Bye Bye Accenture
Categories: Information Architecture
Tags: accenture, folksonomies, folksonomy, ia, information_architecture, reedbusiness, reedelsevier, tagging, userexperience, ux, web2.0
After two years and a half, this is my last day in Accenture. Among my competencies here, defining the strategy and evangelizing about customer experience and its value for our clients with consulting and operational roles on a number of web related projects (you know gathering requirements, working on the information architecture and interaction design, coordinating developers and conducting tests with end-users but also selling the product to clients and deciding new directions to be investigated). I enjoyed these years a lot and I wanna thank the people I met. Some of them are now good friends and I know we’ll continue keeping in touch.
In my spare time anyway (read it during nights) I wrote this blog, I partecipated to conferences, giving speeches on user generated content, web 2.0 principles and tagging while collaborating on a few consumer social tagging systems like Taggly.com and Facetag.org. Since 2004, web 2.0 and tagging have been my passions.
Now this is over. Starting from tomorrow, social tagging systems will be my everyday work. Thanks to Reed Business (business division of Reed Elsevier, a global leading publisher) I will start a research and development division on web 2.0 business models and applications. The ideas I went discussing here will be the inspiration for real cutting edge projects.
While I’m completely sure that web 2.0 principles and tools are deeply and concretely changing the way we think and live the web, it’s quite hard having the opportunity to work on this field especially in Europe.
Reed Business has the vision and the energy to explore this exciting path and I will do my best to give my contribution and ideas.
What do you think? Do you know about any other new position on web 2.0 here in Europe? Let me know and if you happen to be at the EuroIA in Berlin this year, please come to say hello.
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September 15th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Congratulations!!!
… and if you need a highly skilled, genial (and writing bad english) worker, you know, look in my direction, surely there is someone … behind me …
September 15th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
You can give a work to me, Paolo. Your posts are always really interesting. I hope to have more time to read them carefully starting from monday!
September 16th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Congrats Manu,
I hope that will be a good experience for u !!
good luck
September 16th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
This is miscategorized as web2.0; it should have been job2.0!
Congrats! Let’s have a couple of beers in Berlin.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Good luck for the bright future
September 20th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Dada spinge il concetto di web 2.0. io proverei con loro.
September 20th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Stefano, thank you for leaving your comment.
My question was meant to publicize other positions of this kind as they still seem so rare. I’m very satisfied with my new role and I’m already jumping into it.
Cheers,
Emanuele
September 21st, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Great to see a publishing giant thinking web 2.0.
I just published a post about your job title on my blog - http://danielabarbosa.blogspot.com/2006/09/web-20-in-job-titles.html
Great stuff- would love to see the whole job description if it ever was posted on the web- quick search didn’t bring it up but perhaps it was in Italian?
Buona fortuna!
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Buena suerte a ti, soy seguro que tienes exito con el nuevo trabajo.
Hasta luego!
September 25th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Good luck…web 2.0 for a living…sounds good to me!
October 4th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Hey Emanuele, just tripped over your blog when I was boiling my brains on your FaceTag facets paper…It´s getting interesting now, almost understand it even
October 4th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Thank you for your visit Rob. I will publish the paper here, with a bunch of screenshots and cases of use to show more clearly the benefits of FaceTag and the basic ideas.
If you have any suggestion or critics, please feel welcome to post here. I’m really interested in users’ feedback.
:)