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Guest Interview with Chris Rasmussen: Looking at Government 2.0 Social Tools

Jan. 26, 2009

Four months ago, amid a summary of Uncle Sam’s social networking applications used by the U.S. Intelligence Community, I mentioned how Intellipedia was a wiki for knowledge sharing and cross-agency collaboration, and A-Space was a sort of Facebook for spies.
Welcome to Chris Rasmussen’s world. Working for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (part of the U.S. Department [...]

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Social Media Advice: Connect and Empower

Nov. 11, 2008

Iraq war veteran Paul Rieckhoff understands the importance of connecting veterans and empowering them with the skills to regain a normal life, despite many soldiers returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rieckhoff, 33, is the founder and director of the 125,000-member nonprofit group, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
In honor and memory of the soldiers [...]

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Ready for the Second Internet War?

Oct. 6, 2008

Image via WikipediaForget last month’s news story about the International Atomic Energy Agency that learned Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan sold nuclear bomb designs over the internet to the Libyans.
The worst that can happen from that mishap, according to the IAEA chief, is a terrorist group could assemble some TNT and radioactive waste and manufacture a [...]

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Train with Airmen in Air Force 2.0

Sep. 19, 2008

With a mission statement to “develop America’s airmen today… for tomorrow,” the United States Air Force published a white paper earlier this year, titled, “On Learning: The Future of Air Force Education and Training.”
Say goodbye to your father’s air force.
The white paper calls for a renewed and focused Air Force 2.0, and the new vision [...]

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U.S. Military Adapts Tactical Networking to Social Media

Aug. 8, 2008

Question: What do you do if you’re the Pentagon, manage the most capable military in the world but recognize a general is six degrees of separation away from a private and there is a lag between first-hand knowledge and quick-fire decisions?
Answer: You turn to the whiz kids who developed the Internet and Global Positioning Satellites [...]

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Military Official Confuses Social Media

Aug. 6, 2008

No offense to U.S. military employee Mark Drapeau and his quote-unquote “insider’s perspective on Government 2.0,” the title of a 1,365-word essay published on mashable.com today touting the benefits of the U.S. military embracing internet collaborative tools, but I must side with UK columnist Michael Cross who wrote a story for the Guardian last month, [...]

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Do Ask, Do Tell, and Repeal the Law

Jul. 26, 2008

Seventy-five percent of Americans can’t be wrong.
I’m just learning about this now, fact-checking data from a Wikipedia entry on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy, but a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last weekend indicates overwhelming bipartisan support for gays to openly serve in the U.S. armed forces.
I’m hardly surprised. America’s come a long [...]

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