Enterprise Social Bookmarking Behind the Firewall

Tonight while we watched NRL (Aussie National Rugby League) I shared the concepts of Enterprise Collaborative Bookmarking with my Significant Other who said they were having issues with finding info at work. 


He wanted to know what it meant in a sentence or two - so after digging thourgh my tagged Googlereader RSS items & Diigo / Delicious bookmarks - here's the reply  I emailed to him :

= Sharing (& tagging/categorising) bookmarks or favourites behind the firewall = ie like Delicious or Diigo behind the firewall

= search time saved by checking others' saved bookmarks = less reinventing the wheel

I dream of being able to really use Enterprise Social Bookmarking on Sharepoint (my org's still stuck at Sharepoint 2007) & Confluence (we've just upgraded so need to check on whether we've got the necessary plug-in !)

Now here's some more references :

• IBM
  • http://www.elsua.net/2010/09/01/the-business-case-for-enterprise-social-bookmarking-4-6-million-a-year-in-cost-savings/
    • IBM Case Study from one of L Lock Lee's colleagues Luis Suarez - IBM Spain
    • note - IBM has 34k wikis, 10k communities, 1M social bookmarks, 3M weekly searches for employee profiles - uses Lotus Connections Social Bookmarking ?
    • DogEar on IBM
      • http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/dogear.html
      • http://www.elsua.net/2009/09/08/openntf-bookmark-viewer-for-ibm-lotus-connections-dogear/
      • https://www-304.ibm.com/dogear/html?tag=roi&userid=2700000Q3G&lang=en&lang=en
      • http://semanticweb.com/social-tagging-and-the-enterprise-does-tagging-work-at-work_b10679
      • http://www.enterprise-bookmarking.net/downloads/Enterprise%20Bookmarking.pdf
      • http://domino.watson.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/242252765710c19485256979004d289c/1c181ee5fbcf59fb852570fc0052ad75
  • from Fred Zimny - uses IBM
  • http://serve4impact.com/2009/06/15/as-social-tagging-works-on-the-personal-and-professional-level-does-it-work-at-work/ 
• older 2005 2006 & 2007  articles - including using IBM
  • http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1105676 
  •  http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3655391
  • http://imbok.blogspot.com/2006/02/social-tagging-for-enterprise.html
• Atlassian Confluence 3.5 2011
  • http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Bookmarks
• from colleaguesof L Lock Lee & K Christian - Ross Dawson Matt Moore Bill Ives Samuel Driessen :
  •  http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2009/03/visualization_s.html
  • http://innotecture.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/j21_v024_olc_pt01_moore.pdf - positive &t critical review - longer article but worth a read
  • http://blog.contentmanagementconnection.com/Home/21885 - Oce
• a critical review from cms wire :
  • http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/social-tagging-and-the-enterprise-does-tagging-work-at-work-006834.php
• other products
  • links to lots of enterprise collaborative bookmarking tools
    • http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2008/05/corporate-social-bookmarking-tools.html
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_bookmarking
  • Connectbeam
    • http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2009/02/avoid-profile-potpourri.html
    • http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/11/26/connectbeam-combining-social-bookmarking-and-social-networking/
  • Sharepoint 2007 add-on possibilities
    • http://blog.consejoinc.com/2009/08/social-networking-on-intranets-jakob.html
  • Sharepoint 2010 - mixed reviews - can do it - but not as good as users would like
    • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608137.aspx
  • Jack Vinson -on Mitre & Scuttle
    • http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2008/09/19/social_bookmarking_in_the_enterprise_at_mitre.html
  • Jumper
    • http://www.jumpernetworks.com/