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Lisa Welchman's keynote speech on Web 2.0 and Web Operations Management was one of the top five sessions of Web Content 2008 (according to evaluation forms). Her message was simple, yet profound: you can’t do anything cool on the Web if you lack mature Web Operations Management practices.

Day Two of Web Content 2008 started with Jerome Nadel, Chief Experience Officer at Human Factors International, speaking on Making 2.0 Work For You, Inside and Out. Within the first ten minutes, Jerome had already contradicted two points made during yesterday’s sessions.

I’m in Chicago today (and yesterday) for Web Content 2008. It’s a nice, smaller conference - about 150 attendees or so, with very strong content (as you might expect) and good opportunities to meet, talk to, and network with the speakers and other attendees. The focus this year is on “Web 2.0 and it’s impact on Web Communication” so there’s been lots of interesting discussion. I got in late yesterday due to some flight issues, but managed to catch three good presentations.

When you mention Facebook, most people immediately think “social network” (or perhaps “application overload”). Not many people will think “content management system.” Adrian Sutton, CTO at Ephox, spoke at Web Content 2008 today about the marriage of content management and Facebook. While the initial Facebook frenzy has somewhat cooled off these days (Adrian went so far as to call the unending list of invites to join groups and add 1,000 applications “a new form of spam”), there are some things that Facebook has done right, and which content management systems can learn from.