Social search and taxonomies

What will be the impact on the use of taxonomies in companies as more adopt enterprise 2.0 ways of connecting people? Social search, social networking, social enterprise - these are new possibilities being adapted for enterprise use from the consumer universe of Facebook / MySpace, del.ico.us and other social bookmarking services, Digg and Flickr and all the places where people tag what they find. Ajay Gandhi at BEA Systems in a KMWorld webinar posits that social search tools will greatly enrich knowledge management by assisting in sharing knowledge and forming communities. Harvesting Enterprise Wisdom through Social Search reviews knowledge management archetypes, notes the rising state of information overload, and describes the ways social tools will help people cope with that load. It does not mean the end of formal taxonomies to support intranet navigation and repository search, but it will see the emergence of folksonomies based on how people tag and social networks developed according to interest and expertise.

Webinar will be available for 90 days at www.kmworld.com/webinars/bea/21aug2007