2006-10-26 Date & Time: Wednesday Oct 25th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EDT. Description Bringing a taxonomy to life is not an easy job. Operationalization often requires juggling multiple perspectives, such as those of designers, content publishers, application developers, not to mention consumers. These groups all have different views on what taxonomy is, how it should be applied, managed, integrated, etc. So, knowing this, how do you roll your taxonomy to the enterprise? This session will present taxonomy operationalization strategies that take into account this multiplicity of views. Learn about: - Different taxonomy formats (controlled value lists, reference data, etc.) - Implementation issues - Cross-project perspectives - Communication and education - Governance and standards This session explores these and other issues around "socializing" the taxonomy within the organization to ensure it is an effective tool. Presenter: Seth Earley, Earley & Associates 106 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on operationalizing taxonomies. 2006-10-25 true http://www.earley.com/events.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/106 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/106/TaxoCoP.gif governance, implementation, operationalization, taxonomy 2006-12-02 User Experience design is often thought of as distinct or different from taxonomy design. What are good IA practices and how do they influence taxonomy design? In this session you'll hear from three experienced IA's who will share specific examples from their organizations and consulting projects that will illustrate principles that you can apply in your taxonomy projects. In this session, hear about: a user experience design effort that combines information architecture and taxonomy approaches for a major financial services client; specific experiences applying IA with Compaq and HP and "business taxonomies" - taxonomies that live within strict business limitations. Presenters: Seth Earley, Earley & Associates Joe Lamantia Tanya Rabourn Andrew Gent, Hewlitt Packard 137 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call 2006-12-01 true http://www.earley.com/events.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/137 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/137/TaxoCoP.gif design, taxonomy, user experience 2007-02-01 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call: Integrating your taxonomy project with other enterprise initiatives. Date & Time: Wednesday, Jan 31st - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Register for the session at http://www.earley.com. Please register by January 30th to ensure that you receive the instructions in time. Description Whether you like it or not, you won't be deriving your taxonomies in a vaccuum. During the development process, you often have to collaborate and integrate with related projects in the enterprise, such as web design, search engine optimization, e-commerce, and enterprise architecture. So how do you keep in alignment with all these other workstreams and keep your project on plan? Our speakers in this session will cover strategies to help you achieve a smooth integration. Learn about working with cross-functional teams, communication strategies, and cross-initiative workstream integration. Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Margaret Hanley, and Ron Daniel (Taxonomy strategies LLC) 160 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call: Integrating your taxonomy project with other enterprise initiatives. 2007-01-31 true http://www.earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/160 communication, enterprise architecture, information architecture, integration, taxonomy King of Prussia USA 2007-02-22 Time: 6 - 8 pm Location: GSI Commerce, Inc., 935 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming at phillyCHI@gmail.com Interest in content user-assigned tags is one of the big new stories on the Web. But content tagging is not a new story. What's new about Web 2.0 is that end users are doing the tagging instead of librarians, and the results are being shown almost instantly on websites like flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and Technorati.Librarians have long contended that end users cannot usefully tag content because they are not trained in how to do indexing. More correctly, end users cannot tag content the way librarians tag content. But this begs the question about what kind of tagging is useful. Joseph will discuss the usefulness to be found in tagging as it relates to librarians and usability professionals, the Semantic Web, and document and content management practices. Joseph Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy Strategies. Joseph is an authority in the field of information science, a past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. He is a frequent speaker on metadata, taxonomy, indexing, classification research, information retrieval, and content management. Read more about Joseph at Taxonomy Strategies. 166 PA phillyCHI welcomes Joseph A. Busch of Taxonomy Strategies LLC as he speaks on the importance of tagging to librarians, usability practitioners and content management professionals. 2007-02-21 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/166 chi, delaware, design, folksonomy, ia, indexing, information architecture, joseph busch, librarians, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, semantic web, tagging, taxonomy, taxonomy strategies, web 20 2007-03-01 Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Cost: $50 per participant. Register for the session at http://www.earley.com. Please register by February 27th to ensure that you receive the instructions in time. Designing and implementing a practical and effective taxonomy always starts with a practical and effective set of project requirements. Whether you're developing or implementing a taxonomy, using in-house talent or creating a vendor/consultant request for proposal (RFP), you need to clearly scope the project and identify the application framework. When you get the ball rolling with a set of well-defined goals and requirements, you'll be more likely to end up with a result that meets your expectations. In this session, our speakers will offer practical insights into the requirements development process. We'll learn about: * Scoping your taxonomy project * Defining your application framework * Creating effective RFPs * Aligning project requirements with your goals and expectations Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Jie-hong Morrison (Computer Technologies Consultants, Inc.), Harry Ringwood (Philip Morris) 176 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on developing taxonomy project requirements. 2007-02-28 true http://www.earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/176 information architecture, knowledge management, request for proposals, seo, taxonomy 2007-03-29 Date & Time: Wednesday, Mar 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Cost: $50 per participant. Register for the session at http://www.earley.com. Please register by March 27th to ensure that you receive the instructions in time. Description: The challenge of knowledge management (KM) is one of context - understanding the user's frame of reference, mental model, problem solving approach and stage of process in their work task. We also need to know something about how people describe the things that they need, and their understanding of labels that are placed on documents. All of this points to the need for terminology that is consistent and multiple facets that can be used to describe all of these various attributes of content-- in other words, a taxonomy. As organizations attempt to deal with information chaos, managers are recognizing the need for organizing principles that can extend across silos, span the enterprise, and connect disparate systems and repositories. Taxonomies and other categorization schemes offer solutions to that chaos. Hear how taxonomy projects are essential to knowledge management initiatives, and learn how to apply thesaurus structures to improve the findability of explicit knowledge, and the ability to locate and leverage tacit expertise. Speakers will focus on the need to define context and process, and how to apply taxonomies to effectively support KM. Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Giovanni Piazza (KnowledgeWeb Program, Center for Business Knowledge, Ernst & Young LLP), Jayne Dutra (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA) 189 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on taxonomy and knowledge management. Wednesday, Mar 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. 2007-03-28 true http://earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/189 findability, knowledge management, taxonomy, thesaurus structures 2007-04-13 Get up to speed quickly on what you need to know about taxonomies and learn how to get started on a taxonomy project in your organization in this free 4-week webinar series. The Taxonomy & Metadata JumpStart will tackle some of the issues and challenges in deriving taxonomies and metadata standards. During these calls, you will hear from experts at leading Fortune 500 companies and be exposed to tools from select vendors. Led by Seth Earley of Earley and Associates, each of the four 90-minute webinars feature taxonomy experts and practitioners sharing practical advice and information about how to develop, manage, and maintain a taxonomy. You'll receive a valuable slide deck in advance of each call, and have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers and interact with others in the audience. April 12th - 1:00-2:30pm EDT Session 2: Getting Started - Taxonomy Building Blocks Topics include: * What is a taxonomy? * What is metadata? What is a thesaurus? * How do these pieces become a taxonomy? * A taxonomy project roadmap Presenters:Seth Earley (Earley & Associates, Marjorie Hlava, Jay Ven Eman (Access Innovations, Inc.) 194 Join us for the second in a free series of four Jumpstart calls on Taxonomy & Metadata, every Thursday from April 5th-26th. Sign up for the sessions at http://earley.com 2007-04-12 true http://earley.com/TaxonomyMetadataJumpstart.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/194 cms, folksonomy, governance, metadata, taxonomy, thesaurus 2007-04-20 Get up to speed quickly on what you need to know about taxonomies and learn how to get started on a taxonomy project in your organization in this free 4-week webinar series. The Taxonomy & Metadata JumpStart will tackle some of the issues and challenges in deriving taxonomies and metadata standards. During these calls, you will hear from experts at leading Fortune 500 companies and be exposed to tools from select vendors. Led by Seth Earley of Earley and Associates, each of the four 90-minute webinars feature taxonomy experts and practitioners sharing practical advice and information about how to develop, manage, and maintain a taxonomy. You'll receive a valuable slide deck in advance of each call, and have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers and interact with others in the audience. April 19th - 1:00-2:30pm EST Session 3: Managing Structured Metadata and Taxonomies Topics include: * Relationship between taxonomy, metadata and content objects * Metadata standards and thesaurus structures * Managing taxonomic and structured metadata - the different flavors * Bridging the gap between the data world and the content world Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Barbara Nichols (Metaview 360), Stu Carty (Gavlian Research) 206 Join us for the third in our free series of four Jumpstart calls on Taxonomy & Metadata: "Managing Structured Metadata and Taxonomies" Date: Thursday, April 19th, 2007 Time: 1:00-2:30pm EDT 2007-04-19 true http://www.earley.com/TaxonomyMetadataJumpstart.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/206 content management, metadata, taxonomy, thesaurus structures 2007-05-31 In our global business environment, it often isn't enough to derive a taxonomy in English. Frequently, international businesses and web sites now need multi-lingual taxonomies, or local language variations. This challenge was discussed in a CoP thread earlier this year, and now the May conference call will let you hear from some experts on this topic. Should you have a central master taxonomy and local variants? Do the local versions translate back to global term? What happens when some taxonomy owners are non-English speakers? What is the governance structure for a multi-lingual? Seth Earley, along with Marti Heyman and Denise Bedford, will discuss strategies, solutions, and describe case studies and examples about how to manage multi-lingual taxonomies. Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Denise Bedford (World Bank Group, Georgetown University, University of Tennessee, Kent State University), Marti Heyman (Phena Partners) 223 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on multi-lingual taxonomies. Wednesday, May 30th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EDT. Cost: $50 per participant. 2007-05-30 true http://earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/223 governance, multilingual, taxonomy New York USA 2007-06-01 Please see event site for complete details. Note: While the current event venue is sold out, a larger venue is in the works. Please put your name on the waiting list. Subscribe to NYC UPA emailing list for event updates at http://www.ncyupa.org/ 233 NY Join us for a full day workshop on card sorting and analysis with Carol Righi of Perficient. This tutorial has been successfully presented at UPA, CHI, and HFES conferences since 2005. 2007-05-31 false http://nycupacardsort.eventbrite.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/233 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/233/nyc_upa_logo_name_only.gif card sorting, cluster analysis, nyc upa, taxonomy 2007-08-02 TaxoCoP Monthly Call Date & Time: August 1st, 1:00pm EDT Cost: 50$ Register for the session at http://www.earley.com/_July2007.asp Recently, tagging, folkonomies and ontologies are emerging as new ways to capture social and domain knowledge. Furthermore, using the emerging Semantic Web standards such as RDF and OWL, and technologies for automatic metadata extraction (annotation) and semantic analysis, we have alternative or newer ways to organize, integrate and exploit (search, analyze and perform knowledge discovery) information within enterprise and on the Web. We will provide an overview of current state of the art and share some personal experiences that may answer the following questions * what types of ontologies have been built, how they are built, is there a typical ontology, low large a typical ontology is, what does it take to build and maintain ontologies * how well (semantic) metadata annotation/extraction work * what is the status and adoption of Semantic Web standards and technologies * what kind of advanced capabilities (analytical, decision making and discovery) are made possible using Semantic Web technologies * which domains have been more amenable to applications of ontologies and Semantic Web technologies, and what are few use cases? Most of the discussion will be through the use of real-world examples/applications. Presenter: Dr. Amit Sheth Dr. Sheth is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar and director of the Knowledge Enabled Information and Services Center (http://knoesis.wright.edu) at Wright State University. Earlier he founded and directed the LSDIS lab at University of Georgia, and worked at Bellcore, Unisys and Honeywell. His research interests include the Semantic Web, services science, and information integration and analysis. 288 Hear about how ontologies and semantic approaches can be leveraged as another set of tools and approaches to solving the problem or organizing content that does not contain metadata. 2007-08-01 true http://www.earley.com/_July2007.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/288 autocategorization, metadata, ontology, semantic web, taxonomy Philadelphia USA 2007-08-24 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm * Meet & greet from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm * Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvania 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140 RSVP (not necessary, but nice): phillychi@gmail.com Most folks know that taxonomy has something to do with organizing things. Fewer folks know, however, that taxonomy is the practice of classification, which originally began as a science devoted to the classification of living organisms. And that over time, taxonomy has become known as the classification of just about anything and everything. Even fewer get down into the weeds and do the work that goes beyond simple classification that makes today’s information systems work: meta data, facets, controlled vocabulary, thesauri, synonym maps, ontologies, tagging… What’s troubling about this divide between those that know about taxonomy and those that don’t is the very importance of taxonomy. For lots of designers & developers, the applications, websites, and interactive products they spend their waking hours creating could not function without well-structured, carefully crafted information structures. This month’s PhillyCHI meeting will explore in practical and tangible terms the specific ways taxonomy is important to the work we do. We will discuss the design, implementation, and governance of taxonomies by examining four real-world case studies: * a user-centric catalog for a large e-commerce site and its impact on the user experience * a content-heavy non-profit information site * a system processing data through controlled vocabularies and thesauri * a consumer-driven search engine Plenty of time will be reserved at the end of the meeting for discussion, so bring your tough questions! Panel Participants Dave Cooksey, GSI Commerce, Inc Emily Culbertson, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation John Ferrara, Vanguard Julia Remick, Yellow Book USA 293 PA For this month’s PhillyCHI meeting, we’ve assembled a panel to discuss a foundational topic: taxonomy. 2007-08-23 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/293 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/293/phillyCHI-logo.gif chi, delaware, design, ia, information architecture, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, taxonomy 2007-08-30 We are seeing a drive toward less control and a decentralization of term creation. Think tags and collaboration tools like wikis and blogs. Is there a hybrid process? Can we get the precision of facets with the adaptability of tags? This month's taxonomy Community of Practice call will explore these issues. We'll start with an overview of facets and faceted search and then hear from Peter Bell, one of the founders of Endeca, a faceted search company, about new developments in the field that allow a combination of unstructured and structured tagging and classification. When Facets Meet Wikis and Tags "Put simply, if you're an information architect, we see facets in your future," writes Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld in the newest edition of O'Reilly's "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" (aka The Polar Bear.) Faceted classification has moved beyond early adopters in the past few years, and is now graduating to more advanced projects. One such use is enterprise social collaboration, aka Enterprise 2.0. In particular, facets are being used to improve information access for employee-generated content like wikis and blogs. And this content is categorized into facets with folksonomies, or user- generated tags. But without centralized authority, how can facets ensure security, tame chaos, and coexist with curated content? In this session, we'll show results from Endeca's own internal deployment of such a system, which has served as a laboratory for innovations on facets in enterprise social collaboration. Presenters: Seth Earley Seth Earley is founder and senior consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy development and search integration. Pete Bell Pete Bell is the cofounder of Endeca, the pioneer of the Information Access Platform and one of the world's fastest growing software companies. 295 This months' taxonomy Community of Practice call will explore issues of facets and new developments in faceted search that combine unstructured and structured tagging and classification. 2007-08-29 true http://www.earley.com/_August2007.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/295 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/295/TaxoCoP.gif faceted search, facets, folksonomy, tagging, taxonomy 2007-09-27 What if we let users drive the taxonomy? There is a lot of dialogue and research being conducted on folksonomies - also known as social tagging. Is it effective? How can we use folksonomy in the corporate environment? Emma Tonkin from the University of Bath will talk about how research projects in recent years have centered around the analysis and description of user tagging practice and the resulting data sets. She will provide a brief description of their approach towards data collection and analysis of large tag sets, and highlight a few potential uses for a successful model of user tag sets. Laurie Damianos will describe an ongoing technology investigation at MITRE to assess the value and utility of social bookmarking on a corporate intranet. They hypothesize that social bookmarking would be useful in this environment for resource management, information sharing and discovery, expert finding, and social networking. She will discuss features of the prototype system deployed and early analysis of findings on adoption, usage, and social influences. She will conclude with our challenges and plans for future development and integration into the enterprise 324 This month's taxonomy community call series talks about social tagging and 2 specific projects at MITRE and the University of Bath. 2007-09-26 true http://www.earley.com/_September_2007.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/324 folksonomies, folksonomy, social bookmarking, social tagging, taxonomy, user tags, web 20 Boston USA 2007-11-09 Register for all 4 days by October 23rd with the promotion code BOXES to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition UI12 iPod video http://www.uiconf.com BOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registrations. For the User Interface 12 Conference ( http://www.uiconf.com ), Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers have asked the most forward thinking minds in the world of usability to present on today's most pressing design topics. For 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth techniques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. Now in its twelfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and usability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability professionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Communicating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. On Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wroblewski. On Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from each of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote presentation from Jared M. Spool. On Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevin Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. We'll cap off the week on Thursday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars. 196 MA User Interface 12 is being held November 5-8, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on today's most pressing usability and design issues. 2007-11-05 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/196 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/196/ui12-badge.gif agile development, book, book seller, comics, content, content management, css, design, designer, developer, engineering, folksonomy, information architecture, innovation, interaction, interface, jared spool, management, personas, professional, seminar, social, social web design, taxonomy, testing, tutortial, ucd, uie, usability, user, ux, visual design, web application, web site, workshop Ottawa, Ontario Canada 2007-11-30 If you are involved in managing, developing, or writing for websites, you won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. Gerry McGovern, is making a rare visit to Ottawa this fall to give a Masterclass on creating customer-centric websites. Organizations whose websites focus on the customer and on task completion, rather than on themselves, are the ones getting the most from their Web content, whether it’s selling products or delivering services. This two-day Masterclass will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality “killer Web content” and the arguments to support an approach that puts the customer at the very centre of your Web strategy. You should attend this workshop if you are: - Writing, editing or publishing Web content - Managing Web projects - Promoting websites - Concerned about Web usability The Masterclass is being hosted by Neo Insight Inc., in collaboration with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) and Canada Business, Industry Canada. Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! 339 Canada Two day Masterclass to provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality "killer Web content" and arguments to support this approach. 2007-11-28 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/339 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/339/gerryclasssmall.jpg carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design 2007-12-06 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice call on Taxonomy, Metadata & Publishing Weds. Dec 5th, 1-2pm ET Cost: 50$ Register at www.earley.com/_Nov2007.asp Issues of data delivery, aggregation, content reuse and standards have been at the forefront of many e-publishers' minds. We will hear from Chris Hogue (Roundarch) on the Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) and its usage. We will also hear from Mid Walsh on the use of taxonomy, indexing and content reuse at Houghton Mifflin. 365 Nowhere is there a more compelling case for taxonomy & metadata than in the world of publishing. 2007-12-05 true http://www.earley.com/_Nov2007.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/365 content reuse, epublishing, metadata, prism, publishing, taxocop, taxonomy 2008-01-31 Time: 1:00-2:00pm ET Cost: 50$ Description: Taxonomy and metadata standards projects can be abstract and difficult to explain. However, unless you are able to clearly convey the value of this work, it will be challenging, if not impossible to get organizational support, resources and buy in. How do you get management to understand how taxonomy can improve business processes and help achieve goals of improved productivity as well as provide a foundation for new capabilities that the organization will need down the road? How can the magnitude of the effort be explained while convincing decision makers that the investment in these kinds of projects are core to organizational adaptability and flexibility? How do you explain the role of taxonomy projects in the era of "just get Google"? Join us to learn how Jeff Auker, Assistant Vice President in the Hartford's Personal Lines Department managed communications and gained support for an enterprise taxonomy initiative at the insurance company. This session is a must hear event for anyone struggling with getting and retaining organizational support for their taxonomy and information architecture programs. 395 Join us to learn how Jeff Auker, Assistant VP ing the Hartford's Personal Lines Dept. managed communications and gained support for an enterprise taxonomy initiative at the insurance company. 2008-01-30 true http://www.earley.com/_Jan2008.asp http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/395 buyin, management, metadata, selling, taxonomies, taxonomy Philadelphia USA 2008-02-27 PhillyCHI February Meeting - "Taxonomy is User Experience" by Dave Cooksey Date: Tue, 2/26/2008 Time: 6 - 8PM Location: Irvine Auditorium University of Pennsylvania 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 RSVP: Please help us to plan and RSVP at phillychi@gmail.com Taxonomy Is User Experience Over the past couple of years, we've all seen a lot of discussion around user-organized, user-generated content with sites like Flickr and Wikipedia held up as the future of user experiences where users tag and organize information as it suits them. We've even heard a certain amount of talk about the end of taxonomies. Despite the rise of tagging and wikis, and the user experiences they enable, taxonomy has never been more important. Taxonomies continue to grow in importance as metadata and ontologies extend their capabilities and allow us to create more engaging user experiences. This presentation will approach taxonomies from the user's perspective by introducing a simple conceptual framework that communicates the centrality of taxonomies to UX. Then, it will cover: - the virtues of thinking of taxonomy in terms of the user experience and not simply as data or classification - ways to talk about taxonomy that clearly communicate its business value and help promote it as a practice - how to craft a user-centric taxonomy by examining several e-commerce redesign case studies About Our Speaker Dave is a UX Lead at gsi interactive and Chair of PhillyCHI. His day-to-day work includes guiding and executing UX & design activities, conducting user research, and information architecture. He also leads taxonomy and metadata projects. Dave's work is informed by masters degrees in information systems and social science. This presentation will be sponsored by gsi interactive. To learn more about gsi interactive, visit www.gsicommerce.com. 416 PA This talk will approach taxonomies from the user's perspective by introducing a simple conceptual framework that communicates the centrality of taxonomies to UX. Sneak peek of an IA Summit session. 2008-02-26 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/416 information architecture, taxonomy Ottawa Canada 2008-05-07 If you are involved in managing, developing, or writing for websites, you won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. Gerry McGovern, is making a repeat visit to Ottawa, after his sold-out presentation last November, to give an encore Masterclass on creating customer-centric websites. Organizations whose websites focus on the customer and on task completion, rather than on themselves, are the ones getting the most from their Web content, whether it's selling products or delivering services. This two-day Masterclass will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality "killer Web content" and the arguments to support an approach that puts the customer at the very centre of your Web strategy. You should attend this workshop if you are: - Writing, editing or publishing Web content - Managing Web projects - Promoting websites - Concerned about Web usability The Masterclass is being hosted by Neo Insight Inc., in collaboration with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! 436 Canada Managing, developing, or writing for websites? You won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. 2008-05-05 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/436 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/436/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Ottawa Canada 2008-05-08 This Executive session is for senior managers and executives who have to translate strategic plans and visions into coordinated actions by other people. It is for those of you who want to: - Take your vision and manage your website to realize your strategic objectives - Make decisions based on data rather than opinion - Establish a clear return on investment - Maintain a clear focus to get maximum impact from limited resources - Develop actionable metrics for effectively managing the web channel The key challenge you face today with your website is not about technology or content. It’s about service. How do you let your customers (citizens, consumers and businesses) more quickly and more easily serve themselves? Because on the Web it’s all about self-service. The Web is about the shift in power from the organization to the customer. Simply put, the Web empowers customers and citizens more than it empowers organizations. The most successful websites are built around the needs of its users, rather than the demands of organizations and managers. In the long-term, being customer-centric is not a like-to-do, it is a must-do. Gerry McGovern is world-renowned speaker and expert on Web content and usability. He communicates the essential strategies that every manager needs to know, in an engaging and humorous way that makes his message unforgettable. Do not miss this one-off opportunity 437 Canada This half-day session is for senior managers and executives. It focuses on quickly getting quantifiable results from a Customer Carewords approach to managing your website. Learn to manage tasks. 2008-05-07 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/exec-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/437 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/437/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design San Jose USA 2008-05-23 Widely recognized as the World’s Foremost Symposium on the Commercialization of Semantic Technologies, the SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 come to life in products, in working applications, in case studies, and in conversations with hundreds of developers, entrepreneurs and practitioners who are building a new industry. SemTech 2008 is a world-class educational program, including 5 days of business case studies, technical tracks, user groups, product briefings, demonstrations, industry-focus groups and networking opportunities. EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS – including our special 3rd Person attends Free offer – are available until April 21! For the full conference agenda and to receive regular program updates, go to: www.semantic-conference.com or call +1-310-477-4475 435 CA The SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 come to life. 2008-05-18 false http://semantic-conference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/435 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/435/SemTech2008_122x200.jpg linked data, ontologies, ontology, rdf, semantic, soa, taxonomies, taxonomy, technology, web, web 30