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Gerry McGovern, Ireland

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Speaker at Accidental Publishers: Doing it right

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Bio:
Gerry McGovern, has spoken, written and consulted extensively on Web content management issues over the last eight years. In October 2000, he received the Web Ireland Internet Industry Person of the Year award.

In October 2001, Financial Times Prentice Hall will publish two of his books: Content Critical and The Web Content Style Guide. He is an advisory editor for The Business Database (Bloomsbury), on the subject of ecommerce. He writes a column for the popular marketing website, Clickz.com on the subject of content management.

Gerry is a member of Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue, a select group of ‘thought leaders’ who advise senior executives on organizational issues. For Knowledge Dialogue, Gerry’s area of speciality is knowledge and content management.

Previously, Gerry was founder and chief executive officer of Nua, a developer of content management software and solutions. Nua customers included Lucent Technologies and Thomas Publishing. In 1996, Nua received the Best Overall World Wide Web Business Achievement award from the European Union. Nua is perhaps best known for Nua Internet Surveys, a popular publication tracking Internet trends.

Since 1996, Gerry has written New Thinking, a widely read weekly email newsletter covering the role of content on the Web. In 1999, Gerry published ‘The Caring Economy’ (Blackhall Publishing), a book that examined the Internet as a medium through which organizations can communicate better with customers, staff and other stakeholders. Gerry McGovern holds a BSc Man. (2:1) from Trinity College, Dublin.