The Gilbane Advisor newsletter is ad-free, cost-free and curated by Frank Gilbane for content technology, computing, data, web, and digital experience professionals. The focus is on strategic technologies. We publish on gilbane.com and via email. We also publish curated information technology news. News items are edited to remove hype, unhelpful jargon, iffy statements, and quotes, to create a short summary of the important facts with a link back to the source for more information.

Bluebill Advisors Inc. (Bluebill) is a Massachusetts corporation founded in 1999 by Frank Gilbane to publish the Gilbane Report and organize conferences. Bluebill is an information technology analyst firm that publishes the Gilbane Advisor and created the Gilbane Conference. Bluebill has also operated as The Gilbane Group, and our main website is https://gilbane.com. Our main focus is on content technology, related disruptive information technologies, and their potential for strategic application. Related topics include content management, content strategy, multichannel publishing, enterprise search, workplace collaboration, computing, digital experience, and semantic, multilingual, machine learning, open information, and open web technologies.Bluebill clients include organizations representing a wide range of industries and government, including technology, manufacturing, publishing, financial services, investment, software, and pharmaceutical. We have helped executives responsible for a variety of functions including corporate strategy, marketing, investment, product development, product support, engineering, and publishing. Our conferences have educated thousands of executives in North America and Europe, and our reports are read in dozens of countries in six continents.

The Gilbane Conference on Content, Computing, and Digital Experience is designed for marketers, content managers, technologists, and executives responsible for building strategies and implementations for compelling multichannel digital experiences for customers, employees, and partners.

Intrep-id (aka Intrepid) is the technology that allows you to create information files about yourself specific to a use context. You create these files, you populate the data, you name them appropriately and you store them on your computer/device. When needed the data is transferred to the merchant you are dealing with in an instant, giving you full control while saving enormous amount of time and effort.Intrepids were designed to give indviduals maximum freedom without constraining what they could do on the web. Intrepids have the potential to change how the Internet works; or at least provide an alternative to the intermediated, monopolistic mechanisms currently in place.Businesses that accept Intrepids can enhance customer experience by tailoring their services precisely to customers' needs. Positive experiences and frictionless activity models eliminate customer frustrations resulting in an increase in loyalty, revenues, and a decrease in operational costs. This is the business of Intrep-ID.com.

AutismSees was founded to bring a tech solution to young adults who fear eye contact while speaking or fear making public presentations. Higher-functioning teens and young adults on the spectrum with social communication disorders who are entering the workforce need tools to prepare for interviews; open-ended dialogue and debates; team presentations; and personal and professional relationships. Our product, Podium, instills confidence, allowing users to enhance soft skills needed to succeed in life.

Co-founded TechnoForum SARL with Yves Stern & Guy Fermon to produce a French version of the Documation conference. TechnoForum also produced conferences on XML in Paris and Documation conferences in Geneva and London, as well as tutorials and seminars on information technology topics. Frank chaired all Documation conferences from 1994 – 2004.Reed Exhibitions acquired Technoforum and now produces Documation France.

CAP Ventures changed its name to InfoTrends, and was acquired by Questex in 2004. As management team and board member helped this printing and publishing market research firm grow 8x in four years. Broadened CAP Ventures market and customer revenue by creating a subscription research service covering the latest document, content, and standards technologies. Produced the first market research on XML and the first market research on Web Content Management systems.Integrated Publishing Technology Management consulting, publications, and events into CAP Ventures.

Co-founded the Documation conference with the Graphic Communications Association, and chaired all the conferences from 1994 – 1999. The conference covered web content management, electronic publishing, the integration of data and documents, and the use of SGML and other open information standards.Launched a globally distributed subscription-funded periodical, "The Gilbane Report on Open Information and Document Systems" 1993 - 2005.Consulted with a wide variety of industry and government organizations on the application of information technology and standards. And was active member of multiple national, international, and government standards development bodies developing information and publishing standards that were the precursors to W3C HTML, XML, XSL, XSLT, and CSS standards.

As Director of Technical Marketing, educated customers and marketing on how to apply the Texet SGML-based system, and SGML in general, to business applications. Represented Texet as spokesperson at conferences and on ANSI, ISO, and federal government standards committees.As a software engineer, developed the menu system for the Texet SGML-based text and graphics publishing system, and investigated authoring technologies for integration, including beta versions of the first Macintosh, Microsoft Word, and AutoCad.

As a member of the senior management team managed eighteen+ software engineers building new products for professional, corporate, and government publishing applications, including composition, pagination and one of the first products to integrate text and graphics for delivery to digital typesetters. Prior to becoming the department manager, built and managed a custom software development group with its own P&L, and developed software for both publishing and data management applications.

Taught courses on Business Ethics.

Taught course on Introduction to Moral Philosophy.