New WCM training

If you have not picked up on it yet, my friends at CMS Watch have released new WCM training. Its a 4.5 hour (half day) online (elearning ?) variant of Tony Byrne's very successful half day workshop which he has been doing at conferences for years. Go take a look at:
http://www.cmswatch.com/Education/WCM/

It has prompted me to start a discussion in the WCM group on InformationZen, a group I started as the AIIM guys seemed to miss out WCM in their initial setup of groups, as to whether we need an AIIM WCM certificate, similar to their other offerings, with WCM Practioner, WCM Specialist and WCM Master certifications.

Personally I think we do, at least having staff with some good training behind them may stop organizations from forcing a very square Sharepoint peg, into a very round WCMS hole.

I'm an IOA Practioner.....

Well, just spent an excellent two days in the classroom with 14 colleagues under the tutorship of Hanns Kohler-Kluner of AIIM, doing the first classroom based presentation of the Information Organisation and Access Practioner course outside of the U.S. Check out the info on the AIIM site, but its a very interesting course, and the whole range of subject matter from metadata, through taxonomies and ontologies to search engine technology is of course highly integrated with ECM.

My colleagues included many 'information management' professionals, responsible for developing our metadata schema's, business classification schema's, content models etc, but also two of our ECM training specialists, our Intranet manager and 3 people from the section that 'sys admins' our search engine. I think everyone enjoyed the experience as much as I did, and hopefully everyone has a better appreciation of the others viewpoint on IOA. So, ECM Practioner, and IOA Practioner down, BPM Specialist to go......

So check out AIIM's training provision, its highly recommended.