ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUCCESSFUL CONTENT MANAGEMENT YOU LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

Hewlett-Packard and Vasont Systems present principles for effective collaboration for successful content management

Emigsville, PA, March 17, 2008 — Vasont Systems, a leading provider of content management software and data services, and their client, Hewlett-Packard, adapt Robert Fulgum’s popular credo of fundamentals from his best-selling book in their presentation, “All I Really Need to Know About Successful Content Management I Learned in Kindergarten.” This presentation will be delivered by Charlotte Robidoux of Hewlett-Packard and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems at 3:00 pm on April 7, 2008 at the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference in Santa Clara, CA.

Successful content management depends on effective collaboration amongst an organization’s team members. This session provides practical ways to build positive team interaction across your organization. Learn about key principles needed to engage your staff and maintain a strategic edge when implementing content reuse. Topics covered include team member involvement, training, executing processes, commitment, and momentum.

Managers will learn methods and receive guidelines to understand how to get their team excited and involved in the organization’s content management initiative.

Charlotte Robidoux leads HP teams in implementing single-sourcing for the HP StorageWorks Division. She designs, develops, and manages strategies for content reuse and content management system implementation. Charlotte is a recipient of The Center for Information-Development Management "Rare Bird" award for the development of a project tracking database. She frequently gives presentations at industry conferences on the subject of content management.

Charlotte has 17 years of experience in technical communication. She began her career in technical communications as a consultant for Washington, DC., firms holding contracts with the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Environmental Protection Agency, and others. Charlotte earned a BA in English from Holy Cross, an MA in writing from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication from The Catholic University of America.

Suzanne Mescan is Vasont Systems’ Vice President of Marketing, with responsibility for the Company’s overall marketing and public relations efforts. She worked for more than 20 years in all aspects of the information management and publishing industry, including content management, editorial, art and design, project management, production, printing and binding. In 1989, she developed Progressive Publishing Alternatives to help publishers with project management, editorial, and design work, which she managed for 12 years. Prior to that, Suzanne was a Marketing Analyst for Advanta, a financial services firm, where she was responsible for product planning, advertising and promotion.

Suzanne has authored numerous articles about content management for industry publications and has delivered presentations for the Content Management Strategies conference, Philadelphia XML Users Group, Vasont Users’ Group, and in numerous industry webinars. She earned a BS in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University.