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Re: Getting Kind of Hectic

lifequotes — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:52:03 -0000

Keep posts like these coming, I just loved your work, keep posting like this, will surely be back again!

Re: Getting Kind of Hectic

termlife — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:43:28 -0000

I am totally impressed with your work, thanks a lot for posting, will surely be following your feeds from now on, thanks:-)

Re: Getting Kind of Hectic

Dennis McDonald — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:37:10 -0000

This is a small data point, but I have been surprised that a blog post I wrote last November, "Open Sources of Competitive National Intelligence are Open for Business" (http://www.ddmcd.com/open_s..., has been consistently one of the "top ten" most frequently hit posts on my blog (http://www.ddmcd.com/my_top....

My post discussed a news report from last November on how the CIA had announced the operation of a unit to monitor all public sources of information for useful intelligence. I know from interviewing government folks that acceptance of social media such as blogs and wikis has been rapidly accepted in some quarters. In others, the ability of social media to allow communication across organizational siloes is seen as problematic.

One official I interviewed said there had been resistance to blogs and wikis from those who wanted to maintain siloes as insurance against the possibility that security might be compromised in one area. How universal that view is I donÂ’t know.

Re: Getting Kind of Hectic

Yoav — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:50:29 -0000

I think we can learn a lot from both articles. And more importantly from contrast between the suspicion and doubt that Enterprise 2.0 technologies are treated with in the business sector (InformationWeek article) and the unbridled enthusiasm of the Military intelligence sector (ComputerWorld).

The difference stems from the culture of the organizations. While Military Intelligence (not necessarily military) is all about knowledge sharing, corporation rarely regard it as a goal and so do corporate employees.

If corporations want to promote knowledge sharing, they need to create an environment that notices and rewards it. Otherwise (and no matter how much money they invest in technology), knowledge sharing will not emerge.

Just my 2c.