Late night exhibition opening has been introduced for day 1 to give delegates the opportunity to visit the exhibition without missing any of the conference sessions.  This will also incorporate the delegate drinks which will this year take place at the rear of the exhibition hall in the café area. 

New exhibitors at the Online Information and Content Management Europe exhibitions in the Olympia Grand Hall include: D&B, LexisNexis Butterworths, Google, Microsoft, BA Insight, Canon, Mediasurface and Vivisimo. 

A new award category has been announced for this year’s International Information Industry Awards – The Annalie Vickers and Jeremy Lakin Young Achiever Award has been created in memory of two OneSource employees who tragically died in the Egyptian terrorist attack earlier this year. 

The award is the fourth new category announced this year.  Other new categories include: Best Implementation of a Business Blog; The IWR Readers Award for Technology of the Year; and Best Team in a Scientific Environment. 

View the judging criteria and make a nomination online. Nominations deadline is 3 October.

Hi there. I'm David Tebbutt. I'm moderating a session on Monitoring and Mining the Blogosphere. Here is the panel so far:

Fergus Burns, CEO, Nooked, USA

Bradley Horowitz, Director of Technology Development, Search & Marketplace Group, Yahoo!, USA

Loic Le Meur, Executive Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Six Apart, France

Richard Treadway, CMO of PubSub Concepts Inc., USA

Looking forward to an interesting debate and, possibly, an additional panellist. Watch this space. If you have questions, comments, issues you'd like addressed please add your comments to this posting and I will use them as raw material for the session. Alternatively, you can email me: david at tebbo dot com.

I look forward to seeing you on 30th November at 4pm.

vnunet.com, sponsors of the Blog track at this year's Online Information, has launched Personal blogs for their users.

vnunet.com is also sponsoring Best Implementation of a Business Blog at The International Information Awards in November. This is the first ever blog award at the awards, which have been running for three years.

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online information 2005

ONLINE INFORMATION 2005
Online Information, the world’s leading event for online content and information management solutions, takes place from 29 November – 1 December 2005 at Olympia Grand Hall, London, UK.

The event combines a:

 Conference to be opened by Dr David Weinberger, co-author of the international bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto and Fellow at the Berkmen Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

 Exhibition of over 250 suppliers of online content and information management solutions with free programme of over 100 seminars

 Online Information exhibition feature areas: Content Management Europe; Enterprise Document and Records Management; Enterprise Search Solutions and ePublishing Solutions

The event attracts over 10,000 information and IT professionals across all industry sectors from around the world including:

 Information professionals

 Corporate, academic and public librarians

 Information researchers from all sectors

 IT professionals

 Content managers

 Information architects

 Knowledge directors, managers and workers

 Intranet managers and webmasters

 Senior executives responsible for information strategy

 Compliance managers

 Records managers

 Expert end users of online resources

 Management and independent consultants

 Publishers and providers of online information

ONLINE INFORMATION CONFERENCE
The Online Information Conference provides a forum dedicated to learning, debate and professional development. Delegates can choose from around 30 sessions covering all aspects of the information industry, with over 90 speakers sharing their expertise including: Peter Morville, Bob Boiko and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. The opening keynote session comes from Dr. David Weinberger, co-author of the best-selling book The Cluetrain Manifesto and one of the world’s most influential thinkers on the future of the internet. Plus don’t miss pre-conference workshops, structured roundtable sessions and focused international forums 2005 Conference Themes

 Innovation in information discovery

 Library & publishing developments

 Enterprise content management

 Wikis, blogs & RSS

 Emerging issues for the information professional

 Information architecture

 Information futures and technology

 Making the right connections

 New perspectives in enterprise search MEC Track Themes

 Enterprise content management

 Information architecture

 New perspectives in enterprise search

ONLINE INFORMATION EXHIBITION
Professionals keen to update their knowledge of the latest information developments should not miss the opportunity to meet over 250 companies exhibiting the world’s best information resources, together with solutions for information management, knowledge exchange, enterprise document and records management, epublishing, enterprise search solutions, web and enterprise content management, intranets and extranets. Over 40 NEW exhibitors include Canon (UK) Ltd, D&B, EIBS, Google, ICC Information, Infocandy.com, LexisNexis Butterworths, MediaSurface and Vivisimo Inc.

David Weinberger is to give the keynote address at the show in December. David was co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and his speech - 'The new shape of knowledge - everything is miscellaneous' - will be the opening address for Online Information 2005.