SHOW FLOOR SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
A limited number of speaking opportunities will be available in the exhibition seminar programmes. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership to the international information community or to present a key client case study in the information management arena.
Speaking opportunities for exhibiting companies are available in each of the following educational programmes:
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CONTENT MANAGEMENT EXPO
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ENTERPRISE SEARCH SOLUTIONS
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WEB 2.0
For more information on the speaking opportunity available in each educational programme please scroll down the page to the relevant section. To make your submission please use the submission form found at the bottom of this page, ensuring you complete all the fields and return to:
laura.roth@incisivemedia.com
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Please read this section before making your submission:
- All submissions must be received by August 1st 2008
- The submissions are reviewed by the conference editorial team and members of the conference committee
- All case study proposals will be reviewed throughout August and if you have been successful you will be notified by September 1st. To be selected you will need to mark an 'X' in the box on page 2 of the submission form which states you will adhere to the marketing deadlines as laid out in the submission form. Failure to send in the required information within the given timelines may result in withdrawal from the seminar programme.
- If you have any questions concerning your submission please contact Laura Roth, Senior Conference Executive at the above email address or by telephone: +44 (0)207 316 9126
Priority will be given to submissions containing blue chip case studies
CONTENT MANAGEMENT EXPO
A popular and well established seminar programme comprising case studies that examine content management challenges.
Topics will include:
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Considerations when selecting & implementing your content management system
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Case studies showing that a product / service has actually worked
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Achieve effective search engine marketing using your CMS
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Case Studies illustrating Content Management practice
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Understanding concepts and principles
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Best practice in Content Management deployment
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Content Management in a web 2.0 world
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Integrating information into business processes
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Compliance and content management – driving demand?
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ROI for CM
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Latest CM tools & techniques
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Does one size fit all?
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Which CM Solution for a mid market company?
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Integrating CM with Search, KM and DM
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Standards - new and emerging
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Topics will include:
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Making the business case for ECM
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Implementing a collaborative ECM infrastructure
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Key questions for ECM partner selection
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Developing a cost model for your ECM solution
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The role of open source software XML?
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What’s in it for me? Selling ECM to your organisation
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Reducing risk and ensuring compliance through ECM
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Example of ECM in the workplace
Visitor profile:
- IT Management Professionals
- Marketing Professionals
- Web and Digital Professionals
- Finance Professionals
Case study speaking opportunity:
To put forward a client (preferably blue chip corporate or public sector) to provide a 30 minute presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics.
ENTERPRISE SEARCH SOLUTIONS
A two day programme that will examine the effective deployment of enterprise search solutions. The programme is made up of a balance of theory & practice.
Topics will include:
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Clean up your content to make it ‘findable’
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Managing your organisations search processes
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Open source search
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Opportunities in vertical & universal search
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Taxonomy & its impact on Web 2.0
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Semantic search in the enterprise
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Ontology – what is it and why do you need it?
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Case studies from organisations that have deployed an enterprise search solution
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Security issues in enterprise search
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The future of search
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Making the business case for enterprise search
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Integrating search and content management strategies
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Building and deploying a taxonomy
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User needs vs. business requirements vs. technical capabilities
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Strategies for improving the search experience
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Upgrading your enterprise search system
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Aligning enterprise search and other business functions
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Troubleshooting search problems
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Using taxonomies & metadata to drive successful search
Visitor profile:
- IT Managers
- Information Professionals
- Information Management Professionals
- Taxonomy Professionals
- Research Managers
- Finance Professionals
Speaking opportunity:
To put forward a client (preferably blue chip corporate or public sector) to provide a 30 minute case study presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics.
Limited places are available for the ‘heads up’ sessions and only senior job titles will be considered.
WEB 2.0
This programme focuses on the challenges around the use of web 2.0 tools & technologies such as wikis, blogs & RSS in the workplace.
Topics will include:
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Social networking applications in business e.g. Facebook
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Overcoming cultural resistance in organisations
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2.0 issues with intranets
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Applying social tools to business
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Moving from Web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0
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Future technologies - what's to come?
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Making sense of user generated content
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Benefits and applications of RSS in organisations
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Enterprise 2.0 - can it be delivered without creating organisational risk
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Application of second life in corporate & academic settings
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Practical applications of Web 2.0 in the enterprise
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The benefits of Web 2.0 in business today
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Considerations for making an investment in Web 2.0
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Getting buy in from your users
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Collaborating in the enterprise
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Incorporating Web 2.0 into your information strategy
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Using RSS and blogs to market your services and keep your users up to date
Visitor profile:
- IT Management
- Marketing Professionals
- Web and Digital Professionals
- Finance Professionals
MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
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Online reputation management
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How blended search can change your brands reputation
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How companies are using Twitter effectively to engage and interact with their customers
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Monitoring and analysis of social media
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Effectively measuring ROI on social media marketing
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Information capture within a network
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Privacy - managing what information gets out about your company
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Viral marketing - how to plan a social media strategy. Good and bad examples
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Using social media to drive web traffic and raise exposure of your company
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Social Media Optimisation
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Data portability (ie who captures and manages your data, and how do they do it?)
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Faster adoption of technology
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How to use social media effectively to engage with your clients and increase the reputation of your brand
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Social Media for political parties and governmental institutions
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Whose job is social media?
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Employee policy regarding social media
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