CMS Expo begins their 2012 Call for CMSs

One of my favorite yearly conferences is the CMS Expo in Evanston, Illinois. I'm not sure if I've ever been to a conference where so many open source CMS leaders in one room. Whether your CMS is open source or proprietary, you need to be at this conference. Whether you're a business leader, developer, content author, or analyst you'll be doing yourself a great favor by being at this year's CMS Expo.

So it should be no surprise that when the conference Co-founders, Linda or John Coonen, ask me to promote their conference that's what I'm going to jump at the opportunity. This is a great conference and if you're wanting to promote your CMS, CMS Expo is the perfect venue to make your presence known.

It's Time For Your CMS To Take Center Stage

CMS: Center Stage at CMS Expo With over 1,000 CMSs on the market today, it’s more important than ever for top-tier and upstart CMSs alike to break out from the crowd, reach new prospects, and get their message heard. The 2012 CMS Expo is the ideal venue to stand out from the rest, and be recognized as an industry leader.

The 2012 CMS Expo Call For CMSs is now officially open.

Is your CMS on the list yet? If not, contact the CMS Expo team today via email, or by calling (815) 455-2900 to get pricing information and how to become a Featured or Spotlight CMS at the 2012 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference.

Liferay WCS: Dana Blankenhorn and the History of Open Source

Dana Blakenhorn is one of the keynote speakers here at Liferay West Coast Symposium. He's probably one of the most non-Liferay speakers at this symposium giving him the perfect opportunity to express new ideas to this community of Liferay developers, partners, and users. I love these "strength of weak-ties" guests in conferences as it allows for some people in this crowd to "get it" and run with it.

The description for his talk:

The History of Open Source
(Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source Journalist, Freelancer)
Open source is as American as pumpkin pie. It is shared infrastructure. It is how we advance when no one actor can build what must be built. In this slide presentation, Dana Blankenhorn introduces you to the people, and concepts, that make open source what it is, from cavemen to the Cloud.

Dana Lakenhorn at the Liferay West Coast Symposium

Some of Dana's most significant points that I'm taking away with this conference:

Liferay Marketplace and Liferay Portal 6.1

Here at the Liferay West Coast Symposium, Bryan Cheung (CEO) and Paul Hinz (CMO) just announced the newest and upcoming version of the company’s Liferay Portal 6.1, as well as the developer community release of the new Liferay Marketplace. Liferay, Inc. hopes these moves represents a showing of strong new convergence of portal, web content management and modular applications for Liferay products.

Bryan Cheung presenting at Liferay WCS 2011

Personally, my focus in this article was going to be soley on Liferay Portal 6.1 but after talking to some of Liferay's partners and users, I've been convinced that the Marketplace is going to be a big deal for almost everyone involved with Liferay. The goal of the marketplace is to not only build better apps for the end user but also to "get everyone to share" among the community. Below you'll find discussion on the Liferay Marketplace and in the second section discussion of new features found in Liferay Portal 6.1.

Liferay Marketplace

Liferay Marketplace provides Liferay’s worldwide community of developers and partners a channel for selling applications and plugins to Liferay’s nearly 1 million installations worldwide (yea, that's a big number). First previewed at the Liferay East Coast Symposium in May, Marketplace hits the first phase of its launch at the West Coast Symposium with a developer-ready release, which includes a system developer kit for app development.

Live at the 2011 Liferay West Coast Symposium

As I mentioned last month, this week the 2011 Liferay West Coast Symposium takes place. I'm excited to attend this conference as when it comes to Liferay, I'm definately a newbie and this is a great opportunity for CMS Report to focus and learn more about Liferay. During this conference, Liferay is scheduled to announce the details for Liferay Portal 6.1 as well as their new Marketplace. I'm really interested to see how the Liferay community responds to the anticipated new features as well as their participation and role in interacting with the developers.

Liferay Logo Last night, I had the privliedge of attending dinner with many of the Liferay executives and employees as well as some of their partners. At my table, I sat with Brian Chan along with some very knowledgable Liferay users including Mike Vertal, President and CEO of Rivet Logic and a developer from TandemSeven. We had some very interesting discussions regarding system integration as well as user integration. I found myself interested in how many of the Liferay people here integrate their portal with Alfresco causing me to not only appreciate Liferay but also finding some new found respect for Alfresco. Given the amount of smart people here...I can't help but believe this is going to be a really great symposium.

Accrisoft Announces 2012 Solution Provider Summit

Sarasota, FL - Accrisoft is pleased to announce the 2012 Accrisoft Solution Provider Summit January 25-27 in Sarasota, FL. This is an event for Accrisoft resellers, known as Solution Providers, that will gather from around the globe for valuable training on their Accrisoft software and to learn ways to maximize productivity and increase profitability.

The Summit allows resellers to network and discuss software development and sales strategies with Accrisoft staff.

The 2011 Liferay West Coast Symposium

Over the past few years, I've heard a lot of good things about Liferay and their flagship product, Liferay Portal. The portal is an open source enterprise solution for portals, publishing, content, and collaboration. However, I must confess, beyond the demo and some positive word-of-mouth comments, I haven't had much chance to explore their products, services, and community behind the product. My lack of knowledge about Liferay is all going to change next month, because CMS Report will be at this year's Liferay West Coast Symposium in Anaheim, California.

Liferay recently announced their keynote speaker and the agenda is starting to shape up quite nicely. For those that are interested in attending the symposium, I've attached their latest press release on the symposium below. Early bird registration ends August 20th, so I wouldn't hesitate in registring for the symposium if you plan on attending this year.

Industry Experts Lead Discussions at Liferay West Coast Symposium

Leading open source portal provider to present talks from Liferay executives, engineers and a veteran Internet journalist.

LOS ANGELES--(PRWeb)--Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the speakers for its 5th annual West Coast Symposium (WCS) in Anaheim, CA on September 21-22, including a special keynote by seasoned technology and open source writer Dana Blankenhorn. The symposium will feature talks from Liferay’s executives and the company’s core product engineering team, who will be debuting the new Liferay Portal 6.1EE and Liferay Marketplace at the open-source industry event.

Kentico Announces Their Kentico Connection 2011 Conference Series

Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, July 27, 2011 – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced expansion of their global customer conferences – Kentico Connection US will be held this year in Denver, Colorado on September 26-28 and Kentico Connection Europe will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on October 10-12.

OpenCms Days 2011 - Complete Conference Program Available

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10 in Cologne, Germany.

The complete conference program for OpenCms Days 2011 is now available at the conference website. The program features 16 sessions with numerous high-profile speakers from all over the world. OpenCms Days 2011 will be the largest event for the OpenCms community this year.

Register your ticket now - only a limited number of seats are available!

Regular conference registration price: 200,- Euro

2011 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference

On May 2nd, 3rd, and 4th the CMS Association will be hosting the 2011 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference in Chicago. This three jam-packed days conference will give you a chance to immerse yourself in that which is relevant in the CMS world today for you and for your business. At CMS Expo you can expect to get the facts, find the support, and make the contacts to help your business succeed.

This year, CMS Expo will be featuring some of your favorite content management systems including Drupal, Joomla!, DotNetNuke, SilverStripe, and Umbraco. The 2011 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference will feature over ninety information-packed CMS training sessions. Created for Web Designers, Developers and Businesspeople, CMS Expo is the place to be for the most relevant, timely and actionable information in the fast-growth CMS Sector.

Attendees will learn the latest web skills, while making highly valuable business connections, all under one roof. Over eighty of the world’s top CMS instructors will share their knowledge and insights. CMS Expo will feature Learning Tracks on Business, Technical & Creative Foundations (such as PHP, MySQL, CSS, Web Design and more), plus their "Evaluation Track" is dedicated toward providing the perfect atmosphere to help participants compare CMSs, apps and add-ons/modules.

CMS Report is proud to be a Media Partner for the 2011 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference in Chicago. We consider this the must go-to conference of the year for fans of content management systems and those that want to stay relevant in this industry. We encourage you to click here for pricing & registration information.

Call for Papers: OpenCms Days 2011 in Cologne, Germany

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

Final deadline for speakers to submit their session proposals is March 01, 2011

Session proposals are welcome. Each session will be 60 minutes long. A typical presentation session should be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes discussion. Other session formats, such as workshops, roundtable discussions and BOF meetings, are also possible.

Session proposals should focus on successful OpenCms projects and should deliver a clear practical value to the audience, e.g. in the form of an OpenCms module or extension that is freely available. For example, this could be

Highly specialized custom versions based on OpenCms you want to share with the community
Module extensions and add-ons you developed
Successful implementation of a customer's needs in an OpenCms project

Only sessions that are of general interest for all OpenCms users are allowed. Company or product promotional sessions will be rejected.

OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event will be English, and all presentations have to be held in English language, too.

Call for papers is closing March 01, 2011.

J and Beyond: A Call to Submit Proposals for Joomla Conference

J and Beyond, an International Joomla® Conference in Kerkrade The Netherlands, is coming and the deadline for submitting proposals for sessions is on 4th March.

J and Beyond is not like any other Joomla! event, the entire programme of events is up to you the participants. Any and every participant has the opportunity to present a paper which can be either a presentation, tutorial or workshop. This is your opportunity to not only meet your peers but to share your ideas, experiences and projects.

Joomla! Logo Before submitting a paper please spend a moment or two to consider if it is appropriate. If you think it sounds like something you would be interested in attending then thats a good start. A simple product demonstration is probably not the right presentation for J and Beyond, the attendees are more than capable of downloading software and checking it out for themselves. Think beyond the obvious and try to propose sessions that will truly inform, educate and engage with the unique audience at J and Beyond.

Some Proposal Ideas

Case Studies

Have you developed a unique site? Share with the participants at J and Beyond the challenges and difficulties you faced and how you resolved them.

Tutorials

Have you discovered a new library or perhaps developed an API? Articles and videos can only go so far, there is nothing better than an in-person tutorial to really explain the key concepts

Discussions

Is there a subject that grabs your attention? Are there multiple possibilities for the best way forward? Why not chair a discussion and together with other participants discuss and debate the options to perhaps reach a consensus.

Workshop

Sometimes there is nothing better than opening the laptop and getting down to some real code. Share your expertise and experience with your fellow J and Beyond attendees.

Working Methodology

It may be a business, design or development method that you want to share. Or have you discovered the perfect computer setup that drasticaly reduces your development time leaving you more time for the important stuff in life.

New Technology

Technology doesn't stand still and neither should we. There are new coding methodologies, javascript libraries and platforms announced all the time. Share your experience and thoughts creating, developing or simply exploring the future.

Ticket Information

Tickets for J and Beyond are on sale at only 149 Euros until 1st April.

Houston's Southwest Drupal Summit is Coming

There are a lot of good conferences taking place this Spring and Summer, but what do you do for the Winter months? If you're smart, you start looking for a conference in warmer climate. If you're a Drupal enthusiast (we'll assume you're already smart) then you have to consider attending the two-day Southwest Drupal Summit in Houston, Texas. This January 27-28, 2011 conference brings Drupal experts, novices, and business leaders together to share successes, explore opportunities, and learn more about why and how Drupal is making headlines across the world as a superior enterprise-level web application platform.

This regional event will provide participants with insights and techniques for building solid websites and application. Attendees will hear from Drupal experts in the areas of Development, Design and Business Strategy in order to acquire new skills and hone best practices. Business leaders will share their success stories and implementation strategies, offering opportunities to learn from real-world examples. Featured speakers include Angela Byron (Lullabot, Drupal 7 core maintainer), Kyle Rankin (Linux Magazine), James Walker (StatusNet), Kieran Lal (Acquia), and many more.

If you decide to go to the conference, you can purchase your tickets at the Southwest Drupal Summit website. CMS Report is a media sponsor for this event. You do know what that means, don't you? Whisper the secret code, CMSREPORT, and the event organizers will knock $50 off the asking price, making the registration fee only $65 for this conference.

OpenCms Days 2011 - Conference and Expo in Cologne, Germany

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

The OpenCms 8 User Experience

OpenCms 8 will bring a major update of the content manager user interface. The new Advanced Direct Edit feature will allow content managers to create, modify and publish new pages directly with drag & drop on their web pages, making OpenCms much more user friendly.

The final version of OpenCms 8 will be made available for public download on the first day of the conference. A release candidate version of OpenCms 8 will be downloadable earlier.

The conference will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the new features of OpenCms 8 directly from the developers.

TM Forum’s Management World 2011 Keynotes to Unwrap the Communications Revolution

Industry leading keynotes to take center stage at TM Forum flagship conference

MORRISTOWN, NJ - January 11, 2011 - TM Forum today announced an impressive line-up of heavy-hitting industry leaders for the Keynote Perspectives program at its flagship event – Management World 2011. Representing many of the world’s top service providers including Deutsche Telekom, O2 and AT&T, this line-up of the who’s-who in communications will expose the revolution of innovation taking place in the industry, and unwrap the who, what and how of communications enabling digital life. Management World takes place May 23-26, 2011 at the new, state-of-the-art Convention Center Dublin in Ireland.

The Keynote Perspectives program is the backbone of the Management World 2011 conference. Offering a variety of panel discussions and talks from the world’s communications leaders, the program tackles the industry’s hottest topics and sets the stage for the entire conference. Keynote speakers already confirmed for Management World 2011 include:

Olivier Baujard, Chief Technology Officer, Deutsche Telekom
David Gurle, General Manager and Vice President Skype for Business, Skype
Erik Hoving, CEO, NetCo and Member of the Board, KPN International
Kevin Peters, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T
Steffen Roehn, Chief Information Officer, Deutsche Telekom
Stephen Shurrock, Chief Executive Officer, O2 Ireland
Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks
Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive Officer, Alcatel-Lucent
Hans Vestberg, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson

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