I will be teaching Mindsharp's 3-day course on how to Organize Information in SharePoint, February 21-23. You can attend in-person here at our offices in Minneapolis or attend online. If you are responsible for managing content in SharePoint, then this class is for you.

Here is the course syllabus:

Module 0: Overview of SharePoint Server 2010's Information Management Capabilities and Current Issues in Information Management

• Provides an overview of what is covered in this seminar including an Executive Overview of SharePoint's Information Management capabilities.
• Discussion of the value of information in business
• Learn about the Business Reference Architecture, ECM Reference Architecture and how SharePoint Server 2010 supports both architectures
• Learn about the different levels of information
• Learn about the generational differences in approaches to information
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 1: Collaboration for Business Users

• Understanding what collaboration is
• Current issues in collaboration
• Understanding the costs and benefits tan organization for using collaboration technologies
• Discussion on Social Media, it's use in the corporate setting and current issues in case law
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 2: Understanding How to Build an Information Architecture and an Information Design with SharePoint Server 2010 in Mind

• Brief overview of information architecture and information design
• Understanding how SharePoint's technical architecture impacts the development of the Information Architecture and Design:
  • Web Applications
  • Database Sizing
  • URL Taxonomies (includes Managed Paths)
  • Site Collection Design
  • Single or Multi-Farm Deployments
• Learn a "to-the-point" methodology for implementing your Information Architecture and Design in SharePoint
• Discussion of current research on how SharePoint and ECM systems are working together
• Discussion of the opportunity costs of living with an inefficient information management system
• Costs of living with Information Overload
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 3: Putability: Learning How to Put Quality Information into the SharePoint System

• Introduction to Putability
• Discussion of the following topics:
  • Tagging responsibilities
  • Reasons users don't tag content
• Introduction to the putability technologies in SharePoint
  • Content types
  • Managed Metadata Service
  • Site columns
  • Uploading documents
  • Social network tags, notes and posts in SharePoint
  • Business Connectivity Services
• Demonstrations of the putability technologies in SharePoint
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 4: Findability: Learning How to Pull Quality Information out of the SharePoint System

• Introduction to Findability
• Understanding the current research on Findability
• Introduction to the findability technologies in SharePoint
  • Crawled and Managed Properties
  • Search Scopes
  • Content Sources
  • Federated Search
  • Customizing the Advanced Search Web Part
  • In-Browser navigation customizations
  • Metadata navigation
  • Working with RSS
  • Working with Dataview Web Part\
  • Tagging lists and sites
• Demonstrations of the findability technologies in SharePoint
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 5: Organizing Information in SharePoint Server 2010

• Understanding how documents and content items can be organized in SharePoint
• Understanding the architecture of records management in SharePoint
• Understanding the technologies that support information organization in SharePoint
  • Document Information Panel (DIP)
  • Advanced properties in the content types
  • Routing records to a Records Center (content routing)
  • In-Place records
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 6: People: Organizing and Finding Expertise

• Understanding user profiles and My Sites in SharePoint 2010
• Learning how to customize the metadata for user profiles
• Understanding how to find expertise in the SharePoint 2010 system
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 7: Making some information NOT Findable

• E-Discovery and SharePoint
• Data breaches and SharePoint
• Understanding the limits of what SharePoint can reasonably do
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 8: Integrating SharePoint with Other ECM Systems

• Differentiation between data integration and application integration
• Understanding the various methods of integrating SharePoint with other ECM systems
• Understanding when SharePoint should not integrate with other ECM systems
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Module 9: Social Media and SharePoint

• Understanding the current legal issues in social media
• Understanding the differences between internet-based social media and SharePoint's social media features
• Discussion of how social media might "fit" into your environment
• Best and Worst Practices plus Trade-off Decisions

Bill English, CEO
Mindsharp