UKeiG Training Courses in 2010
In times of economic constraints it is essential that information professionals keep their skills and those of their team up to date. Finding training programmes that meet your needs and your budgets can be difficult. UKeiG prides itself on delivering quality, practical training meetings the needs of its members. 2010 promises to bring new courses onstream which match our members needs, and to continue with some old favourites which have been brought right up to date. Courses include:
• That's a great idea : but how are we going to pay for it! : preparing bids to secure additional funding
• Are you twittering on your Mashups? Staying ahead of the game using Web 2.0
• Dealing with Information Obesity: becoming lean and keen
• Choosing a search engine for websites and intranets
• Developing and Exploiting e-Book Collections
• Counting on Statistics for Market Research : finding, evaluating and using resources
• Shaking up SharePoint
• Picture this : Image Management for the Information Manager
The UKeiG AGM and Annual Seminar will take place on Wednesday 16 June 2010 at SOAS, London. So book the date in your diary now. Using the theme of “Are you leading or following: practical implementation of open-source applications”, the session will consider issues around the latest developments in open source, including sharing, shaping and reusing data across applications, enterprise and community boundaries. How do Information professionals take their organisations forward using open- source applications and relaying the benefits, whilst at the same time keep track of additional skills needed, internal barriers to be overcome (firewalls, culture change, etc) and the challenge to the traditional business procurement models?. The seminar will consider these issues, and more, providing case studies as appropriate to ensure the information professionals can lead their organisation through the maze of open source and communicate with potential users the whats, hows and the whys of open source.
If anyone has other suggestions for courses, or would like to support the training programme, please do get in touch.
Tracy Kent, UKeiG training co-ordinator (t.k.kent@bham.ac.uk)
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