Theresa Regli

Principal, CMS Watch

Theresa Regli applies over twelve years of experience in content management and multi-channel publishing to her work as a consultant, analyst and writer. As Principal with CMS Watch, she co-authors The CMS Report and is a contributing analyst to both The Enterprise Search Report and The Enterprise Portals Report.

Previously, Theresa led content management practices at a technology integration firm and a large New England publishing company, where she led implementations of CM, search and portal software, setting strategy, designing enterprise taxonomies, establishing governance models, and optimizing publishing work flows. Her clients have included AARP, Aetna, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Analog Devices and MassMutual Financial Group.

Theresa's specializations include content strategy, product selection, taxonomy design and business process engineering. She holds a Bachelors Degree in romance languages & linguistics from Boston College, as well as journalism, French language and international commerce certificates from Richmond College, London and L'Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France.

Theresa is also a food and wine fanatic, and has a very precise taxonomy for her 2,000 bottle wine cellar. Because most of her previous travels have been to the great wine-producing countries of the world, this will be her first trip to Denmark, and she is very much looking forward to all the smoked fish and beer at cmf2007. She also enjoys downhill skiing, golf, and learning new languages (spoken ones, more than the kind you code).

CMS Watch

CMS Watch is a small US-based analyst firm focused on content management, portals, and enterprise search.

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Tutorial

• Developing Enterprise Taxonomies

Presentation

Wednesday, November 7^th: 14.30 - 15.15

Track: CMS Watch

Tagging, Folksonomy, Taxonomies: What, How, and When?

Recently there's been increased interest in "tagging." The idea is simple: users associate words and phrases with content. On one end of the spectrum, there's taxonomy: a hierarchical categorization scheme established as an organizational standard. On the other end of the spectrum, there's folksonomy, where users free-associate whatever tags they wish to the content. Sounds straightforward, but does it work? Is one approach better than the other, and how do content management tools help or hinder the process?

Many questions arise around tagging as development teams implement tagging tools and services. In this presentation, the current state of tagging will be discussed, and how both taxonomy and folksonomy can augment your existing practices and provide new avenues of discovery. Integration challenges and tagging applications offered by the various CMS products on the market will also be covered.

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• cmf2007 Slides: Tagging, Folksonomy, Taxonomies: What, How, and When?   

Links

• AIIM E-DOC Magazine: Human Touch (November/December 2006)