March 19th, 2010 by Janus Boye | roundtable, speaker | 1 Comment
Portals continue to be surrounded by a great deal of confusion, even though the concept has been around for more than a decade. Portal projects tend to spread deep into the enterprise, addressing complex requirements, typically around integration and advanced presentation such as personalization. Consequently portal projects don't come cheap and the industry has seen more than a few failed portal projects.
John Petersen of Sutro Software has focused on portals for most of his working life. He has agreed to host a roundtable which will address the intersection between web content management and portals. John has a background with portal pioneers Epicentric, which were later acquired by Vignette.
Our roundtables is a special type of conference session without prepared slides. Join the discussion at the portal table in Philadelphia, where you can work with peers to identify some of the emerging best practices about when or if your web content projects can benefit from portal technology - or add your thoughts below.
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March 18th, 2010 by Janus Boye | speaker, strategy | No Comments
A recent addition to our great conference program is 
Nathan Gerber from Utah Valley University. At the opening session on the strategy track, Nathan will share his experiences with building a winning web team in a complex higher education context.
The J. Boye Conferences are first and foremost user conferences. Like most other conferences we also have inspiring, exciting and innovative presentations by experts and analysts. However, unlike most others, we emphasize real stories from practitioners. Nathan will share how his team is organized, how they arrived at their particular method of organization and his lessons learned throughout the process.
Regardless of whether you are based in higher education or not, you need a foundation and structure to govern the direction and implementation of your online projects. Besides Nathan, the opening session will be kicked off with a keynote from strategy expert Christine Pierpoint on how to roll out effective Web governance. In the session, you can also hear how the London School of Economics and Political Science translated web governance and strategy into practice.
There are many different ways to make your web team a winning one, but certainly also many pitfalls along the way. A crucial ingredient in the recipe seems to be governance - a much more important ingredient than technology!
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March 17th, 2010 by Janus Boye | case, speaker | No Comments
The Cleveland Clinic has gone through an evolution that started several years ago with unofficial early efforts with blogs and wikis; a development similar to that of most other organizations with regard to social media. John Sharp, Manager of Research Informatics and former Web Administrator at the Cleveland Clinic will share key milestones and lessons learned on their journey on the e-health track.
Among the key milestones for the Cleveland Clinic during the last couple of years have been:
- A CEO blog
- Various eHealth initiatives
- Facebook pages (some of which unofficial)
- Google Health partnership
- Twitter
- YouTube
The rising importance of social media made the Cleveland Clinic create a social media manager position in marketing earlier this year. A more comprehensive monitoring and engagement strategy has now begun.
There are several good use cases for social media within healthcare as illustrated in this brief presentation
How have you navigated the social media landscape? Whether attending in Philadelphia or not, please drop a comment and share your experiences.
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March 10th, 2010 by Janus Boye | governance, speaker, strategy | No Comments
At the renowned the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) they radically redeveloped their web presence. Behind the changes was a series of projects lead by Stephen Emmott, Head of Web Services. He manages a team of eight who coordinates around 450 editors and contributors throughout the university to deliver LSE's web presence and the infrastructure it requires.
Stephen will be presenting the LSE case on our online strategy track in Philadelphia in May. In February he shared part of his story in a publicly available presentation to the J. Boye UK Web Manager group. In Philadelphia he will further explore the vital difference between management and governance, and explain how they impact upon the strategies and tactics required for the efficient and effective delivery of an organisation's web presence.
Universities excel at governance, with significant resource and structure dedicated to it. Stephen will present models for other organisations to consider, take away and deploy.
NB: If you are interested in learning more about the role of higher education web managers, you can also join our dedicated higher education track, where you can meet speakers from institutions such as John Carroll University, Karlstad University (Sweden), Selkirk College (Canada) and University at Buffalo
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March 5th, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| volunteer
We always gather a team of interested individuals to help out at our conferences, for example to assist as room monitors, registration desk attendants and other essential, practical tasks.
Why you should be a volunteer
Volunteers receive free attendance passes for the entire conference with exciting keynote speakers and 8 tracks on intranet, online strategy, user experience, …
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March 4th, 2010 by Janus Boye
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Social media expert Valeria Maltoni will be the opening keynote speaker on the online communications track. The keynote is titled How to connect with your customers and will offer practical tips on how to strike the right balance between selling and engaging on your sites.
With almost 16,000 followers on Twitter and as the author of …
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March 3rd, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| higher education, speaker
Bob Johnson is widely recognized for his work in higher education marketing and we are happy to announce that he will be joining us in Philadelphia on the Higher Education track with a talk on “Perils, Pitfalls, and Pleasures: Moving Print Publications to Life Online”.
Bob gave a highly praised presentation on how to improve websites …
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March 1st, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| keynote, microsoft, sharepoint, speaker
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley will deliver the second keynote on Conference Day #2. The presentation will explore what is ahead for Microsoft: ‘The New Decade: 10 Products and Strategies Likely to Make (or Break) Microsoft‘.
Mary Jo is a highly experienced Microsoft watcher – having covered the industry for over 20 years for a number …
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February 14th, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| experts
Strategy and governance are usually popular topics at our conferences. In Philadelphia we will once again have a track dedicated to the managerial aspects of online activities. On the online strategy track we’ve invited 3 experts to share their views:
Web operations guru Christine Pierpoint will do an opening keynote on Web Governance With Teeth – …
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February 11th, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| intranet, speaker
We are happy to announced that European intranet expert Jane McConnell has agreed to co-host the intranet track. She will work with the J. Boye am on selecting speakers and assist them with developing their topics.
Among the confirmed speakers on the intranet track are UK-based Martin White and interesting case studies from IKEA, Perkins Eastman Architects, Thermo Fisher …
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