2008 Conference Themes

'Information at the heart of Business'

Web 2.0 after the buzz
- Innovators under the spotlight - who stayed the distance?
- Web 2.0 - delivery-in-action or delivery inaction?
- RoI 2.0 - the evolution of the bottom line

New ways of working - socialisation, collaboration and innovation
- Risk 2.0 or Opportunity 2.0 - hype or hope
- Exploiting social networks
- Using Web 2.0 tools in learning environments
- User generated content - challenging professionals

Understanding behaviours for improved service delivery
- Perspectives from Generation Y
- Information seeking behaviours in the new world

Breathing New Life into Search
- Beyond keywords: Vertical and Custom Search
- Search Engine Optimisation and Search analytics - targeting value
- Heterogeneous search - any system, any medium, any format

Order out of chaos - creating structure in our information universe
- Catch the semantic wave - or drown in a sea of content
- Knowledge Structuring in a semantic world
- Is there life left in Taxonomies in a tag cloud world
- Semantics (open data movement) in Publishing - opportunity or threat?

Technology focus
- The ECM Dream - or perhaps illusion/nightmare
- Born again Intranets - a fresh start or another false start?

The brave new world for libraries and publishers
- New Channels, New Media and New Approaches for libraries
- The Rush to Digitisation - Is it  practical, legal and profitable?
- R.o.I.P (return on information professionals) or R.I.P (rest in peace)

Information professionals surviving and thriving in the new age
- Do we have a profession?
- Hybrid career options
- Marketing libraries & the librarian (How can I help?)
- Information literacy vs. media literacy

The brave new world for libraries and publishers
- eBooks - finally gaining traction
- Ownership of content/new forms of copyright