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The SLA-SF Bay Region Chapter presents:

Taxonomies: What are they and how are they useful?

Online Webinar on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (Pacific)

presented by Margie Hlava

Why:
Members of the SLA are perfect candidates to build and implement taxonomies. The oceans of data coming at us through the Internet portals need to be harnessed to power our research, development and management of existing knowledge as a foundation for growth and profitability. This webinar is a great introduction to a powerful skill that sets us apart from IT and adds value to our information systems.

Who:
Marjorie M.K. Hlava is President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., in New Mexico. Very well known in the international information arena, she is the founding Chair of the SLA Taxonomy Division established in August 2009. She is past president of NFAIS (2002-2003), the organization of those who create, organize, and distribute information. Ms. Hlava is past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology – 1993 (ASIST) and the 1996 recipient of ASIST’s prestigious Watson Davis Award. Ms. Hlava was also twice a member of the Board of Directors of SLA where she was awarded the President’s Award for her standards work. She has been granted 21 patent claims for her work.

When:
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (Pacific)

Where:
By phone and online via GoToWebinar, hosted by SLA-SF. You will need a PC with internet access. You can use your computer audio or telephone (toll call). The link and call information will be provided after verification of registration payment.

Cost:
$25 for SLA members, $50 for non-members/guests, and $15 for students/retirees/unemployed.

Registration:
Please register online or ensure your mail-in registration form and check are received no later than Wednesday,March 6, 2013.

Are You Ready for Your Next Career Move?

The Washington D.C. SLA Chapter presents:

“Expand Your Career Potential”

featuring: SLA President Deb Hunt

Sponsored by LexisNexis

Twitter: #sladcjobs

Registration Closes Tuesday February 26!

Having the right skills is everything in today’s very tight job market. How can you know which skills are in the greatest demand and how can you acquire the new skills you need for career advancement?

“Expand Your Career Potential” is the first in a series of webinar workshops on career development for librarians and information professionals. Together with long-standing SLA member and co-instructor David Grossman, Deb Hunt will teach librarians and information professionals about the 33 hottest skills they need to master to jump-start their next career move. The workshop also provides sound, practical advice on six ways to acquire those most sought after and essential skills. Participants will construct a customized “road map” plan to achieve their personal objectives.

This 90-minute webinar is designed to help you broaden your existing skill set and construct a plan to attain new levels of expertise, employment, compensation and career satisfaction.

At this webinar you will learn how to:

• Conduct a self-assessment of your current skill set
• Leverage your existing skills to move to the next level in your career
• Acquire 33 essential skills for career growth
• Plan and jump-start your next career move
• Develop YOUR own personalized road map for career advancement

Tweet about the event using the official Twitter hashtag #sladcjobs

Price: Student/Members in Transition/Retired: $20

General Admisstion: $30

You can register to view this webinar virtually or register to attend an in-person viewing at LexisNexis (1150 18th St., NW)
Registration for the Virtual session (6:25 – 8:00 p.m. EST): http://dc.sla.org/events/?ee=209
Registration for the In-Person Viewing at LexisNexis (6:00 – 6:25 p.m. EST networking; 6:25 – 8:00 p.m. EST program): http://dc.sla.org/events/?ee=208

What others are saying about “Expand Your Career Potential”, winner of the Silicon Valley SLA Chapter’s 2012 Lucy Steelman Award for Commitment to Mentoring:

“An excellent Webinar”

“Really took away some excellent ideas and things I really had not thought about”

“Very useful”

“Very knowledgeable and inspiring”

“Excellent use of my time and money”

“I would recommend this Webinar to anyone who is struggling with career and job issues”

“It was definitely worth it”

“Their successful online classes and webinars have touched many members and are an advertisement to other chapters and organizations regarding the expertise of West Coast information professionals.” – Silicon Valley SLA Chapter

“Expand Your Career Potential” has been presented by the Bay Area Library & Information Network, SLA’s Click University, the Illinois SLA Chapter, Infopeople.org, the Internet Librarian conference, the New York Metropolitan Library Council, the New York SLA Chapter and the San Francisco Bay Region SLA Chapter.

About the Presenters for Expand Your Career Potential:

Deborah Hunt, MLS, ECMp, is a strategic knowledge professional and Principal of Information Edge, which specializes in value-added research, knowledge services, enterprise content management, and library creation and automation. Deb is currently SLA President and her presidency theme is Transform Knowledge and Expertise Into Strategic Value. She is an active member in the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) and served on the Board of Directors from 2001-2003. Deb is an award winning part-time adjunct faculty in the Library Technology program at Diablo Valley College and has also taught for the League of Women Voters, InfoPeople and UC Berkeley Extension. She is a frequent presenter at SLA conferences, Internet Librarian and other venues for information professionals. Deb received her MLS from UC Berkeley and has moved forward from there, always leaping off the edge into the next opportunity to leverage and expand on her skills.

David Grossman, MLS, MBA, serves as History Room and Reference Librarian for the Mill Valley Public Library (California), where he is currently constructing a digital archive with a workforce of 35 volunteers. David has more than four decades of experience in a variety of traditional and non-traditional library/information professional roles. Most of his career has been spent building, managing, marketing and selling online systems and databases for publishers, airlines and other businesses. David has often been tapped as a motivational speaker on alternative career opportunities for librarians. David is also a part-time journalist in the airline/travel industry and previously authored a column on business travel for USA Today.com as well as a column called “What’s Next” for Searcher Magazine. His articles have also appeared in the Boston Herald, ABC News.com and the print edition of USA Today. David holds a BA degree in Journalism and MLS from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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

Evolution of the Web: From Static to Semantic in 3 Big Steps
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Presented by Jason Bengtson, Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Sponsored by the NC Chapter of the Special Libraries Association

Evolution of the Web: From Static to Semantic in 3 Big Steps
What is Web 3.0 and the semantic web? What are Web 2.0 technologies, and why are they important? How has the World Wide Web changed since the early days of Web 1.0? Jason invites attendees to ask these and other questions as important issues defining the World Wide Web and its future shape take center stage.

Cost:
SLA Members: FREE
Non-SLA Members: $10, payable via PayPal

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/854320144

(SLA members will receive instructions for joining the webinar within a few days of registration. Non-SLA members will receive an invoice for $10 with instructions for submitting payment via PayPal. Instructions for joining the webinar will be sent upon verification of payment.)

Jason Bengtson is the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.  He has published several papers on technology topics in journals such as the Journal of Hospital Librarianship and Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Last year Jason presented his paper on Digital Palimpsest recovery to the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association and this year he presented two sections at the Technology in Libraries Conference, including a paper on applying principles of emergence to metadata. For more about Jason, you can visit his web page at http://hsc.unm.edu/library/faculty/Bengtson.html

Questions? Contact Susan Forbes, NCSLA President, forbes16@gmail.com

Join Sean Campbell, Co-Owner of Cascade Insights, guest speaker for our next CI Division’s webinar, on Tuesday, June 5 at 1 p.m. ET. This session is FREE to all SLA members. Sponsored by Aurora WDC and Cascade Insights.

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

Please join us for a lunch and learn webinar on Thursday April 19.  We will be hearing from Matt O’Connor, Director of Business Intelligence at Midland-based AIM.

DESCRIPTION
This presentation will discuss how competitive intelligence can be used for more than assessing threats. It will focus on opportunity-based intelligence, which can help generate sales leads, enhance marketing strategy, identify collaborators, and leverage technology. Using both primary and secondary research, opportunity-based intelligence can deliver a competitive advantage for organizations because it provides unique and differentiated insight into growth strategies/tactics. Practical research techniques and examples will be included, as well as a discussion on the evolving definition of competitive intelligence and how it impacts special libraries.

When:  Thursday April 19 at 12:00 noon

Cost:
SLA Michigan Chapter Members – Free
Non-Members – $15

Webinar Information will be sent out prior to the event to those who have registered.

ABOUT MATT
Matt is Director of Business Intelligence at Midland-based AIM. He is responsible for AIM’s new business development and strategic marketing initiatives. He collaborates with AIM leadership on the formulation and execution of AIM’s strategic plans, and serves as a project leader and manager. Matt is a seasoned and professional intelligence analyst who has held diverse research and marketing positions at Plenum Publishing Company, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Wayne State University, and Penn State University. He has an MLIS from Wayne State University and an MBA from Bloomsburg University.

ABOUT AIM
AIM provides customized strategic intelligence research and analysis on a global scale. AIM is a highly respected and leading intelligence firm with a broad range of experience in both business intelligence and media/issues research. For over 30 years, AIM’s ability to collect, synthesize, analyze, and communicate critical information has helped clients anticipate threats, capitalize on opportunities, and, most importantly, make informed and accurate decisions. For more information, please visit www.allisinfo.com.

The CFL/DSOC Nonprofit Section March Virtual Learning Session will focus on the topic of archives.  This 30-minute presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A will be held on March 23 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.  Here is the description and presenter info:

Archives 101 – Preventing Institutional Alzheimer’s

What is an archive and why is it important to your organization?  Technically speaking, an archive is a collection of individual or organizational records that are important enough to be preserved in perpetuity.  What it really is for your organization is institutional memory.

This session will explore:

• the importance of creating an archive
• how to get management on-board and legal off your back
• uses of archival material in research by staff and historians

Presenter:
Bruce Compton is the Senior Manager, Research and Records at The Pew Charitable Trusts.  Bruce started at Pew as a consultant in 1990 to develop an archive for the foundation.  Since 1991, he has served as Pew’s archivist and head of the Research Department.  Prior to coming to Pew, Bruce was vice president at Gardner Associates, a business history consulting firm.  He has also worked for the National Park Service, the National Archives, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.  He holds degrees in Philosophy and History/Archives Management from LaSalle University and a certificate in Oral History from Vermont College.

Deadline to register is March 16.  You can sign up using this link to the form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEFmMDNSSGpQRnVmMi1DSjVybXJfQXc6MQ

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.