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Creating content is easy. Creating intelligent and reusable content -- not so much. No worries though as Palm Springs will be hosting the Intelligent Content 2009 conference that will bring industry leaders together to discuss how to develop content that can stand up to the test of time while remaining effective, accessible and -- ultimately -- intelligent.

In our quest to better understand eDiscovery and everything it has to offer, CMSWire has spent time talking with various companies that tackle the very essence of search and discovery of electronic documents. In part one of this initiative, we reported on two companies that focus on the right side of the popular Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). The right side focuses on the processes involved in synthesizing and analyzing the data. In our part two, we focused on the left side of the model -- the one that deals with the information management part of the eDiscovery process.

JustSystems, a Japanese software vendor specializing in XML and information management technologies, announced that XMetaL, the company's XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration, has been selected as a 2008 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product.

I joined the new Content Wrangler Community with hopes of improving my social networking with other content management professionals. Scott Abel discusses his goals for the community on his blog. The Content Wrangler Community is the new social network dedicated to people who value content as a business asset, worthy of being effectively managed. This is the place where technical communicators, medical and science writers, marketing pros, online community managers, document engineers, information architects, localization and translation pros, taxonomists, bloggers, documentation and training managers, and content creators of all types hang out. It’s much more than a blog. It’s a place to join your peers, to share, to collaborate, to contribute, to find the information you need.

Five years in the making, the Data Empowerment Group has formally launched to help corporations with the most complex -- and least understood -- aspect of their compliance package: Records and Information Management (RIM).