In this article we provide highlights of two recent roundtables featuring staff members from the MITRE Corporation. In the first roundtable, Rob Joachim told how his group configured the Google search engine so that it would retrieve items in Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. In the second, Laurie Damianos and Jim Smallwood described a pilot project to test the effectiveness of using social bookmarking technology to promote collaboration. Social bookmarking is a technology that allows people to share their favorite Web sites with others over the Web.

MITRE background
The MITRE Corporation was founded as a private, not-for-profit corporation in 1958 to provide engineering and technical services to the federal government. Today it has 5,700 scientists, engineers and support specialists — 65 percent of whom have Masters or Ph.D. degrees.

MITRE operates three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) for the DoD, the FAA, and the IRS. MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve its sponsors' problems in the near-term and in the future.

MITRE uses SharePoint as its corporate document management and collaborative team space environment. MITRE has about 1,000 SharePoint team sites or communities of interest. Because of its role in exploring new technologies and technology integration, MITRE staff members are often involved in cutting edge projects like those described below.

Google and SharePoint at MITRE
At MITRE, Google is configured to retrieve content from:

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Created on October 13, 2006 l Updated on December 1, 2008