Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 15, 2007

Businesses shopping for a Web 2.0-style platform to facilitate internal and external communications will need to look no further than the first day of September’s Blog Business Summit conference.

This year’s conference, which begins on September 17th, will feature a one-day workshop titled “Social Media in the Enterprise: Blogs, Wikis and Beyond.” Representatives from many of the major companies that produce platforms that leverage blogs, wikis and social networking tools to foster employee collaboration and creativity will be in attendance.

Companies signed on to demonstrate their tools and technologies for enterprise collaboration include: IBM Lotus, Blogtronix, WordPress, and Near-Time Systems.

“The idea is to expose our attendees to enterprise-relevant tools and platforms,” said conference organizer Steve Broback. “The day will give them a thorough understanding of what’s available and the best ways to use these tools to improve communications and manage knowledge.”

“CIOs and CTOs are now focusing on collaboration based on services-oriented architectures,” said Ed Brill, Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales, IBM Software Group. “It’s clear that Web 2.0 technologies are taking us far beyond what Email and calendaring provide. We’re excited to have the opportunity to show how enterprise-based social networks can create truly integrated collaboration environments.”

“We’re thrilled to be included in the day,” said Vasil Mladjov, CEO of up-and-coming enterprise blogging platform Blogtronix. “This is an opportunity for us to showcase what makes Blogtronix unique while sharing our general expertise in the field of enterprise blogging.”

Companies that use internal collaboration software have seen their intra-office e-mail traffic reduced by as much as 30%. The result has been more time spent actually innovating and less time sorting through stacks of backlogged e-mail.

“We are excited to join the Summit,” said Reid Conrad, CEO of hosted wiki and weblog platform Near-Time. “This is a timely event to help businesses learn how to transform how they work with their customers, partners and markets by leveraging the new read-write Web.”

“I recently read that EMC is using our WordPress Multi-User offering to facilitate an internal communications system,” said Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the popular open-source WordPress blogging software. “One of the great things about open-source software is that it can be customized for just about any purpose. EMC’s internal effort is a great example.”

Mullenweg will demonstrate WordPress MU at the enterprise day, and will deliver a keynote about open source blogging software at the main conference.

About the conference:

The Blog Business Summit is a conference series focused on the use of blogs and other social media in business. It is a leading authority on the development and implementation of successful business blogs. Its mission is to bring together expert bloggers and thought leaders with entrepreneurial and corporate executives for the purpose of developing and leveraging blogging platforms for profit, collaborative and public relations benefits.

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Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

First Web Design Conference for Sonoma, Marin, and Napa County to be Held April 12, 2011 in Rohnert Park

Sebastopol, CA (PRWEB) March 8, 2011

On April 12, 2011, the first-ever professional web design conference for the north San Francisco Bay Area will be held in Rohnert Park, California. This one-day event addresses the pressing need for web designers and developers to keep up with rapidly changing web technologies, without having to travel to San Francisco or beyond.

The event, which will be held at the Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center in Rohnert Park, is being organized by premier sponsor Webvanta, a Sebastopol-based company that provides technology services and a hosted CMS for web designers and agencies.

Additional sponsors include O’Reilly Media; Art Institute of California – Sacramento; Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster; and Engine Yard.

Conference registration is open now at the North Bay Web Conference site. Registration for the one-day conference is only $ 99, including breakfast, breaks, and lunch.

Conference director Michael Slater commented, “There are many top-notch web designers in the North Bay, yet there have been no sizable web gatherings beyond San Francisco. We thought it was time designers in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa counties had their own local conference.”

Slater has many years of experience producing high-quality conferences, as program director for the Microprocessor Forum for more than a decade.

The conference will kick off with keynote talks from Michael Slater, CEO of Webvanta, on “The State of the Web”, and Bill Mead, lead instructor of web design at the Art Institute of California, on “Educating the Next Generation of Web Designers”.

Web technologies are evolving rapidly, and it is a continual challenge for designers to keep up so they can design the best sites for their clients. The program includes talks on the latest generation of the core web technologies — HTML5 and CSS3 — as well as on jQuery, the most popular JavaScript framework.

Mobile devices are becoming an important part of the web landscape, and designing sites for them adds yet another challenge for web designers. Jared White of Siteshine will present “From Clicks to Gestures: Developing for a Mobile, Touch-based World” to help designers make the transition to supporting mobile devices.

The program will continue with presentations on four of the major content management systems: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Webvanta. These presentations will help designers put each of these leading CMS systems in perspective and choose the one that best fits their projects.

The day concludes with a focus on content, which is — or, at least, should be — the heart of every website. All too often, content development is neglected, and site pages are built in a manual way. The talks will address both content strategy and the technology for implementing it.

For complete agenda details and registration information, see the conference website.

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The North Bay Web Design Conference is being produced by Webvanta Inc., which provides site-building services and a hosted CMS for web designers and agencies. (It is not, however, focused on Webvanta technology, but covers technologies and techniques of interest to all web designers.)

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Percona Live MySQL Conference to be Held in London Oct. 24-25th

(PRWEB UK) 24 August 2011

Percona Live London 2011 takes place October 24th-25th, 2011 at America Square Conference Centre in London. Percona Live is an ongoing series of regional MySQL conferences hosted by Percona, the largest and oldest independent provider of MySQL support and consulting services. MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database. It powers high-traffic sites such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as playing a mission-critical role in telecommunications, government, and finance applications. MySQL is the M in the LAMP stack acronym (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), and is usually chosen as the data store for popular frameworks such as Drupal, Ruby On Rails, WordPress, and Django. MySQL is frequently used together with technologies such as MongoDB (the most popular NoSQL database for web applications), and the open-source Memcached caching technology, also a core part of Facebook’s infrastructure.

Percona Live is an intensive two-day format with six concurrent sessions from recognized experts in the MySQL ecosystem. Percona Live covers technologies and practices to keep a MySQL-based system running at peak performance and reliability. Sessions include hot topics such as cloud computing and NoSQL databases, design and architecture for performance and scalability, next-generation emerging database technologies, and perennial subjects such as backups and monitoring.

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New Microstock Expo to be Held in Berlin to Support the Ongoing Innovation of the Stock Photography Industry

Berlin, Germany (PRWEB) July 18, 2011

The first Microstock Expo and Conference (http://www.microstockexpo.com), scheduled for November 5 and 6, 2011 in Berlin, Germany, has received an unprecedented positive response from industry experts. The conference, targeting microstock businesses and professional stock photographers, will prove to ignite changes to the industry through round table discussions, industry speaker events and a large industry expo that has received sponsorship support from some of the top stock photo agencies.

We wanted to create a resource where professionals could get together and discuss advancements within the microstock industry – topics that require a conference platform to initiate and contribute to the ongoing innovation of the microstock industry, stated Lee Torrens, co-producer of the conference and avid industry analyst.

Stock photography agencies, contributing photographers and stock photo businesses have seen a surge within the industry due to the increased use of online platforms that use stock photography to drive success. The Microstock Expo and Conference will bring all microstock players into one arena to share ideas, brainstorm on future microstock business directions, while laying the groundwork for some innovative technology implementation.

Early success for the event has come in the form of sponsorship support. Dittmar Frohmann, senior director of Europe for iStockphoto, secured the top sponsorship package and offered his expertise for the conference program. Other early sponsorship commitments have come from Shutterstock and local microstock agencies PantherMedia and Photocase.

Microstock Expo and Conference 2011 is produced by Amos Struck of Stock Photo Press (http://www.stockphotopress.com) and Lee Torrens of Microstock Diaries (http://www.microstockdiaries.com), two industry experts that are committed to the development and innovation of the stock photography industry. Their achievements include the creation of the Microstock Photo Plugin for WordPress (http://www.microstockplugin.com), Microstock Charts (http://www.microstockcharts.com) and GuteWolke (http://www.gutewolke.com), companies and technology supports that have successfully introduced stock photo venders to new sales outlets and shaped the future of the stock photo industry through innovation and strategic investments.

About Microstock Expo 2011 – The Microstock Expo & Conference is designed to deliver invaluable resources for microstock professionals: microstock agencies, non-microstock agencies, service providers and professional contributors through industry directed and supported presentations, round-table discussions, shooting workshops and image critiques while facilitating open discussion and networking opportunities.

Press Contact

Stock Photo Press

Amos Struck

E-Mail: amos.struck(at)stockphotopress(dot)com

Phone: +49 228 28 692 182

Skype: amosstruck

Web: http://www.microstockexpo.com

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PeoplePond Wins Spotlight Your Startup Contest Held by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ferndale, Wash., (PRWEB) April 18, 2009

PeoplePond, a unique Internet service providing search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals, has been recognize by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) as receiving the most votes in the Spotlight Your Startup contest.

Several entrees were selected from companies exhibiting at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Trade Show in Austin, Texas. Recorded interviews with each entry were produced and published on Sun’s Web site for people to view. People then voted via text-messages for their favorite startup. When voting concluded, it was PeoplePond with the most votes.

“We are so happy to have been recognized by the marketplace and by Sun as the best startup,” said PeoplePond president, Theron McCollough. “I continue to be amazed at how favorably the marketplace is responding to our new service.”

PeoplePond enables individuals to publish personal profiles to create personal SEO that will train the search engines to help pull their online content up in search rankings. PeoplePond also provides the ADAM API, WordPress plugin and Drupal module to make it easy for users and others to easily republish the profile across the Internet, each time increasing the audience it can reach.

About PeoplePond

PeoplePond is part of the Cranberry network of Web sites developed by Cranberry, LLC. Cranberry is home to an unmatched team of innovative developers led by Internet visionary David McInnis. McInnis is best known for founding the first direct-to-consumer news service, PRWeb, which changed the way the world uses press releases. WeaveMet is part of the Cranberry network of Web sites. For more information about Cranberry Network, LLC and the Cranberry network of products and services visit http://www.cranberry.com.

PRWeb is a registered trademark of Vocus.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision –”The Network is the Compute” — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

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PeoplePond Wins Spotlight Your Startup Contest Held by Sun Microsystems, Inc.