Via GSA’s Apps.gov: “Social media apps make it easier to create and distribute content and discuss the things we care about and help us get the job done. Social media includes various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily and share information. Social media includes text, audio, video, images, podcasts, and other multimedia… Continue Reading
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National Archives Announces Launch of New "Our Archives" Wiki
“The National Archives announces the launch today of its first public wiki called Our Archives on Wikispaces located at: http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net. Our Archives provides a collaborative space for members of the public, researchers, and staff to share knowledge about National Archives records, resources and research. The wiki is an opportunity for researchers, historians, archivists, and citizen… Continue Reading
Leaks of National Security Documents to Media Focus of Government Prosecution
Follow up to New Yorker: Julian Assange and WikiLeak’s mission for total transparency news from two sources on converging aspects of leaking national security data via MSM and alternative news outlets. “Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about… Continue Reading
New Yorker: Julian Assange and WikiLeak's mission for total transparency
No Secrets, by Raffi Khatchadourian: “[Julian Paul] Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive… Continue Reading
The Application Usage and Risk Report – An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise
The Application Usage and Risk Report – An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise, Fall Edition 2009, Palo Alto Networks: “Social networking, blogging/microblogging, cloud-based productivity and collaborative applications are just a few of the applications that are making the cross over from personal to corporate use as a means of improving productivity.… Continue Reading
DoD Web 2.0 Guidance Forum
DoD Web 2.0 Guidance Forum – Value of Web 2.0 Capabilities: “In examining how the Department of Defense should take maximal advantage of Web 2.0 capabilities (including social networking services, social media, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc.), we are looking at how Web 2.0 capabilities can be used to improve current and future Department operations.… Continue Reading
Web 2.0 Collaboration: Tools for the Next Generation of Public Service
Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools for the Next Generation of Public Service – Driving high performance through more engaging, accountable and citizen-focused service “Web 2.0 technologies and services have spread around the world at an amazing pace and are used by millions of people every day. Many public service organizations are also adopting Web 2.0 applications… Continue Reading
OpenCongress Project Launches Project RaceTracker
“The RaceTracker project on the OpenCongress wiki tracks every election for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and state governor. RaceTracker is a free, open-source, fully-referenced, and non-partisan public resource. It is coordinated by the crew at the SwingStateProject.” Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway
Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway: Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley’s implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm. Continue Reading
Upcoming: Competitive Intelligence Workshop at Computers in Libraries 2009
Post-Conference Workshop on Competitive Intelligence, April 2, 2009 – 1:30 PM 4:30 PM, Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and beSpacific.com Librarians, competitive intelligence (CI) experts, and knowledge specialists will all benefit from this seminar focused on key, reliable, low-cost, as well as free, resources, services, tools, techniques and applications, including social… Continue Reading
International Women's Day 2009
OECD: “Every year, the 8th of March marks a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women – and offers an occasion to present the work of the Development Centre in the area of gender equality.” “The new and improved Gender, Institutions and Development Database 2009 will offer latest… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley
Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley – Heather Colman explains how wikis were an ideal KM solution for her law firm. Quick and easy to set up, requiring little IT support, wikis support central data repositories and provide features including search capabilities, email, RSS, and also allow users to create a taxonomy of subject tags… Continue Reading
