Going online is one of the biggest challenges we face when moving toward the Brand You (Circa, Tom Peters) paradigm. The web exposes us, it allows our voice to be heard and contradicted by 450 million other users onof the web. One of my presenta...

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Yesterday, I posted a list of my top ten sites and a few emails have come in to the why? The simple answer is that we should all surround our selves with what we perceive as perfection. Perfection is:

The Phantom of the Opera (Original C...

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Many months ago I wrote an Article asking Does Metadata Matter which took some of Mr. Carrs questions and applied to the world of metadata. It must have been complimentory in nature:

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First, lets start with the person that is ultimately responsible for the metadata implementation. Is that person you? Take a realistic evaluation of your passion for the subject of metadata. What ever that level is, double it. What ever your kn...

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My presentation on enterprise metadata has been accepted as one of the featured tutorials for the 2005 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference hosted by the Goizueta Business School at Emory University on June 16th, 17th, and 18th.

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One thing that is becoming abundantly clearer is the focus on the product within the technology community. Recently, our organization starting reviewing the capability, usage, and content of the different technologies deployed in the information ...

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The essence of the previous post is what do you do when technology perfection is expected? The trend of technology is to make it embedded and ubiquitous; hide the complexity and expose simplicity. The Internet exploded this idea due to it’s simp...

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The best boss I ever had was one that came around on a weekly basis and delivered a simply Thank You” or I appreciate your efforts this week, you really moved us forward. In 15 years of MBA training, we all have learned how to prioritize, demand ...

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Make it easy for the user to engage in the technology
How do users engage in the technology? Is the configuration, ordering, or utilization of the technology easy for the average user to understand? The root cause for the D...

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Yes, I know that all but one of the internet search engines ignore the Metatag but that does not mean that we should stop documenting our pages. When the day comes, I have argued that it will not be anytime soon, that we need to convert our conte...

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The Internet is spectacular, 90 billion pages and growing, 352 million authors, 171 million domain names and 945 million users. The Internet is a result of rapid deployable technology that allows anyone with a computer to place their thoughts, con...

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The ACM Conference held at Kennesaw State University was excellent with a great deal of papers applicable to the world of metadata. Tennessee Tech University had several students publish a paper on building a digital repository. Georgia State an...

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Recently, I had the opportunity to provide a metadata tutorial to an academic conference where the welcome speech touched on the impact of globalization. The speaker indicated that the erosion of jobs within the Information Technology community c...

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In the world of Metadata, the most important dimension is quality. Data are of high quality if they are fit for their intended uses by customers in operations, decision making, and planning (Juran, 2002). Thomas Redman (2003) indicates that "fit...

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