DocTrain 2006
Documentation and Training 2006, Boston, MA, Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
"You are invited to a CM Pros face-to-face networking meeting at Bob Doyle's labs in Cambridge, MA Wednesday October 4 from 7 to 9PM. We will serve drinks and a light buffet dinner.
Space permitting, other CM Pros in the area might want to come to meet JoAnn Hackos, Kay Ethier, Heather Hedden, Scott Abel, and other presenters at DocTrain who are CM Pros members.
Please RSVP so we can get a head count for food and drink."
Organizer:
Bob Doyle.
(More information about Bob Doyle)
Baltimore
Composibility Blog, Baltimore, MD, October 5, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
"Some from
Welchman Consulting and CM Pros Job Board Manager Travis Wissink are coordinating the first Baltimore Content Management Professionals face to face event. What does this actually mean, you may be asking yourself? Well, we will meet up at a pub, the James Joyce Pub, at 6 pm on Thursday, October 5th. There we really can discuss anything we’d like but for some of us the topic of choice for the evening is content."
Organizer:
Travis Wissink.
ECMplaza 2006
ECMplaza 2006, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
"Meet CM Pros from around the world, like Tony Byrne, James Robertson, Janus Boye and many others. We'll find a nice restaurant in the Rotterdam harbour and have some good discussion and diner."
Organizer:
Erik M. Hartman.
(More information about Erik M. Hartman)
cmf2006
cmf2006, Aarhus, Denmark, Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
"A good opportunity for the members to get together
and meet with CM Pros from around the world."
Organizer:
Janus Boye.
(More information about Janus Boye)
American Society of Indexers / Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada 2006, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 15-17, 2006
Join CM Pros member Heather Hedden for dinner or just drinks on Saturday, June 17, at 6:00 pm immediately following Heather's post-conference workshop on Creating Website Indexes at the Downtown Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel.
This is a triennial international conference of professional indexers of print and online documents. Join Heather, other indexers interested in content management, and Toronto area content managers for a face-to-face meeting, where content managers and professional indexers can discuss how they may support each other professionally. Please RSVP, as the exact venue will depend on attendance.
Organizer: Heather Hedden - 978-371-0822
X-Pubs 2006 Conference, London, UK, June 20-21, 2006 -- 6:30-7:30.
Join Ann Rockley for an hors d'oeuvres reception (location to be announced).
Contact Lee Powney for details about X-Pubs (sponsored by Mekon UK).
Organizer: Ann Rockley, The Rockley Group - 905.939.9298.
Enterprise Search: The Winning Strategies for Findability and ROI, Denmark, June 1st, 2006
A face-to-face meeting in wonderful Copenhagen at 17.00 open to all CM Pros. The face-to-face is open to everyone, and not just tutorial attendees.
The meeting will start at
Robert’s Coffee in an area of Copenhagen known as the Latin Quarter, and then we’ll move somewhere for dinner.
Organizer:
Janus Boye.
(More information about Janus Boye)
Society for Technical Communication 2006 Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, May 8, 2006
Join CM Pros member Rahel Anne Bailie on May 8, 2006, from 6-7 PM, for a
chance to socialize over a cocktail in Napoleon's lounge at the Paris Las
Vegas hotel. Learn more about CM Pros, talk a little shop and, with your
champagne, enjoy the Napoleon's complimentary carving station while getting
to know each other.
The annual STC conference is an opportunity for technical communicators of
all stripes and from all corners of the world to come together to deepen
their knowledge, explore trends, and broaden their horizons. This year's
conference has a significant content management track for the novice to the
seasoned user.
Organizer: Rahel Bailie, Intentional Design, - +1.604.837.0034
Content Management Strategies 2006, San Francisco, California, Monday, April 3, 2006 -- 4:00-5:00p.m.
Join Erik Hartman during his presentation at the CMS 2006 conference and attend a dinner with other CM Pros members after Erik's talk.
CM Strategies is the premier conference for managers and CM professionals to learn from teams that have implemented CM systems in their organizations. In its eighth year, CM Strategies attracts an audience of people especially interested in enterprise publishing of large volumes of information, including technical publications and information focused for internal and external readers. CM Strategies bridges the gap between content management systems designed to foster efficient information development and systems that make that information available to readers from web-centered, PDF, and various embedded help systems.
Organizer: JoAnn Hackos - 303.232.7586
(More information about JoAnn Hackos)
DITA 2006 Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 24, 2006 -- 6:30-7:30.
Join Scott Abel and Anna van Raaphorst for a meet-and-greet cocktail reception at Amedeo's Italian Restaurant. Learn more about CM Pros and afterward join Scott and Anna for some interesting dinner conversation.
DITA 2006 conference is a global gathering for those who want to learn about the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). The three-day conference is being presented by Bright Path Solutions and is co-sponsored by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
Organizer: Scott Abel, TheContentWrangler.com - 941.359.3416.
cmf2005, Aarhus, Denmark, Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.
"A good opportunity for the Scandinavian members to get together
and hopefully also meet with other international CM Pros."
Organizer: Janus Boye.
(More information about Janus Boye)
ECMplaza 2005,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Tuesday, October 4, 2005 starting at 7:00 p.m.
"Meet with other CM Pros members in a nice Turkish restaurant at the historic
Rotterdam harbour." CM Pros expected: Magan Arthur, Bob Boiko, Erik M. Hartman,
Danielle Kolmer, Maarten Korz, Ann Rockley, Martin White, and some others.
Please join us!
Organizer:
Erik Hartman.
(More information about Erik Hartman)
Digital Asset Management & MOM Symposium (PDF agenda)
London, June 21st - June 22nd, 2005. Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, London W1.
Organizer:
Peter Howgate.
Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Toronto, June 5-8, 2005
STC Conference, Seattle, May 8-11, 2005.
Organizer:
Ann Rockley.
AIIM Expo, Philadelphia, May 17-19, 2005.
Organizer:
Ann Rockley.
Gilbane Conference, Amsterdam, May 25-27, 2005.
An informal dinner in London when Paola di Maio visited. April 21, 2005.
Organizer:
Brendan Quinn.
Washington, DC-area CM Pros met April 21, 2005, at the National Press Club (Reliable Source Lounge, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington DC 20045).
Organizer:
Merry Bruns.
An informal dinner in Amsterdam when Paola di Maio visited. April 18, 2005.
CM Pros Spring Summit in San Francisco, April 11, 2005.
IA Summit in Montreal, Canada, March 3-7, 2005.
Organizer:
Samantha Starmer.
DESIGN IT! conference in Tokyo, Japan, February 25, 2005.
Organizer:
Shinohara Toshikazu.
NetContent/Chicago in Chicago February 9, 2005.
Organizer:
Hilary Marsh.
Content Week 2005 in Florida January 31 to February 2, 2005.
Online Information 2004 conference in London.
Organizer:
Martin White.
CM Pros @ ECM Plaza, a dinner in Rotterdam Monday, November 8, 2004 ahead of the ECM Plaza conference on Tuesday the 9th.
Organizer:
Erik Hartman.
KM World in Santa Clara October 27, 2004.
Organizer:
Mary Lee Kennedy.
Face-to-face meetings are informal opportunities for CM professionals to meet at
CM Pros-sponsored events, informal regional and local events, and
general CM community conferences and trade shows.
Many of these events are listed in the
events calendar.
If you are interested in organizing a face-to-face meeting,
email the event details
to the CM Pros Executive Director for posting.
In addition to helping to promote the event, CM Pros can provide support materials:
- Collateral materials such as brochures and buttons
- A list of any regional or local organizations that could help you with outreach
- Copies of any existing materials about your meeting topic
If you'd like to find out more about existing regional or local groups, see
the list of volunteers
who have expressed an interest in organizing groups.
Contact us
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