Archive for the 'Knowledge management' Category
Enterprise 2.0 Application Providers are Blogging… Occasionally
2 Comments Published by Niall Cook April 14th, 2008 in Cogenz, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementIf they gave prizes for not blogging for over six months, we’d win.
Usually, you’d just think we’d gone into hiding or become one of the first Enterprise 2.0 casualties. But Bill Ives has gone and linked to this blog in a post written for the Fast Forward blog, entitled Enterprise 2.0 Application Providers are Blogging and spoiled […]
Bookmarking for Small Enterprises
3 Comments Published by Niall Cook August 30th, 2007 in Cogenz, Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementIn his latest Team Think blog post, ZDNet’s Dave Greenfield highlights "a glaring, underserviced niche" in the enterprise bookmarking and tagging market.
He identifies that the "small enterprise" of 50-500 users has similar security requirements to large enterprises and wants the ease of use of consumer-orientated services, but simply cannot afford the $20+ per user price […]
Explaining Enterprise Social Bookmarking
11 Comments Published by Niall Cook August 22nd, 2007 in Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementWe’re always interested in new ways to explain social bookmarking and its benefits for business, and these two videos and slideshows do the job perfectly.
First up, the latest in the Plain English series from Common Craft, explaining what social bookmarking is "in Plain English" using the public del.icio.us service as an example.
And to add the […]
Case Study: Managing Private Knowledge
2 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 […]
Making social tools work at work
1 Comment Published by Julia Grinham July 13th, 2007 in Cogenz, Collective intelligence, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementI’ve just been to the Unicom conference in London on Social Tools for Business Use, and found it really insightful to hear people’s views and experiences on where and how social tools are actually being adopted within organisations. Seems like we’re seeing more and more case studies being shared (here we heard from BT, CILIP […]
Case Study: Sharing Intelligence across Continents
1 Comment 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 […]
Enterprise 2.0 in the UK
11 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?
8 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 […]
BUPA talk about Cogenz trial at Blogs and Social Media Conference 2.0
7 Comments Published by Julia Grinham June 6th, 2007 in Cogenz, Collective intelligence, Corporate Beta Program, Enterprise bookmarking, Knowledge managementKeely Flint from BUPA has kindly contributed this blog post:
As Lead Information Architect at BUPA, I thought it might be useful to give you a quick summary of the presentation I gave at the Blogs and Social Media Conference 2.0 yesterday, where I talked about our experiences trialling Cogenz.
BUPA have been trialling the Cogenz […]
Fifteen Uses of Corporate Bookmarking
1 Comment 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 […]

