John Cass, author of Strategies and Tools for Corporate blogging and the PR Communications blog will be moderating a panel for the Boston Product Manager's association on September 17th. John has an interest in social media and decided to put this panel discussion together because he believes product managers have much to gain from social media and semantic technologies.

From the event listing: The phrase Semantic technologies covers a wide scope of types of technologies from natural language processing, to text analysis, to software standards and methodologies that help describe the web. In this panel and audience participation discussion we learn the basics of semantic technologies, from small "s" to large "s", and explore how semantic technologies are actually being used by product managers for their jobs.

Our focus is on implementation today and in the future. We will give an overview of semantic technologies, and ask the panelists and audience to give their perspectives and experiences on how semantic technologies are being used for product management.

I will be a member of the panel, along with Mike Spataro, SVP, Client Strategy & Channel Partners, Visible Technologies and Sean Martin, President & CTO, Cambridge Semantics Inc. Please introduce yourself if you're able to join us, and if not - I'll be posting my thoughts on the panel tomorrow.