A panel of industry experts will discuss how they, as data and information providers, team with information professionals to provide critical business information in these challenging economic times.
Social media offers a powerful yet low-cost way for nonprofits to demonstrate, through pictures, words, and video, how they are making a difference and why they need support. Whether you're considering social media for your organization or you've been using it successfully for years, this session is for you. Participants will learn best practices for creating an engaging social media presence, hear from a nonprofit successfully using social media, and learn about exciting social tools on the horizon.
SPEAKING:
Scott Brown, Social Information Group; Brandy King, Knowledge Linking; Bobbi Weaver, CA Western School of Law
Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's also a radically multidisciplinary, creative challenge that's restructuring the landscapes of publishing, librarianship, communication, and knowledge management. In this talk, Peter Morville defines a pattern language for search and discovery that embraces user psychology and behavior, cross-channel information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology. He identifies design principles that apply across the categories of Web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time. He also explains how future methods and user experience deliverables can help us create better search applications today and invent the improbable discovery tools of tomorrow.
SPEAKING:
Peter Morville, Semantic Studios
Join a discussion of enterprise search successes and challenges from the corporate perspective.
MODERATING:
Nancy Linwood Lewis, DuPont Company
SPEAKING:
Peter Morville, Semantic Studios; Sofiane Kerboub, Abbott Laboratories; Margaret Ostrander, Thomson Reuters; Eileen Quam, State of Minnesota, MN.IT Services
Experts from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will discuss and demonstrate examples of the wealth of international economic data and other resources available, much of it free of charge, from their organizations.
Speakers:
Tariq Afzal Khokhar,World Bank; Kathleen DeBoer, OECD; Gareth McGuinness, International Monetary Fund
Is the trustworthiness of business news changing? Given the decline in resources devoted to investigative reporting in the mainstream media, is business reporting also deteriorating? Are corporate spin, “truthiness” and flat-out errors of fact more common? Using insights from her own work and from conversations with business journalists, Cynthia Lesky explores how business news is changing and how this fact challenges and potentially rewards researchers and information analysts. Attendees are invited to bring examples of inaccurate business news stories from their own work.
SPEAKING:
Cynthia Lesky, Threshold Information Inc.
This session will provide an overview and case studies of using controlled vocabularies and metadata schema to index and manage non-textual content including video, still images, and audio files. The session will focus on the unique standards, best practices, tools, and challenges of DAM. The session will also address how the DAM approach differs from (and integrates with) the management of textual content.
MODERATING:
Leigh Montgomery, Christian Science Monitor
SPEAKING:
Rene Aranzamendez, Getty Images; David Riecks, ControlledVocabulary.com; Laura Fu, Sears Holdings Corporation; Randall Marcinko, MEI
SPEAKER HANDOUTS:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/sla/1249_Riecks.ppsx
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/sla/sla-chi.pdf
