Content Convergence & Integration 2008 Discussion - posts tagged 'cci2008'

Just noticed that a tourism writing community has sprung up at http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com/group/tourism for people wanting to explore tourism writing and content management. The description is:

This group is for authors of tourism/travel con...

I've uploaded some conference photos to flickr - as I've tagged them with cci2008, they should be available through the gossip tab soon. Unfortunately, by day 3, my brain had gone a bit mushy and I hadn't brought my camera with me - there were some gre...

Just a quick note to let people know that I have posted my slides on Slideshare although, as has been noted, the discovery services provided by Slideshare seem a little random.

My slides have been dutifully tagged with cci2008, plus other more or l...

With all the goings on during the conference, I guess I 'forgot' to mention to Rahel, that Jack Molisani, of ProSpring Staffing and the LavaCon conference (November 6-8, in Honolulu, Hawaii) sent us a beautiful floral arrangement, wishing us a successf...

Theresa Putkey, a consultant, presented a case study in breaking down silos to achieve cross-departmental cooperation.

A key incentive for cooperation was that the problems had reached a critical stage. The company had not had any full-time writers ...

OK, ok, this is not exactly conference related, but it came up in enough convos that worthy of a note.

On many of the fine meal platters dished up, there appeared a cute little fruit. It was orange, about the size of a cherry, and surrounded by 2 p...

Just slept for a ridiculous amount of the night (and day). Think my brain needed some time to chill after all the info that got poured in after the conference. Will be adding blogs from all the notes I took over the next while so do keep checking back....

The presentations are being uploaded by the speakers, but the search on Slideshare.net is a bit tricky ... Here's where they all end up, and this should make it easier to find the presentations you missed attending.

http://www.slideshare.net/tag/cci...

Content is being seen as a cost center (or at best cost-recovery)...

Audience poll: is content strategic in your org? (answer is very much 'yes')

Interesting question: "is content driving revenue in your org?.. if not, how can it be that stra...

Who better than Salim Ismail to talk about the XML landscape? Or perhaps it's the XML community? He speaks about the up-and-coming players, has-beens, and hot shots the way we talk about the main street of our local town.

I would like to recap his ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccivan_2008/

For some reason my tags aren't playing ball today, so above is the link to the pix I've been taking so far. Yes, several are of the food and drink but dang, it's good!

If you have Flickr photos to add, pl...

Later this afternoon (March 12th) I was able to sit in on Amber Swope's presentation regarding XML and DITA technologies. Amber is a Principal Consultant at Just Systems Inc. Where was Amber a few years back when I was new to the idea of XML? Her conci...

This afternoon (March 12) had 2 really appealing debates going on at the same time! With all this modern technology you think I'd have a clone by now, but no dice. Thus I split my time between the debates and have a few notes to share. Please be encour...

Just a wee note about the feedback forms that attendees may receive before or during a speaker presentationat the show: We really do value your honest opinion - positive or negative. No show organizers or speakers will plot to send Chuck Norris after y...

Dear James Donato of Refresh Software looked pretty panicked tonight as he fled for the airport. We'll miss having him for the remainder of the event, but wish him and his wife much happiness as their little baby girl has decided to show up earlier tha...

While everyone knows conferences are not about the food - except the food for thought - if the food served for breakfast and lunch is so-so, or if you're left to figure out where to eat in a strange city, then "The Food" becomes an instant and recurrin...

Later this morning, I was again in the Finback meeting room (as opposed to all the other whale themed names) and got to sit in on a talk given by JL Schmidt, Director of Knowledge Management for Critical Mass. I only wish more people had been in attend...

I was happy to be room monitor for Jeff Hooker's talk this morning. He gave a funny and insightful talk on internal corporate communications and how organizations should perhaps reconsider structuring their document creation. Jeff suggested that instea...

Joe Gollner's license plate is XML.
Mine is CMPRO 1.

He wins, hands down. I feel like such a punter next to him. :)

Liz Danzico is young, funky, from New York, studied Design at Carnegie-Mellon. Joe Gollner is on the other side of 40, traditional, from Ottawa, and Oxford-educated. They come at the topic of content from opposite ways, yet they say much the same thing...

We (Liz Danzico and I) tried every content convergence trick in the book yesterday, but couldn't fix the inefficiencies in the Homeland Security travel program that require her to have her passport on her person while here. And as much as we'd love to...

Given that Darren Barefoot is a well-known blogger, marketing communicator, and has just published a book on marketing strategies using social networking media, how does this connect with content convergence strategies?

I remember Darren's return fr...

The content management industry is not living up to its potential, according to The Level CEO, Jeff Sinclair. Named last year by Business in Vancouver publication as one of the "Top 40 under 40" leaders, he is something of a visionary. As head of a rap...

Last time I heard Michael Fergusson speak, it was an intriguing presentation called "Authenticity is the New Black", which was given to a group of marketing communicators. Apt that we have him talking about the convergence of Culture, Commerce, and Cop...

When Salim Ismail starts talking about how Web 2.0 is leading us to Internet 3.0, I see a little of the deer-in-the-headlight looks, the "Hold on, I barely learned about Web 2.0, what do you mean, Internet 3.0?" pain of wondering what else is around t...

A year and a bit ago, I had the good fortune to meet Liz Danzico at CANUX, a Canadian User Experience Workshop held in Banff, Alberta each year. The sentence that introduced her session was: "For all the talk of Web 2.0, there’s been little said abo...