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I definitely like the concept of social tagging for intranet content, and if implemented and adopted, could be an extremely effective way to make sure that employees find content. It also puts more “control” in the hands of the users to tag content that is valuable to them versus solely relying on search that relies on appropriate metatagging, which, as most of us know, only works as well as it has been metatagged. The article below gives wonderful insight into what social tagging is and why there are sound reasons to consider it for the enterprise. On top of all that, the author, Stephanie Lemieux, offers a hybrid approach to implementation. I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did!

Original post: Social Tagging and the Enterprise: Does Tagging Work at Work?, Semantic Universe, Stephanie Lemieux

As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. Social tagging allows users to employ their own language to organize and retrieve content, and encourages social collaboration between peers by making those tags visible to others. Organizations are thus looking to social tagging as a potential solution for increased findability on intranets, news/blog monitoring and collaboration in workgroups. The enterprise context is different however, and many of the elements that make social tagging work on the Web make it a challenge behind the firewall.

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Tagged as: enterprise 2.0, enterprise search, search, semantic universe, social tagging, social tags, stephanie lemieux, tags

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WOW! My search got hijacked by WOWWay! when I switched my cable internet service to WOW. My default search results page has always been Google; however, after my WOW! installation, I noticed that whenever I did a keyword search using the Location toolbar, my results page would be an ugly WOWWay-branded search results page rather than Google.

This was terribly invasive and annoying for me, so I took some time to research how to set Firefox back to Google keyword search results page. This is how I did it:

In the Location toolbar, enter about:config
When prompted, select “I Promise”
Look for Preference name: keyword.URL
Right-click whatever the current value is in the value column and select “Modify”
Enter this new value:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

Sources:

http://ketanravalnurture.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-change-default-search-engine.html

Keyword.URL – MozillaZine Knowledge Base.

Permanent: http://www.thesocialworkplace.com/2009/04/24/resetting-a-hijacked-search-engine-to-the-firefox-default/

Tagged as: firefox, Google, keyword.URL, knowledge, search, WOW!, WOWWay

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