Past presentations by Heather Hedden

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Past Presentations

"Taxonomy Made Easy: An Introduction to Taxonomies for the Accidental Taxonomist"
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 16, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana

"User Interfaces with Taxonomies"
Usability and User Experience 2010: UPA-Boston's Ninth Annual Mini UPA Conference
June 9, 2010, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Thesaurus Creation vs. Index Creation" poster presentation (photo)
American Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
May 14-15, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation" pre-conference workshop
American Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
May 13, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Tools for Taxonomies"
Enterprise Search Summit
May 11, 2010, New York, New York

"Taxonomies – How can they improve enterprise search?"
Boston KM Forum Café – Table-talking KM Challenges
April 29, 2010, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Marketing Your Indexing Business" panel discussion
New England Chapter - American Society for Indexing
April 17, 2010, Chelmsford, Massachusetts

"Merging or Integrating Multiple Taxonomies"
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 20, 2009, San Jose, California

"Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies" full-day workshop
Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Continuing Education
October 24, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts

"Navigation Taxonomies; What Works Well (or Doesn’t) with Your Content System?"
Boston Knowledge Management Forum
June 18, 2009, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Web Site A-Z Indexes"
Boston IA Ten-Minute Accessibility Talks
April 30, 2009, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Creating Web Site Indexes" Half-day seminar
New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
March 21, 2009, Worcester, Massachusetts

"Taxonomies for Search & Retreval"
LINK Development - corporate seminar
January 5, 2009, Cairo, Egypt

"Getting Off to a Strong Start with Your Search Taxonomy"
Gilbane Conference on Content Management
December 4, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts

"An Introduction to Taxonomies"
Society for Technical Communication (STC) Boston Chapter - Technical Editing SIG
November 13, 2008, Bedford, Massachusetts
Summary on pp. 8-9 of the Broadside, chapter newsletter

"Taxonomies for Human Versus Auto-Indexing"
Taxonomy Boot Camp
September 25, 2008, San Jose, California

"Taxonomy for Search & Discovery"
Boston Knowledge Management Forum
June 25, 2008, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Taxonomy-Powered Discovery: Who Says You Need An Expert"
Enterprise Search Summit
May 20, 2008, New York, New York

"Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation" full-day pre-conference workshop
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
April 30, 2008, Denver, Colorado

"Creating Web A-Z Indexes"
Society for Technical Communication (STC) SpaceTech Chapter
April 23, 2008, Melbourne, Florida

"The Freelance Taxonomy Business"
New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
April 5, 2008, Chelmsford, Massachusetts

"Creating Indexes on Websites and Intranets"
Special Libraries Association's Click U Live! Program
March 5, 2008, Virtual webinar

"Creating Web Site A-Z Indexes"
Golden Gate Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
November 11, 2007, San Mateo, California

"Making Decisions in Creating Taxonomies"
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2007
November 8, 2007, San Jose, California

Workshop: Website Indexing
Netherlands Indexing Network
August 4, 2007, Driebergen, Netherlands

“Website indexing” seminar
Society of Indexers 50th Anniversary Conference: Golden Retrievers
July 14, 2007, London, England

“Creating Website Indexes” pre-conference workshop
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
May 24, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Designing a Web Site for Freelance Indexing Services”
“Writing for ASI” panel presentation
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
May 25, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Teaching Information Findability to Kids”
Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
March 24, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts

“Creating Indexes on Web Sites and Intranets”
Society for Technical Communication
February 7, 2007, Web Telephone Seminar

“Freelance Indexing”
Boston Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association
December 5, 2006, Arlington, Massachusetts

“Freelance Indexing”
Central Massachusetts Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association
November 15, 2006, Stow, Massachusetts

“Creating A-Z Indexes for Web Sites, Intranets, and Online Courses”
“Findability” Panel
Documentation and Training 2006
October 4, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts

“Indexing Nonfiction for Children” panel presentation
Fall conference of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing.
September 30, 2006, Waltham, Massachusetts

"Creating Website Indexes” post-conference workshop
American Society for Indexing/Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada joint conference
June 17, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

“Designing a Web Site for Freelance Indexing Services”
Spring meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing.
April 29, 2006, Chelmsford, Massachusetts

“The Usability of A-Z Indexes for Site Search and Findability”
Annual Boston UPA Chapter Mini-Conference: Usability and User Experience 2006
March 30, 2006, Natick, Massachusetts

“Indexing and Taxonomies”
Earley & Associates Taxonomy Community of Practice
March 29, 2006, Webinar

“A-Z Indexes for Content Searching”
Fall 2005 CM Pros Summit
November 28, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts

“Web Site Indexing: Techniques and Issues”
Fall Conference of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing.
September 24, 2005, Worcester, Massachusetts

“A-Z Indexes for Superior Site Searching”
Society for Technical Communication (STC) Boston Chapter - Online Information SIG
March 3, 2005, Lexington, Massachusetts

“Controlled Vocabulary in Periodical Database Indexing”
Annual Conference of the Golden Gate Chapter of the American Society for Indexing: Thesaurus Development and Controlled Vocabulary as Indexing Tools
March 21, 1998, Berkeley, California