SLATES
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An initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in and across enterprises.
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[edit] Origin of the term
This phenomena often referred to as Enterprise 2.0 was defined by Professor Andrew McAffee as “the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”[1]
[edit] Search
Traditionally defined as
A web search query is a query that a user enters into web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are unstructured and often ambiguous; they vary greatly from standard query languages which are governed by strict syntax rules.
The term in the context of SLATES refers to effective use of such search queries in and across enterprise boundaries, for example being able to enhance the "discoverability of information which drives re-use, levergae and ROI" [2]
[edit] Links
The use of Links or Uniform Resource Identifiers to forge deep interconnections between the information content across collaborating enterprises.
[edit] Authorship
The ability of all individuals within enterprises to author content readable across collaborating enterprises.
[edit] Tags
The use of Tags to enable the rapid and humanistic organisation of data across collaborating enterprises.
[edit] Extensions
The mining of previously gathered data relating to a users activities or transactions which allows users to be guided to initiate other valuable activities or transactions.
Exemplified by the phrase "other users who purchased this book also purchased these books"
[edit] Signalling
The sending of alerts to users of the changing state of an element of interest.
Exemplified by the Online Status of other users in instant messaging clients
