This from Thomas Vander Wal , the person who coined the term ‘folksonomies’ gives credence to the general ideas behind ESME:

As has always been the case large enterprise systems are worked around through the use of smaller and more nimble solutions that augment the existing tools. Even in Dan’s [Rosenberg, SAP] incredible demo I saw gaps for these tools. The quick tools that can fill these gaps are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, tagging, Twitter type sharing, Veodia type video sharing, instant messaging, etc. There are many avenues to quickly capture information and understanding and share it. These tools get out of the way and allow what is in someone’s head to get digitized and later structured by the individual themselves or other people whom have had the information shared with them in a community space. This turns into flows through streams that can be put into many contexts and needs as well as reused as needed.

The key to making these tools truly useful comes in the integrations that can be offered. It’s not enough that such tools have a purpose, they need embedding into the processes people are engaged in so that the all important traceability and auditability can be applied.

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