18. A system for prompting expertise in a collaboration environment, comprising: at least one electronic or digital device; a search engine for pulling or obtaining expertise information for at least one recipient of a message in a collaboration environment based on a context of the message; a controller for highlighting at least one of words or recipient names in the message corresponding to the obtained expertise information; and a graphical user interface in communication with the search engine and the controller for displaying the message and the obtained expertise information, the recipient names in the message corresponding to the expertise information, and a source of the obtained expertise information, wherein the source is at least one member selected from the group consisting of a social networking site, government records, manual tagging by a user, or collaborative tagging, and wherein the system is configured to simultaneously display both the recipient names in the message corresponding to the obtained expertise information, and the source of the obtained expertise information in response to a user hovering over the highlighted at least one word, said highlighted at least one word corresponding with the obtained expertise information.
18. A system for prompting expertise in a collaboration environment, comprising: at least one electronic or digital device; a search engine for pulling or obtaining expertise information for at least one recipient of a message in a collaboration environment based on a context of the message; a controller for highlighting at least one of words or recipient names in the message corresponding to the obtained expertise information; and a graphical user interface in communication with the search engine and the controller for displaying the message and the obtained expertise information, the recipient names in the message corresponding to the expertise information, and a source of the obtained expertise information, wherein the source is at least one member selected from the group consisting of a social networking site, government records, manual tagging by a user, or collaborative tagging, and wherein the system is configured to simultaneously display both the recipient names in the message corresponding to the obtained expertise information, and the source of the obtained expertise information in response to a user hovering over the highlighted at least one word, said highlighted at least one word corresponding with the obtained expertise information. 19. A system according to claim 18 , wherein the controller comprises one or more processors with embedded computer code or application logic.