InfoToday 2002: The Global Conference and Exhibition on Electronic Information & Knowledge Management  Exhibit Hall Theatre Presentations Floor Plan • Conference Program • View in PDF Format

Tips for Teaching Search Engines
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University & Creator, Search Engine Showdown
Come hear an expert on search engines as he shares his top tips for teaching others to use search engines. Not to be missed!

The Future of the ‘Infomediary’
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Audrey D. Melkin, Vice President, Public Relations, Ingenta
Enabling access to e-journals may be one of the core activities of today’s “infomediaries” but what does the future hold for online service providers who support these activities. And how can we benefit from future developments? Come and hear our speaker’s predictions.

Web Design and Information Architecture
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Peter Vlastelica, Client Partner, Plumb Design
Anyone publishing information on the Web now knows that their business models rely on the ability to demonstrate the full value of their information products to their customers. Information architecture and interface design for these products must focus on communicating the depth and relatedness of the data, and should encourage users to easily uncover relevant and related information.

The Invisible Web (IW)
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Chris Sherman, Co-Author, The Invisible Web & Editor, SearchDay Newsletter
Some of the authoritative information accessible over the Internet is virtually invisible to search engines. Other material, often time sensitive content, can’t be located via search engines. So how can you take advantage of the IW? How can you find this content? Our expert gives you a glimpse at how to do so.

10 Top Tips for Negotiating Content Agreements
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Gail Dykstra, Dykstra Research
Need content for your clients? Listen to an expert who provides 10 lessons and skills you can learn to become a more successful, and a more confident, negotiator of electronic license agreements.

Exploring the Wayback Machine
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Greg Notess, Reference Librarian, Montana State University & Creator, Search Engine Showdown
Are finding dead links and vanished Web sites important to you? Then join our expert to explore the World Wide Web of yore, and learn how to use advanced features of the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive.

Online Trends
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine
What’s happening in the online world? What should we be studying, thinking about, and using? Hear what an expert searcher and writer has to say.

Google Gets Serious
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Of interest to serious searchers, this talk by one of the world’s experts, Ran Hock, author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines, discusses the heavy duty features and content that Google has added over the last year.

Political Power Sites Cybertour
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Donna Scheeder, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, and former Chair of the DC Democratic Party, provides a tour of sites to keep you in the know about politics, politicians, and the issues that inhabit the political landscape in the US.

Making Your Website Usable
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Frank Cervone, Director, Library Systems, Northwestern University
Hear the top ten tips from an experienced Web designer and developer for making your site usable and readable to those you most want to reach.

10 Top Tips for Negotiating Content Agreements
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Gail Dykstra, Dykstra Research
Need content for your clients? Listen to an expert who provides 10 lessons and skills you can learn to become a more successful, and a more confident, negotiator of electronic license agreements.

Hot Off the Presses: Cybertour of News Sources
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Ran Hock, Online Strategies & author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines
Jimmy Olsen, get in here! A quick look at some key resources for locating the hottest news, the most far-reaching news, the newest news, and even the oldest news on the Internet.

Trends for Internet Librarians
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Stephen Abram, VP Corporate Development, Micromedia ProQuest
What’s hot? What’s going to have the biggest impact on our libraries and services in the coming years? Hear what a dedicated futurist in the information industry thinks are key trends.

Intranet Professional’s Intranet Resources
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Intranet Professional editor, Mary Lee Kennedy, shares the newsletter’s top intranet resource sites — from do-it-yourself intranets, to design tips and guidelines, to content integration toolkits.

Best Practices in Content Management (CM)
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Barak Pridor, CEO, of ClearForest, shares best practices, including case studies from Thomson Financial and Dow Chemical, that illustrate how these companies are maximizing productivity and time to market for new product introduction. The presentation focuses on the information overload that corporations are facing, the role of intelligent tagging in extracting relevant information, and the general principles and specific strategies corporations need to solve these problems.

Google Gets Serious
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Of interest to serious searchers, this talk by one of the world’s experts, Ran Hock, author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines, discusses the heavy duty features and content that Google has added over the last year.

Creating High Impact ROI For Your Unstructured Data Management System
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Nimish Mehta, President & CEO, Stratify (formerly Purple Yogi)
This presentation reviews the essential points for creating ROI for your corporation while dramatically increasing the power of existing enterprise applications and reducing the significant amount of time spent by employees each day looking for information to support operational activities and decision making.

Auto-Categorization Ins and Outs
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Gil Elbaz, Founder and CIO, Applied Semantics
This session discusses how automatic categorization can be made practical for many types of applications through the use of ontologies. Hear about options, applications and real world examples.

Hot Off the Presses: Cybertour of News Sources
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Ran Hock, Online Strategies & author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines
Jimmy Olsen, get in here! A quick look at some key resources for locating the hottest news, the most far-reaching news, the newest news, and even the oldest news on the Internet.

Top Five Invisible Web Sites for Business Researchers
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine
Join ONLINE’s Dollar Sign columnist as she shares her top five Web sites for targeted, relevant, and timely information on a variety of business topics in this in-depth cybertour.

Making Your Website Usable
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Frank Cervone, Director, Library Systems, Northwestern University
Hear the top ten tips from an experienced Web designer and developer for making your site usable and readable to those you most want to reach.

Next Generation Library Users
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Stephen Abram, VP Corporate Development, Micromedia ProQuest
So what do we need to know about our future clients? Are they different than us? Yes, says this global trend watcher. So what do we do? Come and hear some potential strategies for dealing with nextgen patrons.

Tools & Techniques for Internet Librarians
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Gary Price, Editor, Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Come hear about the latest tools and techniques used by an expert to keep current with new Internet reference resources. The co-author of The Invisible Web shares the tools he uses to monitor the ‘Net and keep current, as well as some tips for finding quality material.

Intranet Professional’s Intranet Resources
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Intranet Professional editor, Mary Lee Kennedy, shares the newsletter’s top intranet resource sites — from do-it-yourself intranets, to design tips and guidelines, to content integration toolkits.

Categorization & Visualization: The Basics
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Fighting in the content management trenches for many years, Ramana Rao, Chief Technology Officer & SVP, Inxight Software, explains how these new content access technologies integrate search and browse, why this is important, and shares some strategies for using them to effectively interact with content.

Bates Best Business Sites Cybertour
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Mary Ellen Bates, author of Super Searchers Do Business & Super Searchers Cover the World, shares her favorite sites for gathering information on companies, their industries and competitors. A quick look by an expert through the best of business on the Web.

Online Trends
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE Magazine
What’s happening in the online world? What should we be studying, thinking about, and using? Hear what an expert searcher and writer has to say.

Tools & Techniques for Internet Librarians
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Gary Price, Editor, Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Come hear about the latest tools and techniques used by an expert to keep current with new Internet reference resources. The co-author of The Invisible Web shares the tools he uses to monitor the ‘Net and keep current, as well as some tips for finding quality material.

Library Automation Systems: Evaluating & Implementing
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University
This session, by the author of Library Technology Guides Web site, provides an overview of the key criteria for evaluating library automation systems, a look at which ones are available for further investigation in the exhibition hall, and some tips for implementing a new system in your library.

Best Practices in Content Management (CM)
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Barak Pridor, CEO, of ClearForest, shares best practices, including case studies from Thomson Financial and Dow Chemical, that illustrate how these companies are maximizing productivity and time to market for new product introduction. The presentation focuses on the information overload that corporations are facing, the role of intelligent tagging in extracting relevant information, and the general principles and specific strategies corporations need to solve these problems.

Bates Best Business Sites Cybertour
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Mary Ellen Bates, author of Super Searchers Do Business & Super Searchers Cover the World, shares her favorite sites for gathering information on companies, their industries and competitors. A quick look by an expert through the best of business on the Web.

Structuring, Mapping, and Presenting Organizational Knowledge
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Carsten Wierwille, Vice President Client Partner, Plumb Design
This presentation will discuss how organizations can find ways to organize and present knowledge assets using information visualization and smart business process design.

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