4 Conference calls Canada 2006-09-29 Day: Mondays, Sept.25 to Oct 16th Time: 1:30-3:00pm EDT Learn about: - Making the business case for content management - Content management frameworks & governance - CMS selection & deployment - Integrating with taxonomies, tagging systems, etc Presenters will include: - Mike Crandall, University of Wash. - Bob Boiko, Metatorial Services, Inc. - Samantha Starmer, Microsoft - JoAnn Hackos, Comtech - Ann Rockley, Rockley Group - Meredith Lavine, MathWorks - Steve Bond, AOL - Susan Charette, Texas Instruments - Theresa Regli, CMS Watch - Seth Earley, Earley & Associates 66 Canada The free content management jumpstart will tackle some of the issues and challenges surrounding content management. Hear from experts at leading companies and be exposed to tools from select vendors. 2006-09-25 false http://www.earley.com/CMjumpstart.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/66 cms, content management, content reuse, earley, governance, jumpstart, taxonomies Seattle USA 2006-10-29 3 plenary sessions (keynotes): * The Future of Design (Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group) * Designing the Windows Vista User Experience (Tjeerd Hoek, Microsoft) * Mobile Usability (Christian Lindholm, Yahoo!) 29 full-day tutorials: * Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability * Fundamental Guidelines for Application Usability * Introduction to User Testing * Interaction Design 1 and 2 * Eyetracking Web Usability * Information Architecture * Content Usability 1 and 2 * Rapid Iterative Design * The Persona Lifecycle: Creating and Communicating User Personas * Getting from User Data to Design Fundamentals of Internet Marketing * Web Metrics: Assessing Website Performance * Advanced User Testing * How to Communicate Test Results * Communicating Design: User Experience Documentation * Designing Complex Applications and Websites * Managing User Experience Strategy: Lessons from eBay and Beyond * Intranet Usability 1 & 2 * Email Newsletter Usability * Lightweight Content Management: Blogs and Wikis * Content Management for Websites and Intranets * Designing B2B Websites * Managing a User Experience Team * Designing Multi-User Services: Lessons from Social Psychology * Instant Visual Communication * Making Search Work Speakers: Scott McCloud Jenn Anderson, 3Across Tamara Adlin, Adlin, Inc. Dan Brown, Computech, Inc. Nancy Dickenson & Christian Rohrer, eBay John Morkes & Lynn Pausic, Expero Inc. Martin White, Intranet Focus Tjeerd Hoek & John Pruitt, Microsoft Kara Pernice Coyne, Hoa Loranger, Jakob Nielsen, Chris Nodder, Donald A. Norman, Amy Schade, & Bruce “Togâ€? Tognazzini, Nielsen Norman Group Jill Strawbridge, Symantec Jim Sterne, Target Marketing Janice Rohn, World Savings Bank John Boyd & Christian Lindholm, Yahoo! 71 WA 7-day conference (also in London in November with the same program). 3 evening keynotes and 29 full-day tutorials on many aspects of usability and user experience, from intro to advanced. 2006-10-22 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/71 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/71/nnglogo-invoice.jpg applications, cms, don norman, eyetracking, information architecture, interaction design, jakob nielsen, management, mobile devices, nielsen norman group, personas, seattle, tog, usability, user testing, windows vista London United Kingdom 2006-11-12 3 plenary sessions (keynotes): * The Future of Design (Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group) * Designing the Windows Vista User Experience (Tjeerd Hoek, Microsoft) * Mobile Usability (Christian Lindholm, Yahoo!) 29 full-day tutorials: * Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability * Fundamental Guidelines for Application Usability * Introduction to User Testing * Interaction Design 1 and 2 * Eyetracking Web Usability * Information Architecture * Content Usability 1 and 2 * Rapid Iterative Design * The Persona Lifecycle: Creating and Communicating User Personas * Getting from User Data to Design Fundamentals of Internet Marketing * Web Metrics: Assessing Website Performance * Advanced User Testing * How to Communicate Test Results * Communicating Design: User Experience Documentation * Designing Complex Applications and Websites * Managing User Experience Strategy: Lessons from eBay and Beyond * Intranet Usability 1 & 2 * Email Newsletter Usability * Lightweight Content Management: Blogs and Wikis * Content Management for Websites and Intranets * Designing B2B Websites * Managing a User Experience Team * Designing Multi-User Services: Lessons from Social Psychology * Instant Visual Communication * Making Search Work Speakers: Scott McCloud Jenn Anderson, 3Across Tamara Adlin, Adlin, Inc. Dan Brown, Computech, Inc. Nancy Dickenson & Christian Rohrer, eBay John Morkes & Lynn Pausic, Expero Inc. Martin White, Intranet Focus Tjeerd Hoek & John Pruitt, Microsoft Kara Pernice Coyne, Hoa Loranger, Jakob Nielsen, Chris Nodder, Donald A. Norman, Amy Schade, & Bruce “Togâ€? Tognazzini, Nielsen Norman Group Jill Strawbridge, Symantec Jim Sterne, Target Marketing Janice Rohn, World Savings Bank John Boyd & Christian Lindholm, Yahoo! 72 United Kingdom 7-day conference (also in Seattle in October with the same program). 3 evening keynotes and 29 full-day tutorials on many aspects of usability and user experience, from intro to advanced. 2006-11-05 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/72 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/72/nnglogo-invoice.jpg applications, cms, don norman, eyetracking, information architecture, interaction design, jakob nielsen, london, management, mobile devices, nielsen norman group, personas, tog, usability, user testing, windows vista Vancouver Canada 2007-01-27 Bob takes you step-by-step through a proven system to solve the hardest CM issues. Throughout your two day intensive sessions you will build your own content strategy and model using proven best practices and Bob's own industry driving methodologies. ****$1495 Canadian / $1345 US **** Day 1: Learn the "Business Smarts" required for a successful content management strategy: - Set goals that benefit your company's bottom line - Build a realistic business case to meet the goals - Get support from above and from the business units - Get the funding you need - Avoid departmental wars Day 2: Learn the "Nuts and Bolts" of content modeling, the key to linking business goals with technology: - Balance the sources and consumers of content - Balance the Web against other delivery channels for your content - Create a content domain to limit scope creep - Devise a set of content types for content organization content creation, storage, and delivery - Define taxonomies and other access structures to organize and target your content - Design for future growth and inevitable change - Determine how to reuse content and display it on Web pages and beyond - Use XML and database technologies to store and publish content "Provided tools to be able to look at information management in the larger context of organizational goals." --Alan Rosenthal, Microsoft Corporation Leading the workshop is information management professor and long-time consultant Bob Boiko. Bob (literally) wrote the book on content management, The Content Management Bible (2004, Wiley & Sons) is in its second edition and has become the gold standard for content management professionals. Bob's dynamic presentation style keeps him consistently on the list of most-requested speakers at IT and business conferences. His methodology has been applied to organizations of all sizes, from small non-profit organizations to major corporations in North America, Europe and Asia. 128 Canada An intensive 2-day workshop on building information strategy, then designing and modeling information systems presented by industry-leading consultant, author, and teacher, Bob Boiko. 2007-01-25 false http://www.metatorial.com/seminar.asp?code=BaA http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/128 boiko, cm, cms, content, information, it, mamagement, modeling, strategy, system design, workshop 2007-04-13 Get up to speed quickly on what you need to know about taxonomies and learn how to get started on a taxonomy project in your organization in this free 4-week webinar series. The Taxonomy & Metadata JumpStart will tackle some of the issues and challenges in deriving taxonomies and metadata standards. During these calls, you will hear from experts at leading Fortune 500 companies and be exposed to tools from select vendors. Led by Seth Earley of Earley and Associates, each of the four 90-minute webinars feature taxonomy experts and practitioners sharing practical advice and information about how to develop, manage, and maintain a taxonomy. You'll receive a valuable slide deck in advance of each call, and have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers and interact with others in the audience. April 12th - 1:00-2:30pm EDT Session 2: Getting Started - Taxonomy Building Blocks Topics include: * What is a taxonomy? * What is metadata? What is a thesaurus? * How do these pieces become a taxonomy? * A taxonomy project roadmap Presenters:Seth Earley (Earley & Associates, Marjorie Hlava, Jay Ven Eman (Access Innovations, Inc.) 194 Join us for the second in a free series of four Jumpstart calls on Taxonomy & Metadata, every Thursday from April 5th-26th. Sign up for the sessions at http://earley.com 2007-04-12 true http://earley.com/TaxonomyMetadataJumpstart.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/194 cms, folksonomy, governance, metadata, taxonomy, thesaurus Pittsburgh USA 2007-12-12 We currently have 2 presentations for the evening: First, Jason Head will be presenting "10 Ways to Provide Top-Notch SEO Without Doing any Extra Work!"* Clients are always asking "how can I make it into the search engines". I'll show you how you can get results for your client by following rules of web standards, good design and taking advantage of one or two free tools along the way. (* Well, maybe a little bit of work...) Next, Founding Developer and CEO of JoinSources, LLC, Don Charlton will be joining us to show a very impressive project he has been working on here in Pittsburgh: Join Sources. For this presentation, "Let's JoinSources and Conquer Web Content" Don demos a new Web-based CMS meant to equally empower Web site developers, designers and their clients. They're also giving away free hosting and CMS usage to 50 JoinSources recruits who develop a site on the beta platform. I've seen a preview of the CMS and it's a sharp product. While it's always nice to see a creative and useful product developed in our own community, it's even better when it's soomething that we all may be able to put to great use. If you run a small business or do a good deal of freelance web-site work, you should make an effort to check this one out! Finally, we would like to add an additional short presentation for the evening. If you would like to present on a topic or show off a recent project, please drop me line! As usual, we should have a good supply of coffee and cookies and other sweets to get you through the night. Also, if anyone would like to stick around after the meeting and take the conversation down to Affagoto's that would be a good deal too! RSVP Please RSVP to let us know if you will be joining us. I need to make sure we have enough seats and most importantly, coffee! 366 PA Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area. 2007-12-11 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/366 cms, content management, creativity, css, design, seo, web standards, xhtml Boston USA 2008-03-07 Learn about designing for Drupal! Drupal is a powerful and elegant CMS that is growing in popularity for community, e-commerce, social networking, web applications, and blog sites. Add a new skill to your arsenal of web design techniques! Drupal designers are in high demand. There will be sessions and showcases of Drupal site designs, including case studies for creating Drupal themes. Cost is $195. The conference will be co-located with AIIM content management conference. Proposed session topics are below. We are recruiting presenters! http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/design-and-user-experience-track-descriptions Graphic design: “Drupal for Designers” * Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…) * Introduction to Drupal for designers * Drupal-friendly CSS tricks * Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements Theming Drupal * Theming for Drupal after starting with Wordpress, Joomla, or static HTML * Theming Panels/Views * Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes (case studies) * Creating themes for Drupal 6 * Security for themers * Using Color.module to create recolorable themes Usability/Interaction design: “User friendly Drupal” * Usability bling in Drupal 6 * User Experience Testing * Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6 * Building intuitive forms * Brainstorming: An interface for media handling * Learning jQuery Site Planning and Information Architecture: “Building Drupal to Specification” * A WYSIWYG in Drupal 7: How do we get there? * Obstacles on localized and internationalized sites * Improving the Drupal user experience with the best contributed modules * Site statistics, how to obtain and what we can learn from them * Identifying and overcoming Drupalisms (odd workflows, …) 391 MA The design and user experience track for the Drupal conference will feature 16 design and user experience tutorials, panels, and presentations over 4 days. Drupal designers are in high demand! 2008-03-03 false http://drupalcon.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/391 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/391/drupalcon-175.png blog, cms, community, drupal, graphic design, interaction design, joomla, open source, social networking, templates, theme, usability research, user experience, web design, wordpress Vancouver, BC Canada 2008-05-10 Held in beautiful, Vancouver, British Columbia, the theme of the 2nd Annual Documentation & Training West Conference is Web 2.0 and Its Impact on Communication. The event takes place May 6-9, 2008. For $999 you get all of the following: * Choice of pre-conference half-day workshops (May 6, 2008) * Choice of over 30 conference sessions (May 7-8, 2008) * Choice of post-conference half-day workshop (May 9, 2008) * Access to the networking cocktail reception (May 6, 2008) * Breakfast and carving station lunches during conference Venue: Marriott Pinnacle, Vancouver 1128 West Hastings Street Vancouver, British Columbia We’ve negotiated great rates for our conference guests; $199US a night including unlimited in-room internet and unlimited in room telephone calls to the US and Canada. Featured Speaker: Dr. Robert J. Glushko will be a featured speaker at Documentation and Training West 2008. His topic, Document Engineering, explores a new discipline for specifying, designing, and implementing the electronic documents that request or provide interfaces to business processes via web-based services. It’s an amazing topic with all kinds of practical implications for technical communication professionals. Document Engineering is a synthesis of: * Information and systems analysis * Business process modeling * Electronic publishing * Distributed computing Dr. Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information, the Director of the Center for Document Engineering, and one of the founding faculty members of the Information & Service Design and Services Science, Management & Engineering programs. If you require additional information, contact Scott Abel at +1 317-466-1840 or scottabel AT mac DOT com. 372 Canada DocTrain West brings together industry pros, management, vendors, standards bodies, and others interested in learning about the latest tools, processes, and technologies for technical communicators. 2008-05-06 false http://www.doctrain.com/west http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/372 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/372/doctrain.west125x125.jpg blogs, cms, component content management, content reuse, dita, information architecture, online help, s1000d, syndication, technical communication, video documentation, web 20, wikis, xml Chicago USA 2008-06-19 Web Content 2008 brings together nationally recognized technology, content, and marketing authorities involved with creating, organizing, maintaining, and delivering web content. Presenters will share best practices, new approaches, lessons learned, and provide real-world examples. The two-day conference is divided into two tracks: * Web Content Strategies, Practices, and Standards * Web Content Tools and Technologies Each track offers attendees a selection of workshops, case studies, and presentations lead by recognized Internet authorities. Attend all sessions in one track or mix-and-match sessions in any track to create a customized program. Held in an intimate setting in Downtown Chicago participation is limited. 370 IL Web Content 2008 brings together nationally recognized technology, content, and marketing authorities involved with creating, organizing, maintaining, and delivering web content. 2008-06-17 false http://www.webcontent2008.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/370 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/370/webcontent2008logo.jpg cms, content, dynamic, email, information architecture, personalized, search engine optimization, wcms, web content Indianapolis USA 2008-06-27 Held in beautiful Indianapolis, IN, the theme of the Documentation & Training Life Sciences 2008 Conference is The Right Prescription For Life Sciences Content. The event takes place June 23-26, 2008. For $1,299 you get all of the following: * Choice of pre-conference half-day workshops (June 23) * Choice of over 30 conference sessions (June 24-25) * Choice of post-conference half-day workshop (June 26) * Access to the networking cocktail reception (June 24) * Breakfast and carving station lunches during conference Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center at Historic Union Station. Special rates are good for reservations made by May 23, 2008: * $139 (standard/double, taxes not included) Indianapolis, the capital of the state of Indiana, commonly referred to as the Crossroads of America, is the 13th largest city in the United States, the second most populous capital in the country. Over 1.5 million people live in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area. Life Sciences in Indiana: The life sciences industry is heavily represented in Indiana, employing more than 9% of the state population, or 274,109 of the state’s residents. Deloitte estimates nearly 578,000 jobs in Indiana are tied to healthcare and life sciences industries, while Milken Institute says the state has the second highest concentration of biopharma jobs in the nation. Indiana was recently selected by Medco as home to the world’s most largest, automated pharmacy. The new 318,000-square-foot pharmacy, slated to open early in 2009, will cover an area equivalent to six and a half football fields—bringing approximately 1,300 new jobs to the state by its anticipated peak operation in 2012. The state is home to over 1000 life sciences firms, including: * Eli Lilly and Company * Roche Diagnostics * Guidant Corporation * Cook Medical Need more information about this event? Contact Scott Abel at +1 317.466.1840 or scottabel AT mac DOT com. 373 IN DocTrain Life Sciences explores solutions to content challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and health and hospital corporations. 2008-06-23 false http://www.doctrain.com/life http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/373 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/373/DocTrain_LifeSciences.jpg cms, documentation, life sciences, medical writing, ndas, new drug applications, pharmaceutical, science, social networks, spl, structured product labeling, technical communication, wcms, web 20, web content, xml