2008 Conference Themes

'Information at the heart of Business'

Understanding enterprise 2.0

• Moving from web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0: how do you do it
• Agile development always beta
• Enterprise 2.0 and opportunities for the information professional
• Enterprise mash ups
• Working in virtual worlds, examples of Second Life in business and academia

Impact of web 2.0 in organisations

• Case studies of web 2.0 in action in particular:
     - Examples in public sector
     - Examples supporting distributed workforces in multinational companies
• Understanding and managing risks when using web 2.0 e.g. data privacy issues
• Trends in web 2.0: what benefits are being realised
• 2.0 issues with intranets
• Business value of microblogging e.g. twitter and SMS
• Niche social networks
• Beyond web 2.0

Understanding behaviours for improved service delivery in the digital age

• Understanding the Facebook generation
• Working in virtual environments: virtual teams and remote working
• Anthropological views on social networking
• Connecting users and harnessing collective intelligence in social networks
• Managing power and cultural issues in communitie
•  Making sense of user generated content

Information dynamics and information logistics (managing bulk information over time)

• Email management
• Records management in a web 2.0 world
• Measurement and metrics of information growth
• Digital preservation and digital persistence

Digitisation and Digital rights management

• The reality of digitisation
     - The logistics & scaleability
     - The economics
     - Findability and usability
• Copyright issues in a web 2.0 world
• Ownership of content
• Balancing security needs vs. personalisation of interfaces
• Media convergence and information delivery

eDiscovery the new search

• Opportunities in vertical and universal search
• Personalisation and customisation of search results
• Search in a multimedia world: Image, audio and video search
• Social search: tagging and sharing
• Search engines and mobile technologies
• Web search tips and techniques
• Open source search
• Search as a commodity
• Latest developments of Google vs. Microsoft
• Case studies illustrating search implementations

Information structuring for improved sharing, management and access

• Challenges and opportunities of sharepoint as an information management tool
• Taxonomies and folksonomies
• New applications of metadata
• Driving information interoperability
• Semantic Web applications
• Open source ECM

Library & publishing developments

• Case studies of Library 2.0 in action
• Marketing libraries with web 2.0
• Libraries using Sharepoint applications
• Digitisation of collections
• Tools and resources for the librarian
• Virtual services in libraries
• The user as publisher
• New business models for publishers
• eBook usage and models of practice
• New platforms for delivering and distributing content

Information professionals surviving in the new age

• New skills and roles for information professionals in a Web 2.0 world
• Skills transfer and promotion for librarians
• Threats to entrants to the profession
• Career options for the information professional