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The Need to Effectively Map Content for Users
Christian Buckley@buckleyplanet
Searching and Connecting
AboutChristian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint, author, and community builder
• Prior to Axceler, worked for Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and worked as a consultant in the areas of software, supply chain, grid technology, and collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a software company to Rational Software. At another startup (E2open) helped design, build, and deploy a collaboration platform for the high-tech manufacturing sector, deployed at companies like Hitachi, Matsushita, and Seagate
• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March 2012) and 3 books on software configuration management.
• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: [email protected]
Abstract
The key for businesses to succeed in today’s social world is to help users collaborate, connect with each other, and, ultimately, find the content they need to be successful.
This session will provide insight into how social computing benefits the enterprise and the search experience by improving information worker productivity.
In the next 20 minutes, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about
SocialTaxonomySearchGovernanceProductivity
Tools that manage and manipulate content and social interactions are becoming more integrated and seamless
Enterprise platforms are increasingly looking not just at solving core work streams, but in ensuring productivity when moving between work streams
What your systems look like today
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Why metadata and taxonomy matter
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• Book title• Author• ISBN• Publisher
• Name• Account Number• Credit Card• Social Security #• Billing Address
• Device ID• Email• Software version
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• Travel dates• City visiting• Flight number• GPS position
• Friend’s Name• City visiting• GPS position• Distance to friend• Avoidance Flag = Yes
• Name• Account Number• Mileage to date• Home town
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Organizing your Taxonomy is Key
Context is important.
Taxonomy is important.
Metadata is important.
In the next 20 minutes, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about
SocialTaxonomySearchGovernanceProductivity
Understanding the connection between social and taxonomy
• A folksonomy is a taxonomy (or set of terms) that arises as a result of people applying their own tags (metadata) to content objects.
• People use the tags that make sense to them, so over a period of time as more people tag, the folksonomy becomes more and more appropriate for the audience by associating content objects with the words and concepts people use to think about them.
• Unlike metadata terms, keywords aren’t organized into a hierarchy that users select from. Instead, users can enter any value into a keyword field.
Using Folksonomy
• The primary value of a folksonomy is that it uses your own vocabulary
• May come from your intimate knowledge of a subject
• A way to correlate discovered content (through search or social interactions) to your understanding
Why use folksonomy?
Folksonomy in practice
Taxonomy• Paper• Airplane• White• Toy
Folksonomy• Paper• Flight• Airplane• Design• White• Toy• Origami• Technique• Distance
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folksonomy
Opportunity to improve global search
Social is about creating folksonomy
In fact, social is just another layer of the search experience
How social improves search
Two documents are added to SharePoint
• Taxonomy applied• Folksonomy (tags)• Social dialog• Shared• Liked• Rated
• Taxonomy applied
Governance is key (because it doesn’t manage itself)
The Governance Layer
Governance is about guiding your system and your users toward a shared understanding of the end goal, which is◦To improve collaboration◦To meet regulatory and industry standards◦To streamline, improve business processes◦To make your users more productive
But be careful! The more controls you put on a system, the less people will use that system.
In the next 20 minutes, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about
SocialTaxonomySearchGovernanceProductivity
Productivity in Action via Social
Community
Sharing
Personalization
How Social and Taxonomy Drive ProductivityFoster communityEnable sharingAllow for personalization andHave a strategy for metadata
As your end users participate in the system, and assuming you are managing the system (governance), your users will get more out of the system – and be more productive
In the next 20 minutes, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about
SocialTaxonomySearchGovernanceProductivity
Other Options for Improving Metadata Optimization
Adoption StrategyGamificationTaxonomy StrategyBuilding with Purpose (know your requirements)
Thorough Change Management Processes
Are you optimized for search?
Have you adopted a metadata strategy?
Have you developed a social strategy?
Are you focusing on the end user experience?
Are you looking at the metrics?
Have you established a cycle for continuous improvement on what you’ve already built?
Areas for initial focus
Thank you!
Order your copy at http://oreil.ly/qC4loT
Christian [email protected]+1 [email protected] and http://info.axceler.com
* Additional Resources * On The Importance of Metadata, Craig Mullins http://bit.ly/cOWp2F * Enabling Social Media through Metadata http://slidesha.re/gdjoaz* The Battle for Metadata in SharePoint 2010, Michal Pisarek http://bit.ly/g7vFWN * Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra http://headrush.typepad.com/