Free Seminar and Masterclass Programme

Acquire new skills and stay up to date with the latest industry developments. Make the most of your time at the show by attending any of the 110 free show floor seminars run by independent industry specialists, practitioners and leading suppliers.  The programme will be published at the end of September but in the meantime the topics are listed below.  Plus - scroll down to access FREE DOWNLOADS for the 2007 seminar sessions. 

  

TOPICS FOR 2008 

GLOBAL BUSINESS INFORMATION FORUM - NEW!

Examining financial, legal, market research and competitive intelligence issues in the context of buyers’ needs.

• Discovering competitive intelligence to drive your business forward
• Key advice for seeking the most  effective  information sources for financial services
• Benefiting from emerging markets and products
• Challenges of sourcing business information from BRIC countries
• Essential strategies for negotiating and partnering with vendors
• Proving your value as an information professional in the current financial situation
• Challenges of locating and managing business information
• Capitalising on new gadgets for information such as ebooks and the new iphone
• The role of business information in risk management
• Overcoming the threat of the credit crunch to information professionals
• Assessing collaborative technologies for delivering and assessing quality content
• Legal business information - update from legal publishers 

 

STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS

• Sourcing STM information: Case studies
• Sourcing STM information in China
• Patent information
• Medical information
• Pharmaceutical information
• Chemical information
• Healthcare information
• Engineering information
• Emerging markets

FOCUS ON ACADEMIC & CORPORATE LIBRARIES

A half day programme that focuses on challenges facing academic & corporate libraries and librarians. 

Academic Libraries topics will include:

• Social operating systems
• Web 2.0 challenges in academic libraries
• Latest development in Open Access
• Improving information literacy
• Do VLEs provided a new opportunity to increase library/academic co-operation
• New developments in institutional repositories

Corporate Libraries topics will include:

• Latest technologies for corporate libraries
• Web 2.0 challenges in corporate libraries
• Strategies for marketing the corporate library
• Supporting remote users in corporate libraries
• Empowering your users and understanding their needs
• Case Study: Innovation in corporate libraries
• New tools, training and service provision for the next generation workforce
• Tackling issues with the 'information explosion' on the internet

CONTENT IN CONTEXT

A half day programme that focuses on the challenges of content deployment.

• Latest trends in eBook deployment
• Revenue models for eBooks
• Practical aspects of implementing eBooks
• eBook consumption patterns
• Key developments in the eBook industry
• Trends and challenges in content deployment
• Innovation in content deployment
• New models for content deployment

 

EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS

This one day, highly popular seminar programme looks at the latest trends and technologies for ePublishers.

• Open access on the web
• The impact of social networks & opportunities for publishers
• Creating & building a community using Web 2.0
• Developing successful workflows: integrating digital into your existing environment
• Developments in eBooks, where is it going?
• Case studies illustrating how scholarly and professional publishers have adopted electronic publishing applications
• How patterns of content consumption are changing
• How technology enables changing patterns of consumption - and what's ahead
• How are publishers innovating in the content products they offer - and what's ahead
• Shared lessons learned between different publishing sectors (are there lessons to be learned for example from open access) 

  

CONTENT MANAGEMENT EXPO

• Considerations when selecting & implementing your content management system
• Case studies showing that a product / service has actually worked
• Achieve effective search engine marketing using your CMS
• Case Studies illustrating Content Management practice
• Understanding concepts and principles
• Best practice in Content Management deployment
• Content Management in a web 2.0 world
• Integrating information into business processes
• Compliance and content management – driving demand?
• ROI for CM
• Latest CM tools & techniques
• Does one size fit all? 
• Which CM Solution for a mid market company?
• Integrating CM with Search, KM and DM
• Standards - new and emerging

  

ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

• Making the business case for ECM
• Implementing a collaborative ECM infrastructure
• Key questions for ECM partner selection
• Developing a cost model for your ECM solution
• The role of open source software XML?
• What’s in it for me? Selling ECM to your organisation
• Reducing risk and ensuring compliance through ECM
• Example of ECM in the workplace

 

ENTERPRISE SEARCH SOLUTIONS

• Clean up your content to make it ‘findable’
• Managing your organisations search processes
• Open source search
• Opportunities in vertical & universal search
• Taxonomy & its impact on Web 2.0
• Semantic search in the enterprise
• Ontology – what is it and why do you need it?
• Case studies from organisations that have deployed an enterprise search solution
• Security issues in enterprise search
• The future of search
• Making the business case for enterprise search
• Integrating search and content management strategies
• Building and deploying a taxonomy
• User needs vs. business requirements vs. technical capabilities
• Strategies for improving the search experience
• Upgrading your enterprise search system
• Aligning enterprise search and other business functions
• Troubleshooting search problems
• Using taxonomies & metadata to drive successful search

WEB 2.0

• Social networking applications in business e.g. Facebook
• Overcoming cultural resistance in organisations
• 2.0 issues with intranets
• Applying social tools to business
• Moving from Web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0
• Future technologies - what's to come?
• Making sense of user generated content
• Benefits and applications of RSS in organisations
• Enterprise 2.0 - can it be delivered without creating organisational risk
• Application of second life in corporate & academic settings
• Practical applications of Web 2.0 in the enterprise
• The benefits of Web 2.0 in business today
• Considerations for making an investment in Web 2.0
• Getting buy in from your users
• Collaborating in the enterprise
• Incorporating Web 2.0 into your information strategy
• Using RSS and blogs to market your services and keep your users up to date
  

MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA - NEW!

• Online reputation management
• How blended search can change your brands reputation
• How companies are using Twitter effectively to engage and interact with their customers
• Monitoring and analysis of social media
• Effectively measuring ROI on social media marketing
• Information capture within a network
• Privacy - managing what information gets out about your company
• Viral marketing - how to plan a social media strategy. Good and bad examples
• Using social media to drive web traffic and raise exposure of your company
• Social Media Optimisation
• Data portability (ie who captures and manages your data, and how do they do it?)
• Faster adoption of technology
• How to use social media effectively to engage with your clients and increase the reputation of your brand
• Social Media for political parties and governmental institutions
• Whose job is social media?
• Employee policy regarding social media