2007 Workshop Downloads
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Sessions
Monday October 8, 2007
1:30 - 2:30pm
- E-Discovery Rules and Regulations: What Businesses Need to Know
- General Business | Room 102
- This session will address the most pressing electronic discovery issues and challenges for today's corporations and their information technology professionals. Key topics to be addressed include adapting current policies to meet changes to the FRCP; delineating the current standards that enable businesses to establish levels of discovery burden; and modernizing a unified global document system. We’ll also share tips and tools for document review.
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- Doing Business with the FEDS
- Great Plains Issues | Room 201
- Are you ready to take the next step in expanding your business? The federal government spends more than $17 billion on IT services annually. Find out how to position your business to take advantage of these growing opportunities. This session will outline the basics of what is needed to do business with the government and provides an opportunity to sign up for private one-to-one sessions with the government agencies and prime contractors of your choice.
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- Information Security: Effectively Protecting and Defending Your Information
- General Business | Room 202
- Are you confident that your sensitive information is secure? Do you know the impact of that information being exposed, compromised or stolen? With more than 98% of identity theft and information fraud cases completed virtually, it has become increasingly important to address IT security issues as businesses rely more on technology, place a higher value on technology and face growing regulatory requirements. This seminar will discuss the potential risks to your information, practices for effectively managing the risks, and what it really means to your bottom-line.
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- Securing Company Information
- Information Technology | Room 203
- Businesses of all sizes are challenged with protecting themselves against continuously evolving security threats. These threats, which change on an hourly basis, are growing in frequency and complexity and can originate from inside and outside the network. In this session, attendees will have the opportunity to better understand the current Internet security landscape-including the commercialization of malicious activity, the exploitation of trusted environments, and multi-staged attacks-and learn how to protect their information, infrastructure and interactions to remain confident in the connected world. (Repeated at 3:00pm)
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- Practical CRM Introduction
- Sales & Marketing | Bison Team Room
- What is CRM? Can CRM improve sales and customer retention? Get answers in this introduction to CRM, featuring a comparison of three leading software tools: Microsoft CRM, GoldMine, and ACT! (Repeated on Tuesday at 10:45am)
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Monday October 8, 2007
3:00 – 4:00pm
- Invention, Venture, and Entrepreneurs: Featuring North Dakota Success Stories
- Great Plains Issues | Room 201
- Hear first hand from local business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors on their unique paths to business success. This diverse panel of North Dakota grown entrepreneurs will talk about how they developed a business from the ground up.
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- Collaboration Tools: Maximize Your Investment
- General Business | Room 202
- What business doesn’t want the ability to increase its productivity via live online format? Find out what collaboration tools are, how they can work for you and how to maximize your investment. Also receive tips on achieving the delicate balance between online collaboration and face-to-face communication within your organization.
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- Securing Company Information (Repeat)
- Information Technology | Room 203
- Businesses of all sizes are challenged with protecting themselves against continuously evolving security threats. These threats, which change on an hourly basis, are growing in frequency and complexity and can originate from inside and outside the network. In this session, attendees will have the opportunity to better understand the current Internet security landscape-including the commercialization of malicious activity, the exploitation of trusted environments, and multi-staged attacks-and learn how to protect their information, infrastructure and interactions to remain confident in the connected world.
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- Using Technology to Sell
- Sales & Marketing | Bison Team Room
- Learn how to use e-marketing to increase sales and reach your audience. Hear about the latest in blogs, e-newsletters, search marketing and digital billboards. Social networking isn’t only for teenagers anymore; learn how social networking sites impact business. If you haven’t already started using technology to sell, after this session, you will be eager to start!
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Monday October 8, 2007
4:30 – 5:30pm
- Wireless Sensors: A Tool for Securing Your Business
- Great Plains Issues | Room 201
- The world of wireless sensing and unattended information gathering requires the deployment of advanced sensor networks. These networks include circuits capable of gathering data without affecting the outside world or attracting attention to themselves, and software control that interprets data and makes intelligent decisions.
- Packet Digital has created and deployed wireless sensors using On-Demand Power, a power management technology that provides superior battery life and performance. Pedigree Technologies leads the industry with the Lineage Service Platform, able to take any collection of sensors and wireless devices to monitor critical equipment, secure perimeters and move businesses to the next levels of efficiency and operation. Join this session to learn more about the leading edge innovation
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- Project Management Solutions
- General Business | Room 202
- Information Technology projects are difficult to keep on time and on budget. Learn how Project Management can be used in any business to determine needs, facilitate communication, and prioritize and manage effort. The results of these efforts will be seen through better teamwork, progress measurement and increased productivity and ROI.
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- Collaboration Tools: Managing Implementation Organization Wide
- Information Technology | Room 203
- Your business has selected a collaboration solution and it is your task to effectively manage its implementation. This seminar will provide tips for an effective implementation across the organization, including the IT team, senior management and end-users.
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- Best Practices For E-marketing
- Sales & Marketing | Bison Team Room
- A blue-ribbon panel of marketing and sales experts will provide local business organizations with the latest trends in technology marketing and sales strategies and explain how companies can obtain a measurable and verifiable return on investment from their marketing programs. Experts will provide advice to the three big questions in e-marketing:
- What are the new e-marketing trends?
- Have “marketing rules” changed as a result of technology?
- How are companies measuring the effectiveness of marketing programs?
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Tuesday October 9, 2007
10:45 - 11:45am
- Migrating to the New Suite of Microsoft Applications
- Information Technology | Room 102
- 2007 has brought a whole new suite of Microsoft applications, including Office 2007, Windows Vista, and Exchange 2007. Implementing these new technologies can bring immense benefits to your organization, but also requires a significant amount of preparation. Here you’ll receive an overview of the key new features and things to keep into account as you prepare for the move. In addition, you will have an opportunity to ask questions about upgrading your system and migrating your data.
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- eBay: Basics of Selling
- Great Plains Issues | Room 201
- Explore the basics of becoming an eBay seller. We’ll start with the foundation of the research you should complete before you begin and follow with how to create listings and set pricing. We’ll discuss opening and using a PayPal account and once that’s mastered, you’ll learn how to improve your listings with better descriptions and photography. Once you’re all set up, we’ll review how to monitor your listings and complete transactions.
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- Selling to a Virtual Community
- General Business | Room 202
- The first impression a customer has of your product or service may well be through your website. This seminar will share insight into how to integrate your website into your overall marketing plan and just how important that integration is to your bottom line.
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- IPv4, IPv6, and Their Influence on Your Business
- Information Technology | Room 203
- Hear from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) as they discuss why Internet number resources, especially IPv6 addresses, are vital to the future of your business. We’ll discuss global resource distribution statistics and the depletion of IPv4 addresses as well as the policy development process at ARIN and why it is vitally important to become involved in the future of IP addressing in North America.
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- Practical CRM Introduction (Repeat)
- Sales & Marketing | Bison Team Room
- What is CRM? Can CRM improve sales and customer retention? Get answers in this introduction to CRM, featuring a comparison of three leading software tools: Microsoft CRM, GoldMine, and ACT!
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Tuesday October 9, 2007
2:30 - 3:30pm
- eBay: Beyond the Basics
- Great Plains Issues | Room 201
- With Beyond the Basics, you'll learn how to start an eBay-based business. Gain insight into how to: choose the right listing format, create compelling listings and use eBay listing tools. We’ll investigate how to market your business on eBay and manage your listings. From there, you’ll highlight how to pack and ship inventory and use online payments from PayPal. You’ll depart with a head full of knowledge and an eagerness to grow your online business.
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- Solving the Mystery of Financial & Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions
- General Business | Room 202
- What should businesses consider when selecting a financial and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution? This seminar will solve the mystery of what solutions are available, what to look at in selecting one for your business and how the selection of the correct solution can increase operational productivity.
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- Transitioning to IPv6 -- Internet Number Resources and ARIN
- Information Technology | Room 203
- Join us as we discuss Internet number resource policy, spotlighting the area of IPv6. We'll also discuss global resource distribution statistics, transition mechanisms for IPv6, and Internet governance and coordination issues that face the entire Internet community today. Organizations that use Internet number resources play a key role in setting policies at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). ARIN wants to ensure technical managers have the knowledge and tools they need to be properly represented in setting Internet number resource distribution policy in North America.
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- Are Your IT and Business Strategies In Sync?
- Information Technology | Bison Team Room
- When business and technology strategies connect, companies have the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs at a rapid pace and have confidence that sound technology investments are being made.
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