Ramping up to our webinar in support of the forthcoming findings in the Market IQ on Findability, I wanted to point out a few useful resources to help in selling (or at least understanding) the issues that impact Findability, and ways to "solve" Findability.
First resource:
A presentation I'd posted a few months ago, and which I'd first created several years ago and used to make people's heads explode after I'd just spent 1-2 full days extolling the virtues of taxonomies and formal organization schemes.
Folksonomies and Facets
Second resource:
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2 weeks ago, I ran into Thomas Vander Wal, who coined the term "folksonomy." What better way to FURTHER explain the concept, than point to one of his recent presentations that relate to this? The presentation I chose discusses both the collaborative (it's made of people!) side of folksonomy (social bookmarking, primarily - ala delicious, connectbeam, etc.) as well as the tags and tagging that underpins the process.
After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information)
Third resource:
If any (all?) of this is of interest, stay tuned for our Market IQ on Findability, and the free public webinar coming up on Thursday June 26th at 2pm EDT, we've released some early findings (see press release), and have quite a bit more coming.
In the meantime - anyone using a folksonomy approach in your organization? Successfully? Failing? Would love to hear more about your experiences, and help to raise the best and worst practices around these areas.
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