Social Web applications in enterprise

Abstract

While we have mainly described applications for social media on the Web in previous chapters of this book, it is important to also consider the aspects of Social Web applications in enterprise environments. As on the Web, corporate ecosystems can benefit from Semantic Web technologies to provide advanced services to knowledge workers and to solve some of the issues with traditional collaborative information systems. This chapter will therefore describe the ideas and limits of Enterprise 2.0 ecosystems and will give an over-view of how Semantic Web technologies can be used to solve these issues and make these systems more powerful.