Social Bookmarking & Tagging
Connectbeam Spotlight bookmarking and tagging for enterprise productivity
Today, most people don't use social bookmarking and tagging at work. But Connectbeam SpotlightT makes them so simple and beneficial that once you start, you will wonder how you ever got along without them.
We have all used browser bookmarks and IE favorites to save the URLs of websites so that we can return to them any time. Connectbeam Spotlight social bookmarks give you that benefit too - but they give you much more as well.
When you create a browser bookmark, you save it for yourself alone. You get no benefit from your colleagues's bookmarks, and they get none from yours.
Connectbeam Spotlight is different.When you create a Connectbeam Spotlight social bookmark, you connect your interests and expertise with those of all your colleagues - effortlessly. Every bookmark multiplies your sources of information, makes collaboration with peers simple, turns your tacit knowledge and interests explicit, and allows professional social networks to emerge naturally and effortlessly among people whose work and information interests overlap.
How Social Bookmarking and Tagging Works
To bookmark an intranet or Internet page you are visiting, simply click on the Connectbeam Spotlight bookmarklet, add a few tags (you can click on any of the popular tags Connectbeam Spotlight presents), and choose (or create) a topic to save it under. A topic may represent a project, a theme, a group activity, a company, product or market segment you are investigating, or an interest you are pursuing on your own. Topics can be private, but they are even more useful when shared company-wide or with a group - so that many people can contribute to the growing body of information the topic tracks.
Benefits
- Information pathways: Every tag leads you to information other Connectbeam Spotlight users have saved that is relevant to you.
- Current events: Tags give you an instant hint of change.When something important is going on, people tag it more often. Connectbeam Spotlight "spikes" popular tags by making them display in larger type in the tagcloud.
- Project and activity-based clusters: Invent tags to organize different kinds of information around a project, a team, an activity, an upcoming event, a product launch, a partner relationship, a research theme - just about anything.
- Attraction: Once people see a tag being used for a certain kind of information, they naturally start adding that tag whenever they encounter new information relevant to the theme. This creates new clusters of information in an effortless way.
- ...and many more.
