http://blog.cogenz.com A blog about social bookmarking from the makers of Cogenz Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:24:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the next release of the Cogenz enterprise bookmarking system, we're including one feature that it so small but we think so relevant to its use as one of the most straightforward ways of getting on the Enterprise 2.0 bandwagon. Taking our lead from micro-blogging system Twitter, every time a colleague ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2008/08/01/its-the-small-things-that-matter/ The success of the hosted version of our enterprise bookmarking software has led us to develop a version that can be installed on your own servers* when you want that added layer of security and control (as well as things like LDAP integration). You'll even get our API so you ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2008/07/04/cogenz-does-behind-the-firewall-too/ If 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 ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2008/04/14/enterprise-20-application-providers-are-blogging-occasionally/ IMPORTANT: Due to a number of requests from developers (and because the competition was late getting listed on one of the key API portals), the deadline has been extended until 30 November 2007. So get coding! We just launched our new API at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/09/07/launching-our-api-and-developer-contest/ Spurred on by others' efforts, we finally got round to creating an extensive screencast introduction to social bookmarking in the enterprise using Cogenz. It covers the basic concepts of social bookmarking and demonstrates how companies can use Cogenz to create a secure and private system for their employees to collect and ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/09/04/an-introduction-to-social-bookmarking-in-the-enterprise/ In 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 ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/08/30/bookmarking-for-small-enterprises/ We'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 ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/08/22/explaining-enterprise-social-bookmarking/ Great to hear from Susan Scrupski that Pfizer's Scott Gavin (aka Charlie) will be speaking as part of the Enterprise 2.0 track at Office 2.0. One thing's for sure - you know the slides are going to be good! http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/08/07/meet-charlie-in-person/ In a very good introduction to Enterprise 2.0, CIO.com (perhaps unwittingly) demonstrates why public social bookmarking systems like del.icio.us are not appropriate and potentially even dangerous as business tools: Marketing teams could use social bookmarks for competitive analysis to track what a competitor is doing; Sales could use it to learn ... http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/07/27/why-delicious-is-dangerous/ Whilst we're not great fans of the term here at Cogenz towers, we couldn't help but applaud Frédéric Cavazza's excellent article answering the question What is Enterprise 2.0? If you're into schematic diagrams take a look. You won't be disappointed. http://blog.cogenz.com/2007/07/27/what-is-enterprise-20/