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!

As you may know, Black Blade recently launched the docBlock Ascend for SharePoint.  A groundbreaking appliance, the docBlock Ascend provides:

• Concurrent authoring: Multiple authors can edit the same virtual document at the same time.
• Granular governance: Apply permissions, version control, and change management policies to individual sections of documents.
• Per-section alerts: Workflows, alerts, and event receivers can now act on individual document sections.
•  Fine-grained discovery: Use metadata, tagging, and search configuration to return whole documents or relevant portions of documents.
• Low bandwidth support: Users no longer need to download or upload an entire document, only the parts in which they are interested.
• Cloud compatible: The docBlock Ascend appliances automatically scale, load-balance, and failover for large enterprise, hosting, or cloud computing solutions.

The current economy has made it challenging for many organizations to gain a competitive edge while keeping costs down.  We understand this, so I have authorized significant purchase incentives to all of our customers as our way of saying that we want to help during these tough times.

For a limited time we are offering the following incentives to our customers:

• 25% off of docBlock Ascend orders received by November 15^th, 2009.
• Free shipping on orders received by November 15^th, 2009.

This is in addition to what comes standard with every docBlock Ascend:

• A 30 day money back guarantee.
• A one year full replacement warranty.

The docBlock Ascend can directly benefit your bottom line by increasing efficiency and decreasing the costs for your enterprise content management.  Use the current business challenges to your advantage, and get a leg up on the competition as the economy recovers. 

We run two online webinar demonstrations a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm EST.  Contact us at sales@blackbladeinc.com, visit us at www.blackbladeinc.com, or call us at +1-703-260-1111 for more information.