Date: 21st February 2012

Registration:  https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/481157414

Join Project Performance Corporation and Concept Searching for the first in this Series of Expert Webinars focused on SharePoint 2010. Designing a tailored information architecture for SharePoint 2010 at deployment stage will save time and budget in determining a plan to configure SharePoint and continue to grow the platform to extend to the furthest reaches of your organization. This information architecture includes the use and development of enterprise taxonomies that can be leveraged as Term Sets in the Management Metadata Services.

We will discuss strategies to design a taxonomy and metadata schema that will be the basis for information architecture in SharePoint 2010. We will examine how to begin the functional planning of how users will interact with the various information elements within the SharePoint environment.

The Webinar will also look at out of the box functionality in the SharePoint 2010 Term Store, and when to use a third-party tool, such as Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint, to drive value and deliver a superior end user experience. This award winning product is the only natively running solution in the SharePoint platform that provides automatic conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and industry unique taxonomy management features. Used to improve search with SharePoint Search and FAST, it is also employed to improve a variety of business challenges.

What you will take away from this session:

*           Elements that make up the SharePoint information Architecture
*           Best Practices in defining an Architecture
*           Aligning the architecture with the business goals
*           Aligning the user with how users interact
*           What is a metadata schema and why it's so important
*           How to design a schema aligned to the business and its processes
*           Eliminating manual metadata tagging and why automatic conceptual metadata generation builds a consistent end user experience
*           Intuitive and unique features in conceptTaxonomyManager that integrate with and read and write in real time to the SharePoint Term Store leveraging the metadata schema to drive findability

Presenter:
Jill Hannemann, Principal of Information Management at Project Performance Corporation, is an expert in information architecture, taxonomy design, and portal strategy for clients in the government, media, hospitality, and products industries. She has significant experience in the design, maintenance, and content management of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 and 2007 and Oracle Web Center portal and related systems. She also possesses expertise in web usability and project strategy. Jill is a frequent speaker on topics including taxonomy design, social computing, portal strategy, content management and web usability will be discussing best practices in taxonomy development, deployment, and management.
Don Miller, VP of Business Development at Concept Searching, has over 20 years' experience in knowledge management. He is a frequent speaker on records management, and information architecture problems and solutions. Don has been a guest speaker at Taxonomy Boot Camp, Management Electronic Records and numerous SharePoint events about information organization and records management. Don works in the Life Science, Energy/Utility, Professional Services, Financial Services, and Healthcare verticals but enjoys helping any company with an information or records management problem.

Guest Speaker:
Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, test analytics, and taxonomy consultants, has 20 years of experience in information projects of various kinds. He has published a number of articles in a variety of journals, and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management, taxonomy, and text analytics conferences. For the last 6 years, his primary focus has been on text analytics, helping clients select the best text analytics software for their needs as well as doing text analytics development projects that include applications such as call support and customer experience, enterprise search and enterprise content management, voice of the customer, and customer behavior prediction. He is currently doing research in using text analytics for expertise analysis and other cognitive science inspired projects

If you are unable to attend the webinar please register and we will send you a recording.