PRE-CONFERENCE OPTIONS

Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS WATCH

Key Issues:

• Technology overview
• Product selection criteria
• Choosing the right tools for the job

Seth Earley, Founder & Stephanie Lemieux, Taxonomy & IA Senior Consultant, EARLEY & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Key Issues:

• Content availability
• Metadata (both quality and quantity)
• Content maintenance and indexing architecture
• Search application design
• Query analysis (usage statistics, performance) and tuning
• Taxonomies and taxonomy integration
• Faceted search

Mark Madsen, Founder, THIRD NATURE

Key Issues:

• The nature of web data formats and access
  methods
• Different layers at which you can access data
• Techniques used to retrieve web-based data
• Tools & technologies to make the job of web data integration easier
• Data integration architectures
• An overview of integration products and technologies

Zachary Wahl, Practice Leader, Knowledge Management, PROJECT PERFORMANCE CORPORATION

Key Issues:

• Understand the various components that define a successful portal and how you may improve them.
• Recognize the various risks inherent with portal projects, and ways these risks may be mitigated.
• Understand how to ensure your portal continues to graduate to higher levels of value for end users.
• Hear case studies of how various organizations are taking their portal to the next level.
• Discuss the various new concepts and functionality associated with portals and identify those that have true business value.

In this session, the following topics will be covered:
• Brief overview of Web 2.0 in the broader market
• What SharePoint provides
• Demonstrations on leveraging native Web 2.0 SharePoint features like:
- Wikis - Blogs - Social Networking
• How to effectively implement these capabilities in your enterprise
• Best practices

Key Issues:
• How SharePoint technologies can be used to provide a secure environment for project collaboration.
• How to manage project artifacts such as to-do’s, tasks, issues, risks and documents using “out of the
box” SharePoint features.
• How to “roll-up” information across multiple project sites, providing a dashboard to view all tasks,
issues and risks assigned to you.
• How Microsoft Project Server 2007 can be integrated with your SharePoint collaboration environment to
provide a holistic view of all project artifacts.

In this session, the following topics will be covered:
• Brief overview of SharePoint – WSS vs. MOSS
• Review of native web service capability shipped with SharePoint
- RSS - SOAP - REST-like
• Opportunities for leveraging these capabilities
• Extending SharePoint web services capabilities
• Best practices

Key Issues:
• Best practices for working with your customers to gather information requirements.
• An approach for documenting your corporate taxonomic structure.
• An approach for documenting your Intranet site structure.
How to apply content categorization and classification using Microsoft SharePoint products and
technologies