http://sethearley.wordpress.com Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:36:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In our work of building and maintaining e-commerce taxonomies, we often run into the problem of products not fitting nicely into one single category. Although this problem is not specific to e-commerce taxonomies, their use for navigation and browsing presents a special categorization challenge; the need to lead a wide ... http://sethearley.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/the-case-of-the-ubiquitous-headphones/ As a taxonomy consultant, I always recommend (rather, urge with great gravitas) to my clients that they reserve some time and budget for adequate user testing. As they say, the proof is in the pudding: there's nothing better than quantitative data to tell you whether you've built a structure that ... http://sethearley.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-pain-and-gain-of-taxonomy-user-testing/ Enterprise Search Survey Sue Feldman, research VP, content technologies at IDC, and Michelle Manafy, editor of EContent magazine, the Enterprise Search Sourcebook, and conference programmer for the Enterprise Search Summit Invite you to participate in a short (2-4 minute) survey about enterprise search tool selection. They will present the results at ... http://sethearley.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/enterprise-search-survey/ From time to time we organize a free educational conference call series on search, taxonomy or content managment. Next month, we'll be running our Search Series. Register at http://www.earley.com/Searchjumpstart2008.asp Search is complex: There are lots of tools and techniques that can be applied to solving the challenges surrounding the "findability" of information. ... http://sethearley.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/search-solutions-jumpstart-series/