Competitive Intelligence Webinar

Getting In-Depth Competitive Intelligence on Private Companies

April 30, 1:00pm EDT.

Sponsored by:  Special Libraries Association (SLA)

More often than not disruptive innovations are born behind the walls of privately held companies. Given this how do you crack the code on these companies strategies? Additionally, how do you obtain some degree of early warning about how successful these companies might be in the future?
 
During this talk you’ll learn about a wide range of open source intelligence (OSINT) and human intelligence techniques (HUMINT) that you can use to answer the above questions.  
 
OSINT Assets – what can you learn from the web that’s meaningful and what can be aggregated to produce greater insight
 
HUMINT Assets – who should you talk to and how do you get a hold of them effectively.
 
Benchmarking –  how to acquire or interact with competitor products and services in a meaningful way
 
We’ll also close with a discussion of the ethical considerations companies face when conducting private company research as well as what is typically in and out of bounds when conducting private company oriented research efforts.
Finally all attendees will receive a copy of one of Cascade Insights’ Framework Fight Club Handbooks.  Each handbook provides a wealth of competitive intelligence frameworks that you can use to synthesize the intelligence you’ve collected.
 
Presented by Sean Campbell, Cascade Insights

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The Value of Usability Testing

Wednesday, October 24, 2:00pm EST. ($) 

Sponsor: The Florida & Caribbean Chapter of the Special Libraries Association

Learn the basic principles of usability testing and how they can be incorporated into a user-centered design process that improves the quality of your site or product. This overview will cover developing, conducting, and reporting findings from a small usability test; and will illustrate why a small test can make a big difference to your users. Our speaker is Brian Arsenault, currently Senior Web Application Engineer at the Florida State University Center for Information Management & Educational Services and coordinates on-site and remote usability testing for CIMES. Mr. Arsenault earned his MS in Library and Information Studies from FSU in 2000. 

Registration fees (pay with PayPal) 
Florida & Caribbean Chapter members: $10 
Other SLA members: $15 
Non-members: $20

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Six Sigma and Libraries

What's in your tool belt? How Six Sigma fits with Libraries

Thursday, August 23, 2:00pm EST.

 

Join Michael Kucsak, Six Sigma blackbelt, for a visual tour of how six sigma can help librarians no matter where they work or the size of their library. He will show some basic tools with which libraries can streamline their processed and generate lasting improvements. 

Free webinar sponsored by the Florida and Caribbean Chapter of SLA.

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Avoiding the Idea Graveyard

SLA webinar led by Meredith Farkas

Wednesday 3/21/2012, 3:00pm EDT.

Meredith Farkas is the Head of Instructional Services at Portland

State University and a lecturer at San Jose State University's School

of Library and Information Science. She is the author of the book

"Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication

and Community Online" (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly

column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. Meredith was

honored in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education

Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding

Communication in Library and Information Technology.

To learn more about Meredith go to:

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/about-me/

To register go to: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/523807640