Email is Dead. Long Live Email.

As I looked at my BlackJack for the 34th time this morning, receiving yet another email in an incredibly long thread of replies spawned from a single email sent to 15 people, I finally realized: Andrew McAfee is right. Professor McAfee tends to put it rather bluntly in his lectures: “email is dead”.
While his [...]

Building a Corporate Taxonomy

With social bookmarking and tagging becoming popular across most consumer websites, such as del.icio.us, flickr, youtube and others, are taxonomies dead?
Emphatically: no.  Every organization that generates or manages volumes of information should have and maintain a commonly shared taxonomy for organizing, storing and accessing that information.  Just so we’re clear: when I say “taxonomy”, I’m [...]