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=Places to Start= Check out Centiare's [[Centiare:Demonstration|'''Demonstration''']] area to see a collection of pages that highlight Centiare's ''Directory'' listing and search-result capabilities. =The Bread and Butter of Centiare= When you're ready to create your own Directory listing on Centiare, there are two key elements that you should remember -- 90% of future user searches within Centiare will likely contain either: :*[[NAICS]] code ::...and/or... :*[[ZIP]] code If you or your business don't appropriately tag these elements in your Directory space, you're going to be missing from all of those search opportunities. You should certainly know your ZIP code, and better still if you know the ZIP+4. If you are unsure of the appropriate NAICS code (or codes) to use, the official [http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics02/naicod02.htm U.S. Census site for NAICS] is the appropriate reference. =Style Guidelines= ==Use the ''official'' NAICS names== When you indicate the industry in which you work, it will be most helpful to future [[Special:SearchTriple|semantic searches]] if you use the official NAICS name for your industry. For example, the NAICS code of [http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics02/def/ND111992.HTM#N111992 11199] indicates "'''Peanut Farming'''". You may like to call your line of work "Goober Growing", but if you choose that name within Centiare, you're just cutting yourself off from the many, many more people who will be looking specifically for the term "Peanut Farming", because they will also be encouraged to enter official NAICS names when searching. ==Use uniform titles when identifying any Key_Person== Within [[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]], one of the most useful features is the [[Semantic tagging|semantic tag]], which allows for robust [[Centiare:Searching|searching]] of the entire database. To allow the greatest number of users the greatest chance of successfully finding the records they want, it is helpful to agree on a certain uniformity when naming semantic tags and attributes. For example, within the <nowiki>'''{{Infobox_Company}}'''</nowiki> template, you will see the following wonderful semantic tags: :'''Key_Person1_Title''' :'''Key_Person2_Title''' :'''Key_Person3_Title''' ::...etc. Ideally and if possible, any senior corporate employee should be accorded only one common title in Centiare, to optimize semantic searching. The more that users adhere to this guideline, the more likely their data will be ''found'' by people using Centiare's [[Special:SearchTriple|semantic search]] utility. Furthermore, if in doubt about Centiare's "preferred" rank and nomenclature of titles, the following list should be used to force consensus across the many differences that appear in the corporate working world. Within Centiare, please use '''''only''''' the following labels when naming Key Person titles: :* '''Chair''' (as opposed to Chairperson, Chairman, Chairwoman, etc.) :* '''Board''' (use for any non-Chair members of a Board of Directors) :* '''CEO''' (as opposed to Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, President, Owner, etc.) :* '''CFO''' (as opposed to Chief Financial Officer, Controller, etc.) :* '''COO''' (as opposed to Chief Operations Officer, Senior Operations Manager, etc.) :* '''CIO''' (as opposed to Chief Information Officer, Senior Technologist, MIS Director, etc.) :* '''CMO''' (as opposed to Chief Marketing Officer, Communications Director, Director of Public Affairs, etc.) :* '''SVP''' (as opposed to Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President, Regional Director, Division Head, etc.) :* '''VP''' (as opposed to Vice President, Senior Manager, etc.) :* '''Manager''' (use as a catch-all for any middle management titles) :* '''Legal''' (as opposed to Attorney, Corporate Counsel, General Counsel, etc.) Additionally, consider whether the '''Founder''' of an organization is also the '''CEO''' or '''Chair''' (in which case use the '''CEO''' or '''Chair''' nomenclature), or whether he or she has been relegated to some non-executive role such as "Spokesperson", "Advisor", or some other honorary title (in which case, do not include this person as a '''Key Person''' in the Infobox; rather, notate them in the '''Founder''' field and feel free to write about them in the article space). Adherence to this Style Guideline should by no means be considered mandatory, nor a perjorative assessment of any person's "actual" title at their company. It is merely a mechanism to make semantic searching more productive for more Centiare users. If only three companies in the United States choose to call their CIO the ''Data Ninja'', that's very cute, but not at all useful to Centiare users who are looking for ''CIO'' types of personnel in the state of [[Michigan]]. (Note: any additions to the list above should first reach consensus on this entry's [[Centiare_talk:Tutorial|Discussion]] page.)

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