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Conference Sessions
 Social Software Tools: A Critical Evaluation (Location: Breakers C) To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. And yet, Enterprise 2.0 tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs. Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan.
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Conference Sessions
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Program Co-Chairman, TechWeb Eric Krapf was named editor of Business Communications Review at the beginning of 2004, after serving as the magazine's managing editor since 1996. As editor, he is responsible for all magazine content and production, as well as content for BCR's electronic publishing endeavors. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor at America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.
Moderator - Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director, TechWeb Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Conference, both of which are produced by TechWeb. Steve formerly co-chaired TechWeb's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed the InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.
Speaker - Mike Bergelson, Director, Strategy, Cisco Mike Bergelson is responsible for developing new product and business model strategies for Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio. Prior to this role, he managed Cisco's suite of customer care applications. Bergelson joined Cisco in June 2006 with the acquisition of Audium, where he was a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer. He was also co-founder and CEO of Conducive, an online advertising firm. Prior to founding Audium and Conducive, Bergelson was with First Manhattan Consulting Group where he advised clients on customer contact strategies, customer profitability and product development. Bergelson earned an engineering degree with honors from Cornell University.
Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan.
Speaker - Yoshi Maisami, Cofounder & Senior Partner, Intridea
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Next Generation Search: Social Bookmarking and Tagging (Location: Breakers C) Social bookmarking installations often go from good to great to overwhelming. Although social bookmarking offers a rich potential for discovery and connecting it requires analysis and understanding of what is hidden in the mass of shared contributions. This session will show how to manage and make sense out of this flood of information.
Speaker - Thomas Vander Wal, Principal & Senior Consultant, InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy". He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His work has primarily been to do with the Web and with information design and structure. He has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for The Information Architecture Institute, and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project (WaSP). He is also the Alumni Tech Lead for Boxes and Arrows magazine. He spoke at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Web convention in January 2008.
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