Invitation
Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's
topic is Taxonomy for Portals.

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 Eastern Time
Cost: $50

For additional details, visit: http://earley.com/_June2009.asp
To register, please contact Rebecca Allen at rebecca@... or call direct
425-299-5400

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Taxonomy for Portals Session Description All aspects of portal development can
benefit from taxonomy principles. Portals are used to organize, distribute and
facilitate connections to information or people within an organization. This
session will describe the concept, approach and tools required to apply taxonomy
dynamically to create portal applications that meet user requirements. The
objective is to show how taxonomy can be used to provide a rich and access
framework for search, navigation, transaction and browsing content. After a
brief overview from Ralph Poole, Giovanni Piazza will describe how taxonomy is
used to create access to all content within the enterprise. Interestingly, Ernst
& Young's portal is entirely driven by personal profiles and taxonomy.

Session Presenters
Ralph Poole, Senior Consultant, Earley & Associates

Ralph is a respected business leader and accomplished executive. He has
extensive experience leading Knowledge Management, Technology Implementation,
Information Architecture, and consulting projects in global companies. He held
senior executive positions in four of the world's premier management consulting
and IT consulting firms: Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Ernst &Young
LLP, and Capgemini (a French IT consultancy). In this capacity, Ralph built
multidisciplinary teams across several continents and was responsible for
radically improving global learning and development, knowledge management and
intranet application environments.

Giovanni Piazza, Chief Knowledge Officer, Ernst & Young

Currently a Global Director with the Center for Business Knowledge at Ernst &
Young LLP, Giovanni Piazza is responsible for the architecture, design and
implementation of KnowledgeWeb, the Ernst & Young comprehensive Knowledge
Sharing family of tools, processes and architectures. He is also responsible for
The EY Home Page, the firm global intranet, as well as the Enterprise Search
program, the User Experience program and the Taxonomy and Metadata Management
Program. Leveraging diverse architectures and platforms, KWeb, The EY Home Page
and the Enterprise Search cover all Knowledge and Content Management processes
(contribution, filtering, storage, in context and out of context retrieval, tool
based retrieval).

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Thank you,

Rebecca Allen
Taxonomy Consultant
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EARLEY & ASSOCIATES
Cell: 425-299-5400
Email: rebecca@...
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