Regular readers know that I am not of a fan of the term “social media” — and I like “social networking” even less. I originally wrote about it back in September under the headline The…
Shockingly enough, we are nearing the end of the year — and we are also nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century. I actually forgot all of this until I was…
Social networking — it is a term that has increasingly grown to make me cringe. And it is more then just semantics. Regular DorobekInsider readers and listeners to Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Daily Debrief…
Peter Tseronis, co-chairman of the council\'s cloud computing advisory committee, explains what he and others are doing.
The November issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL magazine is on the streets, and it includes my latest column, headlined The Intelligence Community Writes the Book on Collaboration. The Intelligence Community Writes the Book on Collaboration [SIGNAL…
The federal government is losing another of its rising stars — but only the larger goal of public service. Earlier, we told you that GovLoop — the burgeoning online government-focused collaboration platform that describes itself…
The WSJ Monday featured a special technology section… and the lead story was about the end of e-mail. Why Email No Longer Rules… [WSJ, Oct. 12, 2009] And what that means for the way we…
Some researchers at Rutgers University say the millions of users of Twitter can be broken down into two types of users; “informers” and “me-formers.” Mor Naaman an Assistant Professor in the Rutgers School of Communications’…
There’s been a lot of talk about how social networking can make your business — or agency — more successful. Not everyone feels that this is true, however. Bo Peabody is a Managing General Partner…
GovLoop and GovDelivery, fresh off their new partnership, had a party — to celebrate that collaboration, but it was also a Happy Fiscal 2010 New Year Party at Current in Washington, DC. Some of the…
We reported earlier about the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s decision to shut down the Web based e-mail system that was one of the intel community’s Intellipedia collaboration suite of tools. I am…
It is a story that has been generating a lot of buzz — I have been trying to nail it down for a few days — and I give a lot of credit to MarcAmbinder,…
The buzz around town for the past few days is the announcement that GovLoop, the “Facebook for feds,” has a new home — with GovDelivery, a Minnesota-based company that specializes in helping agencies communicate with…
Two sites want to give government workers, contractors and thought leaders a better, bigger place to connect online.
New document outlines best practices, ideas and what to avoid when deploying 2.0 tools at your agency.