In this session, we will hear a case study from the Hartford Insurance Group about how taxonomy was applied to improving findability of Underwriting content. We’ll also learn about the state of the insurance industry with regard to adoption of metadata standards and taxonomy practices. This is based on our research into how insurance companies are addressing challenges around content and document management efficiency and search effectiveness by applying taxonomies and metadata.

[spy craft] ABC News: Silk maps & money hidden in Monopoly boards helped 10,000 World War II POWs escape http://j.mp/QZsMC
[digest] TheContentGuy | Weekly Roundup http://j.mp/tVQwe #ECM #wcm #green #twitter #science #metadata #mercuryretrograde #M&A

[webinar] Content Management & Social Media for the Insurance Industry 9/24 1:00 EDT Register: http://bit.ly/4Ni2y RT @earleytaxonomy
[social tech] Threadsy: All Your Communications, All in One Place | Technologizer http://j.mp/VJKTx
[twitter] New on Twitter? Tips & Hints, via Laurel Papworth | Social Network Strategy http://j.mp/wB4K @SilkCharm
[green] NYTimes.com: Following Trash on Its Journey Through the Waste Disposal System [...]

September 24, 2009
1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT
Price: Free
John Greene, Managing Director, Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC
Seth Earley, President & CEO , Earley & Associates
Mike Axelrod, Senior Consultant , Earley & Associates
What is the role of Web 2.0 and Social Media in the insurance industry? How do these new technologies and approaches for creating content fit in with [...]

John Mancini (Mr. “8 Things”) put a request out on Twitter last week for people to help him build a list of blogs they follow on ECM, ERM, WCM, and Enterprise 2.0., and published the list today on his blog, Digital Landfill. I like that John used some of my favorite social technology to compile [...]

[twitter] MT @codestripper: MT @Shoq INTRODUCING the “Modified Tweet (MT)”: for when it’s more than a retweet. This rocks! http://j.mp/bhgLF
[ECM] Challenge: Explain ECM in <= 1 min: Can you do it? http://j.mp/17rgpc via @jmancini77 #AIIM #ECM #video #contest
[blog] Success! thecontentguy.net and blog are now relocated to BlueHost.com. I love it when stuff WORKS.
[blog] Moving thecontentguy.net [...]

It’s been four months since I started working to integrate Twitter and other tech into my website to create timely links to industry news and topics of interest. Back in May, I posted a list of next steps for enhancing the news feed and weekly digest, improving the look and feel, and extending status updates to other outlets. Here’s where things stand today.

[ECM] via ReadWriteWeb: Gartner VP Toby Bell – Six ways to save money on ECM http://ping.fm/BPdx7
[semantics] via ReadWriteWeb: Oracle 11g R2 to feature native support for OpenCalais tagging of metadata http://ow.ly/nNl1
[visualization] via Twine: From Art to Apps: Data Visualisation finds a purpose http://ow.ly/nJZn
[ECM] RT @dgschultz @V3_co_uk: EMC adds e-discovery with Kazeon buy http://bit.ly/6n1VV
[twitter] I upgraded [...]