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UkeiG Course: Selecting and Implementing Web and Intranet Search
to be held at
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Thursday, 22nd February 2007, 9.30 - 16.30
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 optimisation.
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 USA and the UK. His client list includes the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, the Open University, Boehringer Ingelheim, Alghanim Industries (Kuwait), Rolls-Royce and the British Museum.
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UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.
Selecting and Implementing Web and Intranet Search
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Thursday, 22nd February 2007, 9.30 - 16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £130 + VAT (£152.75); others £160 + VAT (£188.00)
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