Project Performance Corporation Thought Leadership Countdown to KM World has links to whitepapers, technical memos and presentations in the lead up to KM World 2011 held in Washington, D.C., October 31-November 3, 2011.

Taxonomy Strategies joins Project Performance Corporation. Press release.

Read the PPC Blog about knowledge leadership in information management, and other related topics.

Play the Green Chameleon and Straits Knowledge video podcast "Taxonomy Development Process Case Studies" of Joseph Busch talking about different methods of taxonomy development.

Download the CMSAdvisor Podcast "Taxonomy, Metadata, Cod Liver Oil & Guinness: Part 1" and "Part 2" in which Lisa Welchman (WelchmanPierpoint's Founding Partner) and Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies' Founder) define the terms "taxonomy" and "metadata", and provide advice on advancing taxonomy efforts in your organization.

Busch's golden law of facets, named for Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies' Founder), is described in Steve Papas’ article "The Faceted Navigation and Search Revolution" published in KM World (April 2006)

Speaking engagagements where the PPC Taxonomy Strategies Team have participated this year including links to presentations:

• "SAMHSA Publications Store" with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal, PPC and Rich Morey, Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA, Taxonomy Tuesday, March 29, 2011 held at U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
• "Business Taxonomy 2011: Design and Development Best Practices for Achieving Successful Knowledge Management in Your Organization" with Joseph A. Busch, Senior Principal and Zach Wahl, Director of Information Management, PPC, Technology Transfer Institute (TTI) workshop held on June 15-17, 2011 in Rome.
• Cultivate Your Taxonomies and Content Management, an Avalon and PPC Webinar Series
    "Session 1: How and Where Taxonomies Appear in a Content Management System (CMS) " with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal, PPC and Joe Hilger, Practice Manager, Avalon on June 22, 2011. .
    "Session 2: Applying Governance Best Practices to Taxonomies and Enterprise Content" with Nick Nylund, Senior Analyst, PPC and Sam Carson, Avalon on July 13, 2011.
    "Session 3: Leveraging Taxonomies to Implement Findable Content" with Sam Mefford, Avalon on July 20, 2011.
• "The Curious Lives of Full-Time Taxonomists" with Edee Edwards, Taxonomy Development Manager, Semedica, Silverchair, Farah Gheriss, Group Leader, Information Organization and Access Group, IMF and Nikkia Anderson, Senior Information Specialist, Information International Associates moderated by Zach Wahl, Director of Information Management, PPC at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2011.
• "Taxonomy Design for Open Source Digital Asset Management Systems" with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal, PPC and Michael Lauruhn, Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on October 1, 2011.
• "Bank for International Settlements Document Management Strategy Taxonomy: Case Study" with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal, PPC and Dorothea Auerswald, Senior Business Analyst, BIS at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2011.
• "Hierarchies & Polyhierarchies: Is More Better? " with Heather Hedden, Senior Analyst, PPC at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2011.
• "Taxonomy Tool Requirements and Capabilities" with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal and Zach Wahl, Director of Information Management, PPC at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on November 1, 2011.
• "SharePoint Governance: Gaining Control" with Jill Hannemann, Principal, PPC and Richard Harbridge, Senior SharePoint Evangelist, Allin Consulting, moderated by Jarrod Gingras, Analyst, Real Story Group at SharePoint Symposium in Washington, D.C. on November 1, 2011.
• "Information & Knowledge Management Techniques & Practices" with Luisita Guanlao, Chief Information Architect and Denisa Popescu, Senior Enterprise Architect, The World Bank; Nicholas Nylund, Senior Analyst, PPC; and Doug Brook and Brian Follen, NASA Safety Center at KMWorld in Washington, D.C. on November 2, 2011.
• "Metadata and Social Media" with Joseph Busch, Senior Principal, Director of Information Management, PPC at the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Institute Metadata Marathon in Chapel Hill, NC on December 7, 2011.

Archive of previous announcements and links to presentations.

[Last updated 2011-12-05]