Keeping Projects on Track

Just last week, a colleague asked me to run down a few of my experiences about projects that go awry. Here are a handful that we have observed:
1. Inconsistent team participation - This is especially true of longer term projects. One of the worst things that can happen is to have team members turn [...]

The Physics of Friendship

The Physics of Friendship Science and technology news PhysOrg.com
By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community structure, clustering and evolution of general acquaintances and even sexual contacts.
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Taxonomies and change: the nature of the beast

An interesting problem was posed to a mailing list I am a part of…
Imagine that you have been using a single hierarchy to structure and organize your information for years, and it has been very successful up until now…
But now it is time to move to a different content management system, and not only that [...]

Two new free conference call series - Search and Content Management

I wanted to post a preliminary note about our new Jump Start calls planned for September and October.
Each series will consist of 4 - 90 minute calls each with 2 - 3 presenters who are experts and practitioners in their fields.
Here is the tentative schedule:
Content Management Jumpstart:
Each Monday 1:30 - 3:00 EST September 25th [...]

Design for social tagging

A few comments in the feedback surveys from last week’s Taxonomy Community of Practice call on social tagging demonstrated a growing interest in design for social media. Part of Rashmi Sinha’s presentation during this call covered some key elements of design for social tagging, leaving our attendees wanting more!
We are hoping to have another call [...]