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August 2004
ARTICLES
Review: Information strategy in practice Review of Elizabeth Orna's book on how to do an information audit, information policy, and information strategy.

Which planning model is right for you? Pros and cons of five information planning models — info store, compliance, efficiency, usability, marketing.

CATALOG
2004 - 2005 Catalog contains new Custom Services and Professional Opportunities.

REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (formerly Best of BUSLIB-L)
Managing internet resources
IT management & policy Web sites
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites. This month's entry is about how to get the most from your IT analyst firm.
 
How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)
An overview of our content and tips on how to use it.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.
 
ROUNDTABLE (see also the calendar listing)
Work group productivity & SharePoint September 29 (Enfield, CT)
Meet Suzanne Sheppard, Knowledge Architecture and Taxonomy consultant at Unisys, who's creating "knowledge communities" for SharePoint. Prior to Unisys, Suzanne was involved in many knowledge management projects for KPMG.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Metadata tools and management September 21/22 (Enfield, CT)
Lecture-demo plus hands-on activities — create an RSS news feed, a Dublin Core metadata generator for Dreamweaver, metadata HTML extractor, metadata management spreadsheet tool, a Microsoft Word metadata template, a search engine thesaurus, and a Web log analytical tool.
Knowledge base editing retreat November 8 - 12 (Amherst, MA)
Five days of hands-on activities covering 5 topics — trends, creating quality content, basic taxonomies, advanced taxonomies, application integration.
 
Creating and using business taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the fundamentals of business taxonomies: how to do a needs analysis, create a controlled vocabulary, develop a thesaurus, and use taxonomy components in navigation. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.
 
Integrating taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
A hands-on course that covers the creation and use of authorities as well as the development of two independent thesauri that are linked through cross references. Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.