Software and Technology

Ford Foundation is one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations.   Each year the Foundation receives about 44,000 grant proposals and since its inception has distributed about $16 Billion in grants world wide.  Our guest speaker this month is Nicki Lodico, Manager of Information Management at Ford Foundation.  In this session Ms. Lodico discusses the challenges that the FF faced and the tools and techniques that were used to create a system in SharePoint that works well to support the organization's goals. 

Session agenda:

• The Problem – Information Management Challenges
• Developing an Information Management Strategy
  • Steps to the process
  • Example IM Lifecycles
  • Findings and Recommendations
• Project approach
• Taxonomy, metadata and IA for SharePoint

Although many of the challenges that the FF encountered were SharePoint specific this insightful case study provides a detailed look at the process of developing and implementing a content strategy.