SLATES (Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signalling) is an initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in and across enterprises.
[1] This acronym refers to the key elements in the phenomena often referred to as Enterprise 2.0, which was defined by Professor Andrew McAfee as “the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”[1] Search is traditionally defined as "A web search query is a query that a user enters into web search engine to satisfy their information needs.
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, leverage and ROI".
Exemplified by the phrase "other customers who purchased this book also purchased these books" Signalling involves the sending of alerts to users of the changing state of an element of interest i.e. using RSS.
Exemplified by the Online Status of other users in instant messaging clients This technology-related article is a stub.