Comments on: Will Enterprise Web 2.0 totally transform enterprise knowledge management?

By: Indus Khaitan

Indus Khaitan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:57:59 +0000

I agree. The aspects are definitely human; it requires evangelization in from of the CIO, or the Knowledge Officer. In corporations we’re still seeing initiatives around traditional Content Management System which give us nothing more than a “static intranet”. This is because the executive leadership does not see a visible ROI around “Writable Intranet”.

If you look at an intranet of a typical Medium-to-Large enterprise, a lot of money is wasted on parallel initiatives e.g. engineering would have a PHP-based discussion group, Marketing would have an asset library, Sales would have a collateral repository and then HR would have their resume pool; each in it’s own silo — Imagine bringing it together and making it work together using a common set of framework and technology. The technology exists; it’s just matter of time before it goes into the adoption “sweet-spot”.

Indus

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:03:54 +0000

Social bookmarking as an KM strategy is a great idea. Here is an article i wrote on the topic for Intranets Today, Intranet Social Bookmarking: Playing Tag Behind the Firewall – http://www.intranetstoday.com/Articles/?ArticleID=5845&IssueID=201

I will try to write more on this in a post here soon. Bill

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:44:20 +0000

Robert Scoble recently talked with Puneet about this very subject — social bookmarking as a new enterprise knowledge management strategy. Watch the interview at http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1245/bookmarking-tagging-and-social-software-comes-to-the-enterprise

By: Puneet Gupta

Puneet Gupta — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:12:42 +0000

The key to mass “2.0″ adoption inside the enterprise is, as one of our customers puts it, to provide a passable bridge. Or a strong ‘handshake’ from 2.0 to 1.0.

We at Connectbeam feel that each application subset of the Web/Enterprise 2.0 technology/application stack (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking) has this connection (to the past or existing infrastructure inside the enterprise) but we see very few Enterprise 2.0 vendors making or offering this connection.

For example, social bookmarking when bolted and integrated on top of enterprise search and portals offers a seamless (and frictionless) transition for enterprise users to enter into 2.0 technology frameworks.
See a demo of Connectbeam at http://www.connectbeam.com

I would welcome your thoughts.

By: Jevon MacDonald

Jevon MacDonald — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:22:18 +0000

re: "But when I mention this to people in some large consulting companies or other types of firms the response is often skeptical. They feel that many people do not want everyone to know what they are doing and many client contracts prohibit this type of knowledge sharing" We have been talking about this and wondering if the big consulting companies are capable of this change. Certainly before they can help their customers enter the 2.0 world, they would have to learn this themselves, but why would the best talent wait? Why not just break out on your own?