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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070511
SUMMARY:Enterprise Information Architecture
LOCATION:Portland\, Oregon\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Benefits
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\nThis advanced information architecture seminar co
 mbines lecture\, demonstration and exercises\, discussion\, and handouts to
  address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified
  information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to:
\n* Deve
 lop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a sing
 le cohesive organization\, not a collection of warring business units.
\n* 
 Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-
 rich page to another\, regardless of which business unit manages that conte
 nt.
\n* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in o
 rganizational "silos".
\n* Better implement an enterprise-wide information 
 architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved g
 overnance.
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\nSeminar Schedule and Outline
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\nRegistration and continen
 tal breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm\,
  followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day\, we'll cover these to
 pics:
\n* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
\n* EIA fro
 m the top-down: taxonomies\, guides\, and other techniques for unifying dep
 artmental content
\n* Enterprise information architecture (EIA) from the bo
 ttom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from p
 age to page
\n* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content\, prese
 nting results consistently
\n* EIA and the organization: models for rolling
  out an enterprise information architecture\, staffing it\, and paying for 
 and managing it in a distributed corporate environment
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\nWhat's Included
 
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\n* Handouts including over 260 presentation slides and references to r
 elated readings\, software products\, and other useful resources.
\n* A var
 iety of opportunities to network with attendees\, including a post-seminar 
 happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld\, Steve Krug\, and other members of the local
  information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields\, 
 knowing your peers is invaluable.
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