An overview of collaborative bookmarking for the enterprise.

1. An Introduction to Enterprise Collaborative Bookmarking Matt Moore http://engineerswithoutfears.blogspot.com

6. Collaborative Bookmarking Basics – How do you do it? 1. Select & install software 2. Tag sites yourself 3. Search bookmarks By Tag By Person By Site Three Easy Steps…

10. 3. Search Bookmarks b. Browse by Person c. Browse by Tagcloud

11. Enterprise Collaborative Bookmarking Implementations Product Organisation Challenge MITRE are a US non-profit research organisation with has 6,700 scientists, engineers and support specialists. MITRE developed a Scuttle-based tool called onomi to aid in information sharing, information discovery, community formation & expertise finding. Honeywell is a global engineering company with 122,000 employees. Connectbeam was deployed to allow their engineers to perform knowledge discovery, research and sharing across multiple resources in multiple locations. BUPA is the UK’s leading private medical insurer with 40,000 employees. Cogenz was deployed to: facilitate networking across the organisation; create a knowledge base on the intranet, improving intranet search; analyse tag patterns as a source of information about intellectual capital within the organisation; Feed users’ content tags into Autonomy search engine to improve automatic indexing of content. Headshift are a UK specialist software design company with 20 staff. Headshift have found Cogenz particularly valuable at the research stage of projects, where there tends to be a real flurry of contributions. They see that about 25% staff post daily, 50% staff post monthly and 100% staff “consume” information. iConcertina wanted to: consolidate employees’ own use of public social bookmarking services; allow staff to continue using del.icio.us for bookmarks they wanted to share outside the organisation; store and share references to online intelligence amongst team working across continents and time zones.

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14. Collaborative Bookmarking Links & Photo Credits Links http://connectbeam.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/connectbeam_ann.html http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/09/scuttle_drupal http://www.cogenz.com/ http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344&page=1 Photo Credits http://www.anthroflex.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/delicious-gifts.JPG http://paddleandoar.com/images/delicious.jpg http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/06/imb_deliciousresults_foodcomm.jpg http://www.pro-it-service.com/images/delicious_tag_cloud-thumb.gif