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Our Wednesday Webinar looks at the key skills needed in the intranet and digital workplace. News on news takes place on Wednesday 21 November. View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/8ee2d7650882/introducing-sla-europes-wednesday-webinars-258115?e=b4c9dca8c1) Book your place at New on news here (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=91e4526823&e=b4c9dca8c1) News on News on news News and analysis on three important developments in news and current awareness News and current awareness provision are the backbone of many information centres. Whilst seasoned info pros talk about changes from the days of cutting, gluing and photocopying news articles, substantial changes are impacting news and current awareness right now. In response to demand, SLA Europe through the generous sponsorship of Manzama is pleased to present an evening with three subject matter experts. Hear from our speakers on the applications of artificial intelligence, solving fake news and the impact of social media on traditional news media. After hearing from our expert speakers, continue the discussions afterwards and network with colleagues and contacts over food and drinks. Programme: Present and future applications of artificial intelligence for current awareness. Dr Andrew Duchon, Director of Data Science, Manzama Inc The weather, football games, and the stock market. News stories about these common, recurring events is already being created with “automated journalism.” But computers, using techniques like deep neural networks, are becoming more and more capable of creativity: producing art, music, poetry, and screenplays, and sometimes it's not even absurd. These systems will soon be able to adequately, and automatically, describe the complexity of real news events, and create fake ones. What does that mean for journalism and consumers of the news? In a first for SLA Europe, Andrew will be speaking via webcast from the US. How social media changed everything and nothing in the newsroom. Martin Belam, The Guardian Social & New Formats Editor Martin Belam provides the inside story on social media's impact on the newsroom. Fifty shades of fake, 12 months on. Jo Tinning-Clowes Jo will update us on developments in fake news since her popular talk here 12 months ago. Schedule: * Tea and coffee will be served on arrival from 6pm. * There will be a short break after Dr Duchon's talk. * Food and drinks will be served from 7:50pm. About our three speakers: Dr Andrew Duchon Dr Duchon is the Director of Data Science at Manzama Inc. Here, he has developed and continues to improve the machine learning system behind its patent-pending Insights™, which automatically assesses company news for indicators of corporate health. Prior to Manzama, Dr Duchon was a data scientist at Jama Software building models to predict customer churn. For eight years he worked at Aptima, a defence industry consultancy, as a project manager, researcher, and software engineer applying natural language processing to understand human behaviour in a variety of domains and has four patents related to this work. Before Aptima, Dr Duchon was a co-founder and Director of Technology at Simpli.com, a semantic search engine. He has also worked as a private consultant developing statistical models for the finance industry; an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Brown University studying cognitive maps in virtual reality; and a researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan developing neural networks for speech recognition. Dr Duchon holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University and a BA in Psychology and the Integrated Science Program from Northwestern University. Martin Belam Martin is a journalist and designer, and Social & New Formats Editor at the Guardian in London. He has been building digital products for nearly 20 years and has worked as a Product Manager, an Information Architect, a User Experience Designer and as an Editor. He helped Trinity Mirror develop UsVsTh3m (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=5911acb24f&e=b4c9dca8c1) , Ampp3d (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=85f77ad099&e=b4c9dca8c1) and Mirror Row Zed (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=c6bc2b4fc3&e=b4c9dca8c1) , as well as building a “social content” team for Mirror Online. Martin also worked at the Guardian as Head of User Experience, and at Sony and the BBC. In between these jobs, he's run Emblem Digital Consulting (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=24b37daa4b&e=b4c9dca8c1) . He's written and edited books for the Guardian Shorts (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=d467960e74&e=b4c9dca8c1) series about the Olympics, Facebook and Doctor Who, and frequently talks at events and conferences about digital product design. He has been blogging for years on currybet.net (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=894d0f15b4&e=b4c9dca8c1) , at the BBC (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=e8b1e07771&e=b4c9dca8c1) and the Guardian (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=c95e5974c0&e=b4c9dca8c1) and on this site (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=2a6ed1ddb5&e=b4c9dca8c1) about journalism, digital media and design.Website: martinbelam.com (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=5cb0a8bd10&e=b4c9dca8c1) Jo Tinning-Clowes Jo gained over 20 years’ experience of working for Reuters then Dow Jones on the online news side of the business. She is an avid champion of 'trustworthy' online news and believes we all need to be more careful what we read...and believe. At Dow Jones, she assisted with many of the company’s largest customers with their search strategies and understanding how to get the best out of Factiva for their needs. LinkedIn: Jo Tinning-Clowes (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=93ca48bf82&e=b4c9dca8c1) About our sponsors, Manzama Since 2010, Manzama has been the leading provider of current awareness and market intelligence to legal and professional service organisations around the globe. With intuitive search and sharing tools and user-friendly implementation, it makes the process of finding and sharing competitive business insights easy. Manzama's proprietary platform uses sophisticated search algorithms to search the web for relevant content, including social media, based on each user's personalised preferences, then delivers highly customised news and information to the user via email alert, mobile app and his or her own personal dashboard. The Manzama platform is in use in over 200 of the world’s largest law firms, as well as several other professional services firms in industries such as insurance, accounting, consulting and public relations. In 2018, Manzama launched its proprietary Insights module which leverages the latest in data science and artificial intelligence capabilities to analyse, classify, and group a myriad of news stories to highlight areas of risk and opportunity around companies and industries. Website: manzama.com (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=17dfdf5422&e=b4c9dca8c1) . Book your place at News on news here (https://sla-europe.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=852959134ce75cbde9b09dec7&id=9a5f20421b&e=b4c9dca8c1) 14th November 1pm The intranet and digital workplace skills matrix Intranet and digital workplace managers come from very diverse professional backgrounds including internal communications, IT development, project management, knowledge management, usability experts, corporate librarians, designers and more. Because of this, most of the skills to run an intranet and digital workplace are acquired through experience rather than training. This means some fundamental skills (business, personal, technical etc.) key to running a successful intranet and digital workplace get missed. It also means that it can be hard for those involved in intranets and the wider digital workplace to focus on their own career path and have meaningful conversations with HR and training functions about their own development. In this session, Chris Tubb and Steve Bynghall from Spark Trajectory will explore the skills needed by digital workplace teams and introduce a framework to assess the skills required by your team and what to do to fill the gaps. They will also touch upon the meaning of the digital workplace and their own career stories. The session will be of interest to anybody involved in running an intranet, but also those working in information services. Spark Trajectory is a training and development company for intranet and digital workplace people focusing on strategy, governance and measurement. About Chris Tubb Chris is a Digital Workplace and Intranet Consultant who works with large organisations on strategy, governance and measurement.Chris recently co-founded an intranet and digital workplace training company Spark Trajectory with Steve Bynghall. Chris is based in Brighton, on the South coast of the UK. About Steve Bynghall Steve is a freelance consultant and writer based in the UK. He focuses on intranets, digital workplace, KM and collaboration. After thirteen years working in KM at accountancy firm BDO, Steve founded Two Hives in 2010. As well as his own independent work, Steve works extensively with DWG where he is a benchmarker, consultant and writer. He also works with Step Two, managing the annual Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. Steve writes extensively on digital workplace topics and contributes articles, reports and whitepapers for a number of different organisations. Steve recently co-founded intranet and digital workplace training company Spark Trajectory with Chris Tubb. 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