This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ and some of his colleagues, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging (Yammer) , wiki experiences, enterprise information architecture, and SharePoint implementation. For this post I spoke with Samuel and Peter Kruizinga about their social bookmarking experiences.
Peter and a colleague set up the social bookmarking application in the Research and Development department using an Open Source tool. Peter is a member of R&D and part of their job is doing research on current trends in various technical issues. People were sharing links to web articles through email. However, they would only send them to a few close colleagues so as to not “spam” others. The information was not getting fully distributed to the right people. It was hard to decide what to send to whom.