9 January 2003

In this aliaNEWS broadcast:

Information Online 2003 - special broadcast

Moving up the value-chain workshop

Savvy net searching seminars

Online research for competitive intelligence

Breakfast with super searchers

Conference dinner

Turning the light bulbs on

Biggest online exhibition ever in Hall 5

Festival of Sydney and the Long Weekend In Sydney

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Information Online 2003 - special broadcast
Information Online 2003 is nearly here! Here are some great opportunities for you to network, learn and have some fun at the 11th Information Online Conference, Darling Harbour,Sydney 20-24 January 2003. Full program http://conferences.alia.org.au/online2003/.

Moving up the value-chain workshop
Mary Ellen Bates, Maree Lipschitz and Elizabeth Swan present a workshop from 9:00am-5:00pm Monday 20 January. This workshop is about: ensuring your role as an information professional is appreciated by your management; making your unique skills as information professionals highly visible; embracing new opportunities to take an increasingly valuable role in your organisation; case studies illustrating different approaches and outcomes; what you need to do to protect the information services you provide - and more! For a registration form/flier e-mail to: infoedge@ozemail.com.au or ph 02 9371 0300.

Savvy net searching seminars
Chris Sherman. Monday 20 January Metcalfe Auditorium State Library of NSW: Librarians, technicians and teacher librarians must be expert internet searchers to help clients. Learn from a world expert! $95 per half day - $175 for full day. Session A: How Search Engines Think. Search engines are like people - with unique strengths and weaknesses. Includes specialty search engines and spotting 'paid placement' links and more. Session B: Search Engine Technology: Getting under the Hood - the technicalities of how the major search engines process queries. Contact Information Edge, ph 02 9371 0300 or e-mail: infoedge@ozemail.com.au to register.

Online research for competitive intelligence
Amelia Kassel, the author of 'Super Searchers on Wall Street', will share her knowledge of: the rich global sites for Competitive Intelligence; getting the best from web search engines; traps for the unwary; what are the alternatives. Monday afternoon (2:00pm-5:00pm) 20 January Darling Harbour. For registration e-mail Haydn Brakell Conference Action: haydn@conferenceaction.com.au or ph 02 9437 9333.

Breakfast with super searchers
Co-sponsored by Information Today and the Information Specialists Group. Wednesday morning (7:30am-8:45am) 22 January. For anyone registered to attend Information Online on 22nd January, this breakfast is included in your registration fees but YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND IT so that we can manage the catering. We already have nearly 500 people registered for this entertaining breakfast, but so if you are registered to attend the conference on 22 January and wish to attend the breakfast but have not yet registered for the breakfast, please e-mail Haydn Brakell at Conference Action: haydn@conferenceaction.com.au.

Conference dinner
Sponsored by Thomson, 6:30pm-11:30pm Wednesday 22 January. You don't have to be a delegate to attend this fabulous dinner with colleagues, speakers and exhibitors. You do need to purchase a ticket ($100) in advance so catering can be managed. This will entitle you to pre-dinner drinks, fabulous food and wine, great music by the Enormous Horns and other entertainments. For a dinner ticket, e-mail Haydn Brakell at Conference Action: haydn@conferenceaction.com.au.

Turning the light bulbs on
A seminar on how to find, package and distribute ideas for knowledge, innovation, productivity and business success. Sydney Convention Centre, 9:00am-5:00pm, Friday 24 January 2003. Dr Donald Hawkins of Information Today Inc and several local experts on information alert services, user profiling, intelligence systems, using MS Access to streamline processes, content management, e-content sources, Australian KM standard update and other issues. Information Edge, Inmagic, Factiva case studies. Further details and registration: http://www.twf.org.au or contact Paul Bentley ph 02 9387 7307, fx 02 9386 4259, e-mail pbentley@idx.com.au.

Biggest online exhibition ever in Hall 5
The FREE exhibition is the biggest ever - 120 booths of products and services on display by online and print publishers, databases and distributors, library software suppliers, and other vendors. Free twenty-minute product reviews will be held in the exhibition theatrette. Internet tips and tricks will be held at lunch times in the theatrette. Celebrity surfers will be in the Internet Lounge. The exhibition is open 21-23 January.

Festival of Sydney and the Long Weekend In Sydney
Those who want to combine business with pleasure by attending the full conference 20-24 January, or maybe the final day of the conference and exhibition on Thursday and one of the satellite workshops on Friday, can then relax in Sydney during the Australia Day long weekend and attend the final days of the Festival of Sydney attractions include the New Year's Eve-style fireworks display on Sydney Harbour, London Sinfonietta. Picasso the Last Decades and William Robinson exhibitions. Further details: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au.

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