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SharePointSaga! Determining Which Version of SharePoint is Right for Your Migration
In this trilogy + prequel blog series we will explore all the possibilities of your SharePoint upgrade/migration journey. “Punch it!!” Episode 1: Exploring SharePoint 2016, 2019, and Online (The Phantom Versions) Microsoft’s SharePoint products and technologies have enjoyed explosive growth … Continue reading
Webinar: Laying KM Foundations for Successful and Transformative AI
Presented by EK’s Zach Wahl and Joe Hilger, this webinar discusses how AI can harness the full spectrum of your organization’s knowledge so that information can be efficiently found, used, and reused. In the webinar participants learned: • Why Knowledge … Continue reading
What is an Action-Oriented Search Result?
Anytime Google updates their search experience, the subtle change seems to be snuck into the search engine overnight to either gently surprise the detail-oriented or to otherwise go unnoticed. However, one of Google’s most impactful, and definitely most noticeable changes, … Continue reading
Building and Sustaining Corporate Culture
As EK has grown over the last several years, I’ve found that more and more of my time, energy, and late night ponderings have been dedicated to sustaining our incredibly special corporate culture. Like a parent who always sees their … Continue reading
How Leveraging Existing Taxonomies Can Jumpstart Ontology Design
Taxonomies and ontologies are both types of Knowledge Organization Systems, or KOS. Different types of KOS can be seen as a continuum, starting with a simple folksonomy where users of content can add free form tags with no control or … Continue reading
Top Five Tips for A Successful Knowledge Transfer in Times of Chaos, Crisis, or Rapid Change
All too often, organizations do not recognize the need and value of knowledge management efforts until a knowledge-related crisis occurs. Perhaps a top-level executive has chosen to leave the organization and has not documented the knowledge and experiences that they … Continue reading
How to Distinguish Between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Metadata Fields
When designing an enterprise taxonomy, the number of possible metadata fields that can be used to describe content can be overwhelming. Depending on the type of content, the size of the organization, and the breadth of that organization’s functions, the … Continue reading
Fixing Enterprise Search Without Changing Code
Too many of the business clients I work with feel that they are powerless when it comes to fixing their enterprise search problems. While these individuals are able to say what content is relevant, they feel dependent on IT to … Continue reading
The Value of Taxonomy: Why Taxonomy (Still) Matters
After decades of taxonomy design consulting, I’m still amazed that some organizations doubt the value of effective enterprise taxonomy design. Though knowledge and information management technologies, as well as associated search technologies have changed, the core business value and use … Continue reading
The Importance of Content Governance, Part I: Enhancing Content Governance By Involving the Right People
Content Governance is more than just rule-making. It is about coordinating efforts, creating opportunities, being responsive to the surroundings, acting decisively, and moving your team towards a common objective. When we talk about Governance this way, it sounds a lot … Continue reading