A Crash Course in Organizing Your Email

June, 2008

One of the unavoidable features of modern professional life is a never-ending stream of email. Over the years I have come up with a few tricks that really help me stay at email nirvana: “inbox zero.” People around here tease me about it, but I have a very tidy inbox. I thought I would share some techniques (tricks) I have found useful. Continue reading »

On Tagging (from the archive)

February, 2008

I taught a class on tagging for Vera Rhoads at the University of Maryland Graduate School back in 2006. It was an introductory-level presentation, aimed at covering the basics. Last year, I presented a similar presentation on classification, tagging and search. Continue reading »

Search Presentation (from the archive)

February, 2008

I have given versions of this information retrieval talk for five or six semesters at Thom Haller’s USDA Graduate School class on Information Architecture. I always enjoy the class, since Thom attracts folks with an interesting range of experience. Continue reading »

Enterprise Content Management and Federal Enterprise Architecture (from the archive)

February, 2008

While doing a little housekeeping on my site I rediscovered this presentation I did a couple years ago on Enterprise Content Management and Federal Enterprise Architecture. It was for the Gilbane conference on content management technologies in government. My notes from the conference are also available. Continue reading »

IA Summit 2007

March, 2007

I had a grand time at this year’s Information Architecture Summit. I’ve posted my notes and pictures. I hung out with Dan and two coworkers with the initials HW (and HW). One of my favorite aspects of the Summit is that I have the opportunity to meet a bunch of great folks.

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