This is a great example of a community taking charge of a project and utilizing all their resources through collaboration. What a great lesson for any young organization to find creative ways to make a change. Read on at KansasCity.com by Sara Shepherd (Kansas City Star) http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/01/2122053/mural-offers-a-lesson-in-collaboration.html
Summary: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. About Howard Rheingold: Writer, artist and designer, theorist and community builder, Howard Rheingold is one of the driving minds behind our net-enabled, [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Boston June 14-17, 2010 Westin Boston Waterfront www.e2conf.com/boston Enterprise 2.0 Boston is the best place to learn how to use collaborative tools to accelerate information flow, drive revenue and increase productivity. Gain comprehensive thought leadership—from strategy to execution and performance monitoring—and bring the power of collaboration to your organization, June 14-17, 2010. www.e2conf.com/boston [...]
WiiKno’s newest partner, Peer1 (www.peer1.com), announced a new strategy to better support their partners and prospective clients. “With this groundwork, the company decided to launch a dedicated channel sales division to offer better support for partners. In doing so, Peer 1 hopes to realize its goal of growing its channel business from the current 20 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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).
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.
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.
The President announces his plans for securing America’s digital future. May 29, 2009.