Profile: Martin White

Martin is the Managing Director of Intranet Focus. He has over 30 years experience in information management, publishing and consulting roles. Prior to setting up Intranet Focus Ltd. in 1999 he held senior management positions in Reed Publishing, International Data Corporation and Logica.

Martin consults on the design and management of intranets and extranets, and the specification, selection and implementation of intranet content management systems, and has presented workshops on these subjects in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Martin is a Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, a Past-President of the Institute of Information Scientists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Martin is the author of The Content Management Handbook, the recently published Enterprise Search Guidebook and is the Chairman of the Online Information Conference and a regular columnist on intranet issues for both Econtent and Intranets. Later this year he is presenting a seminar on intranet search at the Nielsen Norman User Experience workshops in Boston and London.

He is an information scientist by profession, and is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Keynote: The Eureka factor - linking content management with information retrieval

Thursday, November 10th, 9.15

Although there has been considerable interest in using content management software to add content to an intranet, less attention has been paid to information retrieval. The problem is usually that there is an enterprise search requirement across document and records management applications as well as the intranet itself. In addition, search should not be conducted in isolation but as part of an overall 'findability' strategy.

This keynote presentation sets out the steps that should be followed to determine intranet and enterprise search requirements as a component of a findability strategy, develop specification and then evaluate, select and implement a search solution. A brief overview of the enterprise search engine market is included.

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Tutorial: Enhancing the value of your intranet

Tuesday, November 8th, 9.00

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Panels:

Martin is moderating the intranet panel.

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