Two new free conference call series - Search and Content Management

I wanted to post a preliminary note about our new Jump Start calls planned for September and October. Each series will consist of 4 - 90 minute calls each with 2 - 3 presenters who are experts and practitioners in their fields. Here is the tentative schedule:

Content Management Jumpstart: Each Monday 1:30 - 3:00 EST September 25th through October 16th - Topics will include:

• The basics of content management
• Building a content management business case
• Content management frameworks & governance
• Integrating content management with business processes
• Tagging, metadata and taxonomies
• Content publishing models & reuse
• Personalization & targeted content
• CMS selection & deployment
• Web content management & syndicating content
• Global content management

Search Solutions Jumpstart Each Friday 1:30 - 3:00 EST, October 13th through November 3rd - Topics will include:

• Business trends and search - the value of effective search and making the business case
• Issues and challenges in deploying enterprise search solutions
• The nuts & bolts – understanding and evaluating search tools
• Issues in implementing search and building search applications
• Tuning search systems
• Evaluating search infrastructure
• Integrating with taxonomies, tagging systems, etc
• Complex federated search
• Natural language queries and semantic search
• Future developments in search

Past attendees have considered our calls to be some of the best they have attended.