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SMW+ free webinars
Learn what SMW+ can do for you and your user community by watching our convenient free webinars
In each session, we provide insight, tips, and methodologies for using the power of SMW+ and Halo Extension to transform the way you work, engage customers, and go to market.
What is needed to join in the webinars?
To attend a meeting on a PC, the following is required:
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or newer, Safari 3.0 or newer (JavaScript and Java enabled)
- Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
1 hour prior each webinar we will publish a link you need to follow in order to join in the webinar (no registration needed) (we are using "GoToMeeting", ref. GoToMeeting web site).
Schedule of webinars
| Session 1: Using SMW+ for project management |
| This session gives an introduction into common project management challenges when setting up a typical project and explains how employing SMW+ reduces the risk of a bad project start.
You will see SMW+ capabilities to enable your project community (i.e. team) to collaboratively collect and formalise the risk inventory of a project and how to use this work result in a formal project deliverable. We cover the following SMW+ features:
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See the recorded session here: | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |
| Session 2: Managing your project with SMW+ |
| In this session you will learn how to employ SMW+ to efficiently manage your project and how SMW+ helps motivating your team members to actively collaborate.
We cover the following SMW+ features:
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See the recorded session here: | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |
| Session 3: Content management features of SMW+ |
| This session guides you through the various features to enter and to publish rich text in wiki articles, how to upload and tag documents and files. Further
you will learn how to efficiently search for articles using the powerful search engine and how to get notified for changes in articles. We cover:
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| Scheduled for: Intended audience: Philipp Zaltenbach |
| Session 4: Basic semantic features of SMW+ |
| Unlike traditional wiki engines, SMW+ allows your user community to adjust the data model as they are using it. Alongside with the semantic tagging and query capabilities, this feature turns your wiki from a text vault to a readable knowledge base. In this section you will see how to exploit the semantic capabilities to improve the efficiency of your community.
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See the recorded session here: | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |
| Session 5: Including external data coming from web services into articles |
| Deploying SMW+ in a corporate environment requires attaching external data sources to provide the user community with uptodate data. We present here how to easily attach web services to an SMW+ installation and how your community can collaborate on the provided data.
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| Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |
| Session 6: Importing external data and generating wiki articles from data |
| When introducing SMW+ to a corporate community then legacy data can be easily imported and used to generate article for re-use in the new working environment (for example vocabularies or taxonomies). In this session we are demonstrating how to easily prepare a data source and how to migrate it into SMW+.
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Attend webinar: Click https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/196562034 to join the webinar. | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Philipp Zaltenbach |
| Session 7: Maintaining the knowledgebase sitting in SMW+ |
| A community using SMW+ is generating a readable knowledge base. To gradually increase the quality of the knowledge base SMW+ provides various means which are demonstrated in this session.
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Attend webinar: Link will be published here 1 hour prior | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Philipp Zaltenbach |
| Session 8: Advanced semantic features in SMW+ (a.k.a. how to use a reasoning engine) |
| SMW+ is a full fletched collaborative knowledge management system providing state-of-the-art technology and standards. We present here how to use this technology for advanced semantic tagging (like symmetric, inverse and transitive relationships) and how to use SMW+' reasoning engine for exploiting this tags for the benefit of your community.
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Attend webinar: Link will be published here 1 hour prior | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |
| Session 9: Basic wiki text programming for customizing your SMW+ installation |
| Needs of a community towards their tools are changing as they are adjusting their daily work routine to the needs of the market. You will learn here how easy it is for your user group to adjust the data model while they are using it and to create templates and forms for appealing wiki-articles and easy data-entry.
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Attend webinar: Link will be published here 1 hour prior | Scheduled for: Intended audience: Daniel Hansch |





