The guide also includes an example Enterprise Data Taxonomy, Corporate Intranet and Business Operations Neighborhood; all in MindManager format.

The guide will be available the first or second week of January and sell for $99.  We have literally received hundreds of inquiries about this and expect to be slammed with orders.  As a result, we have decided to start preordering now.  If you preorder before December 31st, we will give you $20 off the list price and you will be slated for first delivery.

Please note, we are currently experiencing problems with the shopping cart on the SharePoint Intranet Guides site; thus we will not be using it for preorders.  For the time being, all preorders will be processed through another service we use.  This service is typically used to register students for our classes; however, it will suit our needs here just fine!

Order Your Copy Today!

This 5-day virtual course, taken from the comfort of your desk, will help you realize what is possible with Microsoft SharePoint. If you are currently in the process of creating a new Intranet or struggling with findability, usability and end-user adoption/trust, this course will help you overcome all of these areas.

After taking this course you will:

• Have a clear understanding of what Information Neighborhoods, Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies are.
• Have a clear understanding of how enterprise search works and how to tune your implementation to consistently return relevant results.
• Understand SharePoint Governance and why it is so important for adoption, findability, trustability and “Single Source of Truth”.
• Gain confidence in your ability to successfully architect solutions that will be adopted by users.
• More…

This course is accompanied by labs each day; you will be provided with a lab environment. In these labs, you will have the opportunity to architect and build an Intranet solution that demonstrates all aspects of this course:

• Data, content contribution, site, navigation, topical and functional taxonomies.
• Search tuning through scope, keyword, best bet and faceted filtering.
• Applying Information Management policies and workflow to support SharePoint Governance.
• More…

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to spend a week with Bob Mixon and learn the secrets to SharePoint Information Architecture; Register Now!

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