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The discrepancy with the business users may be tied to being unable to find those in the CMA community. With less Case Study presentations this year, there are less sessions that they are likely to stay after to ask questions offline. That makes them harder to identify. I would like to state that many people have made this observation to me and that it isn’t just my own observation.

The party was a start, but it was poorly advertised as a CMA event as opposed to a Crown Partners event. Many people felt that they had to spend time at the Crown booth in order to get an invite. Most people did not perceive it as being CMA inclusive, so by default, it wasn’t.

The same holds true for non-technical attendees; the proportion of the EMC World audience that fits a line-of-business or CxO type of role continues to increase year over year, and we are adding more content for that non-technical content every year.

You are dead-on in terms of the importance of that sense of community, and we also take steps to build and ensure that sense of community and networking for all attendees. The community model, color-coded tags, and special events like the CMA/Momentum party all tie to that goal.

We will continue to take all input and suggestions into our thinking for next year (and the years after that). Our goal is a vibrant community for the content management audience and we’re excited to make that happen at EMC World (and beyond).

Posting this in an upcoming post, but Alexandra Larsson took some notes as well on other sessions.

Lisa

Chuck, I was looking for you and now I know why I didn’t find you.

Marko, next year is year three. I have hopes that it will be better, even if we have to counter-program.

As a species, we nerds, are non-social animals. We’re relegated to our dark cold hidden corridors of the office building rarely venturing out only to scatter when place into the light. But the internet bubble created a new species of nerds, cool nerds. Practitioners of content management are artists and nerds. Maybe what we’re seeing at EMC World, a culture class.

What you pointed out so well is we’re missing the time face-to-face collaboration. I can sit on a webinar and be talked too but at this great annual opportunity, we’re missing the time to collaborate with peers, vendors, and our software provider all interested in moving content management. What we’re interested in is learning with others not just from others. How you would configure a server for a pharmaceutical company is probably the same as you configure it for an airline but how you would deploy content management is completely different. You only learn the other through collaboration with peers.

Momentum was, and in Europe still is, about the meeting of business and IT not to create content for an organization but to create value for the organization. And in the professional world isn’t that what it’s really about, creating value?

Not only did you do an extreme service to the Documentum community, I personally enjoyed learning from your recounting of the sessions, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

I wasn’t able to attend (insert long complex reasons why here), but — written through your eyes — I received a unique perspective that I found valuable and insightful.

Your comments about the need for increased engagement in the Documentum and the broader ECM community are well stated. FWIW, I will do everything I can to help lobby for increased focus on this vibrant — and increasingly relevant — community.

Thanks ever so much for your efforts!

You rock!