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    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-12-01</end-on>
    <full-description>The international event assembles the worlds largest and most experienced panel of content management thought leaders, practitioners, educators, and solution providers together under one roof for three days of unique presentations, panel discussions, product demonstrations, and networking opportunities all designed to help attendees find solutions to the content challenges they face.

This years event is co-located with the Content Management Professionals Summit, Content Management and the World Enterprise, a one-day intensive learning and networking experience that takes place November 27. The Summit features interactive roundtable discussions, peer-to-peer networking, and hands-on workshops lead by a stellar lineup of content professionals with real-world experience solving globalization content management problems.

Also on tap at Gilbane Boston: four pre-conference tutorials covering hot topics including: web content management, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), web operations management, and taxonomy development and implementation. The conference also boasts a best-of-breed Technology Showcase, a one-stop shop for content products and services featuring over 60 exhibitors. 

Sponsors include Interwoven, Microsoft, Crown Peak, and RedDot Solutions.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">46</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Content creators, designers, managers, and publishers convene to learn what's hot, what's not, in content technologies; Web, wikis, blogs, search, collaboration and automated publishing featured</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-11-28</start-on>
    <title>Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Boston</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.gilbaneboston.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/46</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/46/Gilbane_logonew.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>blogs, content management, content modeling, darwin information typing architecture, dita, experience design, globalization, information architecture, localization, translation, wikis, xml</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Lowell</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-21</end-on>
    <full-description>The theme of the 8th Annual Documentation &amp; Training East Conference is Advancing Your Career. Attend and you'll gain access to dozens of learning opportunities designed to help you improve the skills and expertise you&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll need to future proof your career and improve your value as a professional technical communicator.

Cost for full access pass: $999US

For $999 you get all of the following:
* Choice of pre-conference half-day workshops (October 16-17)
* Choice of over 40 conference sessions (October 18-19)
* Choice of post-conference half-day workshop (October 20)
* Access to the Management Summit (October 18-19)
* Access to the networking cocktail reception (October 18)
* Breakfast and carving station lunches during conference

Full access passes entitle attendees to participate in four half-day workshops (choose from 15), your choice of presentations (over 40 available), and panel discussions in the following tracks:

* Content component management
* User experience
* XML Authoring
* Interaction design
* Innovative technologies
* Web content management
* Localization and translation
* Information architecture
* Technical publications management summit

A free access pass is available that provides attendees with:

* Access to 2 full days of software demonstrations 
* Access to the Technology Showcase
* Networking cocktail reception
* Meals, snacks

However, free access guests cannot attend workshops, sessions, or panel discussions.

Need to justify the cost of attending to your boss. Check out this useful resource: http://www.doctrain.com/documents/Justifying_Conference_Attendance_Lowell.pdf

Who attends DocTrain?

Technical communicators, including: technical writers, course developers, user experience designers, usability professionals, information architects, content managers, eLearning developers, technology writers, editors, software tool vendors, information analysts, and media.

DocTrain news: http://www.doctrain.com/index.php/east/news
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    <id type="integer">256</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Held in the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, Lowell, MA, the Documentation &amp; Training East Conference features 40+ presentations, 16 half-day workshops, and a Management Summit. </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-16</start-on>
    <title>Documentation and Training East 2007</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.doctrain.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/256</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/256/DocTrainEast2007_logo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>communication, content management, content reuse, dita, interaction design, localization, s1000d, technical documentation, training, translation, user experience, xml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-27</end-on>
    <full-description>Event Explores Web Content Management Technologies and Their Impact on the Way We Work

Recent advances in content management tools &#226;&#8364;&#8220; including Semantic Web technologies&#226;&#8364;&#8221;are creating dramatic changes to the way organizations and their staffers work. Web content management software has made it possible for organizations to increase workplace efficiency through collaboration, eliminate unnecessary waste through automation, lower cost of production through process improvements and workflow routing, and, perhaps most importantly, make possible the delivery of relevant content with pinpoint accuracy, increasingly, on demand. When localization and translation enter the equation, these benefits grow exponentially.

Where can organizations find the knowledge needed to take advantage of these powerful, paradigm-shifting technologies? The CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit is an excellent starting place. The event will focus on the importance of web content management and the technologies that are quickly turning the web into a platform for the development of business solutions and information services. The Summit will feature presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions aimed at helping to demystify web content management strategies, tools, standards, and technologies. </full-description>
    <id type="integer">257</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>The Fall 2007 CM Pros Summit will be held at the Westin Copley Place, Monday, November 26, 2007 in conjunction with the 4th Annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Boston.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-11-26</start-on>
    <title>CM Pros Fall 200 Summit: Web Content Management</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cmprosevents.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/257</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/257/CM_Pros_Fall_2007_Summit.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>cm, content management, interaction, localization, metadata, rss, semantic, usergenerated content, web 20, web content management</tag-string>
  </event>
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