Library clips

Clipmarks keeps on adding new features…now besides just clipping your own, you can even add clipmarks created by others to your own account. You can even re-tag them, but these tags will only apply to your account.

This doesn’t quite make it a folksonomy, but I don’t think the idea of clipmarks is to emerge a term for every given item, the idea more and more seems to be about clipping something and adding some text to it, a form of citizen journalism. This is driven further as people can comment on clips, and clipmarks harnesses this with a live comments stream.

So I think it is more than just clipping stuff for personal/public reasons, I think it is moving into clipping stuff to generate conversation. Diigo is a similar tool, but I think the business model here is less focused on citizen captured news, and more focused on annotation and research…but either service could do both, it’s just which way the design sways the service.

Every clip in clipmarks has a permalink, so it is similar to generic blogs in a social tagging environment, only that your clip revolves around captured content…it is not designed to blog your own content (I think this is something more inline with Newsvine, Gather, etc…)

Here are some posts on clipmarks from a while back:
Clipmarks: clip folksonomy
What’s all the chatter about Clipmarks?
clipmarks: new and improved!

[ADDED: another thing I like about clipmarks is the use of personal folders (collections)…unlike tags these are for personal use (note: you can see a users collections at their user space).
The idea is that tags are for keywords, whereas Collections can act like a bucket (less specific than tags).
I like the idea of Collections (folders) if you are collecting clips/bookmarks for a research topic, although you give the bookmark a tag/s you can also keep it in a folder.

Later on you could decide to delete that collection, the bookmarks will still live in the tags, but they will no longer belong in a collection.]

We know how social bookmarking can lead to discovery of shared interests, which then may lead into other ventures such as group formation, CoP’s, etc…

We also know how people tagging can do a similar thing, we can discover people by topic/keyword…kind of like a tag based “people yellowpages” for the enterprise (this can complement the “people whitepages”…staff directory).

For further on this see my posts:
fringe contacts: people tagging
Internal communication blogs and km2.0

Well check out URLgreyhot, who has some nifty diagrams putting all this together in an enterprise social network structure…see more.

km2.0 allows social interests and connections to thrive (people are connected via the system design)…people will gather and consolidate information, having a space to collect, comment and discuss information with “like” people…this may be a close solution to teasing out tacit knowledge…but not only that, to also drive innnovation.

Blogs are a great idea to publish personal knowledge, but then again there is the take up problem.
If blogs are just one of the social tools, and all these social tools are weaved together, and everyone has a profile, then it will be the norm to share knowledge…if it works on MySpace and TagWorld why not the enterprise. People like connecting and exchanging information and if they have their own publishing space even better…they can be excited about publishing without having to be an expert or go through traditional channels…also it is a way to be heard and contribute whereas this may not have happened via email, forums, or face to face.

This creates a different management lead approach…instead of top management pushing possible areas of innovation, and pushing the old school km tools for this to happen, now socially designed enterprise communication tools (not just email and IM) are going to manifest innovation in a more organic way by allowing people to share and discover and grow.
Really, instead of top management pushing people to connect, in the km2.0 environment it will be the opposite, they won’t be able to stop people connecting.
So the role of top management may be moreso in filtering the cream of the social discussions and leading that way, I think the creative thinking and great ideas will surface in the social networks and not in the board rooms…just give them the tools.

The best interests of the enterprise can be driven by the people.

[via Portals and km]

[ADDED 21/06/06: Bringing Knowledge, Relationships, and Experts Together in the Enterprise]

[ADDED 16/08/06: How Can You Communicate the Corporate Benefits of Enterprise 2.0 Network Effects?]