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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

The social and the knowledge in the enterprise

IBM ( ) developed Dogear ( ) - an enterprise social bookmarking application - and came up with a first evaluation last November.

Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise: “One of the primary benefits of an enterprise social bookmarking application
is that it is an explicit assessment of the utility or value of various Internet
and intranet information resources.”

What stroke me was not the positive feedback in their internal blogs - which is great of course - but that they don’t integrate bookmarking into their blog-tools in order to compliment the knowledge and socializing activities.

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“Conversation is overrated” - not quite

Being with others without the burden of interaction, compare rashmi sinha. Lead, discover and follow: 3 basic human traits that work well with social bookmarking services.
Some loose attempts to think about tagging ( ) in non-private places.
Tags and their aggregation are social objects that form ad-hoc groups. It’s somehow a manifestation of the idea the language forms thinking (check this link to read about this issue especially about Leo Weisgerber ( ).

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Export content

We are trying to figure out the best method to export content from NEXTspace our application. We intend to provide more than just an SQL-dump. Currently we favor RSS plus XSLT thus we can hopefully ex/import from one application to another and provide browseable archives for customers more or less at the same time.