Though a lot of people are searching for 'how to facilitate a CoP' there were also some people with interesting experiences. MORE

Does Google Plus make a difference to Google Search? How do social reviews online change search? If your customers find you by searching on Google, you might want to consider these three points: Where are the Plumbers WITHOUT a Google Plus Page? MORE

Get ready for the geo-tag - and a revolution in the way you use your phone to search the places around you! Diigo geo-tag geoloqi Google Google Maps GPS iPhone local meridian search semantic Wikipedia Windows PhoneContextual Computing Local Android crowd-source del.icio.us MORE

Dick Singer recently wrote the post, Pay Attention to Search Engine Rankings: Top 3 Spots on Google Get 58% of Clicks , on Social Media Today.  If you do a Google search on the term – awareness engine – you will find the Darwin Awareness Engine™ generally in the top six spots. To a certain extent it has but you still need to find things and search engine algorithms are the new scribe’s pen that stands between you and the ability to get ideas noticed. MORE

LinkedIn users will be able to search Twitter using keywords and filter the results by degree of connection, industry, company, time posted, region, school and hashtags. LinkedIn Signal will make LinkedIn the Twitter search engine of choice for business users. MORE

Our friend Maish Nichani has done it again with this elegantly stated piece on breaking the curse of “automagical” search. It contains my quote of the week: “When thinking about search, it is better to think of ROI not as return-on-investment but return-on-information.” MORE

“Automagicality” has been one of the banes of knowledge management, and specifically within that, understanding the technologies that go into an effective search and discovery experience, and how different technologies can be combined. Here’s an extended piece describing the elements of the search and discovery stack, and how they work individually and in concert, encompassing search, taxonomy management and text analytics for machine aided classification of content. MORE

“Automagicality” has been one of the banes of knowledge management, and specifically within that, understanding the technologies that go into an effective search and discovery experience, and how different technologies can be combined. Here’s an extended piece describing the elements of the search and discovery stack, and how they work individually and in concert, encompassing search, taxonomy management and text analytics for machine aided classification of content. MORE

Here is a listing of the series of session notes for  KM World 2010  and  Enterprise Search Summit 2010. Thomas Vander Wal: Designing Social Search in the Enterprise. Daniel Rasmus: The Evolution of Search. Seth Grimes: Search for Sentiment. Peter Morvile: Search Patterns: Making Maps for Knowledge Discovery.  It was a great and it was tough to determine which sessions to record. I tried to pick a cross section of topics. MORE

Greg Papadopoulo s, CTO of Sun Microsystems, said that now we’re impressed when Google searches a sea of information for us in mere seconds but we should be dissatisfied with this mode of search. In the future, he said, search will be done for us. Every electronic device we buy will connect to a network and our search results will be based on things like our location to our preferences and past behaviors. MORE

You can create content haphazardly, or you can laser focus your web content to advance your site in the search engines. Search engines index web pages individually. For example, your company name is probably a low volume search term, but it’s meaningful to you, all the same. MORE

Site search is becoming more than a means to increase website traffic. Now 40% of content and collaboration professionals see the feature primarily as a tool to improve customer self-service, according to a new Forrester report, Site Search Evolves from Technical Feature to Customer Touchpoint , by Leslie Owens with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi. They need to move the search functionality from a siloed activity to a cross-functional search partnership. MORE

So find LismoreHairSalon or something similar by doing a normal search. Twitter users by location – Twitter Search. You should get a page like this: search.twitter.com search by location. External resources: There are other sites that let you search for users by location. MORE

Ecology of social search for learning resources. In this paper they use attention metadata to model the ecology of social search. An interesting part of the paper summarizes new search options : Explicit search : comprises the traditional search box with text and filtering options based on multilingual metadata. Personal search : Looking for bookmarks from one’s own personal collection of bookmarks. MORE

Ever wondered how to search the Bio fields for someone in Twitter? How to search Twitter profiles? Nothing to do with Peoplebrowsr search though. Technorati Tags: friend , peoplebrowsr , search bio , search profile , stranger , twellow , Twitter. MORE

Twitter as a search engine. But I never really conceptualized it as search. First, I searched for something for me. But you have to have a question in mind to make the search meaningful beyond curiosity. Do you use Twitter as a search engine? MORE

Search and discovery are both useful ways to find useful content. Everyone knows about search. As Romain Goday wrote in Search vs Discovery (Or A New Approach to Information Consumption) , “Search has boomed in the last decade, more than 130 billion searches were conducted during 2010.”. While search provides an answer to a question you already know. They do not replace search they provide another line of inquiry into what is happening on the Web. MORE

I have been discussing specialized search a bit (for example, see: Will Yahoo's Changing Search Strategy Cause it to Pick Up Niche Services? ). As reported by Venture beat , Google is planning to launch a music search service with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike, according to multiple reports. Of course, Google offers other specialized search services such as blogs. Specialized search can get you there faster. MORE

In search of better web analytics, I have tried other service providers. Understanding your blog or website traffic requires more than merely counting your visitors. MORE

They’re social media sites I find the most pleasurable to use and that fit in some way into my search and social strategy. My top 10 social media sites nicely complement all of my blogging and search engine optimization efforts. MORE

Employ keywords that are relevant to your work when crafting your profile, so that you and your profile can appear in search results. Social networking sites have each a unique protocol and don’t usually provide members with practical how-to advice to help use their sites effectively. MORE

I can remember when Email and Search were the top two in Web usage (aside from porn). Email now comes in third at 7/6% and search is a distance sixth at 4.0%. Minutes on site also under-reports search, as it is not a destination site. Of course, I can remember when there was no Web. Times have changed. Ross Dawson recently shared (on his blog) a new Nielsen report with detailed statistics on online activity that I learned about from his Twitter feed.  MORE

Delver supports a spirit of open interchange where the wisdom of a person’s social network can contribute to that individual’s search success. Existing search engines do not account for who a person is and what that person’s network finds valuable. MORE

The MIT Technology Review recently reported on Future Gazing with Search Data in an interesting article by Katharine Gammon. She notes that computer scientists have praised Web-search data as a way to spot emerging trends. For example, Erik Brynjolfsson , director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, says that Web search queries provide the most accurate predictions in cases where people do research before they make a purchase. MORE

So I was tickled to be led to Twitter / Search – #myonlineorigins. I’m always interested in where people started in their “practice&# no matter what the practice. What are your online origins? Photo Credit: quapan. MORE

But we do use our networks for job searching and, in this guest post by Irene Brank, we learn about three types of people that we meet while networking for a new job. They offer ideas for your search. MORE

Here is a new report on 2011 enterprise search trends from Forrester, Enterprise Search: Six Key Trends to Watch by Leslie Owens with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi. The report indicates that despite the fact that only 10% of IT leaders will upgrade or expand their information access implementations this year, search experts are optimistic about their ability to deliver search solutions that are both usable and useful. MORE

While going through the hard times of finishing my PhD dissertation I joked about the time after it, suggesting that I might go into the symptoms similar to the people who retire and don’t know what to do with their life then. Well, I should know better what to joke about :). Now, waiting for the PhD committee to react on my work and preparing for the PhD defense I see shrunken horizons expand: once the PhD is in the past and I’m free to do whatever I want to do, what that would be? MORE

Search engine optimization professionals usually have a few tricks up their sleeves. Hopefully, Google’s new algorithm will improve its search performance and deliver traffic to deserving websites. My Dirty Little Secrets of Search and Website Traffic. MORE

The act of collecting more and more information is too often just a search for facts that reinforce assumptions made. The mantra of the Awareness Engine is to look, not search. MORE

Yesterday I wrote about social search and the Web. Forrester has provided an interesting new report, Enterprise Search: Six Key Trends to Watch by Leslie Owens with Stephen Powers and Anjali Yakkundi, and social is more positive here. Enterprise search used to be difficult and often unproductive. Now knowledge workers expect role-specific, contextual search everywhere they work and this is becoming more possible. Cloud and mobile will have an impact on search programs. MORE

Findability is people’s ability locate and engage with your web content through a combination of search and social mechanisms. And findability convergence is interaction you create and synergy you foster between search and social strategies and techniques. MORE

 (Leslie’s expertise includes: enterprise search, semantic tools, information classification, and taxonomies and I have covered her work before (see for example, Forrester on Enterprise Search Trends ). We also briefly touched on some of the current trends in enterprise search. Custom searches for call center agents bring in relevant content from diverse sources. There is also much work being done in federated search going across structured and unstructured data. MORE

career coaching case studies Other people''s work personal development Social Networks Uncategorized bad influence Career Coaching case study counseling empowerment high school drop-out job search minimum wage teenager (Picture copyright Lydia on flickr). MORE

Search Engine Optimization has been hijacked by your friends and family (Social Media Optimization) and that’s a good thing. If my results look like this already (see below) what will our search results look like in a year? google.com/search?q=apple&pws=0. MORE

My strategies include search engine optimization , social bookmarking , business networking and email campaigns , as well. Search traffic for Gevril Group related keywords grew from 51 to 343 monthly as the company became better known. MORE

A couple quick things to point out on Google’s search capabilities these days, that are also some interesting hints at where search is going. The first is a new “ sort by subject &# feature, which lets you organize your results on image searches based on categories. MORE

Over ten years ago Google added a new and transformative dimension to search with its page rank concept. However, the top results on any given search are often dominated by the sites using the best SEO techniques.  As discussed in: How Will Social Search Affect Social Media and SEO ?, Among those cited were, increased importance of social media buzz around brands/businesses, increased importance of social media links, and more brand benefit from search engines. MORE

This is the first of a two part series on how the boundaries of search are being pushed beyond the familiar Google style broad Web search. Tomorrow I will discuss real time search. I have written about them before (see Exalead's CloudView Offers Integrated Search Capabilities). MORE

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « Microsoft UC (OCS) Presentations and Demos | Main | Videos from ODC 2008 » February 22, 2008 Augmenting Search Via Tags & Bookmarks Worth reading (via ReadWriteWeb ): This leads to the big question: what will be the next big thing that substantially improves search quality? As a result, in the paper below , we ask the question: "Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?" MORE

By connecting Google+ to search, Google is tiering web search into three, very useful, layers: global search, social search and personal search. Connection Technologies Contextual Computing Google Google Search Plus Your World personal search search social search MORE

I guess I’m actually searching for a format for a regular written reflection that goes deep enough and that is possible given existing pockets of solo time as well as the energy level during those. When I stopped working, one of the things I wanted was about doing more non-digital, observable things. In other words – living a life that could be more easily shared with children, because they can observe and participate. MORE

Here is an example of how the Darwin Awareness Engine™ can uncover breaking news stories and the shortcomings of traditional search for this task.    Now search is great when you know what you are looking for and I use Google search every day for this purpose. MORE