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After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information)

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Presentation at Enterprise 2.0 2008 in Boston. This is aimed at people who have social bookmarking tools running in their organization and ways to solve for under performance and messy usage.

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  1. Slide 1: After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information) Thomas Vander Wal Presented to: Enterprise 2.0 Boston, MA, USA :: 10 June 2008
  2. Slide 2: 2 Common Statements
  3. Slide 3: Nobody is using our services
  4. Slide 4: OR
  5. Slide 5: Good Great Utterly fantastic OMG we have way too much information
  6. Slide 6: Encouraging Use
  7. Slide 7: Add or improve guidance for use
  8. Slide 8: Keep in mind: perceived light use can have high value
  9. Slide 9: Number of Tags Per Item Distribution of “x Tagged” A6473 90.0 # People Tagging 67.5 45.0 22.5 0 Median InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. 2008
  10. Slide 10: Focus on values derived
  11. Slide 11: Who is using the service?
  12. Slide 12: What value is gained?
  13. Slide 13: Personal
  14. Slide 14: Collective
  15. Slide 15: Collaborative
  16. Slide 16: Newbie
  17. Slide 17: Service Owner
  18. Slide 18: Quick instructional videos
  19. Slide 19: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
  20. Slide 20: Easy tagging - similar to Amazon
  21. Slide 21: Tag Yes/No InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. - 2008
  22. Slide 22: Provide many use cases
  23. Slide 23: Continually highlight various success stories
  24. Slide 24: Move to pervasive tag tool integration
  25. Slide 25: Integrate with search
  26. Slide 26: Social search
  27. Slide 27: Collective search
  28. Slide 29: Selective social search: • Groups • Co-worker • Selected interests
  29. Slide 31: Personal contextual search
  30. Slide 32: Too much info
  31. Slide 33: Causes
  32. Slide 34: Single tags
  33. Slide 35: Tools too simple
  34. Slide 36: Lacking structure • Tags are taken as singles terms • Not using co-occurrence
  35. Slide 37: Lacking context • No grouping of taggers • ID does not tie to a persona or profile • Lacking relationship of tagger
  36. Slide 38: Facets needed
  37. Slide 39: Across many applications and services
  38. Slide 40: External incentive encouraged tagging
  39. Slide 41: Taggers are adding tags terms to self-stem (e.g. tag, tags, tagging)
  40. Slide 42: Many misspellings
  41. Slide 43: Tools need improved guidance & in-line help
  42. Slide 44: Solutions
  43. Slide 45: Single tags • Interface encourages diversity of tagging • Use more than one tag • Detect homogeneity
  44. Slide 46: Use a taxonomist who understands folksonomies
  45. Slide 47: Terms Around an Object Taxonomy Folksonomy - Ball (89) - Ball - Circle (63) - Sphere - Blue (23) - Blue - Orb (11) - Sphere (6) - #A6437 - Gradient (3) - ToBuy (3) - Darkblue (2) - Round (2) - … 26 more InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. 2008
  46. Slide 48: Part #A6473 Terms Distribution of Terms Validate A6473 taxonomy 90.0 or add to taxonomy Value in Interest Synonyms & 67.5 & watch Unique views 45.0 22.5 0 InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. 2008
  47. Slide 49: Tool is simple • Simplicity is good, but they need to be smarter • Surface multiple context • Surface co-occurrence of tags • Lacking individual tagging
  48. Slide 50: Embrace structure • Use co-occurrence of terms • Use identity and personal relationships • Tie to a taxonomy • Existing • Generic
  49. Slide 51: - Andy Edmonds @ http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=107
  50. Slide 53: Show context • Human • Object • Related terms
  51. Slide 55: Facets
  52. Slide 56: Identify facets • Interface • Takes time - neg • More complex interface may deter taggers • Automated • People • Products & type • Geo-location • Temporal
  53. Slide 57: Tools Get Out of the Way
  54. Slide 58: Aggregate tags across tools • Tag in and across applications • Blogs, wikis, Sharepoint, etc. • Retrieve across applications and services to provide breadth and more value
  55. Slide 59: Remove false incentives and focus real value - such as refindability
  56. Slide 60: Auto-stemming • Identify synonyms • Plurals • Spelling variations (incl. mis-spelling) • International terms
  57. Slide 61: Improve application guidance
  58. Slide 62: Pulling it all together
  59. Slide 63: Human needs and support
  60. Slide 64: Support various uses
  61. Slide 65: Improve the tools used
  62. Slide 66: Thank You! InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. - 2008
  63. Slide 67: URL: http://infocloudsolutions.com E-mail: thomas@infocloudsolutions.com E-mail: thomas@vanderwal.net AIM: vanderwal Skype: tjvanderwal InfoCloud Solutions, Inc. - 2008