9/12/2006
web 2.0 in today’s WSJ
The Marketplace section of today’s Wall Street Journal has two large-ish articles on web 2.0 type stuff; the first is a centerpiece article on the slowly growing respect that bloggers are getting from the fashion industry, but the second (more interesting) piece is about how corporate offices are co-opting web 2.0 technologies like social networking and wikis.
(Note to Vauhini Vara, the writer, however: Wikis are actually called wikis, and there isn’t really any need to put the word in quotes when you use it)
One of the mentioned projects is obviously IBM’s Dogear, which has been buzzed about on almost all the KM blogs I read for months. Microsoft is also developing one called the Knowledge Network (and they have a blog, which I’m linking to) that can “help employees fiond out how they’re connected to important contacts using social networking.” Other projects that I hadn’t known about include Quark’s decision to replace they’re entire intranet with a wiki - something that has apparently been very successful, as its eliminated long trails of email - and Intelpedia, Intel’s interior wiki that hosts 9,000 articles.
For myself, MPOW’s use of web 2.0 is still limited to del.icio.us, but I was surprised when, early last week, one of the analysts came to me and asked me how to use the site. I gave him a brief tutorial, and since then the bookmarks in our account have quadrupled.
Now, if I could just get them to tag more…
Filed under: Librarianship, Technology, Shiny Things, Work, Knowledge Management
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