[Sigia-l] ANN: CM Pros Summit April 11 San Francisco

[Ann Rockley]

Content Management Professionals Announces Second Semiannual Member Summit 
- April 11, 2005

The Second Semiannual Content Management Professionals Member Summit takes 
place in San Francisco on April 11, 2005, in conjunction with the Gilbane 
Conference on Content Management Technologies. Find out what's in store for 
attendees and learn how you can join CM Pros today.

CM Professionals (CM Pros), a rapidly growing organization with members 
engaged in a wide spectrum of content management activities, industries, 
and geographies, is holding its second semiannual member Summit in San 
Francisco on April 11, 2005. The event will take place at the Palace Hotel 
in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management 
Technologies. The one-day Spring Summit will provide an open, interactive 
format to enable participants to get acquainted and exchange ideas with 
others working in similar areas of endeavor.

Activities being planned for the Spring Summit will build on the tremendous 
success of the first Summit (the Fall Summit held November 30, 2004, in 
Boston). Participants in that meeting praised the CM Professionals 
organization, the meeting format, and the agenda:

*       "When we found CM Pros our feeling was great! finally some sessions 
and resources targeted to our needs."
*       "I got tired of larger publishing conferences with CM tracks but no 
time to talk to people."
*       "I saw [the Fall Summit] as not just an opportunity to get the 
information I needed, but also to share my own successes and failures."

Participants in this year's Summit will have an opportunity to get advice 
and recommendations from experts who are already well established in the 
field, and to exchange ideas with other professionals working in this 
dynamic, increasingly important community of practice, which involves 
creating, managing, and delivering the content that helps to drive the 
success of 21st century organizations worldwide.

Job titles of people participating in the highly collaborative effort known 
as content management include content creators and editors, project 
managers, graphic designers, workflow designers, Web developers, publishing 
specialists, tools experts, system integrators, consultants, and analysts. 
The content these professionals create, manage, and publish is also 
extremely varied, and includes corporate knowledge bases, scientific 
papers, membership lists, community calendars, press releases, news 
stories, stock photo catalogs, movie playbills, online courses, and product 
documentation.

Featured events at the Spring Summit include:

*       Keynote address by Ann Rockley, who has done groundbreaking work in 
the field of information design for content reuse, and is the newly elected 
president of the CM Professionals board of directors.
*       Small-group, roundtable discussions focusing on the strategy and 
practice of content management and the role of those who are engaged in 
this discipline.
*       Working-group sessions to address the top seven 2005 organizational 
initiatives, which were proposed by the CM Professionals membership in a 
recent survey, and which have now been chosen for sponsorship by the board 
ofdirectors

"CM Professionals is growing rapidly worldwide," says Rockley. "The 
organization is committed to providing our members a voice on those topics 
that matter most to content management practitioners. Our 2005 mandate is 
to provide a solid infrastructure for sharing expertise and knowledge among 
members. The 2005 Spring Summit will provide a forum for participants to 
interact in intense, results-oriented discussions in key focus areas."

Cost of the Spring Summit for CM Professionals members is $145US. For 
non-members, the price is $195US (which includes the CM Professionals 
membership fee of $50US). These prices include lunch and a Gilbane 
conference discount of $150US. For more information, see 
www.cmprofessionals.org.

About CM Professionals
CM Professionals provides information, expertise, and support to content 
management professionals and the organizations they serve. CM Professionals 
was founded in spring 2004 by a group of 30 content management experts from 
around the world who wanted to help foster a better public understanding of 
this rapidly growing field, encourage peer-to-peer participation in 
professional activities, and sponsor the creation of a set of best 
practices written and agreed-to by those working successfully in the field.

Join CM Pros.

About the Gilbane Conferences and Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars produces the Gilbane conferences, which cover "content 
technologies," including enterprise content management, digital asset 
management, document management, Web content management, enterprise 
portals, enterprise search, Web and multichannel publishing, electronic 
forms, authoring, content and information integration, information 
architecture, e-catalogs, and more.
Learn more about Gilbane Conferences. www.gilbane.com

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