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SUMMARY:Society of the Query
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4550325/ ] The need to create order and find meaning in the gigantic quantity of online data has turned the search engine into our most significant point of reference. In this query driven society\, The Society of the Query conference seeks to analyze what impact our reliance on resources to manage knowledge on the Internet has on our culture. For two days\, the conference aims to zoom in on some of the essential themes surrounding Web search\, by critically analyzing and contextualizing developments in interface design and the organization of knowledge. 
 The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) seeks to achieve this specifically by uniting researchers\, theorists\, activists\, artists and professionals working in this area\, and by creating a platform for not only realized projects and recent research\, but also for open questions and speculation.
 DAY 1
 The conference program consists of five sessions. On the first day\, the Society of the Query session will focus on ‘searching’ on the software level and will discuss knowledge organization within the theoretical framework of the humanities and computer science. The Digital Civil Rights and Media Literacy session addresses the intermediary function of search engines and the commercial use and storage of personal data with reference to digital civil rights such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression. The first Alternative Search session responds to a growing interest in alternative methods to search the Web\, on the level of the user\, the software and the network. 
 DAY 2
 On the second day\, the Art and the Engine session discusses the influence of Google’s omnipresence over the production and distribution of Web-based art\, and highlights new and progressive developments in interface design that may stimulate the user to search\, find and analyze data. Googlization of Everyday Life addresses the hegemony of the larger search engines and the impact of the current division of power on the flow of information\, the diversity and accessibility of Web content and the administration of informational sources. Finally\, the second Alternative Search session will critically address semantic search developments and their implementation by W3C and European cultural heritage project Europeana.
 With a concluding evening program\, the INC will do justice to the diversity of artistic and activist projects that examine the role of the search engine in contemporary society.
 Conference speakers include Lev Manovich (US)\, Matthew Fuller (UK)\, David Gugerli (CH)\, Siva Vaidhyanathan (US)\, Florian Cramer (NL)\, Christophe Bruno (FR)\, Joris van Hoboken (NL)\, Teresa Numerico (IT)\, Yann Moulier Boutang (FR)\, Matteo Pasquinelli (IT/NL)\, Ippolita (IT)\, Cees Snoek (NL)\, Ingmar Weber (DE)\, Daniel van der Velden (NL)\, Alessandro Ludovico (IT)\, Stefan Weber (DE)\, Antoine Isaac (NL) and Steven Pemberton (US/NL)
 For more information and registration for the event\, please go to http://www.networkcultures.org/query
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/573115/":TrouwAmsterdam @ Wibautstraat 131\, Amsterdam\, North Holland 1091 GL
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Internet Marketing - FREE SEO Workshop!
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4839841/ ] The Idea People is sponsoring a free SEO and Internet marketing workshop on Tuesday\, November 17 from 3:00pm-5:00pm. 
 You will learn basic SEO techniques\, how search engines view your website\, how to use a blog successfully\, and how to increase the visibility of your website. 
 You are a small to medium-sized business owner or marketing position. 
 To RSVP for this FREE workshop\, please call Jay Joyce at 704-398-4437 or email jay@theideapeople.com.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/656964/":Charlotte Web Design Pavilion @ 4424 Taggart Creek Road\, Suite 111\, Charlotte\, North Carolina 28208
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SUMMARY:Gilbane Boston
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767371/ ] Join us at the 6th Annual
 Gilbane Conference Boston
 Content\, Collaboration & Customers
 Your content is your business.
 As the lines between content technologies continue to blur\, the business implications of your content strategies need to be crystal clear. You need to make your web content part of an integrated platform for customers\, partners\, and employees. You need to understand which social media outlets fit into your overall content and communication channels. And you have to hold down costs for content management and delivery in ways that don't slow down your company's ability to innovate and grow.
 For 2009\, the Gilbane Conference is more focused than ever on the business impact of content solutions that are here right now and ready to be implemented right now. Every program component is tied to the business issues surrounding your marketing\, technical and enterprise content. We've taken the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and organized them into tracks that make it easy for you to customize an agenda that meets your business objectives. Along the way you'll have direct interaction - including valuable one-on-one time - with our unique community of enterprise practitioners\, analysts\, consultants and solution providers.
 We hope you'll join us!
 Twitter: http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston
 Facebook: http://gilbane.com/facebook
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/31042/":The Westin Copley Place @ 10 Huntington Avenue\, Boston\, Massachusetts 02116
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