This summer and autumn, I’ve been very wrapped up in our Careers, Tagged product (http://www.careerstagged.com).
It’s designed to be a replacement for our old, broken Online Careers Library and is driven by the work of about thirty different information teams at seven different offices researching, collaboratively tagging and adding information. It can currently deal with links and pdfs. Book catalogues for our seven different libraries (courtesy of LibraryThing) and corresponding automatic links to Amazon will be added by December with integration to our job vacancies system and a stack of other stuff due in the spring term. (Can you tell I work in HE?)
Careers, Tagged - from The Careers Group
The information it contains, then, is very much socially produced and aside from producing a resource way beyond the day-to-day capacities of your average Careers Service, it should also enable the move to an electronic library for large amounts of the paper files still in use.
Currently, users can register to add their own tags (which are differentiated from ours), comment and vote on the value of individual resources. We’ll be adding messaging and following capacities and extending user profiles as we progress through the coming year. The focus, though, is very much in line with Bokardo’s del.icio.us rule – to provide something immediately useful.
There’s a lot we haven’t got right yet (our wiki intranet has a large and growing page of bugs, issues and suggestions) so all feedback is welcome. Removing a search function, for example, came out of user testing but further work suggests that we still haven’t got the balance between search and tag browsing quite right. I might write more about that in a later post.
Meanwhile, our inhouse tech team (primarily our Head of OS) and the information team have done an awesome job. And the core of it is the information and the level of cross-team work that’s assembled it and keeps it alive. Definitely proof that a certain degree of wiki culture has embedded itself in our team DNA.
Filed under: social bookmarking, social media | Tagged: careers, collaboration, social bookmarking, social media, website, work
