This is an 11-slide PowerPoint presentation to the Toronto SharePoint User Group meetup on 2013-08-21 pitching Robin's services as an information architect and consultant — here emphasizing SharePoint and enterprise search.

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Robin Macrae
Presentation
TSPUG Meetup
2013-08-21

2. My agenda
• a little background
• the company I keep
• my interests
• when to call
• contact info
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3. A little background
• Information architecture
• information architect
• design and strategy
• Semantic Web evangelist
• metadata lover
• Professional
• multi-discipline
• work methodology (dog food)
• trusted advisor
• Experienced
• expert in expertise
• wide range of enterprise clients
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robin.macrae@earley.com
416-255-7450

4. And …
• professional
• management consulting, law,
marketing, advertising, software
development, IA consulting
• speaking
• everything from MS partner
conferences to
SharePointSummit, SharePoint
Saturday, WordCamp to user
groups to Podcamps, Law
Society, Continuing Legal
Education, InterOp, etc.
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5. The company I keep
• I usually work with other consultants or developers — work with EA
on a project basis for past year
• information architecture and information management
• SharePoint, enterprise search
• developers on large and complex projects, account management,
trusted advisor
• front-end development: from strategy to IA to UI design, usability,
HTML and CSS
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6. My interests
• content applications
• enterprise search especially SP2013
and search-driven apps
• metadata infrastructure
• strategy, road maps, planning, account
and project management
• RDF, DITA and other Semantic Web
technologies
• governance, user adoption — squishy
aspects of development
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7. My interests continued
• DRM, DAM and rights management
(metadata and strategy heavy) (legal
and Semantic Web background)
(Canada 3.0 and EA's RM point man)
• working on curriculum and will be
teaching SP2013 to US clients of EA
• rescuing projects in trouble: strategy,
governance, negotiation
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8. Who ya gonna call?
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9. When to call — what to look for
• search-driven anything (aka content
app, search-as-an-app, etc.)
• a lot of high value content to utilize,
migrate, restructure, develop into an
app (e.g., customer support FAQ
system)
• larger and more sophisticated and/or
complex project or relationship than
usual
• professional and other high
performance information-type workers
• target-rich client environment with lots
of diverse opportunities
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11. Thanks for this opportunity
Robin Macrae
Information Architect
robin.macrae@earley.com
robinm@gmail.com
416-255-7450
@Robin_Macrae
slideshare.net/robin555/
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macrae-pitch