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Tag: mike doane
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Your Metadata Crosses All Borders
Regardless of where information has to live, for how long or according to what standard, using metadata to control it is a well-established and relatively inexpensive process. However, complexity and costs can rise rapidly when an organization has to expand metadata usage in multiple languages for many different locations worldwide.
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Video Blog: SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy Management - When it's Time to Retire Tags
Building a taxonomy in SharePoint 2010 can be a fantastic way to improve content findability and enhance search results using tags from a controlled vocabulary. However, even the best tags can sometimes go awry, and have to be removed from use.
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Video Blog: Importing Labels to SharePoint 2010
There are many positive features to using the Term Store taxonomy management feature within SharePoint 2010. Unfortunately, not everything that we need as information managers is one click away. For example, when importing terms into the Term Store using the .
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Taxonomy Governance: Taking the Taxonomy to New Levels
This is the conclusion of my three part series on governing taxonomies. This post will wrap up the series with some next steps for you to take to let your taxonomy flourish. Overview In my last post I presented Part 2 of this series, focusing on the maintenance of
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Taxonomy Governance: The Maintenance Process
Last time I presented Part 1 of this three part series on governing taxonomies, focusing on the initial steps in taxonomy development (e.g. taking the initial steps to building out a taxonomy, project planning, etc...).
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Taxonomy Governance: Why You Need It, How It's Done
I’ve written many times about why taxonomies are necessary for any kind of CMS, DAM or KM initiatives in the enterprise. Simply implementing an asset management system and letting it grow organically is no longer an accepted practice.
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Using Taxonomies to Drive Intranet User Adoption
Many companies face the challenge of getting their customers the right product at the right time. And many companies employ a taxonomy to help drive product sales and improve findability on consumer-facing public websites. Check out wine.com or bestbuy.com to see some good examples of taxonomies used to improve the
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Video Blog: Sharing Tags Across the Enterprise
In light of this month's focus on Social Business, today's post looks at the collaborative potential of tags and how they can help inform taxonomies. As the video below demonstrates, by adding keywords to documents, all users can contribute to more intuitive searches within the enterprise's knowledge assets.
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Video Blog: DataFacet Refines Search in SharePoint 2010 with Autoclassification
Taxonomies in Enterprise CMSs like SharePoint 2010 can be made more valuable if content can be autoclassified. This month, I show how the taxonomy management tool DataFacet can be used to precisely control how autoclassification can be done to get better search results.
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Video Blog: Collaborative Taxonomy Creation in SharePoint 2010
Without being able to find documents quickly and easily, employees lose valuable time. By creating and maintaining strong taxonomies, enterprises ensure that easy access to important documents are maintained. In my last post, I demonstrated the necessity of good metadata to access digital assets.
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Video Blog: Updating Metadata in your Digital Asset Management System
Many organizations use a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system to store all the various media assets used within marketing material and other applications. But putting your assets in a DAM system is the easy part, finding them can be harder if you don't have a strong taxonomy defined.
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Governing a Taxonomy in an Enterprise CMS
The more time I spend with clients working on taxonomies within a CMS, the more I realize that the real challenge isn’t technical per se (even though CMS platforms out there aren’t really “taxonomy friendly” just yet).
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Using the 'Crowd' to Create Taxonomies in an Enterprise CMS
Since it’s my job to create taxonomies for clients within their content management system, it’s somewhat ironic that I encourage letting the “crowd” (e.g., employees at the company) create the taxonomies instead of me using my years of professional experience to build them.
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Information Management: 5 Taxonomy Must Haves for Your Organization
The art and science of organizing terms and terminology – taxonomy -- has recently gained a lot of buzz in corporate tech circles, so much so that taxonomy consultants like me no longer have to explain that we’re not about stuffing recently expired animals to make them appear life-like in
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