Open Publish 08
Open Publish is the premier event for management and implementation issues relating to publishing technology based on open standards.
Brett Jackson of Atlassian and Michael Sampson to Keynote Open Publish
Brett Jackson
Director of Product Management and Design
Atlassian
Brett Jackson has led programs of communication, product development and innovation for corporates such as HSBC, Apple, Fairfax and Aristocrat. He is currently Director of Product Management and Design with Atlassian, one of the fastest growing and globally successful Australian software companies.
Michael Sampson
Managing Director
The Michael Sampson Company
Michael Sampson helps businesses to improve the capability of teams that can't be together, to work together. Michael is an Industry Analyst, Independent Consultant, Author and Workshop Leader.
Michael holds an MCom in telecommunications-based IT, and is working on his PhD in virtual teams. See http://co.michaelsampson.net/about-michael.html
Open Publish 2008 Program
The 2008 conference program features a wide array of publishing topics that explores the technology, business and human factors that are driving change in the publishing process.
Tutorials
Sharepoint as a Collaboration Tool: An independent Evaluation
Michael Sampson
The Michael Sampson Company
Management Track
The Truth about Enterprise 2.0
Matthew Moore, Engineers Without Fears
Trends in Web System Designs
David Warwick, Komodo CMS
Business Process Transformation (via Open Standards)
Gareth Oakes, Global Publishing Solutions
Why Words Matter: Metadata for Websites
Glenda Browne, Web Indexing
Managing Content with Wikis
James Matheson, CustomWare
Migrating to Open Source Solutions
Dylan Jay, Pretaweb
Building CMS into an Educational Technology Architecture
Alexander Roche, Androgogic
The Changing Locus of Collaboration
Michael Sampson, The Michael Sampson Company
Ten Tips for Succeeding at Collaboration
James Robertson, Step Two Designs
World Wide Fund for Nature: A Global Case Study
Cairo Walker, Step Two Designs
Single Source Publishing Now Mainstream
Peter Meyer, Elkera
Real-time Data Syndication Using XML
Dr Alan Burton, eGloo Technologies
Cascading Style Sheets 3
John Allsopp, Westciv
Improved Governance through URLs
Rick Jelliffe, Topologi
Better business systems with Office and SharePoint
Alistair Spiers, Microsoft
Applications of the REST Principle
Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia
Useful Tricks and Tools for Intranets
Michael Cleland, City of Casey
W3C Standards Are Not Enough
Ben Buchanan, News Digital Media
Interactive Websites: The Issues and Benefits
Russ Weakly, Max Design
Document Storage and Processing on Mobile Devices
Raymond Wong, National ICT Australia & University of NSW
Please note: despite our best efforts, the conference program is subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control.