Just posted on the KMWorldblog about a session I listened to at KMWorld & Intranets 2008 describing NASA’s experiment with social networking.  Cool.

Check out this interesting article on “how Web 2.0 technologies, agile project management and strong IT governance are enabling the CIA to share more information inside the enigmatic, controversial agency and collaborate more effectively with its 15 intelligence agency peers.”  For example the CIO of the CIA (don’t you love the nice ring of all those initials?), Al Tarasiuk, talked about “more efficient and effective information sharing by using Web 2.0 technologies, such as the CIA’s Wikipedia-like Intellipedia that’s used across the U.S. intelligence community.”   “The current director [of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) established in 2004], J.M. “Mike” McConnell, is taking great pains to replace the “Need to know” culture with “Responsibility to provide” among the organizations. (The shift is significant because it replaces knowledge hoarding with knowledge sharing.)”   “What’s happening at the CIA is really representative of what’s happening governmentwide, where you have a number of agencies with antiquated systems, and the challenges in front of them and the opportunities we have are requiring a lot more flexibility, speed and agility,” says Lena Trudeau, a program director at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), an independent Washington, D.C., government advisory group. Trudeau studies how collaborative technologies can help solve the U.S. government’s complex problems, which “require [the government] to act in a different way than a lot of these legacy systems and processes allow.”

At long last, here is Jane’s presentation to the Spring 2008 conference Ontario Library Service-North held for its incredible public library clients. We so enjoy working with the public libraries in northern Ontario; in this discussion Jane talked with them about “applying and learning web 2.0 tools in 15 minutes/day”, originated by Helene Blowers at Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Learningtalk Jane For Olsn Spring 2008

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Interesting interactive site to visit – Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Just heard from one of the creators, Chris Willis, VP Social Media, Footenote.com, who worked with a team to take pictures of the wall (6500) and then opened the site where people can share memories, memorabilia (including super 8 film), etc.  You can search the wall, browse names by category, enlistment types, service, and home town.   This new site ended up on the front page of CNN on Apr 2.  Very interesting. Footenote.com also has a partnership with the US National Archives.  Check it out.

Ok, I started the last post because Beth Unger tells me she is working on the following question –

“What are the societal changes that could occur as a result of the technologies like Web 2.0 that will blur our current views of interaction?” As she says, the issues of personal attribution, contribution, identity and responsibility all come to the fore. She is interested in who is working in this arena and what they’re saying. I thought I’d throw it out and get a discussion going. I forgot to include that part in my last post because she is such an awesome lady I got carried away talking about her! At any rate, let’s talk about web 2.0 and societal change. Thanks!