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The
Global Conference and Exhibition on Electronic Information & Knowledge
Management
InfoToday
2003
PostConference
Workshops
Friday, May 9th
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12 — IT Project Management [Cancelled]
9:00
a.m. – 4:30 p.m. — FULL DAY •
COURSE OUTLINE
[PDF]
John Stenbeck, President, Pareto Principals, Inc.
This full-day, practical workshop will help you acquire the knowledge
and skills that you need to be a successful project manager. Learn
how to lead, manage, and motivate project teams and how to stay
on budget and in control. Share ideas and participate in case
studies and exercises in these critical areas of project management:
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Setting clear objectives that increase management buy-in
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Staying on top of schedules, workloads, and people problems
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Increasing senior management commitment
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Communicating with stakeholders and getting results
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Developing realistic estimates for complex, technical tasks
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Accelerating project delivery and quantifying risk
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Identifying required skills and getting the right team members
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Controlling your team, your time, and your budget
John
Stenbeck is a business management consultant and corporate trainer
for Fortune 1000 companies and the American Management Association.
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Workshop
13 — Content Management Interactive
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
— HALF DAY
Bob Boiko, Author of Content Management Bible
Are you facing a content management issue or challenge? Bring
your questions and problems to this half-day interactive workshop,
where a content management expert will discuss ideas, strategies,
and implementation tips. Learn about the different aspects of
content management—collection, management, publishing, authoring,
syndicating, templates, and more. Using real-world examples of
strategies, techniques, and tools for tackling these challenges,
Bob Boiko illustrates content management in action in this interactive
workshop.
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Workshop 14 — Self-Organization: Personal
KM
[Cancelled]
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
— HALF DAY
Steve Barth, Author of “The Power of One,” KMWorld
“Personal Toolkit” columnist, & former editor-at-large for Knowledge
Management Magazine
This intensive half-day workshop is about personal knowledge management.
What are the critical competencies every knowledge worker needs
in order to survive and thrive in the new economy? Collaboration
and teamwork are more important factors in value creation than ever
before, but the dynamic nature of today’s professional networks
requires new abilities and responsibilities at the individual level.
While KM cannot succeed unless every knowledge worker takes personal
responsibility for what he or she knows and doesn’t know, management
has to take responsibility for cultivating an atmosphere in which
everyone has reason to share while building an infrastructure that
makes it easy to share. This interactive session explores the new
information skills and new social skills that must go hand in hand.
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Workshop
15 — Starting and Running a Successful Research Business
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
— HALF DAY
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services
Learn how to plan for, set up, market, and run your own independent
information research business. This half-day seminar is taught by
a successful, long-time independent info pro and author of a new
book on the subject. Learn about all the aspects of preparing to
launch your business, developing products or services that your
clients will value, marketing yourself and your company, managing
and cultivating clients, and running your business. You will leave
equipped with the tools you need to launch your own research business. |
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Workshop
16 — Web Finding Tools for the Extreme Searcher
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
— HALF DAY
Ran Hock, Principal, Online Strategies, & Author,
The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines
Web search engines, Web directories, metasites, and portals are
all useful tools for finding the right sites efficiently and effectively.
For a specific question, however, one tool may be much more appropriate
than another. A knowledge of the finer searching aspects of each
tool provides the serious searcher with unique search advantages.
This workshop looks at which tool to use when, and the relative
strengths, weaknesses, and applications of each type. As for metasites,
you’ll see why this category of tool needs more recognition and
how to easily locate the best metasites in any area. The emphasis
is on practical applications and on knowledge that will help attendees
to effectively and efficiently find the answers they need. |
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Workshop
17 — The Knowledge Value Chain
9:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — HALF DAY
Tim Powell, Managing Director, The Knowledge Agency
In the business world, knowledge or information is only as good
as its usefulness to business decision-making. Too often, organizational
“knowledge people” and business leaders stand on opposite sides
of a wide cultural and hierarchical gap. Bridge the gap in this
workshop, and understand how the other side sees the world. The
Knowledge Value Chain (KVC) is a model with many applications in
the business world. It describes the steps that go into “manufacturing”
business value out of data and information, and it allows the user
to identify and correct any weaknesses that may exist in this process.
Topics covered include the essential elements of the KVC model,
ways in which the model is currently being applied, how the KVC
is similar to, and different from, other models of knowledge, how
to apply the model to your own work and professional situation,
the ROI of knowledge, and how a CEO or CFO looks at the value of
knowledge. |
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Workshop
18 — Practical Taxonomy: Developing Workable Knowledge Classification
Systems
1:00
p.m. – 5:00 p.m. — HALF DAY
Wendi Pohs, IBM Lotus Software
Seth Earley, President, Earley & Associates, Inc.
This half-day workshop takes participants through the necessary
steps in creating an effective taxonomy for an organization, understanding
both the technical and social processes required, and coming away
with a blueprint that can be immediately used in knowledge management
implementations. The workshop is designed for content owners,
technical writers, Web managers, librarians, publishing editors,
and others whose primary role is to facilitate sharing of information
within an organization. Bring several members of your team and
build your own taxonomy. You will learn how to do the following:
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an action plan for your organization’s content management process.
- Identify
the issues surrounding the creation of a taxonomy.
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Understand how to avoid common mistakes in creating a taxonomy.
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Understand the role of technology in the taxonomy creation process.
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Workshop
19 — Developing Requirements for Content Management Systems
Projects
1:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. — HALF DAY
Tony Byrne, Founder, Managing Editor, CMSWatch
The word is out: CMS projects can be difficult and expensive...and
very often they don’t live up to expectations. In post-implementation
surveys, respondents repeatedly counsel those following in their
footsteps to better define their requirements. This half-day workshop
provides a practical guide to defining your Web CMS objectives and
requirements before you start, helping predispose you to a successful
project. It gives you a checklist of 16 steps to the CMS life cycle,
the knowledge of which questions to ask to elicit key information,
and the understanding of where CMS vendors and integrators fit in
the broader solution landscape. |
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Workshop
20 — How Super Searchers Find Business Information
1:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. — HALF DAY
Mary Ellen Bates, Principal, Bates Information Services
This half-day workshop tackles how to find reliable, high-quality
information on business and financial topics on the Net. Mary Ellen
Bates, the author of five online research books, including Super
Searchers Cover the World and Mining for Gold on the Internet,
looks at issues related to conducting business research online efficiently
and cost-effectively, validating sources, using Web-only information
resources, and staying current on new business and finance information.
The workshop provides practical, innovative ways to mine the Net,
as well as tips on when to use the free or nearly free Web sources
and when to open up your wallet and use the big-ticket information
sources. The focus of this workshop is on the resources found exclusively
on the Net, but it also covers unusual or unique resources from
the traditional online services. Learn improved business research
skills, ideas on new ways to drill for information, and take home
a collection of links to the best business resources on the Web. |
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Workshop
21 — HTML for Librarians [Cancelled]
1:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. — HALF DAY
Ran Hock, Principal, Online Strategies, & Author, The
Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines
Knowing about HTML isn’t just for Webmasters anymore. Whether you
are responsible for creating Web pages for your organization or
just for yourself, or you want to be “in the loop” in discussions
of Web page construction, it is useful to have a basic knowledge
of HTML. For those who build Web pages using editors, a knowledge
of HTML is useful for solving problems, plugging in JavaScript,
etc. This half-day workshop covers the basics, including formatting,
links, tables, lists, images, etc. This course will be “hands-on,”
as you use your own laptop. Attendees should bring their own battery-powered
laptop, loaded with either Netscape or Internet Explorer, and either
Notepad or Wordpad. No Internet connection will be necessary. The
workshop helps attendees understand the basic structure of HTML
code, become familiar with the main HTML tags and features, understand
how to modify existing code, “plug in” JavaScript features, and
more. |
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