After spending so much time writing about it, i am finally working for a company that is both working on an Enterprise 2.0 style product and using many Enterprise 2.0 tools. I have been literally floored reading through the amazing and diverse bookmarks that my colleagues are saving into Cogenz.

There are three specific things that make Cogenz so useful.

Privacy: First, Cogenz enterprise social bookmarks are private. Only my colleagues at Teqlo get to see the stream of bookmarks and comments I am creating.

Diversity: Second, I am amazed at the diverse range of perspectives included in our collective private bookmark stream. It is not just that my colleagues are thinking about the same problem in different ways. Instead, it’s immediately clear that they are thinking about totally different aspects of our product. The bookmarks cover articles on usability, look and feel, potential partners, interesting development tools. The range is huge. And seeing that range helps me to better understand everything about the team and what they are doing.

Efficient Summaries: Third, like most bookmarking systems, Cogenz asks you to both tag an article when you book mark it and write a brief summary. The summaries become like small blog posts. Half the time, I do not need to ever read the associated page, because someone on the Teqlo team has already told me what I need to know. Most amazing of all, the bookmarks do not arrive in my email in box. This is so obvious, I feel silly even writing it. However, the impact on my productivity is significant. Not only can I get this valuable team generated information in a concise way, but I can get it when I want it by reading the stream or searching the previous bookmarks.