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I Have Met The Enemy And It Is Not PowerPoint

Jan 27th, 2011 6 Comments

Mark Valentine (Chevy Chase, MD) — After a long period of popularity, there has been a recent backlash against the use of PowerPoint for communication within the government, particularly at the Pentagon and within the U.S. national security and intelligence community. However, focusing on the software as the cause of communications breakdown is merely a ... Read more »
Social Software
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Going Mobile: Government and Consumer Applications of Immersive Environments

Jan 25th, 2011 1 Comment

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) - While everything may be “going mobile” in the not-so-distant future, that doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone will be carrying mobile devices as we know them today. Here, I discuss a different future path from what is typically portrayed as a world of always-connected handheld mobile devices - an alternative but probable future in ... Read more »
Lifestyle Tech
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Starfish Vs. Spider: Government 2.0 Operations In A Wikileaks Environment

Dec 13th, 2010 8 Comments

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — One year ago, I published a post on the O’Reilly Radar blog called “Government 2.0: Five Predictions for 2010-2012.” In the post, I described some “non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas” that I thought might take shape in the coming years. Here, I revisit these five predictions ... Read more »
Open Practices, Social Software
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Large-Scale Biocomputational Research Meets Cloud Computing

Dec 16th, 2010 4 Comments

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — More data is being produced, analyzed, shared, and stored than ever before. Scientific research, particularly biological sciences like genomics, is one of the more prominent examples of this, with laboratories producing terabytes of information every minute. There are many challenges moving forward with large-scale computational research in the biosciences and ... Read more »
Cloud Computing
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I’m On A Boat! 8 Lessons From The Navy Social Media Handbook

Dec 9th, 2010 3 Comments

Kristin Bockius (St. Louis, MO) — As the U.S. passes its one-year anniversary of the Open Government Directive, it’s a good time to reflect and think about how far things have come, but also to contemplate where they are going during the next year. Now that social media and government has largely moved past a ... Read more »
Social Software, Uncategorized
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USDA Communications Moves To The Cloud

Dec 8th, 2010 3 Comments

Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) — Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a massive move of its 120,000 employees to communications technology hosted in “the cloud,” the common term for Web-based services like email, instant messaging, and content management. This new initiative is part of a major consolidation of over 20 different email ... Read more »
Cloud Computing
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Web-Based Image Forensics For Catching Child Predators

Dec 7th, 2010 5 Comments

Sam Khoury (Minneapolis, MN) - In just a short time, the Internet has created huge economies of scale for information dissemination, affecting everything from how news spreads among bloggers, journalists, and average readers to how consumers compare sale prices among stores for their holiday shopping. The dark side of such information efficiency, however, is that global ... Read more »
Cloud Computing
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Why The President’s Daily Brief Should Begin With A Map

Dec 2nd, 2010 5 Comments

Christopher Tucker (Washington, DC) — Over the past couple years, we have been watching the slow yet inevitable collision of the Open Government Initiative and the White House’s so-called Place Based Policy Initiative. While Government 2.0 has progressed quite far since William Eggers coined the term “Government 2.0″ in 2004, many of its most interesting examples ... Read more »
Open Practices
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Mobilizing Americans To Support United Nations Missions

Dec 1st, 2010 3 Comments

Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) — Since most people don’t live in New York City or pay close attention to foreign relations and international development work, what the United Nations does and stands for can sometimes seem like quite a mystery. However, something called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are much more straightforward than your average diplomatic treasise, ... Read more »
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