Vancouver's techie confab schedule is bustling along with another great looking conference lined up - Content Convergence and Integration 2008: Changing the Content Management Landscape - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a speaker.

The three-day gig is March 12 - 14, 2008 at Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre and seems to particularly well-suited for big-picture and strategy oriented thinkers plotting big ideas for the coming years.

Salim Ismail (The Future of XML Publishing), Liz Danzico (The Framework Age) and Michael Fergusson (Culture, Commerce, and Copyright) are the keynotes.

My amigo Boris Mann is also on the docket with "Get out of the Silo - Using Open Software to Share Content."

Here's Boris' summary:

Organizations constantly face conundrums about which strategy to pursue for most effectively publishing content to customers, constituents and enthusiasts. With this in mind, Boris will make a case for using community-supported, open source software tools to publish, archive and feed your information in an efficient and scalable manner.

He'll also explore new web tools and explain how social networks like Facebook and Linkedin, microblogging platforms like Twitter/Jaiku, and other apps with open APIs play into any organizations' communication strategy.

Finally, Boris will explain the return on investment reaped from contributing client work back into to the open source software core and the organic growth of open source development communities.

I'm on the list with "Social Media for Independent Artists and Creatives " and here's my abstract to entice you to stop by:

With contemporary web tools, independent artists face a momentous opportunity to distribute their work to a potential huge, international audience without the traditional gatekeepers of record labels, book publishers, and industry agents.

I'll review practical tips for artists of all kinds to promote their work to a larger audience by using Creative Commons licensing. I'll also share insider media outreach tips for creating buzz about your work and offer candid situations which test the relationship between art, commerce and technology.

Finally, I'll offer few tips for networking with like-minded creatives for knowledge sharing and artistic development.

Here's the Content Convergence positioning blurb to give you the general idea:

We went from content silos to content management silos to enterprise silos. But by necessity, our need to share information is pushing us to collaborate beyond any arbitrary boundaries.

What does this mean for our profession? By going to content management systems, are we just catching up with today, or preparing for tomorrow? Will Content 2.0 catch up to Web 2.0?

Strategy A is bringing the first content management conference to Vancouver that covers content management from both the Web and XML structured authoring perspectives.

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