Conferences

TCANZ: Intranet Solutions – Delivering information, enhancing communication

September 1-3, 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand

Pre Conference Workshop - Content Modelling

Content models formalize the structure of your content, providing the framework upon which you build your intranet and help your content contributors to create effective materials. You will learn how to create:

• Information product models
• Element models
• Structural reuse maps
• Content reuse maps

Keynote - Metadata: Key to a successful intranet

Your intranet is only as good as someone's ability to find information on it. Metadata is the stuff that allows your intranet to be 'smart'. It's the stuff that makes 'intelligent content' intelligent, and when it is not there or poorly implemented it is what frustrates users most. Metadata is key to successful searching, content organization and navigation.

This session will introduce you to the concepts of good metadata and the methodologies for developing it. It will provide tips and tricks for creating your metadata strategy and it will help you to develop processes to make it easy for your content contributors to use the metadata you have created.

• What is metadata?
• What is a taxonomy?
• How do I create and manage metadata?

For more information about the conference, or to register click here.

Lavacon 2.0: The Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies

September 29–October, 2010 in San Diego, California

OMG It Moves! Using XML To Create Media-Rich Interactive Content (Charles Cooper)

Content isn't just text anymore. For many years the available technology constrained our ability to deliver anything other than text. With the emergence of ebooks, e-readers and now the iPad, we can finally break out of the text box and incorporate moving and interactive media in our information.

Attend this session to see real-world examples of media rich interactive content and interaction design, both on the web and smart media devices. Learn from these examples how to ensure that your content meets the needs of your customers.

Intelligent Content: The Magic Behind the Curtain (Ann Rockley)

Intelligent Content is content which is not limited to one purpose, technology or output. It's content that is structurally rich and semantically aware, and is therefore discoverable, reusable, reconfigurable and adaptable. Intelligent Content can seem like magic, but it takes analysis, planning and creativity on many levels to achieve that seamless appearance of magic.

This session looks at the ways in which you can make your content intelligent and easily adaptable to new and emerging needs and technology.

For more information about the conference, or to register click here.

If you register before August 31st, use the referral code ROCKLEY, and receive an additional $50 off your conference tuition!