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The Dachis Group recently shared a really nice overview of "The 2010 Social Business Landscape" , written by Dion Hinchcliffe . One of the tools I missed in his overview is 'social tagging' or 'social bookmarking'. Based the research being done by my student , Arzu Yucekaya , on social bookmarking, I've thinking about and discussing with her why social bookmarking adoption seems to be harder than, for instance, the adoption of enterprise microblogging. At least, in the company I work for... I'd like to share a citation from a (preliminary) version of her literature research. This citation relates to the adoption of knowledge sharing tools in organizations in general. She writes: In the context of knowledge sharing systems, public good nature of knowledge introduces two major challenges that organization face (Prasarnphanich & Wagner, 2008): 1. The start-up problems (achieving critical mass) 2. Discontinuity problem (sustainability...

A couple of months ago my student, Arzu Yucekaya Bat, started working on her Master's thesis about social bookmarking and improving our internal bookmarking tool. Her research goal is: To establish an overview for Océ Technologies B.V on motivations and barriers of the employees to adopt and contribute to the social bookmarking tool and determine possible interventions that will augment information sharing and discovery within this tool and assist to take proper incentives to increase the adoption rate. Some excerpts from the original assignment are: Within R&D an opensource social bookmarking application is being used to collect and share bookmarks. Currently the implementation of our social bookmarking application is basic. We are working wider adoption of this tool and have generated several ideas to achieve this goal. conduct a short analysis of the literature on how to increase adoption of social bookmarking design an appealing application of so...

Recently intranet expert Toby Ward of Prescient Digital Media published an interesting whitepaper 'The Social Intranet. Key Factors for Intranet 2.0 Success; Social Intranet Success Matrix' . The whitepaper is based on Toby's expertise in this area and an extensive survey. I'm not going to summarize the paper. Just go ahead and read it. It's worth your time. I do want to share three interesting points from the study: Intranet 2.0 is cheap. 49% spent less than $10.000 on socializing their intranet. Of course we know social software is relatively cheap. Cultivating it isn't, by the way. But because it's cheap no big investments have to be done to try new media. This is great; you can start right away. The survey showed that just 29% of the organizations rate the tools as good or very good. Hmm, maybe cheap isn't always good... And only 33% of the organizations experimenting with social media and intranet have executive support. This is understandabl...

Do you have too much to read? I do have that 'problem'. I simply find too many things interesting. And the Web isn't making it easier for me with all these interesting posts, videos, articles popping up in my feedreader and in Twitter. I don't really perceive it as a problem though. I love the fact that all these different sources can be accessed so easily. But I do have to tweak my filter more tightly and take time to read. Another personal strategy is bookmark url's that seem to be interesting (after a quick scan) without reading them. I store them in my social bookmarking tool ( Diigo ) to read them when I need them. Bookmarking is my social filtering and storing machine. My extended memory. I store stuff that I actually read there (usually with highlights and comments) and stuff that I hope to read (or share) in the future. What is your filtering strategy? Do you bookmark stuff you haven't read?

I prefer to read longer articles (even blog posts...) on paper. For instance I read Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan articles. Our corporate library allows me to read those articles in hard-copy. Of course the librarians have access to the digital sources of these magazines, but I don't. What I usually do is browse through the magazine and make copies of the articles I want to read (or I think are interesting for my colleagues). In this way I can read them when and where I want. When I read articles I usually write comments in the sidelines and highlight what I find interesting and important to remember. These marks are very important to me. So important that I would archive the hard-copy of the article in binders. At least until recently. If I could get my hands on a digital copy I would file that one on my computer with the comments. Over time I've collected many articles and found that I hardly reuse those articles in my work. Filing them is hard and therefore ...

Recently I decided to stop publishing my bookmarks to my blog . I wondered if my readers agreed with this idea. Some responded and urged me to continue to publish my bookmarks. So, I almost proceeded to do that and then I thought: why not tweat them? I proposed that option and it seems to do the trick. I'll be trying this and see if this is the way to go. You can follow my tweats (with bookmarks) here . And of course you can follow my bookmarks directly in Diigo en Delicious . Tags van Technorati: social bookmarking , twitter , microblogging

As you know and can see: I have my new bookmarks published to my blog every now and then. I started doing this because I see others doing this too. I found it quite useful. For me, it feels like others are reading and recommending posts that I am not following and reading. Hopefully I could do the same for them. It's some form of social search. And I do see that friends following my blog copy posts from my 'recommended bookmarks' and share them with their readers. However, I'm stopping anyway. I find the amount of 'recommended bookmark' posts is cluttering my own (non-automated) posts. And you can follow my favorite bookmarks (with or without comments) on Diigo and delicious anyway. If you think this is wrong, please let me know. If you happy with this move, let me know too! Tags van Technorati: social bookmarking , search , social search

You've all seen that del.icio.us just got more delicious ! The delicious blog (with a nice video summarizing the new stuff), Techcrunch and ReadWriteWeb have the story. I've been using this social bookmarking tool for some time now. It's a really nice way to store and share your bookmarks with others and see what your friends are reading. However I've also been using another bookmarking tool called Diigo . I save my bookmarks in both. Why do I also use Diigo? I like the highlighting and commenting functionality they offer. It helps me not only save bookmarks, but also easily find back key parts of the webpages I liked in the past.

Just the other day I went into our company library. One of the magazines I always take a look at (- even though I also am subscribed to their feeds -) is Business Week . For some reason I decided not only to look at the most current issue, but to look through some older ones to. And then... all of a sudden... I saw the front page of the June 2 issue: "Beyond Blogs"! What?! How could I have missed that? Was it due to my vacation...? Anyway, I'm happy I ran into it. The article is an update from an article written in 2005, "Blogs Will Change Your Business" . This article was corrected and commented on here . Finally the article that was published in the June 2 issue is titled "Beyond Blogs" . It's a very nice article giving an overview on what has happened in 2 years with blogs and social media in general. It's a great read for people that don't understand this world or are taking their first steps in this energetic space. It is loaded with i...

Wired has an awesome article/post/picture on " The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits -- to You ". I'm not going to say more, just go and take a look!

Cool, Google is also making bookmarks social! Google Operating System has the post. It tried it right away and was wondering what this adds to my del.icio.us bookmarks . Not much, although I do find that Google Operating System missed an important feature. Because after you've shared a bookmark, you can also share that bookmark in del.icio.us, Facebook, etc. in a couple of extra clicks. Refer to the picture. This is my Google Shared Stuff . UPDATE 9-21-07: Multiple social bookmarking can also be done in this way . And ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post on Google Shared Stuff.