Earley Jumpstart Series on Sharepoint

Earley and Associates has a new 4-part jumpstart series starting on Sharepoint 2011 - looking at "best practices for taking information organization and access to new levels, producing much greater value to businesses."

SharePoint 2010 - Architecting for Business Value, Earley and Associates

Topics:

* SharePoint 2010 - Best Practices for Creating Business Value (March 3)
* Methods and Tools for Better SharePoint Search (March 10)
* Practical Approaches to Developing Rich Information Architectures (March 17)
* The Role of Governance in Ensuring Success (March 24)

Free with registration - can't beat that.

Webinars on Taxonomy Uses

ASIS&T is hosting a four-part webinar series on using taxonomies - Taxonomy Uses Webinar Series - on Thursdays, January 27, 2011 to February 17. See the outline of topics and short biographies of presenters.

+ Semantic Integration - Leveraging the Taxonomy
+ Taxonomies in Search
+ Taxonomies in e-Commerce
+ People Directories and Author Networks Based on Taxonomies

Even the outlines will inform.

Webinar on Folksonomies and Taxonomies

Webinar: Folksonomies and Taxonomies in the Enterprise

Daniela Barbosa of Dow Jones Client Solutions will be leading a Webinar organized by the Dow Jones InfoPro Alliance about Folksonomies & Taxonomies in the Enterprise on January 10, 2008. Registration is free. (Link is in that posting)

Among the topics:

* Business value of a taxonomy/folksonomy
* Impact of social networking tools on the enterprise
* Governance tools
* Merging folksonomies and existing taxonomies
* Some best practices and common obstacles

This entry comes from her weblog - daniela barbosa chitchatting about information delivery.

Postscript Feb 15, 2008 - webcast for this session is available from Factiva InfoPro probably until mid 2008. Uses Event On24.

Social search and taxonomies

What will be the impact on the use of taxonomies in companies as more adopt enterprise 2.0 ways of connecting people? Social search, social networking, social enterprise - these are new possibilities being adapted for enterprise use from the consumer universe of Facebook / MySpace, del.ico.us and other social bookmarking services, Digg and Flickr and all the places where people tag what they find. Ajay Gandhi at BEA Systems in a KMWorld webinar posits that social search tools will greatly enrich knowledge management by assisting in sharing knowledge and forming communities. Harvesting Enterprise Wisdom through Social Search reviews knowledge management archetypes, notes the rising state of information overload, and describes the ways social tools will help people cope with that load. It does not mean the end of formal taxonomies to support intranet navigation and repository search, but it will see the emergence of folksonomies based on how people tag and social networks developed according to interest and expertise.

Webinar will be available for 90 days at www.kmworld.com/webinars/bea/21aug2007