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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
Knowledge Graphs for Search and Discovery
For many projects at Enterprise Knowledge, making information more findable and discoverable is a common ask. Clients often ask questions like: Does my organization have any documents that detail the role of product owners on search projects? Have we previously … Continue reading
The Magical Art of Tidying Up Content
If you have Netflix, you’ve probably seen Tidying Up pop up on your feed. It’s a new series based on Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which presents her methodology for clearing your clutter, getting organized, and … Continue reading
Bringing KM, Search, and AI Together
Clients come to EK looking to empower their people, make operations more efficient, and create a competitive advantage against their peers through improved Knowledge Management (KM). They want to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies like knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence (AI), … Continue reading
6 Simple Design Principles to Supplement Your Messaging
Visual Design to Enhance Your Message On a daily basis, EK consultants create presentations for clients including everything from facilitation materials for knowledge management workshops and meetings, to educational web resources for web products. As a design enthusiast, I’m often … Continue reading
The Intersection of User Experience and Accessibility
Because EK strives to develop the best web products for our clients, we have a lot of conversations about how to create the best experience for the users of those products and systems. Again and again we come back to … Continue reading
The Role of Search Product Owners
Successful enterprise search projects begin when the new search tool is launched. Search cannot remain static because an organization’s needs, as well as its content, change over time. Without a business leader, search initiatives are unable to adapt to these … Continue reading
Making KM Clickable with Search
I’ve been in the business of Knowledge Management Consulting for the vast majority of my career and, in my experience, one of the most challenging aspects to KM is its intangibility. I’ve helped an array of organizations to define their … Continue reading
How to Make SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint, Part Two: Designing Your Master Page
In part one of our “How to Make SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint” series, we discussed the KM value of custom-designed SharePoint sites, and guided readers through the activation of Publishing Infrastructure at the site collection level, and Server Publishing … Continue reading
How to Make SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint, Part One: Enabling Publishing Features
At EK, many of our clients have either chosen, or been forced to leverage SharePoint. While SharePoint is recognized for its document management capabilities, users of the software often ask, “How can I make SharePoint not look like SharePoint?” In … Continue reading