This document provides biographical information about Christian Buckley and promotes a fictional book about building automated SharePoint metadata architectures. It then presents a satirical 20-step scenario describing how weak metadata can lead to site sprawl, reduced productivity, robot uprisings, alien invasions, and the need to define a new system's taxonomy after most of humanity is wiped out. The document encourages following Buckley on Twitter but warns the fictional book promotion should not be engaged with.

1. Title of Slide
Subtitle. You know, for emphasis.

2. My Background
Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Most recently at Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services team (now
Office365-Dedicated) and then Advertising Operations
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software, supply
chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational Software. At
another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and deploy a
SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding
numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, and
Seagate
• Co-authored ‘Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Real-World Projects’ (MS
Press, March 2012) and 3 books on software configuration management.
• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com

3. An excerpt from the forthcoming* book:
Building Automated SharePoint
Metadata Architectural Taxonomies for
Synergistic Information Architecture
Collaborative Group Governance
Organizations with Powershell
By Christian Buckley and Michal Pisarek
*not a real book, folks

5. 1. When you don’t have a plan for
metadata, it impacts the quality of
your taxonomy

6. 2. When your taxonomy is weak, it
impacts your overall information
architecture

7. 3. When you don’t have a plan for
metadata, it also impacts your ability
to utilize the full potential of social

8. 4. A weak information architecture
impacts your ability to properly
govern your environment

9. 5. Without proper
governance, you open up your
environment to site sprawl

10. 6. If you allow site sprawl to take
hold, people begin to undervalue
their roles, and the value of the
platform within the company

11. 7. When people undervalue the
value of the platform, they begin to
question other decisions being
made by the management team

12. 8. When people question
management, a general feeling of
apathy and corporate malaise begins
to fester

13. 9. When people start not caring
about work, they tend to call in sick
or avoid any real accountability

14. 10. As worker productivity
slides, management looks for other
opportunities to automate and drive
down costs and increase
productivity

15. 11. In the search for increased
productivity, management will begin
replacing basic functions with
complex systems, including robotics

16. 12. As the robots improve
productivity and increase
output, management spends more
to build even bigger and better
robots

17. 13. As the robots increase in
intelligence and capability, they then
begin creating their own kind

18. 14. As the robots slowly take
over, humans begin to revolt and
fight back against the machines

19. 15. Just as the humans begin to turn
the tide, that’s when the aliens
attack

20. 16. Unlike the movie War of the
Worlds (with Tom Cruise), the aliens
have been living among us for many
years (Tom most likely one of
them), adapting to our biological
ecosystem

21. 17. After several more hundred
years, the aliens will use up all of our
natural resources, and depart from
earth, leaving us with a damaged
shell of a planet

22. 18. As humans begin to sort through
the alien and robot trash that covers
90% of our planet, they create a
basic form of government for the
few who remain

23. 19. The new government strings
together from the wreckage a few
old computer systems in an effort to
better catalog remaining supplies
and coordinate with remote human
outposts

24. 20. The first order of business of
this new system?

25. Defining the system’s
metadata and taxonomy

26. Buy it.
Buy the book.
Don’t question, just do it.

27. Follow us* on Twitter at
#BASMATfSIACGGOwP
*please don’t use this. We’ll ignore you. But you can follow me at @buckleyplanet