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uational awareness is the glue that holds together a team in
combat operations, and one technology is emerging as a tool for the warfighter: social media...... But this isn’t Facebook for the military. The new breed of
information sharing that arises from the Web 2.0 movement is characterized as “knowledge management,” and its abilities to link important but disparate data, personnel and problem-solving skills are helping change how the military carries out its missions ...... “Knowledge management is not a fad, it’s a discipline, but the Defense
Department doesn’t necessarily realize it because it [knowledge management] doesn’t look like a traditional discipline,” said Len Blasiol, director, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Integration Division at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command at Quantico, Va. Blasiol and other industry personnel and experts spoke recently at the Knowledge Management 2010 conference ......“We’re moving more toward a learner-centric environment,” said Tom
Light, chief information officer and delivery division chief at the U.S. Training and Doctrine Command. Light described it as “blended learning,” a movement that is distributed, collaborative, institutional and with functional training ...... However, the metamorphosis of military doctrine won’t happen
overnight. Bill Robinson, chief knowledge officer at the Joint Forces Command, warned ...... Social media has created a landscape of ways to connect, spread
thoughts and ideas and move data, and the bottom line is, “Keep it mission-related,” said Joe Boutte, strategic adviser at TASC ...“Social tools are mission tools. These tools need to connect people and be transparent and intuitive. They link knowledge management and situational awareness,” Boutte said. “And knowledge is the most important element of production in government.”Read on at: http://defensesystems.com/articles/2010/05/05/knowledge-managament-and-social-media-in-dod.aspx?s=ds_120510&admgarea=TC_DEFENSEENJOY!CC
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... The IBM research seeks to integrate financial capital, human capital and social network analysis to formally and quantitively define and model social capital, and place a dollar value on the social network, and its components ... ,i.e., What is the value of being able to find the right person to answer a unique question or problem, and unlock the power of an existing social network? ...
... So, mining the electronic data of the largest organizational social network ever collected for a year, using the IBM social network analysis platform "Small Blue", they have generated the following findings:
- That one's social network does have measurable human capital, and that this status can be beneficial to one's work performance...
- That the population level topology of a social network correlates with its performance (bigger is better)
- That strong email ties to decision makers, and having a diverse circle of contacts (networks with a large number of people reachable within 2 social steps, i.e., your friends' friends' friends) are the most economically valuable ...
- That teams with an even mix of genders do well ...
- That too intensive communications to the same people has a negative impact, perhaps because of the repetitive and redundant information exchange...
- And finally, that each person in your work related digital network is worth $948 ... Thus, I am rich! ...
... The study goes on to suggest that today's generation -- accustomed to electronic social networking, i.e., blogs, wikis, instant messaging, texting, emails, Facebook, YouTube, Second Life, and, of course, MedTech-IQ -- is well positioned for an emerging workplace in which meaningful connections to multiple and diverse social networks will be of increasing economic value...
Read on at: http://www.markdrapeau.com/2009/11/ibm-knows-how-to-monetize-your-friends/
For more on the IBM research, see:
Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shi Xia Liu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Jimeng Sun, Xifeng Yan, "SmallBlue: Social Network Analysis for Expertise Search and Collective Intelligence," icde, pp.1483-1486, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2009
Or, link to: http://smallblue.research.ibm.com
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on Facebook. The page offers links to agency pages already on Facebook, guides, and updates to government Facebook activity.
Some 23 agencies have set up Facebook sites, said Tim Saparini, Facebook Washington representative, when he announced the launch recently...The Facebook government page is at http://www.facebook.com/government..
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On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, unveiled Apps.Gov, a Web site where federal agencies will able to buy so-called cloud computing applications and services that have been approved by the government to replace more costly and cumbersome computing services at their own locations.
The push to promote cloud computing is part of the Obama administration’s effort to modernize the government’s information technology systems and to help reduce the $75 billion annual budget for federal I.T. in the process.
The apps storefront, which is run by the General Services Administration, includes an array of business applications, productivity software, services like storage and Web hosting and social applications. In a speech at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Mr. Kundra said that the cloud offerings could be cheaper and more energy-efficient and allow the federal government to benefit from the same technological advances that most consumers enjoy...
Read on at: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/09/facebook_page_f.html;jsessionid=XUQUQR1CPVJT1QE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN
and: https://apps.gov/cloud/advantage/main/start_page.do
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article below ...ENJOY!CCP.S. Also featured in the article are quotes from MedTech-IQ member, Neal
Neuberger, and reference to Dr. Bertalan Mesko's excellent Webicina, Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Collection.----------------------------------------... When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines,
the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging...... Neal Neuberger, executive director of the Institute for e-Health Policy,
said physicians connecting with patients via social networking sites is a fast-growing trend. A plethora of applications have also cropped up for devices such as the iPhone that allow patients to communicate with physicians or find medical services in their area. "There are literally hundreds of them," he said...... Another force behind doctors' adoption of Web 2.0 tools is that EMR
providers are beginning to insert texting and videoconferencing tools right into their software, according to Conrad Clyburn, founding partner of MedTechIQ, an international content aggregation and physician collaboration Web site...... "The task is so big that we're going to have to start using these tools
to solve the problems" associated with rolling out complex new health information technologies, said Neuberger, who is also chairman of the American Telemedicine Association's policy committee...... Clyburn said that about 45 vendors now offer blog
or microblog sites dealing with physician issues, some of the most pressing of which are the implementation of EHRs. Among the more popular sites are Sermo.com and Webicina.com...... The reason those sites are so popular is that most doctors tasked with rolling out EMR technology run small practices and have little experience with such implementations and have little or no IT staff, he said...
... As a result, smaller practices are leaning toward SaaS models for EMRs, such as Practice Fusion, which is a free offering, and NoMoreClipboard. Both, Clyburn said, are "quite easy to use."..
... "This is going to be a very interesting space in the next couple of years," he said. "One of the trends we're going to see is a gravitation toward the low-cost solutions -- and I think that low-cost solution will be [a] software-as-a-service subscription model. Those lend themselves very nicely to online interactivity and patient engagement through messaging and the things we've become accustomed to in the cloud."...
Read on at:
ComputerWorld
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/347337/e-health_web_2_0_doctor_will_tweet_now/
BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-20/e-health-and-web-2-0-the-doctor-will-tweet-you-now.html
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reported in Government Computer News...Cross-agency information sharing and collaboration ranked as the leading areas where investments in federal information technology would make the greatest impact on government performance, according to a new survey of federal information technology officials.
At the same time, hiring and retaining skilled professionals remains the most pressing challenge for federal chief information officers for the second year in a row, the study also found.
Web 2.0 and collaboration tools also emerged as among the most critical technologies and solutions federal IT officials are now dealing with, the study found.
The overall top 10 list of critical technologies and solutions for 2008 (and their prior year rank) include:
1. Web 2.0/Collaborative technologies (not ranked in 2007 list).
2. Information sharing (not ranked in 2007).
3. Knowledge management (ranked eighth in 2007)
4. Service-oriented architecture (same rank in 2007)
5. Wireless technology (ranked second in 2007).
5. Identity management/HSPD12: smart cards, biometrics, etc. (ranked third in 2007)
7. Security applications (ranked 18th in 2007)
7. Workflow (ranked 18th in 2007)
9. Security infrastructure (ranked first in 2007)
9. Executive information and decision support systems (ranked 11th in 2007)
Read on at: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47755-1.html
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As reported in iHealthBeat...Social networking tools -- such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter -- are moving into the medical world. In an iHealthBeat Special Report by Kelly…
onsumers are rapidly adopting social media communication technologies and behaviors ... This approach seems to have great promise; however, there is little documentation at present on the cost-effectiveness of incorporating social strategies and technologies for businesses. Forrester talked with early-adopter companies and reviewed the solutions from leading vendors to understand the variables to consider for determining the business value of online communities for customer service and support. The early evidence indicates that social technologies are a sound choice because they provide an attractive ROI in a short period of time...
... A hypothetical company will need to invest in a social network over the first three years in costs for designing and maintaining the social media Website, integrating the site with internal sales, marketing, and knowledge management systems, paying a project and community manager to build and oversee the site, and analytical software...
... However, payback is quick, Forrester finds. A company that invests in a well-tuned social network will probably see a payback almost twice that amount ... Meanwhile, the payback will continue for years going forward...... The challenge is getting upper IT management on board with the social networking trend...
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As reported in the San Francisco Business Times ... The Marc Andreessen-backed social networking startup Ning has raised $15 million more at an impressive $750 million…
short run, we will be able to come back to it later ... when the time is right. I think the most complex challenges will surface in the next few weeks.
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