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    <city>Vancouver</city>
    <country>Canada</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-01-27</end-on>
    <full-description>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 &amp; 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. 
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    <id type="integer">128</id>
    <region>Canada</region>
    <short-description>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. </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-01-25</start-on>
    <title>Taming the Content Beast: Content Strategy and Mod</title>
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    <website>http://www.metatorial.com/seminar.asp?code=BaA</website>
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    <tag-string>boiko, cm, cms, content, information, it, mamagement, modeling, strategy, system design, workshop</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Arlington</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-10</end-on>
    <full-description>CSI 2007, held November 3-9 in Arlington, VA, delivers a business-focused overview of enterprise security. 2,000+ delegates, 80 exhibitors and features 100+ sessions/seminars convene to provide a roadmap for integrating policies and procedures with new tools and techniques.  Register now using code: CSI2007 and save $100 off the conference or get a Free Exhibition Pass at www.csiannual.com.   </full-description>
    <id type="integer">351</id>
    <region>VA</region>
    <short-description>CSI 2007 is the Leading Management, Strategy and Policy Event for Today's Security Professionals.

November 3-9, 2007 
Hyatt Regency Crystal City 
Arlington, Virginia


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    <start-on type="date">2007-11-03</start-on>
    <title>CSI Annual Conference 2007</title>
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    <website>http://www.csiannual.com</website>
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  <event>
    <city>Nashville</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-14</end-on>
    <full-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come and join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville this June! You&#8217;ll learn from and mingle with the industry&#8217;s most respected authors and meet peers from all over the globe who are passionate about Web design!

http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008

Circle these dates on your calendar&#8212;June 10-13, 2008&#8212;and reserve your seat early to join us for the most well-rounded Web design event you&#8217;ll find anywhere! Get your difficult questions answered and gain insights from the industry&#8217;s brightest thinkers and practitioners during four days of entertaining, informative, and inspiring sessions. You&#8217;ll engage in thought-provoking discussions and participate in interactive networking activities to enhance your subject matter expertise and hone your professional skills. 
  
Two tracks (one creative and inspirational, one strategic and practical) mean there's always a session for you: whether you're looking for the up-in-the-clouds ideas that'll transform your work when the conference is over or the down-to-earth techniques that'll make your job easier every day. 

Don&#8217;t miss it! Save June 10 &#8211; 13 for the Voices that Matter: Web Design! Guarantee yourself a seat where you&#8217;ll come face-to-face with world class authors including:
&#8226;         Dan Brown 
&#8226;         Curt Cloninger 
&#8226;         Zoe Gillenwater 
&#8226;         Robert Hoekman, Jr. 
&#8226;         Jeremy Keith 
&#8226;         Steve Krug 
&#8226;         Penny McIntire 
&#8226;         Sandra Niehaus 
&#8226;         Joshua Porter 
&#8226;         Garr Reynolds 
&#8226;         Nathan Shedroff 
&#8226;         Aarron Walter 
&#8226;         Charles Wyke-Smith 
&#8226;         And many others!

To request more information, visit the online brochure at http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008, call 617-848-7026, or email Barbara.Gavin@PearsonEd.com.</full-description>
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    <region>TN</region>
    <short-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come and join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville,  June 10-13, 2008.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-10</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
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    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008</website>
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    <tag-string>ajax, architecture, css, design, flash, html, information technology, interface, it, java, optimization, search engine, web, web design, web designers, web developers, web standards, xml</tag-string>
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