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Workshops - All New For 2010!

Power Searching with the Pros is a two-day intensive workshop spotlighting the tips and techniques used by Super Searchers, designed to take your searching skills to world-class levels. Live demonstrations highlight techniques that can either lead to superlative results -- or information disasters.

Web Search Pacific offers both public and customised private workshops. As in past years, our 2010 program consists of two days. Delegates may choose to attend either Day 1 or Day 2 or both days. The two days form an integrated program together but can be attended individually.

Power Searching with the Pros 2010 - Day 1
It's All About Search

Web Search Update 2010
The past year has been one of major change in the web search universe. What are these changes and how will they affect you? How can you take maximum advantage of new features and services? What new innovations are hidden away and how can you access them? What's coming in the future? This session offers a broad overview of the state of search. Chris Sherman, whose long established relationships with search engine companies, offers insight to what to expect in 2011.

Exploring Search Power Tools
Whether you use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or another browser, there are dozens of specialised tools available that can help you speed up your searching, uncover new and valuable information sources and more. This session shows you where to find these browser-based and standalone tools and how to install and use them.

Parting The Veil: The Hidden Features Of Google and Yahoo
All of the leading search engines offer more than just you see in their Advanced Search pages. This session covers the newest, hidden power search tools in Google and Yahoo. These techniques will enable you to search in ways you never could before and mine the web for unexpected intelligence.

Searching The Social Web
How do you tap into the new information resources available such as social networking services, wikis, podcasts, micro-blogging, and live streaming media? This session provides tips and tools for making the best use of the new information mining tools available.

Power Searching with the Pros 2010 - Day 2
Beyond Google: Discovering Insights Through The Net

Maps: The New Information Visualisation Power Tools
Online maps first emerged to help people get directions and navigate in the offline world. Increasingly, maps are being enhanced with other types of information, such as historical images, current events and news, academic course materials, merchant product inventory and more. This session focuses on how maps can be used to provide a rich alternative interface for searchers seeking a wide variety of information.

Multimedia: Not Just For Entertainment Any More
We're all familiar with streaming music, goofy YouTube videos and other types of multimedia entertainment. But more and more high quality content, academic lectures and courseware, research findings and more are being made available in multimedia format on the web. This session offers a look at the tools and multimedia repositories that offer the best resources for librarians and info pros.

When Searching Isn't Enough: Adding Value To Results
To fully demonstrate our value, information professionals must think beyond “merely” finding the best information. Now we must also deliver insight, analysis, and other added value. Maybe it's text, or charts and graphs, or slideshows. Maybe it’s helping to visualise data. This session will show how you can make yourself invaluable to your organization by becoming an information asset.

Getting Social: Building Your Online “Brand”
Facebook, Twitter, blogging and other social media aren’t just for searching. You can use them to help build and enhance your library’s or information centre’s presence on the social web. This session looks at how info pros can make use of the social web to build both their library’s and their own professional networks, establish their credibility and create a brand that communicates the value info pros provide.

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Customised Private Workshops

In addition to our scheduled public workshops, Web Search Pacific offers customised workshops developed for your organisation or group. These workshops are particularly useful for organisations that need a secure and confidential environment in which to discuss specific research or information management concerns. Custom workshops are also useful for groups that need staff training developed specifically for the needs and expertise level of their employees.

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