KCC Australia is where KM and CM tools and techniques converge offering you a holistic approach to managing your organisation’s unstructured and structured information and collective expertise.

KCC Australia will continue to offer you an insight into tacit and explicit KM techniques from today’s market leaders and gurus. It will still recognise the critical importance of process-based KM strategies and implementation. However, it will also offer you valuable insights into the latest CM, search and collaboration technologies and a thorough understanding of the principles behind capturing, sharing, exploiting and communicating your information assets.

Consequently KCC Australia features two streams. The knowledge and collaboration stream will provide an honest appraisal of cultural issues and change management techniques, and the content stream will offer an unbiased evaluation of CM trends and technologies. These two streams enable you to create a learning experience that is tailored to your specific needs and to meet like-minded professionals facing challenges similar to yours.

Contact us now to find out about our early - early registration discount - this will only be available for short period of time.  Email: aga@arkgroupasia.com

**** Limited Sponsorship Opportunities Available this Year - Please Contact Mathew Cherian at 1 300 550 662 or email mcherian@arkgroupasia.com ****

Conference TraX:
eXperience — Hear case studies from companies that have embarked on BPM journeys and will share first-hand experiences and business results.

eXchange — Participate in industry roundtables and forums to share best practices, lessons learned and requirements for the future.

eXecute — Learn about the latest tools, technologies and approaches to support your BPM journey from industry though leaders, analysts and IDS Scheer executives.

User Day for ARIS, SAP and MBS
Take advantage of attending the User Day the day after ProcessWorld, Wednesday February 15, 2006, to learn about the latest technolgy developments with ARIS, SAP and MBS. Collaborate with users on the latest versions and talk directly with members of the IDS Scheer development team while test-driving the new products with hands-on workshops.

View the detailed agenda.

This event will focus on the changing role of the librarian, implementing an IMS designed to fit your organization’s needs, practical strategies for managing electronic content, emerging technologies, training and education for the next generation of information services professionals, and how to operate under budgetary constraints.

Hear expert contributions and case studies from:

• Ford Motor Company
• Morgan Stanley
• Bank of America
• Chevron Global Library

For more information on how to register contact:

Ark Group
773-529-2559

The Reality of Web 2.0: O'Reilly Media's SafariU Leads by Example
Wednesday, February 15
2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific

Attend this webinar to hear the incredible success story of how O’Reilly Media cracked the higher education textbook publishing market by creating SafariU, a Web-based custom publishing solution. Based on MarkLogic Server, SafariU enables educators to produce more targeted, less expensive teaching materials.

Leonor Ciarlone, senior editor for The Gilbane Report, who has documented O’Reilly’s journey in a full-length case study, will share her insight and findings, and you’ll hear a firsthand account from O’Reilly’s chief information officer, C.J. Rayhill.

What you will learn:
- What market symptoms spurred O’Reilly Media to create its own Web-based custom publishing platform
- About “agile publishing” and “agile content,” and how they are changing the dynamics of textbook publishing
- What major characteristics O’Reilly Media sought in selecting a technology vendor
- The cost savings of implementing a custom publishing solution for educators and students

Registration Information

Post-conference workshop: Practical Insights to Usability Techniques in Re-design Efforts, Jodie Moule, Symplicit

“(T)he typical time between redesign rounds is between 2.5 and 3 years.”
Jakob Nielsen

“The fact that designers have more than doubled their usability methods, while decreasing their redesign cycle time by six months, is striking proof that usability doesn't have to delay project launch.” Jakon Nielsen

Employees are demanding simpler, more intuitive and more “Web” like intranet experiences. Shiv Singh, CIO.com.au

Remember an intranet is only as good as how it serves its employees and its company. Shiv Singh, CIO.com.au

Your intranet is overloaded with content, difficult to navigate, no body uses it and the technology is out-dated.  Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to re-design the intranet ensuring that it adds maximum value to the organisation. Does this challenge sound familiar?

Research shows that on average an organisation’s intranet will need to be re-designed every 2-3 years. Nowadays it is an accepted fact that an intranet is not a static tool, it is constantly evolving and changing to adapt to organisational changes and requirements. Therefore the question is what do you want to achieve and where do you begin?

Ark Group’s 4th Annual Re-designing Your Intranet conference will focus specifically on how your intranet can add maximum value to the organisation. The event will provide answers to key problem areas such as:

o Winning the support of senior management
o Building a sound information architecture
o The importance of usability testing
o Managing governance and ownership
o Taking control of content overload
o Understanding intranet technology

This event gives you the opportunity to listen to case studies from organisations that have recently been through a re-design. Share their success stories and learn from their mistakes. Ensure that your re-design is completed on time and within budget and that your mission is accomplished!

For the last two years Ark Group, through KM Australia, has delivered the region’s knowledge

management community with an annual knowledge sharing and networking event. Recently, our

research has indicated to us trends throughout public and private sectors and across

industries that highlight a movement towards convergence within the fields of KM, CM, and IM

as strategic disciplines. The vital role that collaboration will play as this trend grows

has prompted us to expand the event and incorporate content and collaboration into the

overall programme. KM, Content and Collaboration Australia (KCC Australia) will offer you a

thorough evaluation of the latent trends, thinking and technology around knowledge and

content management and collaborative working.

KCC Australia is where KM and CM tools and techniques converge offering you a holistic

approach to managing your organisation’s unstructured information and collective expertise.

Rest assured, KCC Australia will continue to offer you an insight into tacit and explicit KM

techniques from today’s market leaders and gurus. It will still recognise the critical

importance of process-based KM strategies and implementation. However, it will also offer

you valuable insights into the latest CM, search and collaboration technologies and a

thorough understanding of the principles behind capturing, sharing, exploiting and

communicating your information assets.

Consequently KCC Australia features two streams. The knowledge and collaboration stream will

provide an honest appraisal of cultural issues and change management techniques, and the

content stream will offer an unbiased evaluation of CM trends and technologies. These two

streams enable you to create a learning experience that is tailored to your specific needs

and to meet like-minded professionals facing challenges similar to yours.

This conference will focus on they key considerations for ensuring effective search across your enterprise as well as looking at the future developments in the search market.

It will deliver case studies that highlight key considerations that include:

? Defining what search means to organisations today
? Implementing search and optimising search relevance
? Personalisation and profiling
? Searching across unstructured and structured content
? Embedding search into workflow applications
? Discovery and analytics
? The future of search

For information about the event please contact Ben Farnsworth on 1300 550 662 or bfarnsworth@arkgroupasia.com

The SemTech conference is where customers, developers and researchers converge to discuss the commercialization of Semantic Technologies. It’s also your fast track to learning what Semantic Technologies are all about, and how to exploit them in your organization. Topic Areas Included: Semantic Web OWL and RDF Web Services Data Integration Semantic Brokers Knowledge Capture Taxonomy Development Business Vocabularies Specialized Ontologies Upper Models Enterprise Search Business Rules Metadata Semantic Modeling Unstructured Data Ontology Engineering Hear customer experience with Semantic Technology from: Time, Inc. BellSouth Cleveland Clinic GE Global Research Sierra Nevada National Institutes of Health Raytheon Northrop Grumman The Walt Disney Company General Motors and more...

Keynotes: SemWeb@5 James Hendler Director of the Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery, University of Maryland Ora Lassila Research Fellow, Nokia Research Center Making Web Applications Trustable Dr. Deborah L. McGuinness Co-Director, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University Semantic Wave 2006 - A Guide to Billion Dollar Markets Mills Davis Managing Director, Project 10X

Registration

“The New Orleans Symposium aims at being the top open source content management conference in North America for 2006”, Says Alan Runyan, President of Enfold Systems.  The event will host two concurrent sessions – one track focusing on business, and the other on technology.  The first day consists of 3 hour tutorials on topics from Plone best practices to implementations at non-profits.  The next two days utilize 45 minute talks ranging from Enterprise Search strategies to Content Delivery options.

Andrei Codrescu, the noted writer and commentator, will close the symposium. Known for his unique insights into society and human nature, his thoughts on the open source community and its future promises to be both thought provoking and entertaining. Like a great cup of gumbo, the rich mix of applied business and technology topics should make this year’s Plone Symposium a memorable event.

2006 marks the fourth year of active deployment for the Plone Open Source community.  To encourage and cultivate the community spirit, daily post-event socializing is scheduled for the world-renown New Orleans Vieux Carre (French Quarter). In fact, over 90% of last year’s attendees indicated they would return and encourage others to come as well.

For more information:

Symposium homepage: https://plone.org/events/regional/nola06

Talks schedule: https://plone.org/events/regional/nola06/talks

Tutorials Schedule: https://plone.org/events/regional/nola06/tutorials

Registration: https://www.enfoldsystems.com/conferencereg.html

IA Summit 2006: Learning, Doing, Selling

Last year’s IA Summit attracted over 400 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people in a range of related fields.

This year we'll roll up our sleeves and tackle three key areas: Learning, Doing, and Selling IA.

Learning IA: People new to IA, IA mentors, educators and researchers, as well as any IA looking to specialize in a new area of the field will be supported by sessions that focus on acquiring new IA knowledge. From introductions to IA, through evaluations of academic programs to research papers on the frontiers of IA, we plan to include them all.

Doing IA: Practicing IAs have so much to share! Tips & tricks, new ways to use old tools, IA methods, processes and deliverables, they are all welcome, as well as case studies and models or overviews of the field.

Selling IA: Whether it is by your colleagues, your manager, or your client, at some point in your career you will be asked to explain the value of your IA work. This will be the topic of several sessions in our program, and we encourage people who have been on the receiving end of these explanations to submit proposals too!

So, mark the 2006 IA Summit in your agenda:

• City: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Location: The Hyatt Regency Vancouver
• Dates: 23-27 March, 2006

Keynote Speaker

We are pleased to have Dr. David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, as this year's keynote speaker.

For more information, see the Call for Papers.

The Society for Technical Communication (STC), Atlanta Chapter is pleased to announce the Currents 2006 conference on March 24-25, 2006 at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia campus. The conference is in the Business and Education Academic building (map)

This two-day conference includes:

• A full day workshop from Rob Houser of User First Services, Inc.
• 20 information-packed sessions, featuring keynote speaker, Paula Berger
• Industry leading vendor exhibits, on-site technical bookstore, door prizes, and much more

Program of Events

Register now!

When
  April 3–5, 2006
Where
  The Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf,
  San Francisco, CA

Registration

Are you moving your information to the web? Reusing content among multiple print and online deliverables? Sharing content among departments such as training, marketing, editorial, and technical information development? Are you restricting some content for internal use only or directing it to specific targeted user communities? Are you faced with a challenging, multi-faceted user environment but tied down with only document blobs at your disposal?

Join those in the forefront of component information management at the 8th Annual Content Management Strategies conference. Learn to create modular, topic-based content, ready for assembly into compound documents, and customized for targeted delivery. Take content embedded in those massive tomes and move critical components to the precise points where they are needed—in print or on the web.

Content Management Strategies 2006 brings you three essential tracks. Focus on management and planning or technical design and implementation, and learn how to implement the DITA standard from the experts. At CM Strategies, you’ll find a returning community of information developers and publishers who value building core content as much as its presentation and delivery.

More info...

Theme

This year's conference theme is Content Management (CM), and the conference will be structured around two highly related frameworks of Information Architecture and Interaction.

Speakers

At this year's event, we invite two experts in the area of Content Management and Information Architecture, from the United States to share with us their knowledge, experience, and visions.

Peter Morville

Bob Doyle

Peter Morville
Peter Morville founded the Information Architecture Research Institute (Japan Division) as well as the Information Architecture professional community. Mr. Morville has also been a major force in founding the CMS expert community. He co-authored the book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. His most recent book Ambient Findability (O'Reilly & Associates Inc) released last October has received a great deal of attention as proposing new ways to think about online information searches. He will be traveling around Japan and the U.S. to speak about his book and his ideas.

Bob Doyle
Bob Doyle is the head of CMS Review which is a comprehensive CMS information site. Mr. Doyle also helped to found CM Professionals (CM Pros) a practitioner/expert community for content management which currently consists of 700 members and is the world's largest professional community of its kind. He is a contributing editor of EContent Magazine.

Other sessions

Other sessions includes presentations on CMS market and product trends as well as case studies in various Asian countries including Japan, illuminating the state of CMS around the world today. Through the "Interaction" sessions, we hope to explore creative ways to achieve "ease of use in products and services" and "creation of new user experience" which are essential in establishing products and services in organizations.

Registration

Participants must pre-register in order to attend the sessions in the DESIGN IT! Conference. Note that some sessions require an admissions fee while others do not.

Sponsoring or Supporting

Please contact us if you are interesting in sponsoring or supporting this event as corporate or media sponsors. We look forward to hearing from you and for your support.

LiM Tec Conference

The DESIGN IT! Conference 2006 Spring will be held during the same time as the LiM Tec Conference (LiM Tec is short for Lifecycle Management Technology Conference), a comprehensive technology conference on software lifecycle environment technology. Our objective is to provide information, technology, and products on the theme "Integration of Design and IT" towards all industries, technological areas that comprise the IT lifecycle.
https://www.otij.org/event/limtec/2006/overview_eng.html

Presented by

Sociomedia, Inc.

https://www.sociomedia.co.jp/

The KM 2006 Conference will focus on current technologies and strategies with proven results for government organizations. This conference program is designed to address the current and evolving needs of government program and information technology managers in their efforts to leverage the benefits of knowledge management to meet their agency mission and business objectives.

They fail because companies don’t recognize that content management is a process, not a technology, and requires planning to ensure success. We have seen again and again that expensive technological solutions are ignored when they don't meet your organization’s needs and expectations. Personal experience with an enterprise CMS as well as work with several clients has led us to develop a series of steps that will help you use your CMS efficiently.

Topics we'll cover include:

Building your team
Assessing your content
Vendor selection
How to work with IT
Templates and components
Metadata and taxonomies
Content migration

Whether this is your first time considering a content management system, or you’ve been burned by failed implementations in the past, we can help you do it right.

This workshop is suitable for:

Web managers planning a CMS installation
Information architects
Visual designers
Writers, editors, and other content producers
Project managers

The ninth annual Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference, AODC 2006, will be held at the Tradewinds Esplanade Hotel, Cairns, from Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May. This is the biggest event of the year for anyone involved in corporate documentation, online Help, Web authoring and technical writing.

AODC 2006 features almost 20 sessions covering techniques, technologies, tools and case studies, presented by international and local expert speakers. Session topics included DITA, structured authoring, XML, usability, editing, migration to Microsoft Vista, user assistance, dynamic HTML and case studies. For all the details, see the agenda.

The XML Summer School programme features three main tracks to provide a rich learning experience for delegates with any level of background knowledge, so whether you are a complete beginner, or need to expand your existing XML skill set there is something for you in the curriculum. Plus, there is the flexibility of either registering as a full delegate and combining seminars from any of the three main tracks, or selecting individual tracks for a more focused curriculum.

The learning doesn’t stop in the classroom either – the social events provide the ideal platform for networking with your fellow delegates or extracting information from the speakers on a one-to-one basis. Some delegates argue that the networking and learning experiences outside the classroom are as valuable as that in the classroom.

If you need to learn all there is to know about XML and related technologies, then the XML Summer School is the place for you.

To register and for more information, please visit the event website.

(If this link does not work, go to www.earley.com item 3 under Taxonomy Training and Education to register)

Session description:
Google quietly entered the Enterprise Search market in early 2002. Analyst firms dismissed it as a tool for sophisticated environments, assigning it to the realms of inexpensive, simple, DIY search. The product line has grown since then, and has gone on the offensive in terms of marketing. New capabilities, notably the ability to integrate with Google Desktop Search for Enterprise, are renewing calls to "just get Google." Is it right for your organization? Perhaps. Join us as we discuss the factors an organization ought to consider before making the switch, including administration capabilities, focused collections, metadata and taxonomy use, customizations and more.

Is it To Be, or Not to Be? We'll help you decide.

Presenters: Seth Earley, Christine Connors

If you have problems registering on line, please contact Monique deVries at Earley & Associates. monique@earley.com, 406-370-1716 or 406-273- 5431.

Earley & Associates provides organizations with taxonomy strategy, development and implementation services to support content management, knowledge management, e commerce, enterprise integration, portal and compliance initiatives.

Join the free taxonomy community of practice yahoo group!
https://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/
Sincerely,

Seth Earley
Earley & Associates, Inc
email: seth@earley.com
phone: 781-444-0287
web: https://www.earley.com

Internet World is the UK’s largest B2B internet event.

After the hype and the despondency of the dot.com, bubble and burst, we have now entered the next phase of the internet. Growth: real growth, high growth and sustainable growth. Visit Internet World 2006 and you will find out how best to capitalise on this market opportunity. The event will illustrate ways you can improve your business’s performance and demonstrate the latest technologies of the industry.

Highlights for 2006

A keynote programme that will be made up of leading etail, retail and online trading companies including  msn, flybe, lastminute, dabs.com, firebox, eBay, Virgin Radio, ebookers and more visit
https://www.internetworld.co.uk/seminars.htm

Internet World focuses on five main technology areas. Enterprise Content Management, eCommerce, Search, New Media Marketing and Security/Connectivity.

Exhibitors include
02, Rackspace, TDM, Qube, UKFast, Imano, Cshop IOCEA, Secpay, Velocitypay, E-Clear, Streetmap, Via Michelin, Reddot, Immediacy, Goss, Infospace, Overture, Media Run, Mediaco, Segala, 24/7 Real Media, Adestra, Email Vision, Etelligent, Affiliate Future, Nielsen/Netratings, Web Credible and many more adding to a list of over 250 exhibitors.

Our partners include
Associations

Institute of Direct Marketing, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet Servers Providers Association, Web Analytics Association, Mobile Data Association, Interactive Media Retail Group, British Interactive Media Association, Mobile Computer Users Group, Association of Publishers, The Independent European Association for e-business, Federation of European Direct Marketing, Mobile Marketing Association, Viral Buzz and Marketing Association, Interactive Gaming Council

Media Sponsors

The Guardian, Revolution, Marketing, e-Consultancy, mad.co.uk, Computer Business Review, Management Information Systems, Retail Technology, Retail Systems, Government Technology, Government Business, Document Manager, European Reseller, Silicon.net, ZDNet, PC Pro, Emarketer, MarketingSherpa, New Media Knowledge, Chinwag, ITToolbox, The Register, Content Wire, Online ContentUK, ITProportal, Net Imperative

Further details can be found at https://www.internetworld.co.uk/partners.htm

Below are a few facts about the Internet World 2005 Event compiled by an Independent research company (Vivid Interface) recommended by the Association of Exhibition Organisers (AEO)

• 5,510 Internet decision makers attended in total, with an average annual budget of £414,952

• 80% Director or Manager level

• 91% Responsible for purchasing

• 66% don't go to any other exhibitions

• 64% rated the quality of the seminars either Excellent or Good with only 3% saying they were Poor

• 70% expect to buy from an exhibitor

• 49% said their budget would increase for 2005/6 with only 3% saying it would decrease

“I’ve already been to a couple of the New Media & Marketing seminars and they were very good.” Chris Hails, FT Business, Financial Times

“Internet World … helped Qube raise brand awareness and it looks likely that we will exceed our target of closing £150,000 of new business within 6 months of the show. It enabled Qube to speak to clients that we would not have spoken to otherwise.” Polly Arrowsmith, Director, Qube

Join us for an AIIM Wednesday Webinar - It's FREE

BPM: When is Workflow Enough?

DATE: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
TIME: 2:00-3:00 P.M. (EASTERN), 1:00-2:00 P.M. (CENTRAL),
11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. (PACIFIC), 7:00-8:00 P.M. (UK)
DURATION: 60 minutes
PRESENTED BY: Doculabs

Register Today at www.aiim.org/webinars

Process automation is essential to the deployment of imaging systems, from orchestrating front-end capture to routing documents through the step by step completion of tasks. Both buyers and sellers recognize the importance of process automation and workflow, but the deployment techniques vary considerably. Some choose to use simple notification via email, while others use work queues. Yet the jump from workflow routing of images to enterprise BPM is significant, and often the needs and requirements are considerably different. This AIIM Webinar will focus on process automation of image intensive applications within the enterprise content management marketplace. We will provide a brief background on some of the challenges in the market today, and then dive into lessons learned by our clients.

The session will conclude with a Q&A section.

• Processing images almost always requires some form of workflow
• Document capture is more complex than anticipated
• Document workflow is very different than BPM
• Metrics and measurement are critical measurable payback

Discover tricks of the trade and the most up-to-date happenings from acclaimed keynote speakers.

Mark Your Calendar for AIIM ON DEMAND 2006!
May 16-18, 2006
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia PA

This highly interactive, hands-on course covers the end-to-end discussion of what social networks are, how to model and measure them, and how to derive benefit to yourself and your organisation from the power of the network. This master class will help you to understand this critical concept behind today's most competitive and succcessful companies. So come along to this unique event and...

* Gain a complete understanding of social networks as both traditional connections between people and as a part of virtual communities
* Maximise the ability of your organisation and yourself to benefit from social networks
* Enhance corporate reputation and sales through an understanding of social networks in your organization
* Understand the theory, mathematical models, and technologies for measuring and mapping networks in your organization
* Build a strategic and tactical plan for harnessing social networks to drive organisational learning, new opportunities and innovation

This master class is a true mix of theory, practice, case studies and group exercises. To see a full copy of the course materials, please email me at helen.hassan@keyforums.com.au or call me on +61 2 9436 4255.

The theme for 2006, "Building Web 2.0", recognises the key place of standards-based and open technology in enabling the next generation of web applications. Practitioners and leaders from all disciplines are invited to participate in presenting and discussing the technology and design issues behind the changing web.

Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate neighboring technologies from the web and business. As the use of XML broadens out beyond traditional core topics, we want to reflect that in the conference. As well as XML, XTech 2006 will cover web development, weblogging, search, the semantic web and more.

Registration

Date:                                      
May 18, 2006; 14:00 until 17:30 p.m

Registration deadline:              
May 10, 2006

Location Switzerland:              
Wyona AG, Zürich, Hardstrasse 219 (MAAG Areal)

Costs                                  
CHF 250 or USD 200

About Apache Lenya
**********************
Apache Lenya https://lenya.apache.org is based on Apache Cocoon https://cocoon.apache.org, the XML publishing framework from the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Cocoon has been widely adopted in recent years and has become the defacto standard for XML publishing.

It delivers a wide range of functionality, from generation of HTML, WML, XML, PDF, SVG and RTF from a single data source, interfaces to various databases over JDBC as well as LDAP.

Apache Lenya integrates the BXE, Kupu and Xopus WYSIWYG editors. Apache Lenya makes use of official W3C standards wherever possible: XML, XSLT, XML Schema, XPath, XPointer, XLink, XInclude. In a departure from other CMS, Apache Lenya stores not only content in XML, but also CMS functionality such as user management, access control, revision control and workflow management. Customization of Apache Lenya is mostly done with further XML technologies such as XSLT and XSP. Java code is only necessary in special cases.

Apache Lenya is built up from individual modules written in Java that extend Cocoon with CMS functionality: Access Controller, User Administration, Editor Interfaces, Revision Controller, Scheduler, Workflow Manager, Publisher / Replicator, Dependency Manager, Forms Editor, Import-/Export-Functionality. Since these modules are based on XML themselves, they can be exchanged by modules from other vendors (Open Source or proprietary) as needed.

You are welcome to contact us for further information or send us an Email to event@wyona.com   for registration!
We are very much looking forward to share our knowledge with you!.

Switzerland phone:                   +41 1 272 91 61
USA phone:                             +1 857 776-3195
<>Apache Lenya Open Source Content Management
https://www.wyona.com

(If this link does not work, go to www.earley.com item 3 under Taxonomy Training and Education to register)

Session description:
Google quietly entered the Enterprise Search market in early 2002. Analyst firms dismissed it as a tool for sophisticated environments, assigning it to the realms of inexpensive, simple, DIY search. The product line has grown since then, and has gone on the offensive in terms of marketing. New capabilities, notably the ability to integrate with Google Desktop Search for Enterprise, are renewing calls to "just get Google." Is it right for your organization? Perhaps. Join us as we discuss the factors an organization ought to consider before making the switch, including administration capabilities, focused collections, metadata and taxonomy use, customizations and more.

Is it To Be, or Not to Be? We'll help you decide.

Presenters: Seth Earley, Christine Connors

If you have problems registering on line, please contact Monique deVries at Earley & Associates. monique@earley.com, 406-370-1716 or 406-273- 5431.

Earley & Associates provides organizations with taxonomy strategy, development and implementation services to support content management, knowledge management, e commerce, enterprise integration, portal and compliance initiatives.

Join the free taxonomy community of practice yahoo group!
https://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/
Sincerely,

Seth Earley
Earley & Associates, Inc
email: seth@earley.com
phone: 781-444-0287
web: https://www.earley.com

Joint Annual Meeting and Conference

15-17 June 2006
Toronto, Ontario

We hope you can join us this year. You don''t want to miss what is becoming the biggest, most exciting, and most rewarding conference so far.

Check our News and Status page for the latest conference information. Link to the online registration process or download a PDF version of the registration form from this page.

City and tourism information

More information can be found on our website https://www.cms-channel.be.

This interactive workshop will be held in Dutch.

Date: 15/06/2006 (afternoon)
Location: Castle Diepensteyn in Londerzeel, Belgium

Three-Day Intensive Camp:

• Usability in Practice
  In this fun, intense, and challenging camp, you’ll get four-days’ worth of tutorial knowledge in a three-day session. Experts with over half a century of combined usability experience take you through fundamental principles and methods, help you create a sound usability plan, and teach you the skills you need to successfully execute that plan.

Three-Day Immersion:

• Interaction Design with Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini
  This detailed exploration of the entire design lifecycle covers critical issues in requirements gathering, project launch, design, and testing, and offers you practical and powerful tools for creating successful interaction designs.

Specialized Full-Day Tutorials:

• Eyetracking Web Usability
  In this all-new seminar, learn what eyetracking data can tell you about how users look at your website. We’ll share results from our brand-new eyetracking studies of how people view websites, and analyze how users navigate, search, see advertising, and more.
• Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
  Gain insight into essential user behaviors, explore pivotal guidelines, and discover how understanding information foraging, navigation and search options, and content usability can help you build a website that’s easier and more enjoyable to use.
• Intranet Usability 1
  Learn the essential features of well-designed intranets, along with key usability guidelines and testing tips. You’ll also get a rare peek at corporate intranets and discuss how to deal with organizational issues that impact intranet design.
• Intranet Usability 2
  Day two covers intranet branding and promotion, as well as detailed issues in intranet design, such as search, navigation, personalization, employee directories, HR information, and forms.
• Designing B2B Websites
  Learn the intricacies of designing business-to-business websites that convert visitors into paying customers or hot leads for your off-line sales channel. We’ll detail results from our brand-new studies of B2B sites, and how to apply those findings to better support your customers’ purchase decisions throughout the entire buying process.
• Presenting Company Information on Corporate Websites
  Learn how customers, journalists, financial analysts, and job seekers research companies online and what this implies for the design of your “about us” area, press and investor sections, and employment listings.
• Email Newsletter Usability
  Studies of more than 100 email newsletters show how spam, subscription maintenance, content selection, subject lines, and other key issues impact an email newsletter’s success.
• Wish Lists and Gift-Giving in E-Commerce
  Almost 10% of consumer spending goes towards gifts. Based on our usability studies of e-commerce sites’ wish lists and gift certificates, learn best practices for maintaining gift-related tools on your site.
• Content Usability 1
  San Francisco and Sydney
  Create Web content that is useful, usable, and appealing. Rewriting text according to our guidelines can more than double a website’s usability and can increase the likelihood that key messages are communicated.
• Content Usability 2
  San Francisco and Sydney
  Day two details the latest research relating to content usability. You’ll also discover how to: gauge content usability’s return on investment, create and enforce style guidelines, define content metrics, and evaluate content.

Pay only for the days you need. The more days you attend, the deeper the discount. Early bird rates save even more, so sign up early!

Choose your city for agendas, location, pricing, and registration information:

• New York: March 26–31, 2006
• London: May 21–26, 2006
• San Francisco: June 19–24, 2006
• Sydney: July 16–21, 2006

Attendees with special needs should contact conference hotels directly to discuss accommodations (hotel information is available under each city’s “location info” link).

You can also book any of the Usability Week tutorials for in-house presentation at your company or interest group. See our seminar and workshop offerings for further information.

Why X-Pubs 2006?

X-Pubs 2006 seeks to critique the established business justification for the adoption of both XML and DITA in organisational publishing.

By closely examining existing XML publishing implementations and drawing on the worlds most experienced XML publishing consultants, X-Pubs 2006 hopes to expose the pitfalls and challenges organisations wishing to adopt XML are likely to experience.

X-Pubs 2006 – The most relevant speakers

Two Keynote Sessions:

    * Dr JoAnn Hackos
      Author of Managing Your Documentation Projects
    * Ann Rockley
      Author of Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy

Click here for other speakers

Who Should Attend?

Managers and technical staff looking to...

    * Reduce publishing times and costs
    * Simplify and reduce the costs of localizing content
    * Increase the accuracy and relevancy of content
    * Simplify publishing to multiple-channels

Two tracks

    * Management and business justification
    * Technical implementation and development

	LISA Comes to the Big Apple
	LISA is coming to the Big Apple! New York is renowned for its energy and international outlook. As the U.S.'s primary gateway to the world it is a fitting home for the 2006 LISA GLobal Strategies Summit, which brings together leaders in international business, technology development, and global processes. LISA events are known worldwide for their breadth of perspective and their ability to bring together all the players involved in making international business a reality. Come join such organizations as IBM, HP, Computer Associates, the European Union, Comsys, and Dell for three days of in-depth discussion on how to successfully meet the requirements of diverse markets. Featured speakers include IBM’s April Singer, content-management visionary Anne Rockley, Dell’s Michael MacGregor, and HP’s Arnaud Daix. Success in a global business environment is based on two factors: knowledge about international business and the ability to go from knowledge to effective practice. If the first skill sets executives apart from the crowd of would-be international business leaders, the second is what gives them the ability to produce a profitable ROI as they open new markets and successfully support customers around the globe. Morning Afternoon Evening Monday Jun 26 LISA Executive Roundtable Welcome Reception Speakers Dinner LISA Introduction Session Tuesday Jun 27  Summit Day 1 - Language Processing & Services Exhibition  Networking Reception  Plenary   Case Studies & Workgroups  Wednesday Jun 28  Summit Day 2 - Language Processing & Services Exhibition     Plenary   Case Studies & Workgroups  Thursday Jun 29 Professional Skills Workshops   Friday Jun 30 Professional Skills Workshops   For over fifteen years LISA has succeeded in helping business leaders acquire the practical knowledge and skills it takes to implement their global vision and make it a reality. It has also introduced them to the business partners who play a key. More than at any point in the past, the increasing integration of the global economy has made it vital for even smaller businesses in industries such as automotive, medical services, law, and manufacturing to understand how to access global markets and to respond effectively to challenges from halfway around the world.

 

For Content management professionals, web managers and other web & communications/marketing professionals.

Registration (before June 26)
- non-members pay USD 25,00 and register in the CM Pros shop.
- members can send an email to danielle.kolmer at cwinet.nl.

Three-Day Intensive Camp:

• Usability in Practice
  In this fun, intense, and challenging camp, you’ll get four-days’ worth of tutorial knowledge in a three-day session. Experts with over half a century of combined usability experience take you through fundamental principles and methods, help you create a sound usability plan, and teach you the skills you need to successfully execute that plan.

Three-Day Immersion:

• Interaction Design with Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini
  This detailed exploration of the entire design lifecycle covers critical issues in requirements gathering, project launch, design, and testing, and offers you practical and powerful tools for creating successful interaction designs.

Specialized Full-Day Tutorials:

• Eyetracking Web Usability
  In this all-new seminar, learn what eyetracking data can tell you about how users look at your website. We’ll share results from our brand-new eyetracking studies of how people view websites, and analyze how users navigate, search, see advertising, and more.
• Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
  Gain insight into essential user behaviors, explore pivotal guidelines, and discover how understanding information foraging, navigation and search options, and content usability can help you build a website that’s easier and more enjoyable to use.
• Intranet Usability 1
  Learn the essential features of well-designed intranets, along with key usability guidelines and testing tips. You’ll also get a rare peek at corporate intranets and discuss how to deal with organizational issues that impact intranet design.
• Intranet Usability 2
  Day two covers intranet branding and promotion, as well as detailed issues in intranet design, such as search, navigation, personalization, employee directories, HR information, and forms.
• Designing B2B Websites
  Learn the intricacies of designing business-to-business websites that convert visitors into paying customers or hot leads for your off-line sales channel. We’ll detail results from our brand-new studies of B2B sites, and how to apply those findings to better support your customers’ purchase decisions throughout the entire buying process.
• Presenting Company Information on Corporate Websites
  Learn how customers, journalists, financial analysts, and job seekers research companies online and what this implies for the design of your “about us” area, press and investor sections, and employment listings.
• Email Newsletter Usability
  Studies of more than 100 email newsletters show how spam, subscription maintenance, content selection, subject lines, and other key issues impact an email newsletter’s success.
• Wish Lists and Gift-Giving in E-Commerce
  Almost 10% of consumer spending goes towards gifts. Based on our usability studies of e-commerce sites’ wish lists and gift certificates, learn best practices for maintaining gift-related tools on your site.
• Content Usability 1
  San Francisco and Sydney
  Create Web content that is useful, usable, and appealing. Rewriting text according to our guidelines can more than double a website’s usability and can increase the likelihood that key messages are communicated.
• Content Usability 2
  San Francisco and Sydney
  Day two details the latest research relating to content usability. You’ll also discover how to: gauge content usability’s return on investment, create and enforce style guidelines, define content metrics, and evaluate content.

Pay only for the days you need. The more days you attend, the deeper the discount. Early bird rates save even more, so sign up early!

Choose your city for agendas, location, pricing, and registration information:

• New York: March 26–31, 2006
• London: May 21–26, 2006
• San Francisco: June 19–24, 2006
• Sydney: July 16–21, 2006

Attendees with special needs should contact conference hotels directly to discuss accommodations (hotel information is available under each city’s “location info” link).

You can also book any of the Usability Week tutorials for in-house presentation at your company or interest group. See our seminar and workshop offerings for further information.

However, whilst many organisations have either implemented eLearning programmes, or at least examined what eLearning can offer in terms of advancements in learning and development, many fail to fully grasp its potential. Key to the success of eLearning as a training device is ensuring that the programme you deliver is user-friendly, able to adapt to the needs of your organisation, and that you establish a broader framework to integrate it into your learning and development strategy.

This two-day interactive masterclass will provide you with an opportunity to engage with the course leaders and other attendees to really improve your understanding of how to get your eLearning initiative operating to its full advantage. You will leave this masterclass enthused and full of new ideas to implement in your workplace.

Open Publish 2006 will be the sixth annual conference for people who create, manage and publish information across traditional and electronic media.

What was clear at Open Publish 2005 is that battles over publishing technology are largely resolved. With even the formidable Microsoft Office file formats now migrating to open standards, it is clear that proprietary technology is no longer acceptable to users. 2005 also saw the introduction of the “mash-ups” where developers started connecting together their own code with popular sites such as Google Maps and Yahoo’s Flickr. It is in this context that the 2006 Open Publish conference will shift focus from technology to practice. As standards level the technological playing field, the key success factor will be the capability and experience of the practitioners.

Therefore, Open Publish 2006 will continue to focus on the key areas of interest such as single-source publishing and web content management, however this year will largely be from a perspective of methodologies, case studies, best practice, project management and human factors, rather than technology standards.

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers is now open and we look forward to yet another year of increased participation from the local and international community.