Like Steve Crescenzo, I too have been suffering from a severe case of blogimpotence when it comes to Cogenz and just haven’t been able to get a post up. Profuse apologies for my inadequacies.

In my defence, it’s hardly surprising once you see what we’ve been up to. And so to this post.

Yes, that’s right. Our enterprise bookmarking system is officially in beta mode.

We’ve already invited some of the people who have blogged about us to take a look, plus a few others who have expressed an opinion on tagging behind the firewall on their blogs.

If you think we’ve missed you, then I am sorry - please feel free to contact me at niall@cogenz.com. At the moment, we’re particularly interested in hearing from the following:

• People in organisations who understand the principles of social bookmarking in the enterprise
• Social software consultants
• IT - and dare I say Web 2.0 - journalists and bloggers
• Potential partners or resellers

If you already use a public social bookmarking system like del.icio.us then that will help as we have some neat integration tools.

If you meet one of these criteria then we’ll give you access to our test installation, so you can experience it as one of our “employees”. That’s the important thing to remember about Cogenz - even though it is a hosted system, each company who subscribes only sees their own bookmarks, tags, and users. For the purpose of the beta, however, you’ll be sharing it with other beta users (some of whom you may know anyway).

Over the coming days I’ll be posting screengrabs, screencams, an FAQ, in-depth details of specific functions, plus any other things that you might find interesting if you’re taking part in the beta - or even if you’re not.

Here’s the key facts to be going on with:

1. It’s a social bookmarking application for the enterprise
2. In other words, it’s a hosted service that companies subscribe to so their employees can share internal and external web pages with each other privately
3. Bookmarks and users can be tagged - thereby creating departmental/geographic/community of interest collections
4. The administrator has access to a range of functions - user/registration/approval management, site-wide tag merging/editing, email domain/IP range restrictions, bookmark/user/tag/click statistics, and del.icio.us integration
5. There are RSS feeds (naturally) but also email subscription of tags, users, URLs, and keyword searches
6. Users can post private bookmarks
7. Built in .net and SQL 2005 (I’ll post more about the tech specs if anyone’s interested)
8. No superfluous use of AJAX!
9. UPDATE (I forgot an important one): You can find other users who share your interests based on what they are tagging

If there’s anything else you want to know in the mean time, just leave a comment or drop me a line.

(Did you notice how beta is an anagram of “a bet”? Hmm.)