CMS Consultants Summit 2004
A new summit working group has been formed. Mary Lee Kennedy (Chair), Bob
Doyle, Frank Gilbane, Tony Byrne.
First online meeting was Wednesday, July 7, 4-5 PM ET. Attendees were Mary Lee Kennedy (Chair), Frank Gilbane, Bill Trippe, Bob
Doyle, Ann Rockley, Erik Hartman, Jane McConnell, Tony Byrne.
You can hear the meeting at http://www.cmsconsultants.org/av
We had a great meeting. Here
are the decisions we made. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Summit
Purpose
A successful Summit will accomplish the
following:
- Move the business of the
Association forward
- Increase membership interest and
sign-up
- Learn something from each other
that is new and applicable (peer-to-peer
interaction)
Target Audience
- All current members (G23) and
potential members.
- Vendors are welcome as long as
they come as individuals.
- Goal is to engage individuals
before the Summit in the “Good Practices” working
groups. All participants who are not members will be informed that they
cannot vote or take action in the articulation and shaping of the practice.
- Engage as many individuals (G23
and others) as possible beforehand so that even those who cannot attend will
participate.
Format
- One day (probably Thursday)
- A closed business meeting for the
G23
- An open business meeting for
anyone interested in discussing the Association
- 45-60 minute facilitated
discussions on the working drafts of good practices and possibly the glossary
broken up by ˝ hour breaks for informal networking
- “Bird –of –a-feather” dinners
- There will be several bloggers who
will document the Summit and ensure there is a virtual presence
internationally.
- For the future need to think of
how to include members from around the world.
Economics
- Room cost will be up to
$500-1000. This does not include any coffee costs etc. during the
session.
- Members fee - $25
- Non-members fee -
$75
- No sponsorships
Marketing
- Two sentence “teaser” due to Frank
by July 14th. Mary Lee, Frank and Erik to create based on
meeting decisions.
- Full-fledged marketing dependent
on formal launch of Association (likely a press
release)
Action items:
- Everyone will look at the Member
Survey to ensure that Summit-related questions are included. Send
suggestions to Bob Doyle.
- The Good Practices Committee will
meet within the next 1-2 weeks to decide on both topic and process
requirements. Mary Lee/Tony to call.
- Mary Lee to work with Erik and
Frank on Summit communication messages to ensure
consistency in the various vehicles we all have available to us.
This will be done via email. Jane to help in ensuring we are
internationally focused in our use of language
etc.
- Jane and Mary Lee to work out CM
Summit prep work to do in Santa
Clara. (Post “Good Practices”
meeting).
- Two sentence teaser due to Frank
on the 14th. Mary Lee, Frank and Erik to finalize.
First online meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 7, at 4PM ET. See the eMeetings page for how to participate.
Action Items
- A short introduction to the CM Summit for Frank Gilbane due July 14.
- Approval of (potential) Member Survey
questions about the summit.
Some issues:
- What should CM Summit registration cost?
- What kind of venue can we afford?
- Area schools?
- Needed summit infrastructure
- Single room with seating for 100? 200?
- Data projector and screen
- Internet connection and WiFi?
- Should we seek sponsorship for the CM Summit?
- From vendors?
- From media?
The CM Summit will be focused on CM practitioners and free of marketing hype.
Meetings will have CM experts on panels to facilitate discussion. However, sessions will not typically be Powerpoint presentations but interaction with attendee members to learn what should be done to help the profession and develop
best practices in a number of specific areas.
We invite CM project managers, authors, editors, developers, graphic/UI/experience designers, information architects, usability experts, interaction designers, systems architects, researchers, educators, marcom professionals, network administrators, industry experts, analysts, students, consultants, IT directors, web managers, system implementers, technology trainers, system administrators, senior management, and anyone else who cares enough about content to invest a small sum in helping to make us all better at managing it.
We are planning a CMS Consultants Summit in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management November 30 - December 2, 2004. It will be a half-day meeting in a single room the afternoon of December 2, and possibly a whole day meeting December 3, with the possibility of simultaneous sessions depending on interest.
We are not prepared to accept registrations for the CM Summit until we have an organization and a bank account. But we may prepare an online form (a survey of potential members) to determine the price for the summit, whether 1 or 2 days, and program suggestions. Summit pricing and expected attendance will determine what kind of venue we can afford. We must sample the level of interest soon.
We will solicit papers from attendees, but they will not be delivered as regular presentations. Instead, they will be published (as soon as received) on the website, and will be used to select expert panel members to lead specific sessions. At a minimum, papers should include a comprehensive web/literature review on the topic.
A typical session will concentrate on a single area of CM Best Practices. We have a
tentative list of best practice areas, and welcome your suggestions and criticisms.
Attendees of a session will receive printed versions of the papers as working papers. The session objectives will be to discuss the ideas put forward, sharpen them into agreed positions on best practices, or put them forward for further research by a continuing working group. Sessions will be videotaped and archived for future use by the working group and general members.
Panel members will be de facto members of the working group, and other attendees may also join. A collaborative blog or wiki will be created for each best practice area to carry on the Summit's face-to-face work and arrive at a revised white paper on the best practice.
Resource-related sessions will include mailing list policies, the multilingual glossary project, the events calendar, and liaison with other organizations.
Organization-related sessions will discuss governance, the business model, marketing ideas, member benefits and services, and CM Summit 2005.
A business meeting will be held. The membership will ratify a set of bylaws and elect a board of directors The Board will appoint officers and an Executive Director.
Here is the list of CMPros who are going to be at the conference in
Boston so far.
DEFINITE:
Bob Boiko
Ann Rockley
Bob Doyle
Tony Byrne
Bill Trippe
Lisa Welchman
Erik Hartman
Mary Lee Kennedy
Brendan Quinn
DEFINITELY NOT:
Jane McConnell
Howard McQueen
James Robertson
Lou Rosenfeld
Martin White
