On the Road

Well, the 2006 event calendar is filling in nicely!  One of the cool things about working for a company that is on the cutting edge of technology is that you can see the early adopter crowd embrace the technology and products that you produce, and over time, you get the chance to see it permeate into the mainstream.  We will be speaking and attending at a variety of events in 2006.  Some of the events will be will general RSS oriented of course, but others are events that focus on specific vertical markets who are starting to embrace RSS, social computing, wikis and other Web 2.0-ish technologies.

January 31-February 1 - ASAE (Association of Association Executives) Technology Strategies & Solutions Conference in Washington D.C.  Brian Stern, VP of Enterprise Sales, will be speaking on a panel that will focus on The Long Tail, Social Media and the Future of Associations.  For non-profits with shoestring budgets, you really can't beat the power of Web 2.0 technologies.  Glad to see them embrace it!

February 5-8 - Enterprise Software Summit in Sundance, Utah.  JB Holston will be presenting to an executive audience about building brands using RSS, Blogs and Podcasts.  This will be a great way to get in front of a really high level audience and introduct them to the power of RSS, blogs, podcasts and more.

February 6-8 - DEMO 2006 in Phoenix, AZ.  Walker Fenton, Director of Product Management, and Greg Reinacker, founder & CTO, will present a super cool new RSS aggregation solution (which we cannot talk about until Feb. 6th) on-stage at DEMO.  This is a great honor and we are really excited about the opportunity.  Read the official press release.

February 27-March 1 - 2006 RSS Summit in Boston.  Greg will be speaking on a panel about how to prove syndication value with metrics.  This event is meant to teach marketers how to harness the power of RSS. 

February 21 - Emerging Software Technologies - Beyond the Blogosphere.  Greg will be speaking on a panel that revolves around, you guessed it, RSS.  This is a local event - believe it or not, Denver and Boulder are have a very active tech community!

March 6-7 - Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference in London.  JB will be speaking on a panel about RSS and the Big News Debate.  This should be a lively discussion.  One of the topics is, "Could RSS mean that the consumer is given only information that the sponsors want to give them?"

April 9-11 - Buying and Selling eContent in Scottsdale.  Greg will be speaking on a panel about new aggregators and content integration trends.

April 24-26 - Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technology in San Francisco.  Greg will be speaking about RSS applied to the enterprise at this event. 

If you are going to be at any of these events, track us down, we would love to chat!