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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060929
SUMMARY:Enterprise Information Architecture
LOCATION:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
DESCRIPTION:Benefits
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\nThis advanced information architecture seminar co
 mbines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to ad
 dress a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified in
 formation architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to:
\n* Develop
  main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single 
 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 content.
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 n* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organi
 zational "silos".
\n* Better implement an enterprise-wide information archi
 tecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved govern
 ance.
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\nSeminar Schedule and Outline
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\nRegistration and continental b
 reakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, follo
 wed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics:
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 n* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
\n* EIA from the t
 op-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental
  content
\n* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable 
 contextual navigation from page to page
\n* EIA and search: indexing cross-
 departmental content, presenting results consistently
\n* EIA and the organ
 ization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, sta
 ffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environ
 ment
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\nWhat's Included
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\n* Handouts including presentation slides and
  references to related readings, software products, and other useful resour
 ces.
\n* A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a 
 post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members o
 f the local information architecture and usability communities. In these ne
 w fields, knowing your peers is invaluable.
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