National Bank of Poland

Commissioned by the management of the NBP, we have trained members of the highest management in regards of the use of new Internet tools and technologies. Using lectures, case studies and practical tasks, the training supplied useful knowledge on the meaning of new trends in the Internet and the possibilities for their utilization in making strategic economic decisions to its attendees.

• Google and Google tricks, important tools that enhance searching through Google.
• How can search engines be used for trend research, media monitoring and market analysis?
• RSS/XML as a tool facilitating access to information.
• Volunteer communities that sort information (e.g.: Digg, Del.icio.us,)
• Internet communities - their potential in information search.
• Information tagging as new means for describing information.
• Automatic content summarization and translation devices.
• Web services, XML, API (e.g.: GoogleApi) and other means of communication with search engines and World Wide Web sites.
• Communities that create content and jointly work on projects.
• Blogosphere - expert blogs, scale, relations, influences... examples.
• Web 2.0 - Internet of the second decade.
• Search engines 2.0 - Search engines in the spirit of Web 2.0, mash-ups of information sources (1+1=5), alternative interfaces.

Vice President Rybiński sums up the effects of our training on his blog, which was also created by PLUM (www.rybinski.eu), considering the training as one of the main events of 2006:

„I learnt new things in 2006. I am now sure that web 2.0 and social networking will become a mainstream in 2007, and that it will rapidly accelerate the process of knowledge creation and distribution. My blog hopefully contributes to this knowledge-networking,”

and

“Few months ago I stopped watching TV altogether, I also rarely read Polish press, as most of the time you can read about one politician accusing another politician about something which is totally irrelevant to the average citizen. Instead I now read my own electronic newspaper, which is built by aggregating RSS feeds from several world leading newspapers and magazines. I also use blog-search tool to read interesting articles. This change of habits allowed to increase my productivity as a knowledge worker n-fold, with n>2.”

Read more at: http://www.rybinski.eu/?p=371

Plum has crowned the year 2006 with the performance of a training for 30 NBP (National Bank of Poland) employees. We dedicated it to the techniques of Internet information searching.