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Archive for September 5th, 2006:
Lots of tech pubs and content management conferences this fall
There are plenty of tech pubs related conferences to attend this fall. This is by no means a thorough listing but these three have caught my eye recently.
There’s the CM Pros Fall 2006 Summit discussing Content Management and the World Enterprise at the end of November (Nov 27) in Boston (early bird registration by the end of September). It’s held in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies conference so there’s sure to be a neat mix of attendees and sessions.
The FrameMaker Chautauqua is in Austin November 8-10, 2006. Wikipedia has a nice chautauqua entry, loosely interpreted, it’s a traveling meeting designed to educate. The conference is located out by our airport but don’t let that stop you from coming downtown to eat and enjoy some live music. It’ll be a little late in the season for the bats under the Congress Avenue bridge, unfortunately, but Austin has much more than bats to offer travellers. In the spirit of Keeping Austin Weird, there’s an Austin Segway tour, an Duck boat tour in Austn, and an Austin Ghost tour. There are plenty other fun things to do in Austin so please do take a look around when you’re here. Try Zilker Park, Mount Bonnell, Lake Travis, and 4th Street for starters.
There’s also the Documentation & Training Conference in Boston in early October (Oct. 3-5) and a few members from BMC’s Information Design and Development group are presenting a case study on Structuring an Organization for Customer Focus. Julia Osgood is one of the presenters. She and I worked together on our Routes To Value documentation team last year. Go and learn about our lessons learned while re-inventing the organization of tech pubs groups.
Free discovery tool for Dell battery recall
Wow, this discovery extension for Marimba is just what we were talking about last week when Facing the Dell laptop with a Sony battery recall… can a CMDB help? I think that our conclusion was, tracking that information in your CMDB without discovery doesn’t give you the efficiency gains you’d want. But here’s where discovery steps in. From an internal announcement: “ BMC Configuration Management (Marimba) is offering a free extension to our agent-based BMC Configuration Discovery product. The free extension modifies existing functionality to allow users to accurately discover and report on faulty Dell batteries throughout their extended environment.
To get this free extension, please contact the Configuration Management support organization at 888-930-5556 or email MPL_Customer-Support@bmc.com for details on obtaining and deploying the Configuration Discovery extension.”
