Content and Information Management Courses
Bob is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington
Information School. He taught full time at the school for four years. During
that time he developed an outstanding reputation for dynamic, highly focused
and extremely practical courses in all aspects of content and information
management.
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Bob has gathered
hundreds of hours of live course video presentations and other course materials
from a range of courses. You are welcome to view and use these materials for
your own education, but if you present them to others, you must obtain prior
permission from Metatorial Services. (View
a sample video presentation.) Some of the presentations are also
listed in the whitepapers and
presentations page of this site.
Introduction to Content
Management
This is a series of three courses taught to industry
professionals (from Microsoft, Boeing, and many other local organizations) as
well as to graduate students in information science. The aim of the series is
to help you become a "player" in the content management discipline. A player is
someone who would be trusted to lead some or all of a CM initiative. The three
courses cover the three main areas in which you must gain proficiency to be a
player: knowledge of the concepts of CM and how to put them into practice
within an organization, the ability to analyze an organization's requirements
for CM and to be able to construct a general design for a CMS, and knowledge of
the machinery of CM and how the parts of a CMS fit together.
This is a course taught to graduate students in
information management. In it, we cover:
- How to discover and frame
a strategic information initiative.
- How to get the organization behind
your initiative.
- How to work through the information needs and
available assets for the initiative.
- How to work through the
technology for the initiative.
As a management
class, we keep our focus firmly on the process behind these initiatives rather
than on creating actual deliverables.
Information System Design (
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This is a course in user centered system design for
undergraduate information management students. In it, we practice a set of
methods that take you from a person's needs to the user interface of an
information system she will value. In particular, we cover these subjects:
- The idea of design: What it means and how you might do it.
- People: How you understand and serve them with your system.
- Information: How you design a structure that is understandable and
useful.
- Tasks: How to choose and model activities and
interactions.
- Systems: How to design and test the user interface.
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