More Tagging Articles
I am writing an article on enterprise social bookmarking or tagging behind the firewall. As part of my research I have looked at a few other works on the topic, including the CIO article I commented on in yesterday’s post. Here are some more that I want to share. If you have any other sugegstions please leave me a comment to this post. Thanks in advance.
Perhaps the best is Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise, by the Dogear creators, David Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr. I did a post on this before.
The Buzzmachine wrote about a conversation on web 2.0 tagging last year. There is some useful comment including the following: “Someone says that a key benefit of tagging vs. metakeywords on web pages is that they are visible and you can see whether they are credible and not spam and manipulation. Similarly, Google chose not to use metakeyworks but instead gave weight to the words inside a hyperlink and that’s better because it’s visible, not invisible. So we find out what the world thinks content is about instead of what the author thinks it is about.” This was not the first time this point was made but it is useful to consider.
I also liked the link to Consumating.com, where people tag themselves, which is of course counter to most uses of tagging where others tag your work. It would be better to have others tag you in this case. Although in the case of consumating it is a way to meet people with common interests as you can see others with tags similar to yours.
There is also a Business Week article, Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off that gives some of the aerly history. I also looked in the wikipedia. I found the wikipedia article on social bookmarking much more useful that the article on tagging. Both of them had long lists of servcies besdies del.icio.us.
Let me know if you have any other favorite articles on tagging, especially behind the firewall. 
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Patrick - Thanks for all these great resources. I will be reading and writing about them soon.
Posted by: Bill Ives | April 13, 2006 at 10:32 AM
Bill - While not directly related to enterpise, I really liked Rashmi Sinha's Cognitive Analysis of Tagging (http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html). She's got several pieces on tagging over the last year or so.
Posted by: jackvinson | April 17, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Bill,
Whilst not yet launched you might want to look at Cogenz, in particularly the case for enterprise bookmarking here: http://blog.cogenz.com/?p=8
Regards, Niall
Posted by: Niall Cook | April 18, 2006 at 04:50 PM
Bill, new blog entry about tagging at Functioning Form - Interface Design Blog
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?326
Included in it is
(From the comment of IA Summit 2006)D. Grant Campbell and Karl Fast talk about the big picture in “From Pace Layering to Resilience Theory: the Complex Implications of Tagging for Information Architecture.” From a theoretical perspective, change often occurs in a patchy, non-linear, discontinuous way. If this is true, collaborative tagging may have little impact for a long time, then suddenly have a big effect. Whether this will be a good effect or a bad effect, it is tooearly to say.
http://iasummit.org/2006/files/164_Presentation_Desc.ppt
Bes regards
Posted by: Tomoaki Sawada | April 20, 2006 at 01:28 AM
We have tagging links at http://enterprisetagging.org
Posted by: Michael Braly | December 06, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Now of course the act of tagging and bookmarking is referred to (by some)as "folksonomy" - quite a good name if you ask me.
Posted by: Mike Hawkins | December 27, 2007 at 04:53 PM
The Article was dealing with Tagging and Bookmarking.
Social Bookmarking in the enterprise seems to be a good idea.
Hope for the Best!
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Julissa
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Posted by: Julissa | November 07, 2008 at 04:24 AM