Event Sponsors

Clickability

CrownPeak

dotCMS

Duo Consulting

Ektron

EZ Publish

Media Surface

Sitecore

TERMINALFOUR


Association Sponsors

Globalization and Localization Association

STC Chicago


Media Sponsors

CMS Watch

CMS Wire

ITtoolbox

Peachpit Press

The Content Wrangler Community


Event Sponsors

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Clickability delivers a fully integrated, on-demand solution for the challenges facing today’s web publishers. In a rapidly evolving publishing environment, Clickability gives a competitive advantage to its customers by delivering a comprehensive suite of content management and social media solutions on a scalable and extensible platform. Our customers can focus on building their online business and not managing technology.

Clickability delivers web publishing success to the top names in the publishing world, including: CNN Interactive, Wall Street Journal, Gray Television and USAToday.

A privately held company, Clickability is headquartered in San Francisco.

http://www.clickability.com

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CrownPeak is the market leader in Web Site Management as a Service. We provide content management, search and/or web hosting for hundreds of live web sites and publish millions of documents and pages across the entire range of industry sectors and organizational sizes in North America. We have averaged over 90% growth year-to-year since our founding, and have added at least one major product release in each of our four full years of operation. We have over 97% client retention, year-to-year.

http://www.crownpeak.com/

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dotCMS represents a new value proposition for web content management. This open source application is much more than an enterprise-class CMS; it brings the best features of content management with built in personalization, eCommerce and CRM capabilities. Coupled with strategic onDemand services and backed by award-winning professional support—what is not possible in other CMS systems becomes possible in dotCMS.

dotCMS makes managing content simple for both content contributors and experience web developers. Its interface is web-based, cross platform compliant and easy enough for non-technical staff to use. It offers user familiar, word-processing-like tools as well as other features such as online spell check, content versioning and rollback and work-flow based publishing.

dotCMS is extremely flexible providing the backbone for richly customized and robust web sites. Its strength is the ability to meet evolving needs as well as integrate with existing legacy systems.

http://www.dotcms.org

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Duo Consulting helps clients create, organize, and manage content to drive business results on the Web. We combine strategy and implementation services to reach business objectives through the organization and presentation of content. Quite literally, we put your content to work.

Founded in 1999, Duo has grown to be one of the most established web development firms in the nation, with marquee clients in law, non-profit, business, and government. We attribute our success to a company-wide belief that effective web strategy is both an ongoing process and an evolving partnership with our clients. Our industry-leading team will help you make the right tradeoffs between cost and functionality and guide you through myriad options of products and services. We offer continued support after your site launches through managed hosting services, maintenance contracts and site analytics. We welcome the opportunity to partner with your organization.

http://www.duoconsulting.com

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Ektron’s web content management and authoring solutions are affordable for any organization and simple enough for anyone to use, yet offer webmasters, designers and developers all the tools they need to create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites in one platform. With Ektron CMS400.NET, companies can do what they want on the Web, including developing rich sites for personal, two-way communication with visitors, building community through memberships, blogs and forums, and attracting more repeat visits using RSS feeds and web alerts to increase business opportunities. An open API allows for easy customization and extension. Ektron is headquartered in Nashua, N.H., and has more than 18,000 customer implementations worldwide, including Unilever, Intel and Pfizer.

http://www.ektron.com

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eZ Systems is the world’s largest Open Source Content Management software company. We have a true global presence with 85 employees from 23 nationalities and offices in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, France and North America as well as an international team operating from the headquarters in Norway supporting the rest of the world. With a community of more than 25 thousand registered users and more than 170 official partners there is a thriving ecosystem supporting eZ.

http://www.ez.no

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Mediasurface provides web content management software that allows businesses to easily manage their internet, intranet and extranet websites. Its enterprise-strength, Morello, powers sophisticated, content-driven websites for Global 1000 companies like Thomson, Citigroup, and World Wrestling Entertainment. An easy-to-use interface delivers unrivaled content management and enterprise search capabilities enabling companies to:

  • Improve ease of publishing for web managers
  • Share common content between sites automatically
  • Reduce costs by consolidating content to one platform
  • Manage multiple media formats efficiently
  • Launch new, perfectly branded sites
  • Simplify meta tagging and SEO
  • Automate content delivery to multiple digital channels

http:www.hellomorello.com

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Sitecore provides .NET web content management and portal software to mid-market commercial, non-profit and government organizations requiring enterprise-class functionality, integration and scalability. With standard features like forums, newsletters, calendars, forms and RSS integration, Sitecore delivers immediate value customers demand. Flexible and extensible, the Sitecore platform enables the delivery of web solutions and enterprise integrations quickly.

Out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory, Word and InfoPath make Sitecore a natural fit within Microsoft environments. Sitecore’s growing network of Certified Sitecore Partners provide customers with consulting, implementation and support services. Sitecore has over 1200 customers worldwide, including the Dollar/Thrifty, Omni Hotels, WebTrends, Netgear and Infocus.

Sitecore USA is headquartered in San Rafael, California with offices throughout Europe.

http://www.sitecore.com

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TERMINALFOUR provides enterprise level Web Content Management solutions to improve the efficiency of the communication of information through websites, personalized portals, intranets, extranets and emerging media.

TERMINALFOUR Site Manager is our open platform J2EE browser based content management solution. This content management system delivers serious business performance and efficiency advantages beyond web content management. Its web content management, enterprise content management, eForms and Self Service functions are easy to use, scalable and offer bundles of extra functionality to streamline business and information exchange.

http://www.terminalfour.com

Association Sponsors

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The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is an international non-profit association that promotes local communication as an indispensable component of a global strategy. Our member companies are experts in language services and technologies. They deploy sophisticated and proven tools and processes to help global enterprises understand in-country issues, languages and needs.

http://www.gala-global.org

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STC Chicago is one of the oldest and largest chapters of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. STC’s 16,000 members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and business process analysts, visual designers, Web designers, new media and marketing specialists--and anyone else whose work makes technical information available to those who need it. 

http://www.stc-chicago.org/portal/index.php

Media Sponsors

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CMS Watch evaluates content-oriented technologies, publishing head-to-head comparative reviews of leading solutions. What makes us special?

  • Our critical analysis exposes product weaknesses as well as strengths
  • We deliver unrivaled technical depth and comprehensive project advice
  • Our research is led by international topic experts
  • We only work for buyers—never for vendors

In addition to the freely-available articles on our website, we publish technology reports that provide independent analysis and practical advice regarding web content management, enterprise content management, enterprise portals, web analytics, and enterprise search solutions.

Our reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.

http://www.cmswatch.com/

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CMSWire is a rapidly growing web magazine dedicated to all things content management and some things just plain geeky. The publication is sponsored by Cylogy, Inc.—a San Francisco-based technology consulting firm—and is edited and maintained by Cylogy’s co-founder, Brice Dunwoodie. The CMSWire audience consists of decision makers, vendors, technologists, and analysts with a focus on enterprise content management, web content management, enterprise blogging, document management, collaboration, and related technologies.

http://www.cmswire.com

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ITtoolbox is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective knowledge of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals. In doing so, ITtoolbox satisfies the need for practical and timely information for an infinite number of possible challenges in the complex and rapidly changing field of information technology.

The ITtoolbox platform integrates the following collaboration and community publishing tools:

  • Groups
  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Professional Networking

We serve the IT community through 28 different knowledge bases including: Business Intelligence, C Languages, CRM, Knowledge Management, Java, Security and Web Design.

ITtoolbox is visited by 2.6 million IT professionals a month and has over 1.7 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information.

http://www.ittoolbox.com

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Peachpit publishes the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, digital video and general Macintosh computing.

http://www.peachpit.com/index.asp?rl=1

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The Content Wrangler Community is the new global network dedicated to people who value content as a business asset, worthy of being effectively managed. This is the place where technical communicators, medical and science writers, web professionals, content managers, marketing gurus, online community managers, document engineers, information architects, localization and translation pros, taxonomists, bloggers, documentation and training managers, and content creators of all types hang out. It’s a place to join your peers, to share, to collaborate, to contribute, to find the information—and the people—you need.

Members are congregating online and forming special interest groups focused on software tools, content standards, information modeling, job hunting, technical communication, web 2.0, marketing and more. In addition to allowing the formation of groups, the community provides members with online forums, a blog, keyword searchable member directory, video and photo sharing, discounts on upcoming conferences, event announcements, training sessions, webinars, and much more.

http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com