Digital Asset Management

Indexing Craziness : Beyond Search.

I read “Folksonomy and Taxonomy – do you have to choose?,” which takes the position that a SharePoint administrator can use a formal controlled term list or just let the users slap their own terms into an index field. The buzzword for allowing users to index documents is part of [...]

6 Thoughts About Location Madness.

Location based social networks – are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW.
We’re excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter’s Geolocation API Makes Possible and The Era of Location as Platform Has Arrived. But it’s [...]

DAM Talk  George Knox CEO @ Vamosa Enterprise Content Governance, talks to Paul Quigley.
George seeks to deliver customers with control and structure to all enterprise content in a fully automated way with the broadest and most technologically advanced range of products and professional services. His vision for the customer has helped to define a software [...]

Contentation Re-considered – Home.

I already mentioned this topic last summer (in What is the future of Content Management?#6 Your Personal Digital Filing Cabinet for your entire Lifecycle) and in my 2010 predictions(#8: Personal Web Filing Cabinet is the next Content Shadow IT), but I have not really taken the time to detail it much more yet.
PCM/PKM: The [...]

Content analysis: Using taxonomies to improve collaboration « Open Intelligence.

Ark Group presents our One-day MASTER CLASS
February 10, 2010 – Holborn Bars, London
Thanks to the Internet, the world has become a swelling ocean full of data. One grand challenge of our age is to find a way to harness that data. And that’s where [...]

Photo organization: How Geoff does it | Photodoto.

Photodoto reader Geoff Coupe sent in some very helpful and detailed responses to my plea for help regarding my Great Photo Organization Project (which is still proceeding although I haven’t updated the sidebar in a little while). Here are his excellent responses to my questions (and you can read [...]

No, this is not another fanboy posting about  Googlewave, although I am a fan and can see the massive potential of this new tool to become a disruptive force in personal asset management, there’s a long way to go, but the kernel of change has once again been set by THE tech media company.
No, [...]

Making content discoverable is the job of a well-constructed, robust taxonomy — and a mission-critical objective for today’s organizations. Designed,developed,implemented,and managed effectively,a taxonomy or categorization scheme ensures people are finding and using precise information in myriad internal data collections and websites.
Now in its 5th year, Taxonomy Boot Camp has proven to be an incredible opportunity to [...]

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
When the SEO behemoth Google took the wraps off its new indexing for content application ‘Index Now‘ site search, the whole sphere of enterprise taxonomy and folksonomies is conjured as the role of knowledge management and context become ever more critical to effective content management strategies. Enterprises and organisations are [...]

All social input strategies rely on the good-graces of well-intentioned users habituated to provide input over time to succeed… Social strategies will self-correct for this problem over time under the presumption that more users than not will provide “good” information.