11:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern time (8:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific)
In this nuts-and-bolts series, you will learn how to plan for, implement, and customize SharePoint search and navigation. In addition to viewing each task step-by-step, you'll be able to download helpful reference documents and ask specific questions about your application in a small group setting. While the focus is on the current version, we also preview new features coming in SharePoint 2010 — Boolean queries, the "refinement panel," topic hierarchies, and tagging.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of the seminar, you should be able to:
Plan a SharePoint search system architecture that serves the needs of both enterprise and team search;
Create a content infrastructure compatible with SharePoint search;
Customize the behavior and "look and feel" of SharePoint search;
Create a site navigation system for SharePoint sites and sub sites;
Add and use custom metadata elements;
Evaluate strategies for integrating external metadata repositories.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR This seminar is designed for Web site publishers, content owners, knowledge
managers, technical writers, e-commerce managers, editors and others who
want to learn how to enhance the SharePoint search and navigation system.
SEMINAR FORMAT The seminar is conducted via teleconference. You can download and view the presentations and handouts (over 400 slides) on your own computer.
Day 1 (April 14, 2010)
Section 1: Introduction to the SharePoint search system
• Search engines vs. search systems
• SharePoint search options
• SharePoint search & navigation features
Section 2: Planning & governance
• Planning & governance
• Search system components
• Where to store content
Section 3: Basic customization
• SharePoint search administrative interfaces
• How to set up sites & sub sites
• How to create & crawl content sources
Day 2 (April 15, 2010)
Section 4: Basic customization (continued)
• How to create and use search scopes
• How to customize the search results pages
• How to use keywords and "Best Bets"
• How to add and map metadata elements ("managed properties")
Section 5: Web parts & relevancy
• Adding and customizing search system Web parts
• How SharePoint determines relevancy
Day 3 (April 16, 2010)
Section 6: Site navigation
• SharePoint site navigation features
• How to customize navigation
Section 7: Content creation templates
• Will authors add metadata: two views pro and con
• How to create new authoring templates ("content types")
Section 8: Metadata management
• Three approaches to managing and integrating metadata
Section 9: Other issues
• Multi-lingual search & navigation
• Audiences
• Integration with Office and Internet Explorer
• How to assess and improve search system performance
• Full text search vs. subject browse & topic indexes
INSTRUCTOR
Jean Graef is a "boundary spanner"
with an interdisciplinary background as a manager, entrepreneur, librarian,
programmer, and journalist. She has been developing and conducting seminars
on cutting edge information topics since the early 1980's.
DATE & TIME
April 14 - 16, 2010 via teleconference. 11:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern (8:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific).
COST $1,450 per person (nonmembers), $1,200 per person
(members of the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers).
Additional people from the same team can attend for $1,025 per person (includes Society membership). The fee includes step-by-step instructional materials, bibliography, and downloadable handouts that we've found to be especially useful.
HOW TO REGISTER To register, call (423) 968-5584 to request a pro forma invoice
or provide credit card details (we accept Visa, MasterCard, American
Express, Diners Club, and Discover). Regardless of method, we must receive payment prior to the event.
Created on December 5, 2007 |
Modified on
January 25, 2010
