An Earful on PCC

As we get closer to the start of the Portals, Collaboration and Content conference, I thought I’d let you know of some great new items we’ve pulled together.

We’ve pulled together several podcasts from the last conference; they include interviews with presenters and attendees.

Rajen Sheth, Product Manager, Google Enterprise. Rajen is a smart guy. He worked at VMWare (now a division of EMC) and Microsoft. During his podcast, Rajen talks about his keynote session titled, How Web 2.0 is Transforming the Enterprise. Rajen also focuses on ways companies can succeed through customer co-creation, the "socializing" of information currently trapped in spreadsheets and e-mail and software as a service. All in all, one of my favorite interviews.


Colin White, Founder of BI Research and PCC Conference Chairman There are few people that know as much about the portal space as Colin White. He's been the PCC Conference chairman for the last eight years and he knows everyone in the industry. In this podcast, Colin talks about what it takes to put the Portals conference together, why he thinks that companies like Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google will have a tough time penetrating the enterprise, and where he sees portals, content management and collaboration going in the near future.


Jay Simons, Senior Director, Product Marketing, BEA Our CEO, Barry Libert, would get along well with Jay. Jay speaks in threes and is concise in the way he presents his message. In this podcast, Jay focuses on how the portal, CMS and collaboration or social computing space are evolving. In particular, he discusses how consumer web 2.0 applications are starting to drive innovation in the enterprise market.


Steve Wilson, Senior Director Global Web Communications, McDonald's Corp. An award winner from last year's PCC Conference, Steve reviews McDonald's content management platform/portal, the challenges of reaching 1.6 million employees with corporate messaging and the benefits of creating a 400 person internal community of workers who are focused on creating content daily for the Golden Arch's internal sites.


Neil Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Akamai During our interview, Neil talks about the impact of the "chatty" nature of Web 2.0 tools and technologies on the internet backbone and how Akamai's technologies can counter balance the affects of these tools and technologies.


Phil Kemelor, Principal Analyst, CMS Watch & Principal of PKWeb Communications Phil discusses his recent books, The Web Analytics Report, and The Executive's Guide to Website Measurement and Testing which provide details on leading web analytic vendor companies, what companies should look for when searching for a web analytics package and how leaders should go about measuring their websites. During our conversation, Phil also touches on some of the topics he addresses in his conference presentation titled, Measuring Success with Web Analytics.


Diane Davidson, Director Customer Marketing, WebEx Diane discusses the importance of real-time, online, voice-to-voice collaboration to the success of companies' portal and community projects. Diane also highlights the benefit of recording meetings or interviews and then re-using that content as transcripts, podcasts, webcasts oron-demand training.


C. J. Liu, Technical Project Manager, Kronos C. J. was one of the attendees at our PCC Conference. In our interview, he was able to provide a unique view of how the conference will help him with the portal implementation his company is working on. In particular, conversations with other attendees, speakers and technology vendors provided best practices, common pitfalls and general advice about portals -- all key factors in helping Kronos succeed with their current implementation.


Seth Earley, CEO and Founder, Earley Associates Seth talks about his role at the Portals conference as a speaker/educator, new trends in the content management space and how to avoid the "hype" of technologies in the marketplace. Seth also addresses the value of minimizing the possible disruptions of Web 2.0 technologies on employees and business partners.


Santi Pierini, SVP Marketing, Day Software Day Software powers McDonald's Corporation's CMS system among many others. During our conversation, Santi provides insight on how the relationship with McDonald's has evolved, his experience at Shared Insights' Portals Conference and where he sees the future of the industry heading.


Sabine Schilg, Director, Portal & Interaction Services Group, IBM Sabine shares insights on how line-of-business heads and IT leaders can help their companies and their users by collaborating on business requirements when building a portal. Sabine also talk about how IBM provides business accelerators like practical dashboards that map to business goals and collaboration tools that allow for "mash ups" that help solve real world business problems.


Tony Byrne, President & Founder, CMS Watch My interview with Tony was short and sweet -- he had a panel to moderate 15 minutes after our interview started so we were on a tight time line. During our podcast, Tony spends some time talking about CMS Watch's unique business model as an independent analysis firm that only works with buyers, not vendors and how this can create some challenging relationships. Finally, Tony discusses the constant innovation that is occurring in the portals, collaboration and content space and how impressed he is by the teams managing these complex implementations.


Hari Vyakarnam, VP Business Development & Punit Pandey, Director of Engineering, Yash Technologies Hari and Punit (our only "tag team" podcast) review the conference, the sessions and the other attendees. The duo from Yash also discuss key issues like a lack of enterprise search and collaboration applications in the portal space. After the interview, I promised Punit that I would throw in a plug for his blog as I understand he is considered quite the "guru" in the portlet space.