Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's also a radically multidisciplinary, creative challenge. In this talk, Peter Morville defines a pattern language for search and discovery that embraces user psychology and behavior, crosschannel information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology. He identifies design principles that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time. And, he explains how futures methods and user experience deliverables can help us to create better search interfaces and applications today and invent the improbable discovery tools of tomorrow.

With SharePoint, you have many different choices to apply search services within and beyond your team sites. Microsoft itself provides several different flavors of search, and third-party suppliers offer various addons. Join this fast-paced session led by SharePoint guru Shawn Shell, as he outlines your options and describes how to achieve the best search outcomes for different scenarios.

With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft added web content management (WCM) services to the platform, and those capabilities have been upgraded in SharePoint 2010. Yet, SharePoint has not swept the WCM marketplace, and its main competitors continue to expand. What’s going on, and what does it mean for you? Join a panel of WCM integrators who implement multiple different tools to learn about when to use SharePoint for web content management and when to explore other alternatives.

The SharePoint ‘ecosystem’ includes dozens of 3rd-party software firms that complement, supplement, or replace functionality in the core platform. These include services like back-up and disaster recovery, reporting, replication, imaging, social computing, and more. Come watch five vendors deliver fast-paced, six-minute demos showing off the best features of their products—with three judges keeping them honest. But the best part is, you vote for the winner.

Four top SharePoint solution providers and their customers share successful deployments built on what is arguably the industry's most versatile platform.

This "myth-busting" session that looks at SharePoint from an end-users' perspective. What works well? What doesn't? What do project leaders, developers, and administrators need to know about how actual employees want to use SharePoint? Join us for a fresh look at how to really succeed with this platform.