Rahel Anne Bailie, Director of Marketing
Mollye Barrett, Director of Communications
Janus Boye, Director of Member Relations
Bob Doyle, Director of Technology Resources
Heather Hedden, Associate Director of Member Relations
Theresa Regli, Director of Knowledge Resources
Laura Walker, Executive Director
Rahel Anne Bailie operates Intentional Design Inc, a Vancouver, BC consultancy focused on the interrelated areas of content management, content development, and user experience. She is also a managing partner in Strategy A Management Consulting.
Rahel brings substantial business and communication experience to her projects, where she and the IDI team concentrate on the requirements and content analysis phases, and assist with RFP preparation and vendor selection. Rahel has many years as both line staff and management in technical communication and usability environments, and her perspectives, both about content use and staff management, are informed by her experience and studies. A self-identified geek, Rahel is drawn to technology like a moth to flame, and embraces technologies that serve to improve the performance of communication products and the processes to create and maintain them.
Mollye Barrett is the Director of Content Management at Ken Cook Co. in Milwaukee and has been a professional writer for more than 25 years including 8 years as a content management consultant. Mollye serves on advisory councils on technical communication degree programs at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Currently the President of Wisconsin Chapter of Society of Technical Communication, Mollye served the organization in other offices since 1997 including founding the chapter Mentoring Program Manager in 1999 and receiving a Distinguished Chapter Service Award in 2002 and the Director/Sponsor Award in 1997 for my contributions to the Region 6 Conference. Mollye's affiliations include the American Academy of Poets, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Association for Women in Communications, American Association of University Women, Association of Writing and Writing Programs, Content Management Professionals, Council for Wisconsin Writers, and Society of Automotive Engineers.
Janus Boye is the managing director and founder of Boye IT, a vendor-neutral consultancy focused on content management. In addition to his consulting activities, Janus is also a contributing author to the CMS Report from CMS Watch and principal author of the Enterprise Portals Report.
He is also the co-founder of the Danish Content Management Forum, a venue for practioners of content management to meet and exchange experiences, attend seminars and much more. At Content Management Forum he is responsible for member relations and has grown membership from the 6 initial members to over 100.
Through Content Management Forum, Janus is one of the organizers behind cmf2006, an annual conference on content management. The last one, cmf2005, was a successful event with 50 speakers from 14 countries. The event is held every year in November in Aarhus, Denmark with 300+ attendees.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Janus Boye attended school in Denmark and in the US. Later he worked 5 years in Germany, including 4 years with an American CMS vendor responsible for Germany and Eastern Europe, in various technical, sales, and product management roles.
Bob Doyle was the founding Executive Director of
CM Professionals, the Content Management Community of Practice, and now
serves as CM Professionals Technology Advisor.
Bob manages several CMS-related websites - CMSReview.com, CMS-Forum.org,
CMSWiki.com, CMS-News.org, CMSCalendar.com, CMSGlossary.com,
CMSBoston.com, Memetic Web, Memography, Open Internet Lexicon, and TaxoTips. He also operates the major mailing lists for the Content Management Community - CMS, CMS-PR, contentmanagers, and several CM Professionals
members-only lists, including cmpros and cmpros-org.
Bob is a member of ACM-SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH and SIGIR, AIIM, ASIS&T, IA Institute, IxDA, KM Pro, STC, and the UPA. He is editor of the DMOZ Open Directory Project for Content Management and editor of a project to define a markup language for CMS called CMSML, working jointly with Erik Hartman in the Netherlands, OSCOM, and the U.Washington iSchool CMS Evaluation Lab. He serves on the C19 Terminology Committee of AIIM. He holds several patents and is the inventor of best-selling electronic games, including Merlin from Parker Brothers in 1978, the developer of the first desktop publishing program, MacPublisher in 1984, and was for several years the Digital Video Editor of NewMedia magazine in the 1990’s.
Bob is CEO of skyBuilders.com where he is developing an open-source small-enterprise information management system with his son Derek. skyBuilders.com hosts over 100 websites, mostly for non-profit organizations in the Boston area.
Heather Hedden, principal of Hedden Information Management, is an information professional with over eight year’s experience in controlled vocabulary management and thesaurus development at Thomson Gale. Previously she worked as a periodical database indexer with Gale’s predecessor, Information Access Company. As senior vocabulary editor at Gale, she also developed taxonomies for web search interfaces. In addition, Heather has a background in writing and editing, including reference book essays, abstracts, technical documentation, and magazine and newspaper articles. In 2004 Heather established Hedden Information Management, which offers contract services in indexing, taxonomy development, and thesaurus construction, along with consulting and training in these areas. Heather also teaches an online workshop in web site indexing through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Heather is 2006 president of the New England Chapter of the American Society of Indexers and coordinator of the national society’s Web Indexing SIG.Theresa Regli Theresa Regli applies over a decade of experience in content management and cross-media publishing as the Director of the Content Management Practice at Molecular, a Boston-based technology consulting and services firm. Working with clients such as Analog Devices, MassMutual Financial Services Group and Hewlett-Packard, she designs online publishing systems for consumer web sites and corporate portals, seamlessly integrating content and technology to anticipate the needs of businesses and consumers. Regli profiled many Internet pioneers as a reporter during the early 1990s, and in 1995 became the founding web content manager for New England's largest weekly newspaper. In the late 1990s, she was Director of Content Management for multiple subsidiaries of venture capital firm CMGI. She frequently leads seminars and workshops on all aspects of content management and user experience design.
Laura Walker has more than 20 years' experience in technology product marketing, business development and strategic planning. From 2002-2003, Laura served as Payments Strategist for the Federal Reserve's eBusiness Strategy Office. From 2001-2003, she served as Executive Director of OASIS, the eBusiness Consortium. From 1997-2001, Laura served as Senior Product Marketing Manager of Proxima (now InFocus) where she spearheaded the company's direct-to-consumer eBusiness channel, one of the first of its kind in that market. From 1994-1997, Laura was Director of Worldwide Marketing at Chrystal Software (a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation) where she spearheaded product management for the Astoria content management system. From 1990-1994, she served as Product Manager at Intergraph Corporation, responsible for their standards-based electronic publishing products. Previous to her tenure in the technology and financial services industries, Ms. Walker was involved in the graphic arts sector, where she not only designed dynamic and successful brand identities, but also acquired her in-depth knowledge of the document processing technologies that served as her entrée into the technology sector. Self-employed as a business growth consultant since 2003, Laura Walker has continued her work with standards associations and trade groups, developing strategic marketing programs, engagement frameworks, and funding programs.
