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  <event>
    <city>Chicago</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-09-15</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">29</id>
    <region>IL</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-09-14</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/29</url>
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    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Washington</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-09-29</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">30</id>
    <region>DC</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-09-28</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/30</url>
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    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Seattle</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-10-20</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
    * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
    * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
    * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
    * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.


Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
    * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
    * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
    * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
    * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
    * 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

What's Included

    * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
    * A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">21</id>
    <region>WA</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-10-19</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/21</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/21/lou.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Portland</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-05-11</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* Enterprise information architecture (EIA) from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including over 260 presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">168</id>
    <region>OR</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-05-10</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture </title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/168</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/168/lou.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>content management, enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Atlanta</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-06-01</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* Enterprise information architecture (EIA) from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including over 260 presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">169</id>
    <region>GA</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-05-31</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture </title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/169</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/169/lou.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>content management, enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Chicago</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-09-22</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">259</id>
    <region>IL</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-09-21</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/259</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/259/x.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Seattle</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-26</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">260</id>
    <region>WA</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-25</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/260</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/260/x.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Washington DC</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-16</end-on>
    <full-description>Benefits

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".
* Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.

Seminar Schedule and Outline

Registration and continental 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 topics:
* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
* EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content
* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page
* EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently
* 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

What's Included

* Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources.
* A variety 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.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">261</id>
    <region>DC</region>
    <short-description>This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-11-15</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/261</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/261/x.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Hamburg</city>
    <country>Germany</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-05-19</end-on>
    <full-description>Workshop I:

Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralized organization is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This day-long seminar is for managers and web professionals who desperately want to tie together content in a rational, user-centered way, regardless of content ownership issues, cultural hurdles, and turf battles.

This advanced information architecture seminar combines 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:
- Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units.

- Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.

- Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos".

- Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance.


During the day, we'll cover these topics:
- Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)

- EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content

- EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual

- EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently

- 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


Who should attend:
Information architects, content managers, webmasters, managers, and others pulling out their hair to develop a unified information architecture for a large, political, and decentralized organization's web site or intranet.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">610</id>
    <region>Germany</region>
    <short-description>Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralized organization is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This day-long seminar is for managers... </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-05-18</start-on>
    <title>Enterprise Information Architecture, Lou Rosenfeld</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uxworkshops.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/610</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/610/logo_2008.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>germany, hamburg, information architecture, lou rosenfeld, louis rosenfeld, workshop, workshops</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Ann Arbor</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2010-04-01</end-on>
    <full-description>Merit Network is pleased to present two seminars by noted information architecture consultant Louis Rosenfeld. "Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience" and "Enterprise Information Architecture" have been presented on three continents and have helped hundreds of web professionals to improve their sites and improve user experience. Please follow the link below for complete information about each seminar.  You can register to attend either seminar or register for both and save substantially. Special early registration prices are available through January 6, 2010. Limited student seats are also available.

Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Search engine logs provide information professionals with an often-neglected pot of gold: query data that describes what your users really want from your site. In this seminar Lou Rosenfeld&#8212;co-author of the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations With Your Customers&#8212;will introduce the essentials of site search analytics and show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your online strategy. 

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1385</id>
    <region>MI</region>
    <short-description>Merit Network is pleased to present "Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience" by noted information architecture consultant Louis Rosenfeld. Discounted registration through January 6, 2010.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-03-31</start-on>
    <title>Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.merit.edu/learning/sitesearch/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1385</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1385/merit_logo_90x90.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>content, design, information architecture, louis rosenfeld, site search analytics, user experience</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>London</city>
    <country>United Kingdom</country>
    <end-on type="date">2011-10-06</end-on>
    <full-description>Fancy spending three days in the company of the leading lights in the field of user experience...er...and some folks from Etre too? Then get yourself down to Etre Get Together 2011!

Here are the details...

WHO?
Steve Krug, Lou Rosenfeld and Anders Ramsay &#8211; the authors of Don&#8217;t Make Me Think (aka &#8220;the usability expert&#8217;s bible&#8221;), Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (aka &#8220;the information architect's bible&#8221;) and the forthcoming Designing with Agile. 

WHAT?
Three day-long, hands-on workshops on Discount Usability Testing, Adaptable Information Architecture and Designing with Agile &#8211; each one limited to just 50 attendees so as to keep things nice and intimate. (Workshops can be booked individually or as a package.)

WHERE?
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK. 

WHEN?
Monday 3rd, Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th October 2011.

WHY?
To dramatically improve your user experience design skills.

HOW?
http://events.etre.com/

Register now&#8230;or miss out.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1586</id>
    <region>United Kingdom</region>
    <short-description>Want to learn everything there is to know about user experience from the blokes who wrote the books on these subjects? Then get yourself down to Etre Get Together 2011!</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2011-10-03</start-on>
    <title>Etre Get Together 2011</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://events.etre.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1586</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>agile, anders ramsay, information architecture, louis rosenfeld, steve krug, user experience, ux</tag-string>
  </event>
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