By Doug on February 16, 2008
Although tagging and the folksonomy the tags create have interested me, I have a hard time figuring out how they would work inside a law firm.
Sure it would be great to allow users to add tags to pages on our intranet or other web-based applications. It would also be valuable to compile tags for [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged Document Management System, folksonomy, intranets, tagging
By Doug on January 11, 2008
Way back in June, I sat through (and enjoyed) a presentation by David Weinberger at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. As a result I put his book, Everything is Miscellaneous on my reading list. Having just finished reading the book, I was pleased to stumble across a video of his presentation.
It [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, intranets, tagging
By Doug on January 7, 2008
An intranet is one of the foundation tools for a knowledge management program. We are currently working on the redesign of our SharePoint intranet. This will be our third generation intranet using SharePoint. The redesign team has spent a great deal of time discussing navigation on the intranet.
I have come to the realization [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, intranets, Sharepoint, taxonomy
By Doug on November 19, 2007
As a follow up to my post on Connectbeam, Chuck Pendell VP of Sales and Puneet Gupta CEO and Founder of Connectbeam spent some time showing me their product in more detail.
They are positioning the product as a social software application for information access and discovery. The goal is to provide good [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, tagging
By Doug on August 17, 2007
Dave Geeenfield posted this article on eWeek: Social Bookmarking Apps Provide a New Knowledge Management Platform.
He looked at products from
BEA Systems BEA AquaLogic Pathways 1.0http://en.terpri.se/alpathways/demo/demo.html
Cogenz Cogenz Enterprise Edition 1.0https://eweek.cogenz.net/
Connectbeam Connectbeam Applicationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAwwjm2BEQ
IBM Lotus IBM Lotus Connections 1.0 http://demos.dfw.ibm.com/on_demand/Streamed/IBM_Demo_Lotus_Connections-1-Mar07.html
He also points out that Sharepoint does not have a social bookmarking feature. But, there are [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy
By Doug on August 7, 2007
The crew at Common Craft have not taken the summer off. They have just released a new instructional video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English. It is great take on how to use Del.icio.us.
They break social bookmarking down into three steps:1. Sign up at delicious2. Start tagging sites3. Look at other’s bookmarks
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, social networks
By Doug on March 29, 2007
In response to my post on taxonomies and folksonomies, Matt Hodgson offered a solution of topic maps as a way to deal with the unstructured chaos that comes along with folksonomies.
I have been looking at a similar approach of leveraging topic maps in my search for an enterprise search engine. Products like Recommind are able [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, search
By Doug on March 28, 2007
Matt Hodgson has three posts on taxonomies, folk taxonomies and Folksonomies.
I have struggled with trying incorporate taxonomies into our work product retrieval and precedent storage systems. It has been difficult to create anything that exists beyond a single practice area. As Matt highlights in his post, taxonomies create a one-size-fits-all approach that may [...]
Posted in KM Space blog posts | Tagged folksonomy, taxonomy
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