The Enterprise Social Search feed jockey

“Knowledge Plaza is a Web-based platform for enterprise search, social bookmarking, knowledge management, information brokerage and expert identification. Every tile, or piece of information, has its own page like members so you can see all the activity related to the information. You can also send a link to the page so others can see the context around the information. I like this in the same way I think the Mosaic concept adds value. You get the context surrounding information and you can share this context. This concept of providing context is pervasive in Knowledge Plaza and I think that is one of its greatest strengths. It takes knowledge management nicely into enterprise 2.0.”

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Laura Fitton from Pistachio relayed this short business use case story for Twitter written by Gary Koelling of Best Buy and Blue Shirt Nation fame.

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“We had a meeting today, about 30 of us in a room, where we heard from some very high ranking executives as they took us through their thinking on how to implement a relevant digital strategy. Sounds dreadful right? What was different was that there was a huge tv screen next to an overhead projection of the ppt. On the screen was a web app created by @benhedrington call spy. It was rolling every tweet tagged with #BBYCDS from Twitter. Almost everyone in the room and lots outside the room were tweeting thoughts and questions throughout. There were enough tweets, in fact, that the tag #BBYCDS trended on summize to number two right ahead of “sarah palin” and right behind “halloween.”

And what struck me was the dynamic of this meeting. It was participatory. No one was talking out loud except the guy presenting the ppt. But the conversation was roaring through the room via twitter. It was exploding. People we asking questions. Pointing out problems. Replying to each other all while the ppt was progressing along it’s unwaveringly linear path.”

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Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research, stated that despite there being a lot of buzz about the consumer market for web 2.0 applications, “the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space”.

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“Recent discussions at work have prompted me to re-iterate something very fundamental that often gets overlooked when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. An organization will never adopt a single social productivity tool. Knowledge will ALWAYS be scattered.

Enterprise search will unlock data and increase the propensity for information (and the knowledge workers who create it) to be discovered. Discoverability leads to recognition, and recognition leads to increased participation. Enterprise 2.0 must be approached holistically.

Clearspace doesn’t do this. Thoughtfarmer doesn’t do this. Mindtouch doesn’t do this. There is no “Enterprise 2.0 in a box” solution. Period.”

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“Enterprises must reconsider and redraft their knowledge strategy for this “2.0″ world (…) the traditional deployment of centralized content management systems will have to be merged with this newer phenomena of community-driven content generation.”

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“Until now, alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over. Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible than ever.

Once you sign in to Google Alerts and create an alert, you can opt for feed delivery by clicking ‘Edit’ next to your alert on the ‘Manage Your Alerts’ page and changing your ‘Deliver to’ selection from ‘Email’ to ‘Feed’ (click on the image to see larger).”

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“KP is definitely new and innovative and if you get a moment, I would recommend that you take a look. I especially love the concept of using people that you know and trust as a proxy for contextualizing traditional searches…”

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“I received a wealth of insightful comments in response to my earlier post on Enterprise 2.0 ratings for knowledge workers. I thought I’d use some of them to continue discussing the topic, starting with the very basic question of whether measuring E2.0 participation is a good idea at all. A few commenters felt that it was not, and that the very act of measurement would pollute or drain enthusiasm from exactly the activities E2.0 enthusiasts are trying to encourage.”

Read the full article at blog.hbs.edu

“In my biased opinion, we’ve delivered the most exciting Enterprise 2.0 social productivity platform on the market. And with new development coming to fruition in the next month it’s just going to get better.

Knowledge Plaza has been developed as a Web-based platform for enterprise search, social bookmarking, knowledge management, information brokerage and expert identification.

The platform allows you to add websites, emails, documents, contacts, references and discussions.  Multimedia is on the way.  You can tag, annotate and share anything you add.  Using workspaces, your network and company facets sharing and finding information is at the core of Knowledge Plaza.”

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Google is back with a social search experiment. This time they call it SearchWiki. A collective feature “ala” Digg to promote search results, add public comments to them, remove them, and suggest what you would like to see the next time you perform your search. The new feature lets you see others’ comments for your particular SearchWiki as well as your previous notes.

It’s not the first time Google tries this kind of approach for sorting search results. They had previous experiments where you were able to vote and suggest better results. While SearchWiki has been translated in different languages and has a polished look, Google states that it is still an experimental feature that is served only to a random selection of participants and that it may only be available for a few weeks.

“Digg” your search results

In regards of every search result, 2 new boxes let you promote the result to the top of your SearchWiki or remove the website which will then appear at the bottom of the page. If you have promoted more than one page you can then organize them in your preferred order.

Any promoted page will stay at the top each time you redo this search or any other search that brings one of your promoted pages in the top results. It is not clear how Google will user this collective rating in their algorithm or if they will use it at all.

Commented websites

Another feature that appears near search results is the public commenting of a search result or moreover of a url. Those comments are made public meaning that Google has a special page that brings you all the commented pages for a particular search with their ratings.

Google will include in your search results comments that you might have added previously. It is not clear if they will bring others’ comments in your result list. That would be a nice feature to see comments from a trusted list of friends who might have an opinion on the Web page.

Suggest better results

At the very bottom of your SearchWiki page there is a link to add a result that you would like to see the next time you do your search.

The new result will then appear at the top of the results page.