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Creating a Managed Metadata Column in SharePoint Online
Designing an effective business taxonomy involves facilitating a series of workshops, focus groups, content analyses, and one-on-one interviews. According to Zach Wahl, CEO of Enterprise Knowledge, the result of this approach is “a truly usable design that reflects the needs … Continue reading
Website Design Best Practices
Over the last six months, Enterprise Knowledge (EK) has been in the midst of taking the best of what we know and applying it to our own website. Though we’ve helped an array of Federal Agencies, Fortune 500 Companies, and … Continue reading
Taxonomy Design in the Rio 2016 Olympics
Throughout the 10 years that I have been working on taxonomy design and metadata, I have made an effort to identify simple, day-to-day examples that can describe the concept of business taxonomy and demonstrate how powerful it is in organizing … Continue reading
Taxonomy in 60 Seconds
Zach Wahl explains taxonomy in 60 seconds. https://animoto.com/play/yYuMdSKYqmhDCNqmgCIKDw
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: Step #4 Measure the Findability of Your Content
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #4: Measure the Findability of Your Content Search, which … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: Step #3 Validate Your Taxonomy
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #3: Validate Your Taxonomy Previously, I’ve talked about how … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: Step #2 Make Sure Your Facets Are Consistent
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #2: Make Sure Your Facets Are Consistent In the … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: #1 Design a User-Centric Taxonomy
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #1: Design a User-Centric Taxonomy When most individuals hear … Continue reading
Practical Knowledge Management
This presentation leverages several recent success stories from EK’s client work to discuss current themes in Knowledge and Information Management systems design and development. It includes examples and discussion of Cloud, Agile, Taxonomy, and Change Management, amongst other themes.
The Power of Information Items
Working with a client recently on building a new knowledge management system (KMS) from the ground up, I was reminded of the power of information items. Not only because they are the building blocks of a KMS, but also because … Continue reading