Seth Earley
President and CEO of Earley & Associates, Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 14 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E Business Strategy. He was 2009 Co-Chair of the Metadata Committee, NDIIPP Education and Outreach for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Seth has developed search, content and knowledge strategies for global organizations and has developed underlying taxonomies for a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout North America speaking on intranet design, knowledge management, content management systems and strategy, taxonomy development and other related topics.
Articles by Seth Earley:
Sense-making and information recombination - a FUMSI Editorial
Tuesday, 17th April 2012
The world runs on information flow. Money is information, products contain information – the most complex and sophisticated products can be broken down into basic materials assembled through application of knowledge and information to create novel and unexpected solutions.
Register for our next Community session:
![]()
Transforming knowledge management at BASF – GenAI and the evolution of QKnows
10th December 2025
Latest on our YouTube channel:![]()
Read on the Blog:
December 2025 update
3rd December 2025
- Jinfo wins CILIP’s inaugural “McFarlane & Ward Information Management” award
4th December 2025 - December 2025 update
3rd December 2025 - Review of Matchplat – combining AI with traditional industry code searching
27th November 2025
- Team roles and AI (Community) 26th February 2026
- Team demand and AI (Community) 22nd January 2026
- Transforming knowledge management at BASF – GenAI and the evolution of QKnows (Community) 10th December 2025