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Selecting
and Implementing Web and Intranet Search
to be
held at
CILIP,
Course
Outline
Effective
search is a vital element in ensuring that users of web sites and intranets can
be certain that they have found all the relevant information that is available.
Search has to work, and work well.
This
workshop provides practical advice on selecting, installing and implementing
search for web sites and intranets. The opening sessions of the workshop
explain how search technology works, an essential precursor to understanding
how to get the best from commercial and open source search software. The
workshop then goes on to illustrate the importance of the design and usability
of the search results pages, and highlights the similarities and differences
between searching web sites and searching intranets. Desk top and enterprise
search applications will also be discussed. Note that this workshop does not
cover search engine optimization.
The
sessions will include
• How search engines work
• A survey of search engine suppliers
• Making a business case for search
• Search usability issues
• Specifying and selecting a search engine
• Ten steps to implementing web site search
• Ten steps to implementing intranet search
Who
should attend
This
workshop will be of benefit to web and intranet managers who want to provide a
better search experience for users, either through implementing a new search
engine or through improving the usability of their current application. No
technical knowledge of search software is required to gain the maximum benefit
from this workshop.
Course
Presenter: Martin White
FCLIP
Martin
White is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd. Martin consults on the design
and management of intranets and extranets, and on the specification and
selection of content management and search software. He is the author of The
Content Management Handbook (published by Facet Publishing) and has just
finished writing Making Search Work for publication by Facet in early 2007. He
has been the Chairman of the Online Information Conference since 2000. In 2005
and 2006 Martin ran workshops on CMS and search software selection for the
Nielsen Norman Group in both the
Alghanim Industries (
To
register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further
details, please email [log in to unmask] Further details are
also
available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk.
UKeiG
is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals.
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Selecting
and Implementing Web and Intranet Search
CILIP,
Costs
(including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG
members £130 + VAT (£152.75); others £160 + VAT (£188.00)
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complete and return this form by 15th February 2007, to Christine Baker, The
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