Just a quick reminder about the meeting tonight.

We hope to see you there.

JZ


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The Tuesday, Nov 9th meeting of the Rocky Mountain
Internet Users Group (RMIUG) will feature a panel
discussion called "Content Management: Wrangling the
Beast."

If the Internet is the medium of the Information Age,
then content is the matter. According to Netcraft
there are over 55 million websites in existence.
Although there are no hard statistics some estimates
that the number of web pages is well into the hundreds
of billions. Google, even with its incredible breadth
and reach, only catalogues 4 billion of those pages.
It's amazing that we ever find anything!

Since the dawn of the Internet, many netizens have
wrestled with the challenge of making content more
digestible, manageable and, ultimately, usable.
Companies such as Vignette, Documentum, and, of
course, Microsoft, have spent millions inventing
systems to help organizations get a handle on their
information. According to IDC, worldwide enterprise
content management (ECM) will to grow at a
double-digit pace from $2.7 billion in 2003 to $3.8
billion by 2007.

The panel at our next meeting will help us explore
Content management systems and standards:
>> What are the different types of collaborative
systems?
>> Which systems/methodologies are best for which
uses?
>> Are we getting better at managing our content?

Dave Taylor is the founder of Intuitive Systems
http://www.intuitive.com/), an executive management
and communications consultancy. He's been involved
with the Internet for over 25 years, including a stint
as a research scientist at HP's R&D Labs and another
as senior editor of Advanced Systems magazine. He's
written 16 books including the best-selling "Wicked
Cool Shell Scripts", "Creating Cool Web Sites" and
"Learning Unix for Mac OS X" and has extensive
experience as an entrepreneur, including having
founded four startups in the last ten years. Dave
will talk about RSS (Really Simple Syndication, a
content publishing "dialect" of XML) and weblog (aka
blog) technology and how they are used in content
management.

Robert A. Dickinson, Product Architect at Xaffire and
founder of Reasonably Sane Inc. (rsane.com) Trained as
both a software engineer and writer, Rob has always
been fascinated by automated authoring and publishing.
Having led technical development of collaborative
information systems for several local startups,
including CorpMed.com and Achieve.com, Rob founded
Reasonably Sane in 2001 to advance multi-author,
multi-format publishing. Rob will speak about the role
of document compilers, including Wiki engines and the
RSane Compiler, in managing large structured
publications with many contributors.

URL's of interest:
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Intuitive, http://www.intuitive.com
Dave Taylor's Weblogs:
The Intuitive Life http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
Real Life Debt: The Blog
http://www.real-life-debt.com/blog/
Dave Taylor's Booktalk http://booktalk.intuitive.com/
Free Web Money http://www.free-web-money.com/
Attachment Parenting http://www.APparenting.com/
Reasonably Sane, http://www.rsane.com

The meeting is Tuesday, November 9th from 7:00 -
9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments
and informal networking). The meeting will be held at
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from
the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for
approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills. NCAR is at
the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving
directions, go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/),
click on Driving Directions, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium,
right off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to
the public, but we may pass the hat to help defray
expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is
usually enough room to accommodate all attendees, but
it's impossible for us to predict how many people will
show up for any given meeting. Seating is always on a
first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit
additional people into the auditorium after all seats
are filled.

Thanks to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG
meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides
Creative and Technical Talent for Web, Interactive
Media, Marketing Communications and Software
Development projects, is the sponsor of food and
beverages for RMIUG meetings.

ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based
software company that provides semi-custom web-based
applications, sponsors the RMIUG meeting minutes.

Copy Diva (http://www.copydiva.com) which provides
marketing project management, marketing communications
consulting, and web content development is the AV
sponsor for RMIUG.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring
Internet-related Product information, brochures, and
business cards which will be displayed on an
information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, see
http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html You can also reach
the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at
rmiug-comm@.... Our web site is at
http://www.rmiug.org/


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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are
their guests. NCAR has security regulations in effect
that we must follow in order to use the facility. If
any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to follow these simple
regulations, I would ask that he or she not attend and
instead read the minutes after the meeting.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be
followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing
ID
if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy
are expected when dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this
policy, please contact me directly. Thanks, Josh Zapin
(josh@...).
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