You've Got Tags in my Everygthing, Now What?

One big intranet challenge is, "We can't find anything and everything is a mess". Use tagging to help resolve this problem. Also connect information across silos, disciplines, and segments of the organization and customer base to aggregate information. Shave many hours of lost productivity from difficulties refinding information and objects.

Thomas Vander Wal is an analyst, strategist, advisor, and popular speaker. He focusses his work on increasing value and optimizing social tools inside, through, and outside the firewall. He works with organizations of all sizes and focus (non-profit and education to Fortune 500) to help them better understand the values and hidden considerations in building, implementing, and optimizing these social tools. He has a broad and deep background covering more than 20 years of experience in project/product/program management, application development, and user experience.

Thomas puts the focus on improving use and reuse of shared information in the services and tools. He deeply understands the tensions and need to focus on: The people using the tools as they need: the difference of collaboration, community, & collective services; and Implementing and maintaining these services on individual as well as across various services and tools.

He is currently working on a book for O'Reilly media on "Understanding Folksonomy”.

InfoCloud Solutions provides strategic insight and expertise to augment your organizations' knowledge of social and collaborative tools. This knowledge leverages our years of deep and broad experience planning, building, maintaining, and growing these tools and services. Through experienced advising on lessons and models for understanding and planning, your organization will have a framework to best implement and improve enterprise social solutions while saving money and time in very short order.