See also Tagging content

Rich Hoeg is one of Honeywell's knowledge management and eLearning experts. Although part of Corporate Learning out of Morristown , N.J., he has worked at Honeywell 's Engineering R&D Labs in Minnnesota for over 22 years. This year he's involved with Honeywell's first internal social networking initiatives, including the use of blogs, wikis and tagging tools.

Folksonomies are informal lists of keywords created by users of content-sharing Web sites, such as del.icio.us (for bookmarks) and Flickr (for photos). Unlike controlled vocabularies, which consist of preferred and variant terms created by professional indexers, folksonomies contain current terms used by real people to categorize their own stuff.

The real power of folksonomies lies in sharing lists of categories among users and applying them in search and discovery applications. Ideally, they are integrated with traditional metadata structures, such as thesauri.

In this roundtable, Rich Hoeg of Honeywell will tell how his organization is using a product called ConnectBeam to allow engineers to tag articles they find via searches conducted using the Google Search Appliance.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is for practitioners only. Space is limited to permit everyone's active participation. If you have limited familiarity with RDF and the Semantic Web, you can take the pre-roundtable primer on October 16. Software vendors and systems integrators are welcome to attend but only in their role as practitioners.

This session will be of interest to corporate taxonomists, knowledge managers, search system administrators, Web publishers, information architects, and business unit managers who want to improve their staff's productivity.

DISCUSSION TOPICS
Our members have indicated an interest in discussing the following questions and topics. Participants are encouraged to ask additional questions during the session.

• What is the business case for folksonomies and "social tagging?"

• What should be done to prepare the organization for social tagging? What cultural factors are conducive for successful adoption?

• What is "social searching" and how does it work?

• How do internal (behind the firewall) social tagging applications differ from public applications (e.g. del.icio.us and Flickr)?

• Can employees tag both internal and external content? How are both types of sources displayed in the search engine?

• Who should be allowed to create and apply tags? If not everyone, how do you choose which employees to authorize?

• What resources are necessary in terms of time, staff, and tools?

• How do you measure the benefits of social tagging?

FORMAT
The format is teleconference. Participants will receive a list of attendees, a password to access a list of members-only background articles on the Montague Institute Web site, and a toll-free phone number to join the teleconference.

COST
$400 per person (members), $650 per person (nonmembers). Nonmembers who register for this roundtable automatically become members of the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers.

Additional people from the same team can attend at a reduced rate of $325 (includes full Society membership).

DATE, TIME
October 17, 2007 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Eastern, 8:00 am - 11:00 am Pacific

REGISTRATION
To register, call (413) 367-0245. We can fax a pro forma invoice, and we accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, and Diner's Club. Regardless of method, we must receive payment prior to the event.

Created on June 15, 2007 l Updated on November 22, 2007