Entries Categorized as 'A-Space'

Social Video for the US Intelligence Community

March 25, 2008 by Bob Gourley

ExecutiveBiz members have had the pleasure of interacting with a long line of IT thought leaders. One of note is Chris Rasmussen, a great advocate for information sharing and collaboration within the federal space and a master of the use of new tools to get groups working together on hard problems (read more about Chris […]

Speeding the delivery of Web2.0 capabilities into government

December 5, 2007 by Bob Gourley

IT leaders in government are wrestling with several competing forces in the Web2.0 world. The greatest force is a push for change towards more user-focused computing.  But a resisting counter force threatens to delay this change.
The counter force here is institutional inertia. Big organizations are just slow to change, and the larger, more complex the […]

Chris Rasmussen: A Dynamic Thought Leader in Intelligence

October 12, 2007 by Karen Mortensen

Since 9/11, the intelligence community has been looking for ways to do a better job of sharing information between agencies. Chris Rasmussen is a knowledge manager and trainer for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency within the Department of Defense, and he’s a dynamic part of that effort. He’s a thought leader in the application of Web […]

CIA on Myspace?

August 23, 2007 by John Stauffer

The national intelligence agencies have launched a social networking site, A-Space, modeled after the ultra-popular MySpace, further supplying ammunition to those who claim networking sites hold potential beyond teenage users. The government-only site will allow users who voluntarily sign up to access the vast network of federal intelligence agencies.
This move “will generate better analysis […]