Join Mike Doane and Zena Applebaum as they share their experiences with SharePoint. The webinar includes general and application-specific tips for SharePoint users, as well as a few tricks, for Halloween, including:

• How do taxonomies work in SharePoint?
• What is the value of using a taxonomy?
• Creating a taxonomy in SharePoint
• Managing vocabularies and terms in a taxonomy
• Improving search and findability in SharePoint
• Building vocabularies in a SharePoint taxonomy tool
• Challenges using taxonomies in SharePoint
• Business problems vs. technical capabilities

Time: Wednesday, October 31 at 1:00 p.m. EST
Audience: Beginners and Intermediate
Cost: Free to SLA members and non-members
Co-Sponsors: CI Division, Taxonomy Division & Aurora WDC
Registration:  https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/469715750
(Space is limited so register ASAP)

About the Presenters:
Mike Doane is a senior level consultant with more than 15 years in information management, with a deep background in information science and content management. His business, Term Management, LLC, works with clients to develop content strategies, taxonomies, and information architecture in SharePoint 2010 intranets, extranets, portals, and other enterprise content management systems. He has experience with all types of vertical businesses/industries, such as legal, retail, pharma, energy, and information technology. He has developed content strategies and taxonomies for Microsoft, Del Monte, PepsiCo, NASA-JSC, Expedia, UW Medicine, BECU, Blue Cross Blue Shield, KCLS, Nike, Philip Morris, VISA, MasterCard, City of Seattle, SN Power, Costco, REI, and many others. Mike also teaches graduate courses in knowledge management,  information management, and taxonomy development at the iSchool at the University  of Washington.

A relative newbie to SharePoint, Zena Applebaum is the Manager of Intelligence & Intranet Bennett Jones LLP, a national and leading international law firm based in Canada. Zena’s primary responsibilities include conducting analysis of market and competitor performance, practice development, business development, client relationship management, counterintelligence, and marketing. Tying it all together, she enables the collaboration and sharing of information and intelligence through the firm’s award-winning SharePoint based intranet. Zena brings a unique perspective to intelligence and the dynamics of market and industry issues as a result of broad business development, marketing, and corporate research experience in a variety of sectors including the professional services, technology, and health care. Zena has a joint academic and applied Master of Arts degree in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson Universities. Zena regularly speaks and writes on Competitive Intelligence topics in Canada and abroad.

Know Your Candidates
Join the Competitive Intelligence Division as we host a short 30-minute webinar featuring Kate Arnold and Juanita Richardson, candidates for SLA President-Elect on Monday, August 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. They will each take about 5 minutes to introduce themselves and share their SLA vision. Following the introductions, we’ll have a time for questions submitted by the audience.

Reminder: Voting is in September!

Free to all SLA members! Space is limited. Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/439102910.

SLA Bios
Kate: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/12election/arnold.cfm
Juanita: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/12election/richardson.cfm

LinkedIn Profiles
Kate: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kate-arnold/4/595/173
Juanita: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/juanita-richardson/0/928/b09

If you would like to submit your questions before the session, please send them to bjfullerton@gmail.com before 9:00 a.m. EDT Monday, August 20.

Encore!!! Encore!!!
Sean Campbell, Co-Owner of Cascade Insights, will be our guest speaker for the CI Division’s encore presentation of “Going Beyond Google”, on Thursday, August 9 at 1 p.m. EDT. This session is FREE to all SLA members. Sponsored by: Aurora WDC and Cascade Insights. Space is limited!

Topic: Going Beyond Google: Gathering Internet Intelligence

Knowing a competitor’s strategies, in advance, can be the difference between success and failure, and yet members of business leadership teams, marketers, and sales teams are stretched too thin just “doing their job” to spend much time really analyzing the competition. During this session we’ll show you how can make the most of open source intelligence (OSINT) assets.

Take Aways:
• 20+ free Web tools for Competitive Intelligence
• Best practices for searching the deep web
• Multiple examples of how these tools have been used in competitive intelligence projects
• Guidance as to how you should rank and prioritize open source intelligence sources.

To register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/485841318

System Requirements
PC-based attendees–Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees–Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Sponsor: SLA CI Division
Co-Sponsor: Aurora WDC
Date: Monday, March 12
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT
Topic: “Benchmarking: A broadly applicable CI tool (and a state of mind)”
Speaker: Martha R. Matteo, Ph.D.- Fellow and former President of Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Cost: Free for SLA members and Non-SLA Members
Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/504587822

Planning for the future is driven by company goals as well as underlying assumptions about the state of the business and the external environment in which it operates.  Benchmarking is a powerful tool for clarifying and validating those underlying assumptions.  When used effectively, it enables the planning team to focus on the relevant and critical few issues that will drive success.  This session will show how benchmarking analysis of the external environment, in the context of internal issues, can be used to eliminate blind spots and open the path for management consideration of unfamiliar or uncomfortable options.  The benchmarking process can range from very formal, involving interviews and confidentiality agreements, to a straightforward analysis of secondary sources.  The choice is driven by the issues to be addressed.  Examples will be drawn from across this range, with emphasis on the nature of the problem and the ultimate business impact of the benchmarking exercise.  Caveat:  the process should be done in a way that follows ethical guidelines and presented with maximum transparency, to minimize surprises for those expected to act upon the findings.

Ms. Matteo is the founder of the C(T)I function and former director of Knowledge Management and R&D Planning at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Board Member, BioXcel.

Back by popular demand!

Sponsored by: SLA-CI Division and Aurora WDC
Date: Wednesday, February 15
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST

Free Webinar for SLA members and non-members. Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/114576766

Learning to condense abstract ideas into concrete messages presentable in 400 seconds is a skill not everyone can master immediately. Pecha Kucha is an innovative presentation technique designed to overcome “death by PowerPoint” through placing a design constraint on presenters by limiting the presentation to 20 slides and only 20 seconds per slide. Oh, and they advance automatically. The CI Division of SLA, and sponsor Aurora WDC, is once again hosting a Pro/Am Pecha Kucha Tournament at our Open House at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference.

So, are you wondering what is Pecha Kucha (PK for short)? How can I learn about Pecha Kucha? How can I participate? How can I create a PK presentation? We have the remedy for those questions! During the webinar you will hear a panel of experts as they discuss strategies on how to develop and create these presentations.

Our Panel includes:
• Dr. Craig Fleisher
• Eric Garland
• August Jackson
• Craig McHenry
• Zena Applebaum

NOTE:
After registering you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer