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Corporate Blogs Are All The Rage, Sort Of

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Recent suggested reading on enterprise blogs, and corporate blogs for public consumption:

  • Establishing a Weblog On Your Organization’s Intranet (PDF): Sabrina I. Pacifici and Dennis Hamilton’s presentation from the SLA Annual Conference in Toronto is a ying and yang study of blogging enterprisewide behind the corporate firewall, with examples of blogs, and numerous references to a wide range of sources that serve as a pathfinder on the various avenues and options available to those interested in leveraging this application.
  • Writing the codes on blogs – Companies figure out what’s OK, what’s not in online realm

    • Controversy Over Global Warming Report and Resignation of Key Figure

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    On June 9, I posted Questions Surround Editing of U.S. Report on Global Warming, linking to reports on, and documents related to, the “editing” of climate change research prior to publication of a government report on the issue. Another relevant document associated with this story is a June 9 letter sent by Rep. Waxman and… Continue Reading

    Audit Report on Terror Watch List Database

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    Questions about the adequacy of the data and structure of the federal government’s terror watch list continue, and today’s New York Times reports on the the results of a recently released DOJ OIG study documenting significant weaknesses with the project, including the manner in which critical information was entered into the database. Federal Bureau of… Continue Reading

    Health Sites Remain E-Gov’t Favorites With Consumers

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    The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Government scores [excel format] reports that consumers continue to rate most favorably the data provided by health related websites, including those run by the National Institutes of Health [MedlinePlus and the National Cancer Institute main website]. Related references: This GovExec.com article which includes commentary and a chart with… Continue Reading

    MIT Weblog Survey

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    MIT Weblog Survey: “This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and… Continue Reading

    OECD Report on Digital Music

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    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Project on Digital Broadband Content published a new Report on Digital Music: Opportunities and challenges (132 pages, PDF): “…the outlook for the music market in 2005 is positive due to rapidly increasing sales of (mobile) digital music services. Digital music is also a driver for the global… Continue Reading

    Enforcement of U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Abroad Remains Weak

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    Intellectual Property: U.S. Efforts have Contributed to Strengthened Laws Overseas, but Significant Enforcement Challenges Remain GAO-05-788T, June 14, 2005. Highlights: “U.S. efforts have contributed to strengthened intellectual property legislation overseas, but enforcement in many countries remains weak, and further U.S. efforts face significant challenges. For example, competing U.S. policy objectives such as national security interests… Continue Reading