When you decide to make the move to DITA, that's also a great time to start rethinking your content life cycle and planning the way you will manage your content moving forward. But where will you get the information you need to ensure your content management project is a success?

The Spring 2007 CM Pros Summit is the answer. The Summit takes place at The Palace Hotel in historic San Francisco. Held in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference and LISA Forum, the Summit will help you better understand how to effectively plan, manage, and implement complex content management projects.

The Summit will kick off with a keynote address by Ben Martin, Senior Analyst with Flatiron Solutions. Ben is an industry-leading expert in content management strategies. He will share advice and insight on managing content management implementations and explore critical success factors impacting content management projects. In addition, the Summit will feature a full day of workshops and interactive roundtable sessions, an industry leaders panel, a "birds of a feather" luncheon, and a networking cocktail reception (sponsored by Crown Peak).

http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit/cm-pros-spring-2007-summit

Program - Sessions and Speakers

• Creating a Stakeholder Management Plan - Tim Bombosch
• Rapid Ramp-Up: Rapid and Early Discovery of Potential Change Management Issues in CM Projects - Rahel Bailie and Emma Hamer
• Migrating Your Team to Topic-Based XML Authoring—Staffing, Training, and Change Management - Lori Fisher
• Step-by-Step: The Phases of Planning and Completing a Successful Portal Migration - Brett Borgeson
• Building a Business Case for Content Management - Ann Rockley
• Content Management: It’s a Process, NOT a Product - Jim Howard
• Content Management’s Best Practice: Integrating Web Content Management, Email, and Analytics - Krista LaRiviere
• Things that Go Bump in Your Content Management Project - Rita Warren
• Beyond Schedule and Budget: Using a Balanced Scorecard to Measure the Success of Content Management Projects - Neville Fleet and Joan Lasselle
• Beyond the Web – Towards a Holistic Approach to CM: Information Architecture, Business Process and Technology - Molly Bullock and Kevin Nichols
• Using Emerging Content Technologies to Manage a Complex Content Management Project - Aniel Sud
  

What does it cost?

• Members - $295 USD before April 1, 2007
• Non-members - $395 USD before April 1, 2007
  

      (new members receive a free first-year CM Pros Membership)

What do you get for your money?

• Roundtable sessions, workshops, panel, and keynote
• First-year membership to CM Professionals ($100 value) *FREE*
• $200 discount off Gilbane Conference and LISA Forum
• Access to networking cocktail reception *FREE* (sponsored by Crown Peak)
• Breakfast, lunch, and snacks *FREE*
  

Who attends?

Summits attract an intimate group of content professionals. A typical audience may contain less than 100 attendees (both members and non-members alike); from well-known content management consultants to newly-appointed content managers; from independent content strategists to writers, editors, and translators; from important industry analysts, to business managers of content-heavy organizations.

Why "Managing Content Management Projects"?

Because many factors impact content management systems—including significant financial costs, stakeholders from all levels of an organization, new business processes as well as complex tools and technologies—the stakes and risks are high. Effective project management increases the likelihood of successfully implementing a content management system that meets your business requirements, on schedule, and on budget.

Attend the CM Pros Spring 2007 Summit and gain new insights into the most important issues impacting the success of content management projects. More importantly, learn to avoid the costly mistakes made by others before you.

Sponsorship

We have a limited amount of sponsorships available.  Contact Scott Abel to become a sponsor.

Hope to see you in San Francisco this April!

Don't miss the CM Pros Spring Summit
Theme: Managing Content Management Projects
April 13, 2007 | The Palace Hotel | San Francisco


Scott Abel
Executive Director
Content Management Professionals
director@cmprofessionals.org
www.cmpros.org
office: 317-466-1840
skype: abelsp

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