[Sigkm-l] Call for Speakers: Earley & Associates Insurance & Content Management Jumpstart Series

[Rebecca Allen]

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: 

Earley & Associates Fall 2009 Jumpstart Series - "Optimizing Insurance Business Processes through Effective Content Management"

About Earley & Associates and the Jumpstart Series: 
Earley & Associates (www.earley.com) is a consulting and analyst firm specializing in content and search processes. For the past 5 years, the organization has been running periodic educational conference calls for the industry. These are not sales or marketing focused, but purely educational. They do this to learn about and share best practices and maintain their position as thought leaders in their field. As a result, the series are very well attended, and typically average around 3-400 attendees per session (although numbers of up to 900 have been achieved beforehand). The audience members are primarily practitioners in the field looking to learn best practices and hear leading edge case studies on topics such as content management, taxonomies, knowledge management, and more. 

About the Fall 2009 Series: 
The Fall 2009 series represents the first time the Series has been focused on a specific industry rather than broader topics. Insurance is one of the classic industries where good Content Management can make really massive impacts, and as such, we're dedicating the Fall series to exploring "Optimizing Insurance Business Processes through Effective Content Management". 

This will be a four part series starting on September 24th and continuing on Oct 1st, and October 8th, before the final session on October 15th.  Each session addresses various aspects of the topic (Draft session descriptions can be found at: http://www.earley.com/webinars/jumpstarts/insurance-and-content-management) and lasts approximately 90 minutes with each speaker delivering a 20-30 minute talk with slides. 

We're looking for industry experts who can provide a case study or example where they have addressed some aspect of sales, marketing, underwriting or claims management through content management, document management, image management, workflow, desktop integration, portals, and/or improved search. You should be a practitioner, or be able to present with a corporate client. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to get in front of several hundred of your peers, with minimal expenses - and in addition, Earley & Associates will also offer access to any of our past fee based calls for you or our team plus access to our Metadata Maturity research study (http://www.earley.com/metadata-maturity-survey) as a way of compensating you for your time and effort. 

The Deadline for Submissions is FRIDAY AUGUST 28th 2009 - please submit a proposal including a session description, proposed take-aways for attendees, and your contact details to seth at earley.com to be considered.

Thank you,

Rebecca Allen
Taxonomy Consultant
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EARLEY & ASSOCIATES
Cell: 425-299-5400
Email: rebecca at earley.com
Web: www.earley.com