Meets Social Media
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• "Open Source Web Content Management in Java", by Seth Gottlieb
• "Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work", by Stephen Arnold

New reports published - these are all free:

• "Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness", by Bill Rosenblatt, David Guenette, & Bill Trippe
• "Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain", by Leonor Ciarlone, Karl Kadie, & Mary Laplante
• "Enterprise Search Markets and Applications - Capitalizing on Emerging Demand", by Lynda Moulton
• "Collaboration and Social Media - 2008", by Geoffrey Bock & Steve Paxhia
• "Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions - Growth, Trends, and Best Practices", by Steve Paxhia & Bill Rosenblatt

Gilbane Group blogs are authored by our analysts and a few guest contributors. You can access content by category, tags, date, and analyst name. Here is a sampling of recent posts:

• Leonor Ciarlone: Web Globalization Management: Got Certification?
• Fred Dalrymple: Footnotes, which way is the point?
• Frank Gilbane: Social Networking in the Workplace Increases Efficiency in Europe
• Fal Sarkar: Inspect 'yer Gadget
• Lynda Moulton: Enterprise Search is Everywhere
• Karl Kadie : On Multilingual Communications and Open Source: An Interview with Jahia's Emmanuel Garcin
• Bill Rosenblatt: Digital Editions Market Research
• Tony White: Clickability's cmPublish Platform: Improved Marketing Campaign Management
• Bill Trippe: Here and There
• Mary Laplante: Communities, Engagement, and Web Experience Management

Welcome Senior Consultant Dale Waldt!

Cambridge, September 18, 2008 - Head of Yahoo! Research and Smithsonian Director of Web and New Media Strategy to Keynote Gilbane Boston Content Management Conference. Annual Conference to Help Attendees Address Growing Content Management Requirements Generated by Social Media Tools Gilbane Boston... more

Cambridge, September 16, 2008 - New Gilbane Study Indicates Growing Demand for Enterprise Rights Management. Increasing awareness, growth of technology adoption enables Gilbane Group to create landmark study of current ERM practice.... more

Welcome Senior Analysts Karl Kadie & Fal Sarkar, and Contributor Fred Dalrymple!

We're growing and looking for experts and contributors.
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MindTouch Adds iPhone Interface and Grows Mashup Ecosystem
MindTouch, creators of Deki, an open source enterprise collaboration platform, announced numerous new application and Web service extensions, tools, and features, largely contributed by the MindTouch open source developer community. These new extensions and tools make it easier for users to extend MindTouch Deki by enabling users to create and build mashups.... more

GX WebManager Embeds Google Analytics
Enterprise web content management vendor GX has released an out-of-the-box module which embeds Google Analytics information in its product GX WebManager... more

Alfresco Launches Enterprise Edition 3.0
Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform.... more

You can always visit our offices, and you can find many of us at Gilbane conferences, but you can also hear and meet us at other industry events such as:

ASIDIC FALL 2008 MEETING: Business 2.0: From Theory to Practice
September 15, 2008, 1:00-2:00, Salem, MA
Senior Analyst, Bill Trippe & Senior Analyst Geoffrey Bock, "Technology 2.0"

ASIDIC FALL 2008 MEETING: Business 2.0: From Theory to Practice
September 16, 2008, 9:30-10:00, Salem, MA
Lead Analyst, Lynda Moulton, "Content 2.0-Getting 'Use' Out of Your IP"

ESS West San Jose
September 24, 2008
Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone, "Mastering Multilingual Search"

KMWorld Webinar
October 7, 2008
Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone, "Social Knowledge Networks"

Trisoft Day
October 7, 2008, San Jose, CA
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante

Sajan Executive Forum
October 9, 2008, River Falls, Wisconsin
Senior Analyst, Karl Kadie

Localization World
October 13-15, 2008, Madison WI
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante & Lead Analyst, Leonor Ciarlone

2008 RSuite User Conference
October 14-15, 2008, Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Analyst, Bill Trippe

KITES Symposium 2008
October 23, 2008, Kouvola Officer's Club, Kouvola, Finland
CEO, Frank Gilbane, "Multilingualism & New Information Management Technology"

eMarketing Association's eMarketing Conference
October 29-30, 2008, Doubletree Buckhead Atlanta
Tony White, Lead Analyst, "How Much is Your Brand Worth? Protecting and Leveraging Your Brand on the Web"

Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit
November 6, 2008, Westin Times Square, New York City
Lead Analyst, Steve Paxhia

CM Pros Fall Summit 2008
December 2 2008, 9:15-10:00, Westin Copley, Boston
Tony White, Lead Analyst, "Web Content of the Future: Trends and Opportunities"

NFAIS Conference (National Federation of Advanced Information Services)
The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technology on the Future of
Information Services
February 22-24, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante & Lead Analyst, Leonor Ciarlone