Canyon R

I’ve been reading Mark Drapeau’s Mashable column and am really excited about the Government 2.0 directions that he is talking about. I’m also frustrated, as he is, at the pace and lack of leadership that these efforts are receiving. But one of the most interesting parts was his description of A-Space.

The big development in IC social networking tools hitting the news recently is A-Space, essentially a mashup of Facebook, LinkedIn, and GoogleDocs designed to be an addictive work environment for analysts with access to sensitive human intelligence (HUMINT). A-Space will have status updates a la Twitter, subscriptions to updates, feeds and friends, activity streams, content management a la Sharepoint, a community grid tag cloud, RSS feeds from outside, drag and drop capability, discussion/question threads, a ’scrapbook,’ and widgets.

But most importantly he finishes with this revelation.

This system – frankly better than anything I know about in the private sector at the moment – should increase collaboration and analytical thinking.

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