Links for 4 December 2006
Published by Niall Cook December 4th, 2006 in Daily Links- Process of Change : Welcome to Enterprise 2.0
Microsoft to develop internal social bookmarking service?
(tags: enterprise2.0 social_bookmarking microsoft) - Menori » Blog Archive » Enterprise 2.0 - will it spoil the vibe?
Gary says that bookmark tagging is a bit ‘new’ for the most part and although users of del.icio.us might take to it I’m not convinced this is for the general populace yet. Does it matter?
(tags: social_bookmarking) - Collaboration Loop - Enteprise 2.0: More Than Blogs and Wikis
“Don’t think that Enterprise 2.0 is simply the repurposing of blogs, wikis, bookmarking, etc. for corporate use” - well put!
(tags: enterprise2.0) - Dimen Designs: Social Bookmarking at the Enterprise Level
“Social bookmarking is at the higher level because blogs, wikis are essentially web pages that can be bookmarked; most tools now are via a web browser so they can be bookmarked.” Including your intranet.
(tags: enterprisebookmarking)
I think it does matter for large enterprises. Note that the current generation of people coming in to work now (”Generation-Text” as they’re sometimes referred to) will have grown up completely within a digital age. They’ll be completely ok with the concept of tagging whether it be of article, images, videos. It’s not their ‘job’ to do that though and soon they’ll be drowning in the volumes of data. Such activities need to happen in the natural flow of a business process (look at how a product like Autonomy tried for years to apply Bayesian logic to documents it crawled and observed how people access them and like documents). The meta-data or tags collected for a document should be as automated as possible so that a base level is captured on the fly based upon the context the content is being use in. Then it should be easy for someone to tag the doucment possibly with some unique elements.
It’s highly likely that social bookmarking can work within and organisation, but it should be less intrusive otherwise people wont do it. Not all workers understand the benefit of meta-data and don’t want to tag up or fill forms in.