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The Squiz International User Conference for 2010 is being presented in an exciting new 3 day format allowing delegates to pick and choose the days and or sessions they want to attend. Over the course of the conference there will be cocktail receptions, a gala dinner and plenty of opportunities to socialise and network with colleagues.
Day 1 The Squiz International User Conference focuses on Squiz CMS solutions including virtualisation, analytics, accessibility, scalability, distributed authoring and social networking. The day finishes with drinks, canapés and the Features Bazaar followed by an asian fusion gala dinner at the famous Red Spice Road Restaurant.
| 9.00am | Opening Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia |
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| 9.15am | 10 Ways to Measure Your Success Online !! Presenter: Jeff Yang - E-Web Marketing |
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| 10.00am | Web 2.0 is the answer, but are you asking the right questions?
Presenter: Sarah Boyd - Stamford Interactive |
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| 10.30am | Morning Break | ||
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| 11.00am | Intranet Issues Presenter: Andrew Dickson & Maria Greenwood - The Spastic Centre |
Online Marketing Presenter: Jaco Swart Tait Radio Communications NZ |
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| 11.30am | Steady Progress - DIIRD & Matrix Presenter: Wendy Pryor DIIRD (Victorian Government) |
System Integration Presenter: Tim Roberts Australian Catholic University |
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| 12.00pm | Matrix in a Multi-Brand Business Presenter: Kim Wingerei M2 Telecom |
Collaboration Presenter:Jill Edwards Australasian Fire Authorities Council |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch - 60 minutes | ||
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| 1.30pm | Semantically Related Content
Presenter: Julian Taverner CPIT - NZ |
Integration Presenter: Ros Prasad Holmesglen Institute |
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| 2.00pm | Distributed Authoring Presenter: Deb Webb Selwyn District Council NZ |
Successful Design Delivery Presenter: Jill Sergeant Aust. Federation of AIDS Organisation |
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| 2.30pm | Business Application Development Presenter:Jaco Roeloffs G.James Australia Pty Ltd |
Collaboration - Mission Impossible Presenter: Sean Lee & Kyle Chadwick Dunedin City Council |
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| 3.00pm | Afternoon Break - 30 minutes | ||
| 3.30pm | Open Source Creates Better Software Presenter: Paul Took - Red Hat Australia |
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| 4.00pm | Squiz Suite "Sneak Peek" Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia |
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| 4.30pm | Close Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia | ||
| Drinks & Canapés | |||
| 5.30pm | Conference Venue - Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne | ||
| 6.15pm | Squiz Community Announcement | ||
| Gala Dinner | |||
| 7.15pm | Coach departs for Restaurant Thai Restaurant - Red Spice Road www.redspiceroad.com |
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| 10.30pm | Coach departs restaurant to return to Sebel; Albert Park (Conference Venue) | ||
Day 2 Comprises of 2 sessions of Squiz CMS training and 2 sessions of Funnelback search engine technology training. In the Squiz sessions learn how to get the most out of the world’s most flexible CMS with modules on Squiz Analytics, Squiz Easy Edit Suite (EES), Squiz Search, W3C Mobile Design, Flexibility, Mashups and Web 2.0 Personalisation.
| Morning Session #2 (lunch included) | |||
| 8.30am | 2.1 Easy Edit Suite How to get the most out of the new Squiz CMS Easy Edit Suite |
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| 10.00am | Morning Break | ||
| 10.30am | 2.2 W3C Mobile Design Development of the Squiz mobile design and switching designs in Matrix |
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| 11.30am | 2.3 Squiz Matrix Funnelback Package Discover how to optimise your Matrix search capacity |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch - 60 minutes | ||
| Afternoon Session #3 (lunch included) | |||
| 1.30pm | Squiz CMS Get the most out of the new Squiz CMS by sharing content with Matrix |
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| 2.15pm | 3.2 Mashups Learn how to manage large amounts of content, optimise back-end structures and use customisations wisely - e.g. CSU implementation |
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| 3.00pm | Afternoon Break - 30 minutes | ||
| 3.30pm | 3.3 Squiz Analytics Analytics - Small Tweaks and Giant Leaps |
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| 4.15pm | 3.4 Open Discussion Questions to be submitted via email prior to training day |
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| 5.00pm | Close | ||
Day 2 Comprises of 2 sessions of Squiz training and 2 sessions of Funnelback search engine technology training. Funnelback training delegates can choose between an Intermediate and/or an Advanced "hands to keyboard" session, class sizes will be small, allowing intensive learning outcomes to be gained.
| Intermediate Funnelback Training Session #4 (lunch included) | |||
| 9.00am | Opening | ||
| 9.05am | Introduction to Funnelback Concepts | ||
| 9.30am | Exercise 1: Creating and configuring a web collection |
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| 9.45am | User Interface (search form) customisation | ||
| 10.10am | Exercise 2: Customise your search form |
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| 10.30am | Morning Break | ||
| 11.00am | Contextual and faceted navigation | ||
| 11.20am | Exercise 3: Implementing contextual and faceted navigation |
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| 11.40am | Using the Funnelback toolbox to improve your search | ||
| 11.55am | Optimising your website for search - metadata | ||
| 12.15am | Exercise 4: Using metadata in your search |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch - 60 minutes | ||
| Advanced Funnelback Training Session #5 (lunch included) | |||
| 1.30pm | Opening | ||
| 1.35pm | Advanced form customisation (extended search tags, customise results, searching metadata and other features) |
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| 2.15pm | Exercise 1: Advanced form customisation |
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| 3.00pm | Afternoon Break - 30 minutes | ||
| 3.30pm | Overview of enterprise functionality (database, file share, TRIM) | ||
| 4.00pm | Exercise 2: Create database, filecopy and meta collections |
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| 4.30pm | Q & A session ask us your burning questions! (burning questions may be submitted via email prior to training day). |
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| 5.00pm | Close | ||
Day 3 The Funnelback conference focuses on its world class enterprise search solutions. The day concludes with canapés and drinks at the venue.
| 9.00am | Opening and Funnelback Update Stuart Beil, Executive Director |
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| 9.15am | Case Study: London School of Economics and Political Science Stephen Emmott, Head of Web Services |
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| 10.00am | Case Study: APN News and Media Hugh Martin, General Manager |
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| 10.30am | Morning Break | |
| 11.00am | Funnelback Reasearch Update Dr. David Hawking, Chief Scientist |
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| 11.30am | Case Study: NSW Department of Health Richard Monk, Manager Multi Media Channels |
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| 12.00pm | TBA Presenter TBA |
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| 12.30pm | Lunch - 60 minutes | |
| 1.30pm | Case Study: Civil Aviation Safety Authority Suzette Bailey, Section Head, Strategic Information Management Governance Section, KIMS |
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| 2.00pm | Search, Accessibility and Web 2.0 Presenter TBA |
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| 2.30pm | AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office) Peter Alexander, Branch Manager, Online Service Point Branch, Department of Finance and Deregulation |
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| 3.00pm | Afternoon Break - 30 minutes | |
| 3.30pm | Introducing Funnelback 10 Matt Sheppard, Manager (Acting), Research & Development |
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| Drinks & Canapés | ||
| 5.30pm | Close | |
