Thanks to Jochen Robes for pointing me to the work foundation’s report on “Defining the knowledge economy“(PDF). While this is more of a generic paper that tries to come to a definition what a knowledge economy (t d f) is - by digging through piles of statistics and reports - there are some interesting statements that relate more to my interests and the entire issue of knowledge worker (t d f)s, innovation, information technology, knowledge sharing and, I dare to say, in the end social software (t d f).

I did a brief study on the usage patterns of our platform in terms of tagging. Some very interesting facts (!?) emerged: see the video below.

The internal narrow folksonomy - author tagging - shows very similar patterns to broad folksonomies in the open. The power-law rules everything. Thus ample space for ideas to make sense out of that.

=>To design working information architecture for enterprise solutions that leverage the power of folksonomies (t d f) and blend that with more structured approaches and information (t d f) retrieval scenarios is a question of the total cost of tagging (t d f).

The Cognitive Cost of Classification (t d f): “faceted classfications multiply the number of decisions required to classify a given document.”

in German on social software (t d f) in the enterprise (t d f) and NEXTspace (NEXTspace (t d f). Interviewer: Wolf-Dieter Grabner, he conducted the interview for his master-thesis.
Interview (t d f)