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Interesting article on RedOrbit by By Maryann Lawlor, discussing the adoption of Web 2.0 by businesses . Some excerpts below, read the full article here..
 

Common interests bring professionals together online, then lead them to corporate collaboration. Social networking and other Web 2.0 capabilities are creating new avenues for commerce by facilitating communication inside the corporate […]

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From Iain Thomson at Vnunet.com
A survey of 1,000 office staff has found that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace.
The survey by IT services firm Telindus found that 39 per cent of 18 to 24 year-olds would consider leaving if they were not allowed […]

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Very interesting article by Florence Olsen (FCW) on the District of Columbia’s adoption of Web 2.o technologies. I have excerpted some highlights here but please read the full article
Link to the original article
The District of Columbia’s 33-year-old chief technology officer, Vivek Kundra, wants to bring government procurement into the world of wikis and YouTube videos
The test case […]

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‘EUtube’, the European Commission’s new channel on YouTube, was officially launched on 29 June 2007. By offering an additional way of communicating Europe to its citizens, EUtube indicates that some of the European Institutions are starting to keep pace with some of the newer developments on the web. EUtube is another example of […]

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Oxford Internet Institute : Webcast, University of Oxford.

For over a decade UK government has been busy moving online. This has made some progress, for example in driver and vehicle licensing, but is yet to take off in terms of usage in the way of some spectacular contemporary Internet examples like Facebook and iTunes.
Is this inevitable? […]

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Interesting post by Jason Ryan on PSnetwork.org on the need for Public sector organisations (in New Zealand) to increase the rate at which they are adapting to changing cultural and technological conditions.
“The problem, as such, is not that public sector organizations are not adapting to the change; the fact that there is so much interest […]

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Stigmergic Collaboration
I have just finished reading Mark Elliot’s PHD dissertation entitled “Stigmergic Collaboration- A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration” and I found it to be inspiring and profound.
This is one of the most scientific and rigorous examinations of mass collaboration and social networking technologies and their interactions that I have come across, and I […]

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Lots of organisations are starting to clamp down on Internet usage within the organisation. It should be remembered however, that heavy handed IT security policies can demoralise and demotivate staff. The old adage, ‘treat people like children and they will behave like children’ comes to mind.
I know some people whom have had experience working in […]

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Don Tapscott (one of the authors of Wikinomics) was invited by the Davos management to organise an impromptu meeting of business and government leaders and some leading academics and thinkers on the topic of rethinking democracy. The topic he chose was government 2.0 – how the new Web 2.0 might lead to new models of […]

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David Stephenson has published the content of a speech he gave to New Internet Web 2.0 conference on November 1, 2007
David outlines the possibilities more transparent government offers to the public and to business and gives some very good examples of several US agencies that have opened their data to the public using well documented […]

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