Taxonomy + Social Media = Findability

December 7, 2011 / Melody Smith /

Social media seems to be factored into every area of technology these days. Taxonomy is no different. Having a defined taxonomy helps promote collaboration and connections by allowing people to quickly match content with an established set of defined keywords and terms.

This interesting topic was found on the SharePoint Expert Blog from Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) in their post titled, “Is Taxonomy Social?” Metadata helps put the content in context and helps to ensure findability.

Proper indexing against a strong standards-based taxonomy increases the findability of data. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Chris Taylor on March 26, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    There is a desperate need for a taxonomy with social media. It has everything to do with findability and bringing the masses to the table. There are those that would argue that the opposite is true, but I’ve seen the results of completely unstructured social media implementations.

    http://successfulworkplace.com/2012/03/26/facebook-myspace-and-reinventing-the-wheel/