If you are planning to attend the upcoming SLA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, then you won't want to miss the SLA Tech Zone workshop Taxonomy and SharePoint--A Powerful Combination.
 
SharePoint helps your organization connect people to business critical information and expertise in order to increase productivity and reduce information overload. It achieves this by providing your employees with the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats. Understanding and using taxonomies within a SharePoint implementation to help users find content, is an essential part of ensuring a successful SharePoint deployment. Taxonomies can range from quite simple to very complex. In this session, we will cover the basics of evaluating what you can do to create a simple taxonomy that will yield the most benefits for your SharePoint implementations. You will have a chance to learn a range of Best Practices, from the basics of building a taxonomy to the hands-on skills of deploying that taxonomy within a SharePoint site.
 
This workshop is a suitable as either a quick-start or refresher in taxonomy managment for SharePoint. There are three sessions:

• Monday, 15 June 2009 9:00AM - 10:30AM (Ticketed Event #640)
• Monday, 15 June 2009 3:30PM - 5:00PM (Ticketed Event #660)
• Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:30AM - 1:00PM (Ticketed Event #805)

Price: US $35 member / US $35 non-member / US $35 student member
 
For details and registration information, see the SLA 2009 site.

Last night we conducted our Taxonomy and SharePoint a Powerful combination session for our clients in Asia Pacific . The first time we did this session was at the SLA (Special Library Conference) Annual Conference with a sold out Tech Zone we conducted . Then last September we did a webinar version that was very well attended and received great feedback. The feedback and requests for more sessions have been so great that this June at SLA, I will be doing another advanced on site session on the topic.

Based on feedback from our colleagues in Asia Pacific that SharePoint is taking off in their region which has prompted a lot of questions on taxonomy, we coordinated another live session last night specifically for that local audience with my colleague K Biju.

We are now pleased to also provide you with a recorded version of the learning session (view full screen below). These are the live exercises that i went through during yesterdays webinar as well as the download sheet of the exercises we recommend you download and follow along to learn about how to implement taxonomies in SharePoint in your own environment.

We hope you find this video and exercises useful and look forward to your feedback. Please feel free to leave you comments below or contact me at dan.segal@dowjones.com.
PLEASE: view in full screen by clicking full screen button below.

It is a known pain point for companies who have adopted SharePoint that there is no ‘out of the box’ feature for classifying the ever growing content that they have across multiple sites. As more companies adopt SharePoint globally, the grunts of pain are becoming louder and louder and we certainly hear them and are working with our customers to ease that pain.

For an introduction to Dow Jones’ taxonomy services and a better understanding of the use and benefits of taxonomies within a SharePoint implementation, attend our upcoming Webinar on Thursday, September 11th. Entitled Taxonomy and SharePoint: A Powerful Combination. During this session you will learn some of the basic ways to manage controlled vocabularies using standard out of the box features that you can use immediately as well as learn about our upcoming Synaptica integration into SharePoint.

SharePoint helps your organization connect people to business critical information and expertise in order to increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing your employees the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats. Understanding and using Taxonomies within a SharePoint implementation to help users find content, is an essential part of ensuring a successful SharePoint deployment. A Taxonomy can range from quite simple to very complex. In this session we will cover the basics of evaluating what you can do to create a simple taxonomy that will yield the most benefits for your SharePoint implementations. In this session you will learn a range of Best Practices, from the basics of building a taxonomy to the implementation of a taxonomy within a SharePoint site.

Recorded Webinar Available from this session on demand

Image|Flickr|By Vanessa Pike-Russell