Sunday, June 1 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Content Management Institute
Tuesday, June 3, 9:00-10:00am
Building Your Content Management Skills
Ann Rockley
Understand what skills are required for successful content management. Learn how you can gain understanding and experience in these skills.
Tuesday, June 3, 10:30-11:30am
Preparing for Successful Content Management
Thinking about content management but you're not sure where to start? This session discusses what you need to consider when starting down the road to content management. The preparedness of you and your team will be critical to the success of your CMS deployment. There are many steps you should be taking now while technology acquisition is still far off on the planning horizon. Don't get caught short.
Tuesday, June 3, 1:30-2:30pm
Using Content Management to Improve Content Quality
Steve Manning
We all know what content management can do for us after we’ve created content. But how does content management apply to the content creation process, and can it help us to improve the quality of our documentation? This session describes the principles of good content management practices, how they apply to the content creation, and how they can help reduce errors, improve consistency and quality, and ultimately improve usability.
Tuesday, June 3, 3:00-4:00pm
Real World Content Management (Panel)
Moderator: Steve Manning
Small Company with Big Documentation
Tasmin Douglas
Content management isn’t just for large companies. In this session, discover the issues and surprises in formulating a CM strategy for a small startup company.
Component CMS Implementation at Xerox Global Services
Glen Emerson
Taking the perspective of a larger corporation, Glen Emerson provides a summary of the challenges of selecting and implementing a component content management system (CMS) for XML DITA and a large volume of legacy unstructured FrameMaker content.
Tuesday, June 3, 4:30-5:30pm
Vendor Panel: Successful Content Management
Ann Rockley
Join a panel of vendors as they answer some of your burning questions about content management, such as: What level of granularity is appropriate for content? How are translation memory tools integrated into content management? What about metadata?