Communities are built on communications. With stunning advances in communications technology and inexpensive, powerful, and reliable platforms readily available, the art of communications also needs to be matured and implemented. Many workers and business fall into a model of Personal Information Managers (e.g. MS Outlook) and the MS Office trinity of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. [...]
{ 0 comments }
WiiKno has been awarded a contract to bring collaboration software to the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Center. According to a pre-solicitation notice posted on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site, DHS plans to award collaboration start-up WiiKno with a contract unless other bidders step forward and to ramp up the wiki later [...]
{ 0 comments }
A collaboration platform utilizes a “Network Effect” where the system itself becomes more valuable to those who use it as the number of participants increase and information is created. In the world of Web 2.0, “critical mass” describes the amount of data held in the system which allows the user community to easily retrieve information. [...]
{ 0 comments }
In the Web 2.0 world, rapidly distributing information has never been easier. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace allow individuals to share information about events in their lives to anyone around the world, while sites such as Wikipedia allow individual to globally share collective knowledge. These and other Web 2.0 systems are rapidly changing [...]
{ 0 comments }
WiiKno’s CTO, Craig Tobias, was recently mentioned in CiscoPress for his achievements in wiki application: “The Cisco Customer Advocacy Remote Operations Services (ROS) team built a network operations–related knowledge base on a wiki-like framework, called a twiki. In 2006, solutions architect Craig Tobias came up with the idea of creating wiki pages, like file drawers, [...]
{ 0 comments }
The recent focus on information sharing has led to the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools such as portals and wikis across the U.S. Defense Department. However, these tools are challenging the government’s network-centric transformation by creating new virtual information silos across the Global Information Grid (GIG).
{ 0 comments }
WASHINGTON – U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned it would be difficult to definitively identify the attackers quickly.
{ 0 comments }
U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement Friday of a new cybersecurity push by the U.S. government won widespread praise from the technology industry, with many people saying his attention to the issue is a major step toward better securing the nation’s computer networks.
{ 0 comments }
The President announces his plans for securing America’s digital future. May 29, 2009.
{ 0 comments }
U.S. officials say the Internet, and specifically social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, are providing the United States with critical information in the face of Iranian authorities banning Western journalists from covering political rallies.
{ 0 comments }