The Atlantic magazine carried an excellent article recently on electronic government. This article highlights some of the possible applications of technology to streamlining government services.
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eGovernment
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Categories: E-commerce · Ideas · Information Technology · Social media
Tags: eGovernment, iGov
Rethinking the publishing business
July 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
One of my favourite magazines, The Futurist Magazine (July-August 2008), has an interesting article (“The 21st-Century Writer“) as the cover story. I was fascinated by this examination of knowledge media and its impact on the publishing industry. The article was reporting on a conference in February — in midtown Manhattan — publishing magnate and [...]
Categories: Expertise networking · Ideas · Knowledge media · Social media
Tags: books, Knowledge media, Social media
Another SLAW column – Social Networks
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
You can find my piece on “Social Networks – Why Should You Care” on SLAW.
In this column I try to keep the language and terms distinct – social networks, social (knowledge) media, social networking. This is also one of my areas of research as I try to understand the role of social networks in expertise [...]
Categories: Social media · Social networks
Tags: SLAW, Social media, Social networks
Blocking social networking sites
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments
I continue to be curious about companies who block social networking sites. The common argument is that these sites reduce productivity as employees lolly-gag on company time checking their personal pages.
I found this post recently on Business Week that referred me to a survey done by Barracuda Networks (who sells tools for email and web [...]
Categories: Social media · Social networks
Tags: Social media, social networking, Social networks