Taxonomy for the Intranet

Cathy McKnight, a business consultant at Prescient Digital Media, has some advice for people building the web interface for the corporate intranet -- Don’t forget to add the Tax(onomy). People know that the web site should be attractive but might not realize that part of good design is to make the information findable.

"In this world of ultra-usability and user-centric websites, many great intranet sites go unused because of poor, or altogether lacking, site taxonomy.

So what is taxonomy? How does it differ from information architecture? And how do you create an effective taxonomy for a successful intranet?"