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Not everything that goes on in Vegas needs to stay there. Namely the 2008 EPpy Awards. Known as one of the most prized and long-running honors for online content —the awardees were announced during the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show hosted in Las Vegas.

Online content is a broad topic indeed, so award recipients ranged from newspapers to blogs and were judged based upon their video, news feeds, unique visitors and more.

Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and Finns, it's time to flex your open source muscle. The Open Nordic Conference is happening in Norway on June 19-20. Brought to you by a formidable team consisting of eZ Systems, ICT Norwary, National Center for Open Source, and ICT Grenland, the Open Nordic will actually be three different, but related conferences running in parallel. They're all related to open source and promoting the use of free software -- something we can definitely vouch for.

On a whole, the art of Web design has begun to be better understood as a necessity in the world of ecommerce and content management. After all, content is only as good as its design and vice versa. Once viewed as something that made your site look pretty but had little significance to the bottom line, web design is now considered an integral part of a site's success.

West coast CMSers, it's time to get yo' summit on. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars have announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17, in conjunction with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The summit will offer attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business and technical side of managing and delivering dynamic content.

Seminar:  Novell & Total Tec Systems - Be the Hero. Your Linux is Ready for Virtualization.

Executive Breakfast with Novell & Mavenspire - Saving IT Budget with Linux

• May 20, 2008 @ Baltimore MD
• Part of the “Maximizing IT Value” Executive Breakfast Series
• Is your IT budget getting tighter? If so, come join us for breakfast and learn how you can leverage enterprise-grade Linux to save costs while maintaining high levels of service and availability. You’ll hear from industry professionals with decades of IT and data center experience—and squeeze in the most important meal of the day while you’re at it. Our experts will share their ideas about how Linux and its complementary solutions can help you stretch your IT budget. We’ll help you learn how to do more (with Linux) for less.
• Registration
• Space is extremely limited

More Upcoming Events…

Virtualization has been taking the IT field by storm, but where is it headed? The theme of November's 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo is "The Next Generation of Virtualization". They are welcoming submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not just on how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is altering the way businesses run IT in a fundamental way.

There was an open source panel at Interop called “Open Source Governance: Recognizing & Dealing with the Risks of Free Software “.  
Panel consisted from Brian Gentile of JasperSoft,...

"...As the world faces a wave of new enclosures brought about by globalisation we’ll hopefully examine some of the history of the ‘commons’, their enclosure and the spirited resistance to private ownership over the centuries..."

It's a rare organization that does not track at least a minimum set of web analytics for their customer facing websites. The problem is rarely that there's no data. Rather it's what to do with that information once you have it in your hands. More often than not, it's under utilized and probably finds it's home in that virtual pile on your desktop.

It doesn't have to be that way. There's an upcoming Webinar co-hosted by Bridgeline Software and the Gilbane Group that will show you how to better use your analytics data to make decisions and improve the customer experience, and in the end improve your bottom line.

For those attending the upcoming Gilbane conference who are more on the geeky side of the spectrum, get stoked: Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will start off the annual San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google's search quality and continued innovation.

While Google's success is generally thought of as being a result of their use of link activity and PageRank to supplement keyword search, this is in fact just one of many signals that help provide users with most relevant results. Udi Manber will share valuable info on improving search that should be relevant to everyone in the tech industry.

"Udi Manber is the engineering vice president in charge of this ongoing, and necessarily secret effort (on improving searches). What Udi is able to share about improving search will be interesting to all, but especially valuable to knowledge workers whose need for quality search is critical," said Gilbane Group CEO Frank Gilbane.

Open Coffee Club Bangalore meets up every alternate Sunday to discuss about Entrepreneurship. The group focuses on working at the grass root level by giving a platform to Entrepreneurs, Wannabe Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists connect with each other. The theme of the meet today was Co-Founders, a topic often discussed and thought about individuals planning to venture out.

Close to 25 people turned up at 11 AM today, to discuss about Co-founders and also share their experiences on this subject while working on their idea/ venture. The group aimed to discuss about the various parameters which one should look in a Co-Founder and how co-founders can actually make or break the success of the Startup.

TwitterCal is another interesting Twitter Application which you must give a try. It’s a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

Follow the 5 steps procedure to get started.

1.) Register for a free Twitter Account.

2.) Add gcal as your friend. gcal is a bot that process and forward messages to your Google Calendar.

Zoho, well-known creator of a comprehensive suite of affordable, online collaborative productivity applications recently announced that its popular suite is the proud recipient of the 2008 Webware 100 award for productivity. The award was given out by Webware, a CNET site.

The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first international event which will centre on the production and sharing of educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and Open Standards.

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