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Video might have killed the Radio Star but in today's video streaming world it certainly is helping distribute knowledge and that is why we are publishing a video page to augment our blog postings.

Very often i talk to clients and they are in need of information to learn about key concepts or even just to share a third party view with their colleagues about specific topics around controlled vocabularies that I know someone on the team has presented or written about. It could be for example providing a white paper about Audience Centric Views, a video overview of Taxonomy Management Tools and how to use these tools to collaborate around developing controlled vocabularies or a real life case study of an existing client using Synaptica. In the past, I have kept these references in a .txt file on my desktop that I reference when I need to, but since this blog is being used as a resource for both us internally here at Dow Jones as well as the community, i figured it would be a good time to start a Video Library of our Dow Jones public resources.

So without any further ado- our Dow Jones Video Library has been published.

This is just the start of turning Synaptica Central into a must go to resource for our community, so please watch this space for additional resource pages from recommended white papers, industry standards references, must see videos, must listen to podcasts and must read books!

Have suggestions of things we should make sure we add to our resource pages? Please leave them in the comments or drop me a note at daniela.barbosa@dowjones.com

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I am a huge fan of Techmeme and therefore of Gabe Rivera who just yesterday got named by Business Week as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web!!

So i recorded this message earlier today:

For the month of September, i managed to convince our wonderful marketing department to have our new Dow Jones Synaptica Central Blog as one of the sponsored posts on Techmeme and we have certainly had success in driving traffic and interest in the Taxonomy side of the Dow Jones Client Solutions business.

I was an early fan of Techmeme - for example here is a video of me and Robert Scoble in February 2007 showing Clare Hart, Dow Jones EVP, Techmeme and can you can hear how excited i get.

Well today is the last day of the month- and we decided to skip the month of October as a sponsored post - but we hope to be back soon!

Congratulations once again Gabe and thanks for letting us be a sponsored guest to get our Synaptica Central blog off the ground!

Welcome to Synaptica Central!

This morning, before officially launching this site, I had occasion to speak with some very smart folks at a small technology company in Illinois. Our conversation ranged across many semantic topics, but it was refreshing to find like minds on the topic of complexity, and it I'd like to share some of the thoughts I had coming out of the meeting.