Optimizing Your Search Experience: A Human-Centered Approach to Search Design
Designing a search solution requires an understanding of how people think, what they want, and how they go about getting what they want. You can implement the most technically sophisticated search tool for your organization, but if you’re not configuring … Continue reading
Achieving a Gold Standard Taxonomy
One of the first steps of a taxonomy design effort is to gather any previous taxonomies that may exist within the business, as well as sample content, search logs, and pre-existing information about these taxonomies’ content or systems. At EK, … Continue reading
Webinar: Knowledge Graphs – Only the Essentials
Enterprise Knowledge is teaming with Semantic Web Company to present a new webinar titled “Knowledge Graphs: Only the Essentials.” In this webinar, Enterprise Knowledge and Semantic Web Company will discuss the place of enterprise knowledge graphs in the path to … Continue reading
Complement Your Change Management Efforts with Gamification
Despite being a relatively new concept in the KM field, gamification is already an overused term that gets thrown around in virtually any initiative. Defined as an organization’s use of design and insights from video games to increase participant engagement … Continue reading
Pattern Discovery through Facets
As explored in my previous blog post How Faceted Navigation Works, facets allow you to quickly and efficiently sort through your content to find the information or data that you need. Facets largely mirror taxonomic structures, and business taxonomies are … Continue reading
Full Agenda for KMI Showcase Announced
Zach Wahl, Chairman of this year’s Knowledge Management Institute Showcase and CEO of Enterprise Knowledge just announced the agenda for the conference. The agenda brings together a host of thought leaders and KM practitioners from both the public and private … Continue reading
KM Wine and Design: Build Your KM Program with Design Cards
Enterprise Knowledge (EK) and Knowledge Management Community of D.C. (KMCDC) will host a workshop, KM Wine & Design: Build Your KM Program with Design Cards, on Thursday, March 7th beginning at 6:00 PM at EK’s Headquarters in Arlington, VA. After a brief … Continue reading
Choosing the Best Project Management Approach for Your Team: The Cynefin Framework
“We are going agile!” This seems to be a statement often used in an effort to streamline existing business practices in favor of more efficient and customer-focused processes. However, before we make a paradigm shift in our day to day … Continue reading
Galdamez to Speak at World Information Architecture Day in DC
EK consultant Guillermo Galdamez will be speaking at the upcoming World Information Architecture Day in DC (WIADDC) “Design for Difference,” being held on February 23 in Arlington, VA. The title of his talk is “Governance: Designing for Continuous Listening.” The … Continue reading
How Faceted Navigation Works
What does the term ‘faceted navigation’ call to mind? For search-savvy individuals, it’s a search experience similar to that which you would find on Amazon. Facets primarily allow an individual to quickly sort through large amounts of information to locate … Continue reading