Social bookmarking within corporations

Collaboration is one of the ingredients of working efficiently within the company's firewalls. IBM has been developing their dogear social bookmarking (pdf) system for corporations. I am not sure if they have released this product yet but it looks interesting. Meanwhile Honeywell is taking the lead and piloting a social bookmarking system developed by Connectbeam to connect their knowledge workers more efficiently and increase knowledge sharing and discovery. Indeed as many large companies, we need something similar for Reed Elsevier.

Experiment and Learn

This was one of the messages that I gave yesterday to our sales team in San Diego where we had North America Academic and Government Sales Kick Off meeting.

Today's launch of Tags and Groups in Engineering Village is an example of this for Elsevier.

Another example of testing is going on at Honeywell. It seems that forward looking senior managers agreed to pilot a tagging and social networking project. If they are successful in proving that these tools will "help drive faster and better engineering design" this will be a big coup for Honeywell in improving collaboration within the company and social networking vendors like Connectbeam which transformed itself within two years.