We have a great event on data sharing coming up Sept. 9, and early bird pricing ends on Aug. 31. The event is called "Web Sites Without Walls." You can register at the bottom of this post or read more at www.forumone.com/walls.

In our business (and on this blog), we talk a lot about sharing, syndication, and breaking down walls between "data silos." There are big opportunities for organizations wise enough to expose their data and content beyond their own site. There's also exciting possibilities for taking advantage of feeds from government and other organizations to create your own new web site features.

To give a physical world analogue, it's the difference between printing only a single copy of a report and putting it on a shelf at your organization's headquarters or printing thousands and sending them to every library in the country. In both scenarios, you control the rights to the content and get full credit. But in the latter case, your message's reach is much further and wider.

By not walling off all of your content, and enabling others to re-use your content elsewhere, you are gaining valuable access to audiences you otherwise might not reach. This is the power of syndication.

For years, much of the talk about data syndication was theoretical as we had few good examples to point to. Now, thanks to the popularization of common standards, we have numerous good examples. So we're organizing an event feature some of the leading ones.

Representatives from National Public Radio, the District of Columbia, and the Sunlight Foundation are going to talk about how they got started with syndication, how it's benefiting them, how they convinced management that it was a good idea, and what you can learn from their experiences.

You can learn more about this event and our speakers at www.forumone.com/walls. Or register right here:



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