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.