DIWUG event September 29th

Via Mart’s weblog the announcement of  the upcoming DIWUG-event on September 29th:

Two interesting sessions this time at the Dutch Information Worker User Group. Ton Stegeman (MVP SharePoint) talking about the SharePoint toolbox and Dennis Vroegop (MVP .Net) about Excel services.
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CM Pros-diner met Bob Boiko

Deze week is de content management goeroe Bob Boiko in Nederland. Op donderdag 20 maart organiseert CM Pros Benelux een Face-to-Face diner met Bob. Alle leden van CM Pros die interesse hebben zijn welkom!

Het diner begint om 18.00 uur in Utrecht. Na het diner wordt er ergens in Utrecht nog wat gedronken. Voor meer informatie en aanmelding zie het CM Pros Benelux blog.

Enterprise Search Event CM Pros

Aanstaande donderdag op 13 maart organiseert CM Pros Benelux een bijeenkomst over enterprise search. Er komen een aantal interessante cases aan bod van verschillende organisaties en verschillende zoekoplossingen.

Kijk voor meer informatie en aanmelden op het CM Pros Benelux blog. Ontvangst vanaf 17:30 en de lokatie is Tam Tam.

The future of content management

Last Thursday, I attended the CM Pros Benelux Summit in Leiden. It was a very interesting and informative event about the future of content management. Several vendors (Hippo, Mediasurface, Q42 and Tridion) shared their view on this, each presentation followed by a group discussion.

Unfortunately I missed Tridion’s presentation, one I was looking forward to see, because of heavy traffic. All presentations where interesting and each one contained an interesting insight: Arjen van den Akker of Mediasurface used Excel spreadsheets as an analogy for content management systems, Arjé Cahn of Hippo gave a very animated presentation and Lon Boonen of Q42 showed their innovative Xopus XML-editor.

For a review of the evening by Adriaan Bloem, check out the CM Pros Benelux blog.

Web 2.0 for content management at Leiden University

Some weeks ago I blogged about a project I’m working on at the Vrije Universiteit, where we’re building a portal for students with SharePoint 2007.

Because of this project I was interested to watch the presentation of Adriaan Bloem on how Leiden University uses web 2.0 application for managing the university’s content. He gave this presentation at the first CM Pros Benelux theme night on June 29th, 2006 in Utrecht.

Adriaan shared some really interesting thoughts and experiences:

Many of the aplications considered Web 2.0 are used on a small scale (individuals or research groups) or have a wider user base (faculty projects or university-wide pilots). Wiki’s, Podcasts and Blogs were discussed as examples and I gave my view on the pro’s and con’s of the technologies applied and their use in an academic setting.

I concluded by stating that new Web 2.0 mediums are in between the currently most important, “old school” kinds of content management (the CMS, used in marketing & communication, and the ELO, used for educational purposes). While blogs are a very succesful medium at the university, and are certainly here to stay, it becomes more and more difficult to decide where to publish what content. A holistic content strategy is therefore imperative.

It’s a shame I couldn’t attend this session myself, since it’s really interesting stuff. Unfortunately I was on vacation at the time….

This brings me to mentioning the CM Pros Benelux Summit  next week in Utrecht. It’s about The Future of Content Management and will deal with questions like:

What’s the influence of Web 2.0 on content management? How do “faceted browsing”, social media, wiki’s and weblogs fit into a content management strategy? Is Microsoft going to control the content management market with SharePoint & Content Management Server 2007? Will the innovations be instigated by ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle. And what’s IBM’s role? Will the growth of content management vendors continue?

Visit the CM Pros Fall Summit in Boston

The CM Pros Fall 2006 Summit takes place Monday on 27 November 2006 in Boston and attracts influential content professionals from around the globe. Both non-members and members of the organization attend the Summit.

The summit is the place to exchange knowledge and information about solving difficult content challenges, lessons learned, best practices and useful skills.

The event is comprised primarily of roundtable discussions that often yield a work product of some sort or of workshops that teach visitors something useful they can use when they return to work.

The summit is structured to avoid the “presentation” approach where the speakers talk at the audience and instead the sessions are aimed at participation and group learning from one another.

View the detailed program including presentation abstracts.