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L2A Links for October 22nd

Posted by Jeff Kelly on October 22, 2009

Disney’s Going Digital: Buy Once, Watch Anywhere – The slow boat of convergence is picking up speed.
U.S. Navy CIO: Social Media Should Be Part of Military IT Standard – U.S. Navy CIO Rob Carey wrote that social media is a resource for the American military that should be used to build trust and collaborate, both within and outside the organization.
How the Internet is Changing the Way We Will Watch TV: Scientific American – The slow boat of convergence continues to chug along…
Gartner: Loosen up on Social Networks, Security | Deep Tech – CNET News – The reality of enabling social networks marches on. From the article: "…corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities wanted to shut down such activity, they couldn't. "

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L2A Links for September 16th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 16, 2009

A New Vision for Teaching Science: Scientific American – A very interesting article about strategies for addressing the horrid state of scientific and mathematical education of Americans. From the article: "The most effective teaching expands both the knowledge and the skills needed to engage with science authentically—that is, in a manner akin to how scientists work. To practice science in the classroom calls for problem- and project-based lessons, as well as considerable social interaction."
Government 2.0: A tale of "risk, control, and trust" | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion does a nice roundup of recent events and challenges in the "Gov 2.0" space.

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L2A Links for August 22nd

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 22, 2009

14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion with another exhaustive list of things to be wary of when trying to bring social tools into the enterprise.
More Than a New Web Site: What Gov2.0 Is (and Isn’t) – Gadi Ben-Yehuda kicks off a thoughtful conversation on Gov 2.0 – or as he suggests "G21" (21st Century Government).

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L2A Links for July 30th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 30, 2009

Wikinomics» Blog Archive » Three Focal Points of Open Government – Kevin Morris provides a great summary of the Open Government & Innovations Conference. Includes links to the keynotes from Aneesh Chopra (US CTO), Vivek Kundra (US CIO) and others.
Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion provides a detailed summary of the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace.

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L2A Links for July 7th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 7, 2009

FREE — Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government – A nice collection of educational resources available for free from the Federal Government. It will be interesting to see how this and other resources (such as data.gov) continue to grow as the Feds try to become more open and transparent.
Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older. – Watching nech tech go mainstream. Remember whaen e-mail and AOL did the same thing? From the article: "If the iStrategyLabs numbers are correct, Facebook, simply put, is not a young site anymore. Most of the users (20,3 million, or 28.2% overall) on the site belong to the 35 – 54 age group. Compare that to the age group that was once Facebook’s bread and butter – the 18 – 24 group – which is now in third place with 18 million (25.1%) users, behind the 25 – 34 year old group, which makes for 25.2% of Facebook’s user base with 18.1 million users. The number of users aged 55 and over has grown from negligible 950,000 to 5.9 million in mere six months."

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L2A Links for June 29th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on June 29, 2009

Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report: Sample Chapters – Ross Dawson pre-releases portions of his forthcoming book that is "a practical guide to creating business value inside organizations using web technologies."
And Data for All: Why Obama’s Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online – A great piece that illustrates just how radically thinking has changed in DC re: openness and transparency. Truly transformative possibilities here…

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Learn to Adapt Links for January 29th through January 30th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on January 30, 2009

Government 2.0: How Social Media Could Transform Gov PR | PBS – Mark Drapeau shares a thoughtful post on how Government can adopt Web 2.0 tools to communicate better with the people they represent.
Do you really need enterprise social computing? Answer here. – Newsgator poses 25 questions about your specific workplace and its information needs, collaboration requirements, knowledge work, IT challenges, customer base and competitive landscape. Then it scores your organization on a zero-to-100 scale depending on the urgency of the need for enterprise social computing technology.

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 12th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 12, 2008

Web 2.0: The Future of Collaborative Government | Federal Government | State Government – Deloitte LLP – The high-level summary is still to come, but this page includes a 10 minute video and links to information about the speakers when "On June 3, 2008, Deloitte and the National Academy of Public Administration convened a group of government leaders, subject matter experts and forward thinkers to develop a road map to help the next administration navigate the work force and organization changes that need to occur to move to a more collaborative model of government."
Gartner sees Hype Cycle for Social Software « Shepherd’s Pi – Nice summary post from Lewis Shepherd on Gartner's 2008 Hype Curve that shows )amongst many other things) that “Web 2.0 software” is falling from its “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and is on its way to a “Trough of Disillusionment.”

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