3. SESSION OBJECTIVES
In this session, attendees will learn:
• How a document-centric company used a SharePoint intranet to simplify
access to corporate documents
• How a user-centric approach to search helped users to find standards,
processes and procedures documents quicker
• How this project realized:
• Quicker access to documents
• Increased confidence that it was the right document
• Reduced frustration
SESSION METAPHOR: Taming/Training Horses
4. ISSUES & RESOLUTIONS
• Content overload
• Silos creating information
• Status Quo – culture, paradigms
• Findability
• Exposing information in a different
way
• Applying Information Architecture
principles
• Faceted Search results
• Increase usage
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5. SPEAKER INFO
• Karen Lowe
• President, Lowe Technical Solutions Ltd
• Technical writer/information developer/DITA proponent & blogger
• Past Presentations:
• Society of Technical Communications (STC) Calgary chapter,
2008
• STC International Conference, 2009
• Business Analysis World, Calgary 2010