Date:  10-19-11 @ 11h30am ET      Register Today:  https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=155415

SharePoint Taxonomy Webinar:  SharePoint out of control?  Best practices to apply a governance strategy to your SharePoint deployment

Take a class on Content Types why they are important, what they can do and how to implement them enterprise wide to drive value.

Content types are a powerful feature of SharePoint 2010 and are largely under-utilized. Learn more about content types, what they can do and how to implement them across your SharePoint environment. Learn core principles behind designing content types and applying them to business processes. Project Performance Corporation will also share four key content types to implement, that span multiple industries.

We will also review how content types can be applied and driven by metadata. We will review Concept Searching's new Taxonomy Workflow capability an automatic content tagging solution, that can apply action to content and also apply content types based upon vocabulary and metadata. The solution, fully integrated with SharePoint 2010 and the Term Store can then workflow specific types of content based upon policy and guidelines addressing such business issues as preservation and disposition, risk and governance.

Project Performance Corporation, the North American Operations arm of AEA, an internationally recognized consultancy will share their expertise on taxonomy strategies, planning, and how business taxonomies deliver critical functionality to the organization. Learn from the experts why taxonomy significantly improves navigation and the ability to find relevant information. Understand the importance in the design and deployment strategies that can impact the ability of the organization to adjust as their audience and business objectives change.

You will also learn about Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint. The 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. Being used to improve search with SharePoint Search and FAST, it is also being to improve a variety of business compliance and governance related challenges.

What you will take away from this session:

*         What are Content types and why are they so important

*         When to use content types

*         Design approach and best practices to defining content types

*         Simple rules around aligning content types

*         How Metadata can be used to drive workflow associated with content types Governance, compliance and reduced risk how content types can be automatically applied to content thereby reducing corporate exposure

*         How some of the largest enterprises are using content types and automating the tagging and workflow of content aligned to business processes and corporate governance.

Guest Speakers:
John Challis from Concept Searching is an experienced entrepreneur having had success with several previous ventures involving the management of unstructured data. In 1990 he founded Imagesolve International which quickly became the UK's leading supplier of Document Image Processing and Workflow products.
John then launched ImageFirst Office for BancTec in the USA in 1995 closing over $5m new business in the first 12 months. Prior to Concept Searching he was CTO at Smartlogik; the company behind the world's first Probabilistic search engine. He is the originator of the company's compound term processing technology and is the driving force behind the product strategy.
Jill Hannemann, from 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. In addition, she 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.