Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects
Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date & Time: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

Further details and booking form: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/May/SharePoint.html

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement SharePoint 2007 (often referred to as MOSS07) as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their intranet to SharePoint 2007 and even defend why they feel it is not of benefit to the organisation to do so.

The objective of this workshop is to outline the benefits and challenges of SharePoint 2007 implementations so that intranet managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using SharePoint 2007.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• An introduction to SharePoint 2007
• Supporting collaboration with SharePoint 2007
• Using SharePoint 2007 for intranet content management
• SharePoint 2007 search functionality
• Planning for a SharePoint 2007 implementation
• Working with Microsoft channel partners
• Future plans for SharePoint 2007
• Critical success factors

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering migrating from their current content management and collaboration applications to SharePoint 2007. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Presenter: Martin White

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement SharePoint 2007 (often referred to as MOSS07) as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration document management application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their intranet to SharePoint 2007 and even defend why they feel it is not of benefit to the organisation to do so.

The objective of this workshop is to outline the benefits and challenges of SharePoint 2007 implementations so that intranet managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using SharePoint 2007.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• An introduction to SharePoint 2007
• Supporting collaboration with SharePoint 2007
• Using SharePoint 2007 for intranet content management
• SharePoint 2007 search functionality
• Planning for a SharePoint 2007 implementation
• Working with Microsoft channel partners
• Future plans for SharePoint 2007
• Critical success factors

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering migrating from their current content management and collaboration applications to SharePoint 2007. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Course Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit www.ukeig.org.uk or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

Launch of the World’s First Intranet Media Channel

Free Guest Passes for the Launch Programme

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF at www.ibforum.com), an exclusive, confidential intranet and portal benchmarking group of leading European, US and global organisations, is launching the world’s first dedicated intranet media channel, Intranets Live (www.intranetslive.com) on 4th November 2008.

“Intranets Live has been created following the run-away success of IBF 24, the 24-hour online intranet innovation that took place in June" said Paul Miller, chairman of the IBF. “That day proved to be the world’s largest corporate gathering on the web with more than 700 intranet professionals from 25 countries participating. Not only did we receive universal support and appreciation for IBF 24, but we also found that many of the participants were very keen to see more regular events of this nature. So, in order to meet this demand, we’ve created the world’s first intranet media channel where participants can join the world’s global intranet community live every month.”

Intranets Live, which even before its launch has already attracted more than 300 annual subscribers from some of the world’s leading private and public sector organisations, goes live for the first time at 3pm GMT on November 4th 2008. It will run for two hours and will then broadcast at the same time on the first Tuesday of every subsequent month.

Intranets Live participants will be able to see and experience the best intranets, hear from leading industry figures and network with their peers worldwide. Because Intranets Live is delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting 2007, participants can watch and listen to great content and feed in their own comments and questions live - without even leaving their desk!

Free Guest Passes

Free guest passes are available for the launch programme on November 4th, which will be co-hosted by the IBF’s Paul Miller and Jagesh Dattani of PricewaterhouseCoopers and highlights will include:

• A live intranet tour by Kellogg's followed by a phone-in Q&A Studio guest Shiv Singh from Avenue A Razorfish in New York
• The Intranet Doctor: He’s there to heal your intranet pain!
• A day in the life of intranet manager (Catherine Murphy, Capital One)
• The TechWatch interview with David Sacks from Yammer will look at ‘how to get business value from Twitter’

The IBF is the world’s leading intranet and portal benchmarking group and is acknowledged to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. It has more than 70 annual members globally (all household names) including the BBC, BT, Citi, HSBC, ExxonMobil, JP Morgan Chase, Kellogg's, Orange, PWC, Unilever and Bank of England. The IBF has offices in London, New York, Zurich and Sydney and recently hosted IBF 24 – 24 hours of intranet innovation online – with 700 delegates joining globally. This was the largest ever corporate gathering on the web.

For further information please contact:

Fraser Butters at Pervasive PR on +44 (0)7766 566396 or
fraser@pervasivepr.com

Or

Paul Miller at the IBF on +44 (0) 20 7435 6606 or +44 (0)7785 255883 or
paul@ibforum.com at www.ibforum.com

Intranets Forum: Knowledge Management at the Environment Agency

Free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

Environment Agency
Rio House
Waterside Drive
Aztec West
Almondsbury
Bristol
BS32 4UD

Friday 12th December 2008 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

There will be two presentations:

Making Easinet easier: making the Environment Agency's intranet work for our staff - Laura Sambrook, Interactive Content Manager

New initiatives in knowledge management in the Environment Agency - Liane
Bradbrook, Senior Systems Advisor

Tea and mince pies will be provided!

Location
Maps and travel instructions are available as a PDF. If a number of attendees can arrive at Bristol Parkway station together, collection by taxi can be arranged; when booking please indicate whether you would like this service. Please note that Rio House operates a very restricted parking system, so we can only provide spaces for disabled delegates.

Bookings
If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact: Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

Further details of the meeting are in the UKeiG members' area of the web site.

If you are not a member of UKeiG, and would like to come along to this meeting, visit the UKeiG website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html for joining details.

Don't forget the UKeiG Conference 2009 - a residential forum that provides opportunities for information and IT professionals to network, wine and dine in excellent social surroundings while catching up on the very latest developments in e-information.

'Innovations in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference' will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre from Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th June 2009 - put it in your diary now!

Intranet Governance course from UKeiG

UKeiG is running an Intranet Governance course at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE on Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30. The course will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. who has a wide experience of intranet strategy issues based on over 50 intranet projects carried out in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

Course outline
Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy.

The workshop will cover:

• Making a business case for an intranet
• Developing an intranet strategy
• Turning a strategy into an operational plan
• Creating and managing the intranet team
• Supporting the work of content authors
• Achieving intranet impact
• Developing and undertaking usability tests
• Gaining user feedback

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a template for an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will include some group work and good opportunities to share ideas and experiences.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/October/IntranetGovernance.html or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk for a booking form.

UKeiG Workshop: Intranet Governance

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will cover:

• Making a business case for an intranet
• Developing an intranet strategy
• Turning a strategy into an operational plan
• Creating and managing the intranet team
• Supporting the work of content authors
• Achieving intranet impact
• Developing and undertaking usability tests
• Gaining user feedback

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a template for an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will include some group work and good opportunities to share ideas and experiences.

Who should attend

Intranet managers who recognise that they need to develop business cases for investment in intranet staff and other resources, or who need to write corporate policy documents for intranet operations.

Course Presenter

The course will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. who has a wide experience of intranet strategy issues based on over 50 intranet projects carried out in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/October/IntranetGovernance.html or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

10 Top Tips for Marketing your Intranet

Janet Corcoran, UKeiG's Intranets Forum co-ordinator, has compiled a new UKeiG fact sheet on 10 Top Tips for Marketing your Intranet. I personally like number 10: Have some fun…and cakes! This and other fact sheets are in the member's area of the UKeiG web site.

If you have forgotten your UKeiG user name and password, please contact Karen Blakeman (karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk). If you would like to join UKeiG details are available on the UKeiG web site.

UKeiG intranets courses

You can find more information or book a place on these courses at on the UKeiG web site or by emailing meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Already know the subject inside-out? Maybe someone else in your organisation would benefit from the top quality training UKeiG provides.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

Intranet Governance
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will cover: Making a business case for an intranet; Developing an intranet strategy; Turning a strategy into an operational plan; Creating and managing the intranet team; Supporting the work of content authors; Achieving intranet impact; Developing and undertaking usability tests; Gaining user feedback.

UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement MOSS07 as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. This is often as an upgrade to SharePoint Server 2003 but also as a new application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their web site or intranet to MOSS07.

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a checklist of the key issues that need to be considered and resolved, and a list of resources on SharePoint implementation.

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering either upgrading web applications from SharePoint Server 2003 or migrating from their current content management applications to MOSS07. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Course Presenters
The course will be presented by Janus Boye http://eng.jboye.dk/ the author of the CMSWatch Enterprise Portals Report and a European authority on SharePoint. The presentation on search applications will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd.

Further details and a booking form are on the UKeiG web site.

An Intranet Masterclass with James Robertson

Intranet Focus Ltd in association with UKeiG present:

An Intranet Masterclass with James Robertson, Step Two Designs.

Date: Friday 7 March 2008, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Venue: Axa Group UK, 5 Old Broad Street, London EC1

James Robertson, Managing Director, Step Two Designs, Sydney Australia, is an intranet consultant with an international reputation. He is the author of the Intranet Roadmap, Improving Intranet Search, Staff Directories and 6x2 Methodology for Intranets reports, along with 150+ articles. He has keynoted conferences throughout the world, including USA, UK, Denmark, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Australia and New Zealand

This is his first-ever Masterclass in the UK, and during the course of the day James will share the experience he has gained in corporate, public and academic intranet projects, and through the Intranet Leadership Forum that has been very successfully established by his company.

The main topics that will be covered in this Masterclass will be:

• Managing the evolution of intranets
• Intranet innovation – critical success factors
• Establishing effective collaboration
• Improving intranet search

James will also present the lessons learned by the award winners in the 2007 Intranet Innovation Awards. The Masterclass will conclude with a Q&A session in which James will be joined by Martin White, Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd. To ensure that all delegates have an opportunity to share ideas and issues workshop places will be limited so early registration is advisable.

The registration fee will be £250 plus VAT, to include a hot lunch, refreshments and documentation. A limited number of places have been reserved for UKeiG members at the substantial discount of £195 plus VAT.

For more information and a booking form send an email with Intranet Masterclass in the Subject line to martin.white@intranetfocus.com or call 01403 267030.