About Seth Earley
SETH EARLEY is the founder of Earley & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content, and document management systems with a focus on metadata management, taxonomy development, and workflow design.
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Articles by Seth Earley
Content providers face a host of challenges-new information sources, new channels, new formats, a new social networking culture, new competitors, and above all, higher consumer expectations. As the information environment grows more complex, users paradoxically expect the information experience to be both richer and easier.
I recently sat in on a very exciting presentation about how Web 2.0 will flatten organizations, unleashing knowledge and creativity locked up in employees stifled by rigid hierarchies … Oh, wait a minute—wasn’t this the same talk I heard about KM and collaboration back in 1998?
Many organizations recognize the need to build standards around metadata management. These efforts range from formal data architecture boards and standards committees to less formal guidelines for tagging intranet or web content. The difficulty in getting traction on these projects depends on the extent of the effort and the impact on entrenched work practices. Most employees are not affected by “enterprise architecture standards.”
It was no surprise that when the economy tanked, technology took a hit. Though things appear to be picking up, many predictors indicate IT budgets will be flat and organizations will focus on getting more out of existing investments rather than embarking on new initiatives.
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