Beating the credit crunch: Preparing bids to secure additional funding

There are places still available on UKeiG's new course, Beating the credit crunch: Preparing bids to secure additional funding

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date & time: Tuesday, 30th June 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

This practical and participative one day training event is designed to provide Information professionals with an introduction to preparing bids to successfully secure additional funding. In today's economic climate and changing professional scene, your service may not have sufficient money, staff time, or expertise to support new activities. This course has been developed to help you write a compelling bid to convince potential funders to support your new endeavours.

The sessions will include:

• Defining the 'project' to be funded
• Estimating realistic budgets, resources and timetables
• Writing compelling and convincing bids
• Exploring the types of funding available, with examples

Who should attend?

This workshop will be of benefit to Information Professionals working in middle and senior management positions in public and private sector organisations who want:

• A better understanding of how to write successful bids
• More knowledge of potential funding sources
• An enthusiasm and greater confidence to bid for funding

Course Presenter - Mary Auckland

Mary is an independent consultant and trainer following a long career as a senior manager in academic libraries. She has considerable experience of producing successful bids and securing funding, and of assessing bids for bodies suck as the Joint Information Systems Committee.

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

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.

Beating the credit crunch: preparing bids to secure additional funding

A new UKeiG Course

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 30th June 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

This practical and participative one day training event is designed to provide Information professionals with an introduction to preparing bids to successfully secure additional funding. In today's economic climate and changing professional scene, your service may not have sufficient money, staff time, or expertise to support new activities. This course has been developed to help you write a compelling bid to convince potential funders to support your new endeavours.

The sessions will include

• Defining the 'project' to be funded
• Estimating realistic budgets, resources and timetables
• Writing compelling and convincing bids
• Exploring the types of funding available, with examples

Who should attend?

This workshop will be of benefit to Information Professionals working in middle and senior management positions in public and private sector organisations who want

• A better understanding of how to write successful bids
• More knowledge of potential funding sources
• An enthusiasm and greater confidence to bid for funding

Course Presenter: Mary Auckland
Mary is an independent consultant and trainer following a long career as a senior manager in academic libraries. She has considerable experience of producing successful bids and securing funding, and of assessing bids for bodies suck as the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Cost
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

To book your place please use the booking form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/June/Preparingbids.html or email Christine Baker at cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

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

Engaging with the environment: finding quality eInformation resources

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Wednesday 5th November 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

The environment is big news – almost every day there is a story about climate change, waste, a pollution incident or disappearing species. The environment is an emotive issue, and there are many opinions expressed. Where do the facts come from? This workshop will provide you with a starting point – to find authoritative sources of environmental information, help you keep up to date with what’s new and help you work your way through the diverse issues and impacts. It will help sort the wood from the trees!

The objectives of the workshop are to introduce delegates to some of the vast number of sources for environmental information.

The workshop will cover:

• Government departments and committees
• Influential groups and bodies
• News sources
• Research

This course is aimed at people who need a starting point for finding environmental information. It will also help people who need to be aware of alternative sources for this information.

Please visit www.ukeig.org.uk for more information, to register your interest in this meeting or to reserve a place; or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk