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Office 2.0 Conference
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 26th, 2007 in Announcements, Cogenz, PublicityUPDATE 31 July: We made it into the official press release
Cogenz has signed up to be a sponsor of the Office 2.0 Conference to be held in San Francisco on 5-7 September. We’ll have a stand, a live demo presentation and a few people milling round, and are also planning a couple of suprises.
The Office […]
Case Study: Managing Private Knowledge
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 25th, 2007 in Cogenz, Corporate Beta Program, Knowledge managementOur friends at Headshift (website | blog) are the latest to publicise how they’re using Cogenz to manage private knowledge in the form of bookmarks.
The company with the strapline ’smarter, simpler, social’ certainly lives up to this claim when describing how they implemented our solution:
Headshift simply signed up for Cogenz, sent an email out to […]
Connectbeam raises Series A
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 16th, 2007 in Enterprise bookmarkingWe’d like to be amongst the first (or even the first?) to congratulate Puneet Gupta and his team at Connectbeam on securing Series A funding. They are, without doubt, the leaders when it comes to complex enterprise bookmarking systems.
I’ve met Puneet just the once, but read and comment on his blog frequently, and he’s a […]
Case Study: Sharing Intelligence across Continents
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 9th, 2007 in Cogenz, Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementFurther to the case study we recently published demonstrating how BUPA are using social bookmarking to facilitate networking across their organisation, we just posted another that outlines how a web development company are using it to share intelligence across continents.
Whilst Cogenz shares an investor with the subject of our second case study, iConcertina, there were […]
Case Study: Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 6th, 2007 in Cogenz, Corporate Beta Program, Enterprise bookmarkingThanks to our friends at BUPA, we just published a case study outlining how they are using social bookmarking to facilitate networking across their organisation.
BUPA was one of our first corporate beta sites so have been with us through a couple of versions, trialling Cogenz with 50 of their head office users to create a […]
Enterprise 2.0 in the UK
4 Comments Published by Niall Cook July 3rd, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge management, TechnologyI’m fed up of hearing how the US is so far ahead of the UK when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. Sure, they may have more conferences but since when has that been an indicator of success?
Anyone looking for evidence that blue chip companies in the UK "get it" need go no further than Scott […]
Any Librarians using Social Bookmarking?
3 Comments Published by Niall Cook June 20th, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementSteve Dale laments the lack of librarians out there "evangelising the merits of personal tagging". He says:
Maybe I’m reading the wrong blogs, but my perception is that most Librarians remain wedded to structured, corporate categorisation and file management systems, and haven’t yet grasped that the world is changing around them.
Steve’s already been given a few […]
Fifteen Uses of Corporate Bookmarking
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook June 3rd, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Expertise management, Knowledge managementI’m not sure if R. Todd Stephens is planning another in his two-part "Fifteen Uses of…" social software series (the first being Wikis and Blogs), but I thought I’d pinch his format and chip in with my own Fifteen Uses of Corporate Bookmarking:
Monitoring news/blog coverage of your company
Consumer and competitor research
Identifying subject matter experts within […]
A Code for Enterprise 2.0 Practitioners
2 Comments Published by Niall Cook June 1st, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Knowledge managementRex Lee suggests a three-line code for the new Enterprise 2.0 practioner:
Value at all costs the personal impact of social computing
People are not resources to be exploited
Realize that the crowd is not always right
His argument for requiring such a code is that "the personal nature of social computing means we have a moral repsonsibility." He […]
Firms must embrace Web 2.0 technologies to stay competitive
0 Comments Published by Niall Cook May 31st, 2007 in Enterprise bookmarking, TechnologySo says the Leading Edge Forum (LEF), a senior level membership organisation that believes, according to an article in Computer Weekly, 29 May 2007:
that change, innovation and value will come not just from technology or industry experience, but from the human element - from employees who are smart about both business and technology and who […]

