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Hope for Military 2.0

It was great to see the improvements to US government policy in adopting web 2.0 technologies. I've already blogged several of the changes from the new administration to allow more 2.0 technology to be used by government.

I was also heartened to see that the US "Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, etc. ... That move reverses a years-long trend of blocking the web 2.0 locales on military networks."

Quite a few sites will still be blocked (like YouTube - don't want the soldiers seeing their kids at play) but it's a step in the right direction.

On a related note, NASA has started a social networking site for employees:

For NASA Employees, It's "Spacebook" Not Facebook

The posting above outlines how many folks have to be involved to get something innovative like this off the ground.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).