TURNING
THE LIGHT BULBS ON
INFORMATION ONLINE CONFERENCE 2003
SEMINAR
PRESENTERS
Dr Donald T.
Hawkins
Donald T. Hawkins is Director
of Intranet Development, Information Today Inc and Editor-in-Chief of
Information Science Abstracts (ISA). He has had a
distinguished career as a content manager for several electronic information
projects, developing and managing information retrieval and current awareness
services and introducing end user searching in library networks. As
Editor-in-Chief of ISA, he has developed a desktop system for producing ISA
with geographically dispersed telecommuters using MS Access, file transfer and
Internet technologies. He was awarded the prestigious UMI/Data Courier Award
for excellence in writing in the online information industry for his two
articles on artificial intelligence and online searching.
Sue
Halbwirth
Sue
Halbwirth is a Senior Lecturer, Knowledge Management, Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, where she is
coordinating postgraduate subjects in knowledge management and has developed
curriculum for the Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Management and the Master of
Information and Knowledge Management. She represents UTS on the Standards
Australia Knowledge Management Committee and is Chairperson of the Committee.
Sue
is active as a consultant in knowledge and information management, having
completed a number of projects in the events, government and commercial
sectors. These projects have included information and knowledge audits,
intranet design and implementation, development of knowledge strategies and
advising on call centre operations. Prior to her current position at UTS she
spent three years with Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG),
completing her tenure as Program Manager, Knowledge Management Services. She
is currently consulting to the International Olympic Committee – supporting
the organisation with knowledge and information management developments. Sue
can be contacted via sue.halbwirth@uts.edu.au
Susan
Henczel
Susan
Henczel is Education & Business Development Manager at CAVAL and author of
The Information Audit: a Practical Guide (Munich: KG Saur, 2001). She
has extensive experience in special libraries, academic libraries and public
libraries. In 1998, she attained a Masters degree in Business Information
Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her specialist research was
Evaluating the Effective Use of an Information Audit in the Corporate
Environment. She is currently conducting Information Audit workshops
across Australia and New Zealand as part of the Caval Training Program, and in
the US as part of the Special Libraries Association pre-conference program
Rowena
Loo
Rowena Loo is Project Officer, Government
Recordkeeping, State Records Authority of New South Wales. She is an
experienced professional in the field of archives and records management,
having worked with both the National Archive of Australia and State Records
NSW. She has prepared guidelines, standards and assisted government agencies
improve their records and information management practices. Representing the
Australian Society of Archivist, she is a key contributor to MB 007, Standards
Australia's committee for the development of an interim knowledge management
standard. Rowena continues to develop her expertise in the knowledge industry
and is currently completing a Masters of Arts in Information with a focus on
Knowledge Management, at the University of Technology.
Michele Ritchie
Michele Ritchie is the Library & Information Resources Manager with the
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories (AGAL). Prior to joining AGAL she worked as a Librarian for many years in the pharmaceutical
industry and also as an Information Consultant for a database systems company. Michele has experience in database and website design and has a
keen interest in better communication and efficient dissemination of information within organisations.
She initiated and manages AGAL's corporate Intranet.
James Robertson
James is the managing director of Step Two Designs,
an independent content management and knowledge management consultancy located in Sydney, Australia. He is well-known
for his practical articles and white papers, and is an engaging and enthusiastic presenter. James has a practical
and pragmatic to the role of technology in meeting business goals, and sees that people and processes are the key
factors in most successful projects. Step Two Designs: http://www.steptwo.com.au
Peter
Smee
Peter Smee is Managing
Director of Trimagic Software Pty
Ltd
Elizabeth Swan
Elizabeth Swan is founder and
director of Information Edge Pty Ltd, Australia's leading information broker
and business intelligence service, producer of the Edge Database, and popular
presenter of seminars on super searching, among other topics.
Before establishing
Information Edge, she was manager of Australian Consolidated Industries
corporate information service, Assistant to the Director of Excerpta Medica
(Amsterdam), Librarian at CSIRO Animal Health Research Laboratory (Melbourne)
and held various special library positions in the UK and Australia. Her
special professional interest is the swift, accurate transfer of knowledge. She is a recipient of the
Williamson Award for outstanding contribution to the development of
information science in Australia (1988) and the Maria Gemenis award for
special librarianship, 1985
Her conference papers and
publications include: The changing landscape for (research) librarians:
(LIANZA, Wellington, 2002), Australian newspaper databases - are they for
surfers or searchers? ( Information Online, Sydney 1997), and Online
wizardry in OZ: more is needed for effective information transfer
(National Online Meeting, New York, 1991). In Super searchers do business:
the online secrets of top business researchers, by Mary Ellen Bates
(Medford, USA, CyberAge Books, 1999), Elizabeth was the first of two
Australians in any of the Super searchers series. She is President of the ALIA
Information Specialists Group, Convenor of Information Online, Australia, in
2003, 1989, 1988.
Simone
Wheeler
Simone
is Marketing Director, Asia Pacific, of Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters
Company, presiding over the marketing activities and strategic partnerships of
the company's key offices in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Based
in Hong Kong, she is also Chairperson of the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)
Awards for Editorial Excellence 2002'/2003, an active member of the HK
Knowledge Management Society and the Australian and American Chambers of
Commerce.
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