I'm attending the first day of the Content Convergence & Integration 2008 Conference. Here's the conference boilerplate:

Content Convergence and Integration 2008 is for content professionals who need to find more strategic ways to manage their content in a world where content now gets created and syndicated, integrated, repurposed, and redistributed. Content professionals, from Web to marketing to technical communication professionals, from content management to knowledge management to information management consultants, are searching for new techniques to stay ahead of the curve.

Also of interest about this conference is that it is using Salim Ismail's Confabb conference platform. It's been cool to kick the tires on it, I need to spend some more time looking at it and then I'll do a review.

I'm currently sitting in Todd O'Neill's session on User Generated Rich Media: Make it, Manage it. I got to raise the point that "community manager" is a new career track, sometimes from within organizations (the hobby photographer who starts taking pictures for the company and posts to Flickr) or hired in from the outside (the social media evangelist who injects this new school DNA into).

The phrase "free blogging package" is coming up a lot, but not open source. I think that will be a strong theme of my presentation on Friday -- Get out of the Silo - Using Open Source Software to Share Content. Djun is also presenting on Friday: Exposing your content to the Semantic Web. The Friday track is theoretically "Relationships", so we'll see how to weave that theme into these two presentations. I know I'll be talking about my favourite phrase: community ROI.

Now I'm in Web 2.0 and the end of DITA and just got called out specifically to live blog, so I better get this posted :P