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Web Content SIG
Previous Meetings
| Date |
Meeting
Topics and Presenter or Process |
| July 14, 2004 |
Top 10 Tips for Better Search Results: Improving the Presentation and Usefulness of Your Website
by Miles Kehoe, CEO of New Idea Engineering, offers practical tips for tuning and configuring the presentation
of results from your enterprise search engine so that visitors and employees are quickly and easily able to
access the best documents for their needs.
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| Tuesday, July 30th |
Lorem
Ipsum Is Not Content!
Roundtable discussion of whether and why Web developers,
graphic designers, writers and editors need to learn
enough about each other's roles to make the process
more synergistic and Web sites more effective. How
can this SIG help? Also: Discussion of topics,
presenters and the priorities for the SIG. |
Tuesday,
August 27, 2002 |
Let's
Be Perfectly Clear about This: Job Titles, Roles and
Requirements for Web Content People
This was a working meeting to come up with recommendations
for clearer, more consistent job descriptions for
commonly used and emerging job titles for people involved
in developing and producing Web content. |
Tuesday,
September 24, 2002
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Content Critiques
of Award-Winning Sites
The group analyzed the content organization,
labeling, copy and images on three award-winning sites, then
discussed what makes these sites effective and
what might make them even better. SIG members
used the online discussion group at Topica to submit & chose sites.
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Wednesday,
October 30, 2002
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Information Architecture
and Strategy
Presented by the co-author of the definitive book
about information architecture, Peter Morville.
Amazon named the first edition of the book he wrote
with Louis Rosenfeld, Information Architecture
for the World Wide Web, The Best Internet Book
of 1998, and usability guru Jakob Nielsen called it
"The most useful book on Web design on the market."
O'Reilly published the updated, expanded second edition
in late August 2002. Morville will explain:
- Why you can't simply adopt best
practices and copy your competitors.
- How the labels and categories
on your Web site and intranet embody corporate decisions
about your company's identity and strategic direction.
- How to integrate taxonomies and
controlled vocabularies with automated classification,
content management, and search engine technologies
to create powerful, adaptive solutions.
- How to leverage your organization's
information architecture to achieve an invisible
competitive advantage.
Presenter: Peter Morville, President,
Semantic Studios, and co-author of Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web. An internationally
distinguished speaker, Peter's work has been featured
in numerous prestigious publications, including
Business Week, Fortune, MSNBC and the Wall
Street Journal. You can read his full
bio here. |
Tuesday,
November 26th
6:30 - 8:30 pm |
2003 Hiring
and Earnings Forecast for Web Content Pros
Jobs, contracts, pay trends, which industries are
hiring and which are not likely to for a while.
Presenter: Margaret Steen, Careers reporter
for the San Jose Mercury News. |
Wednesday,
December 11th, 2002
General WebGuild meeting |
What Designers
and Writers Need to Know about Web Technology,
co-sponsored by the Silicon Valley WebGuild and the
Graphic Artists Guild of Northern California
Panel discussion. |
Thursday,
March 20, 2003
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Safari Bookshelf
A presentation and online demonstration from Web Content SIG
member Chris Anderson on O'Reilly's amazing
Safari Bookshelf. The Bookshelf is an online electronic reference library for
programmers, IT and Web professionals. (http://safari.oreilly.com).
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Thursday,
April 17, 2003
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Content Management Systems
Ric Medina of Red Dot Software,a leading provider of content management solutions for web sites, intranets and extranets,
presented an overview of the content management sytem marketplace,
discussed differences between content and document managment systems
and demonstrated real world case studies. (http://www.reddot.com).
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Thursday,
May 15, 2003
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Application of Site Design Principles
Douglas van Duyne, conducted a hands-on workshop of how
to go about applying the principles laid out in the "Design of Sites" to specific Web design issues. Mr. van Duyne is the
president, chief executive officer, and cofounder of NetRaker Corporation,
a leading provider of customer experience management solutions.
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