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The grassroots community rebels against the ugov.gov shutdown - Is Intellipedia next?

2009-10-12T13:06:54Z

In case you haven't noticed, here are some of the headlines regarding the ugov.gov shutdown:

Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion - The Atlantic Politics Channel

Spies Protest After Intel-Sharing Tools Shut Down

U.S. Intelligence Pulls Plug On Cross-Agency E-Mail System

Intelligence community email network to shut down

Intellipedia on the Block?

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Tap the Collective event on Sep 2, 2009 - The Intellipedia Doyen will be there!

2009-08-27T15:55:02Z

Tap the Collective is a venue to discuss how collective intelligence – efficiently drawing upon diverse and distributed knowledge – can be used to help address government problems.

Tap the Collective - Eventbrite

In case you haven't seen this...

This looks like it will be an interesting event and best of all it's free! :)

BTW, congrats to Don Burke, the Intellipedia Doyen. (Just saw this is his short bio on the event page: Mr. Burke is a finalist in the 2009 Service to America Medals (winners will be announced Sept 23) in the category of Homeland Security for his work on Intellipedia.)

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Oooh, I wish I had an Intellipedia cup

2009-07-20T14:22:12Z

Check out Eric Kim's Intellipedia Mug. Nice and stylish... (I think I have mug-envy ;-)

Intellipedia Goes Full Circle on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Improving Intelligence by making it LIVING

2009-07-06T15:36:18Z

I just saw this on Intellibriefs and without seeing the credits, I knew that Chris Rasmussen had to be involved. It is a great production, check it out!

The Intelligence Community Consumer's Guide - Are you informed?

2009-06-01T05:01:20Z

In case you haven't seen this, you may want to take a look at the Us Intelligence Community's Consumer's Guide (an 11MB PDF).

I haven't gone through it, but just the fact that a consumer's guide exists, is interesting...

Here's the contents for the Intelligence Overview section:

Defining and Using Intelligence 6 What is the Intelligence Community? 7 What Intelligence Can (and Cannot) Do 10 Sources of Intelligence 12 Levels of Intelligence Analysis 14 The Intelligence Cycle 17 Prioritizing Intelligence Issues: NIPF 20

The "What Intelligence Can (and Cannot) Do" section could probably clear up some of the public's misconceptions of the IC.

What do you think?

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Vote for Sean Dennehy and Don Burke for the Homeland Security Medal!

2009-05-11T04:36:35Z

If any of my dear readers have any say or votes for the Homeland Security Medal, please make sure you vote for Don Burke and Sean Dennehy!

The Partnership for Public Service will honor 30 finalists for Service to America Medals May 6 in Washington as part of Public Service Recognition Week. The finalists are contenders for nine medals, including Federal Employee of the Year, set to be presented Sept. 23.

30 finalists for Service to America Medals named - Federal news, government operations, agency management, pay & benefits - FederalTimes.com

HOMELAND SECURITY MEDAL

(Recognizes an employee for a significant contribution related to homeland security, including border and transportation security, emergency preparedness and response, intelligence and law enforcement)

Don Burke, Intellipedia doyen, and Sean Dennehy, Intellipedia and Enterprise 2.0 evangelist, CIA, Washington — promoted information sharing across the intelligence community through development and implementation of Intellipedia, a Wikipedia-like clearinghouse of intelligence expertise.

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In case you haven't heard it, listen to MediaBerkman » This Wiki Post Will Self-Destruct in 5…4…3…

2009-04-22T07:29:43Z

In case you haven't heard it, make sure sure to check out David Weinberger's interview with the world famous Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. (Hey, they showed up in Time magazine, so they're famous! :)

Two principals from the Intellipedia project, Don Burke and Sean Dennehy, chatted with David Weinberger this week about some of the challenges and advantages that the technology could have on our nation’s most secretive agency.

MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman: This Wiki Post Will Self-Destruct in 5…4…3… Here's the direct link to the mp3 interview. Thoughts?

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You're joking, right? - The Betrayal » Why was Obama’s name mistaken for someone on the FBI terrorist watchlist?

2009-04-22T07:12:17Z

It should be noted that Obama has ties to an Al Qaeda front company called Burlew Plumbing and Heating investigated by the FBI for causing the Sprinkler systems to fail on 9/11.

The Betrayal » Why was Obama’s name mistaken for someone on the FBI terrorist watchlist?

I just saw this today and at first thought it was a joke feeding off my Obama on Intellipedia post and then got to reading the rest of the post and the comments. Whoa!

Judge for yourself, what do you think?

BTW, I added this comment: (let's see if the website owner approves it)

Whoa! The post on my website which you refer to http://esenai.com/blog/intellipedia/2009/04/president_barack_obama_creates_his_first_article_on_intellipedia.html was an April Fool's joke!

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President Barack Obama creates his first article on Intellipedia

2009-04-01T19:11:49Z

After much persistence from Intellipedia evangelists, President Barack Obama created his first article on Intellipedia. Intellipedia insiders wouldn't comment on the specific article, but there is some speculation that the article is related to Occidental College.

How Obama came to be on Intellipedia is a story in and of itself. It started when an Intellipedia insider suggested on change.gov that Obama create an Intellipedia account as a sign of support. A change.gov administrator that previously worked on Intellipedia saw the request and somehow got it in front of the President. Soon after, he was convinced and got his technology representatives to show him Intellipedia. He soon tried to self-register, but was unable to because his name was mistaken for someone on the FBI terrorist watchlist. A quick call to the FBI resolved the issue though and soon Obama had an account and the rest as they say "is history!"

An anonymous reader's perspective on Intellipedia vs. DoD Techipedia

2009-03-24T06:56:33Z

here's the person's comment verbatim:

Intellipedia vs. DoD Techipedia

The restricted version of DoD Techipedia is open to a wider audience than Intellipedia or Diplopedia. Most Federal Government employees or contractors.
Originally a public version of DoD Techipedia was planned.
DoD CAC Cards were desired as a method of authentication. The CAC card could be used to speed up registration. Also it could reuse existing Single Sign On architecture.
Integration with existing DoD Science and Technology information was desired.
The content of Intellipedia was very different than the envisioned content of DoD Techipedia

One view is that the content of a wiki is user driven, and they add information as needed without a centralized authority. Likewise, creating a new wiki is community-driven. They can create wiki's as needed without a centralized authority.

The government is seeking to avoid redundancy and promote transparency and cooperation. Redundancy isn't an issue if the content/needs are very different. Transparently and cooperation can be solved by giving people accounts on each other's systems.

Wiki's succeed because a) people enter in things they find useful, and want other people to know, b) being able to browse to things they find useful and interesting and c) being able to search/find things they find useful and interesting. Signal to noise ratio is important.

Here's a response to:

Shock and horror that we would "put all of our information Out There"
The desire to have "our OWN wiki"
The realization that "our wiki is empty and sad"
The populace of your org realizes #3, and starts using Intellipedia

In order for 3 and 4 to happen, a large enough part of the community would have to know that a) Intellipedia exists b) I can get an account c) it has the content I need. Otherwise, it turns into 3. We look at the other wiki, and see it is useless and full of junk I don't care about.

Response to 1 - If you are referring to the DoD in horror that the Intel community was using a wiki, I don't think that factored into it.

I think it more fit:

Hey, I am having this problem, and maybe having a wiki could help
Internal discussion about the danger of us putting all our information out there.
Well, all these other organizations (including Intellipedia) are using wiki's, and it is helping them a lot.
The concept of using their wiki doesn't seriously occur to us. For a variety of reasons different people think it won't work.
So we build what we think fits our organization.

When the concept of Intellipedia came up, did the builders consult the DoD or the FBI on their needs (stakeholder buy in)? Did they pre-create some content for the DoD/FBI users? Did they send many emails out to DoD/FBI people saying, hey, we have these really cool site, and there's some stuff in it that is useful to you.

Why weren't Intellipedia and Diplopedia built as one system? What about OMB MAX?

One person said "Does the intelligence community really need to know how to maintain an m1 abrams tank? But having a page for M1 abram tanks would be a good thing to have wikified. What would someone who maintains a tank care about some commentary on signal analysis? However, a pilot might want to know how the intel group finds out if a missile is locked on him, and the intel group might want to know how fast the plane can get out of there.

I agree with you on Bureaupedia though. There has to be a bit of overlap.

NOTE: The person wanted me to add the caveat that this "is speculation from someone who wasn't involved in these details."

Thanks for the comment A!

Please share your thoughts!

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Tags: intellipedia, wiki, techipedia, DoD, bureaupedia, intelligencecommunity, omb, cac card, collaboration, information sharing, anonymous

Looking for more #gov20 news? check @AdrielHampton

2009-03-17T07:00:17Z

Adriel Hampton - I just ran across Adriel on twitter as I saw #gov20 trending on twitter search. He had his broadcast on BlogTalkRadio and even had our good friend Andrea Baker on the call. Check him out.

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Interview with Andrea Baker (@immunity), Intellipedia Evangelist and Professional Gardener or Obama Intellipedia account

2008-12-06T02:16:21Z

I had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Baker recently about Intellipedia and all the great things she is doing.

We talked about:

how she got started in the IC and Intellipedia and was recruited by Don Burke
how Intellipedia makes blogs and a-space better
a-space and that it is not a facebook for spies (yes, its for networking, but also sharing information, sharing rss feeds)
a world without intellipedia?
metrics
the future of intellipdeia - she wants bots!
volunteer gardeners
focusing on management chain buy in
DNI being supportive of Intellipedia
Webcams in the Intelligence Community!
how people were scared of computers, email and intellipedia
second life sucking (ok, she didn't say that exactly...)
discussing intellipedia on change.gov
Obama's Intellipedia account

Listen in!

Download the interview!

BTW, here's Andrea's bio:
Andrea Baker served in the United States Army from 1994-1998 as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and an Arabic Linguist. Following her military service in the Army, Andrea became a career consultant for the Federal Government, supporting the CIA, DIA, NSA, NOAA, and the Pentagon. Andrea's background originally started in web design, graphics and web development and has transitioned from development and design over the years from multimedia design, technical lead, and project manager. In 2005, Andrea noticed the growing social web on the Internet and saw the future of how this could be applied to business and Government. Andrea joined Navstar, Inc. in 2006 as the Director of Technology. Under this role Andrea has helped their customers utilize Enterprise 2.0 tools effectively. She specializes in the user community advocacy and application developer liaison, through tools like wikis, blogs, and other social web tools.

About Navstar:
Navstar’s Mission is to provide Information Technology Services and Innovative Enterprise Consulting Solutions to our customers. We accomplish this by delivering quality services on time and within budget while meeting and exceeding our customer’s expectations.

Navstar highlights:

Headquarters Falls Church, Virginia
48 Employees
WBE Certification
6.5 million Revenue 2007
Averaging 40% growth 4 years in a row
Cleared Facility
2006, 2007 Washington Business Journal, listed as Top 25 Small Technology Companies
Diversity Business Awards 2007, Top Woman Owned Businesses in Virginia ranked 14 out of 100 awardees

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Say it ain't so, John! - DOD jumps on wiki bandwagon - Techipedia! aahh!

2008-11-04T08:02:38Z

It seems like it was only a month or so that I wrote about Bureaupedia. Why Techipedia now? It's not like DOD didn't know. (I've added emphasis and comments to some excerpts below.)

DOD Techipedia is similar to online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the intelligence community’s Intellipedia, said John Young, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
...

DOD spends about $10 billion a year on science and technology, and that money must be used effectively to help warfighters in the field, Young said. The new wiki will help DOD officials better coordinate their efforts, he added. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like DOD officials are not coordinating their efforts to well with the Intelligence Community.
“You want to do this so all the individuals out there executing some of that $10 billion can look elsewhere in the Defense Department and see if someone else has already tried an idea,” Young said. “That way we can get the collaboration [and] coordination and reduce duplication. It also lets us avoid learning the same lesson two or three times in our enterprise.” Reduce duplication? Really? Why doesn't DOD use Intellipedia then? When will the lesson be learned that creating stovepipes is not the answer?

DOD jumps on wiki bandwagon

Am I the only one who thinks this wrong? Or are there deeper reasons for doing this?

Please help me understand. (Please comment while I go talk to my CPA about how I can give the government less money to waste.)

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Tags: intellipedia, techipedia, bureaupedia, intelligencecommunity, wiki, wikipedia, duplication, waste, dod, defense department, wiki bandwagon

Not alone in thinking that Burropedia, I mean Bureaupedia, is not a great idea

2008-10-05T01:30:35Z

I just saw Steve Radick's post about Bureaupedia and he was generally in agreement. Why duplicate efforts?

Check out his post (and at least comment on his post, if you don't comment on mine :):

Your Organizationopedia - Make it Stop!! | Social Media Strategery

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Bureaupedia - FBI's own wiki? Why?

2008-09-29T17:11:47Z

Why oh why is the FBI creating its own wiki? Why waste taxpayer dollars again (remember Virtual Case File)? Why not just use Intellipedia? The FBI as well as the IC could benefit.

Here's an excerpt from the FCW article along with some color commentary:

Officials see Bureaupedia as a knowledge management tool that will let agents and analysts share their experiences to ensure that their accumulated insight remains after they retire. *It will be interesting to see how the FBI plans to extract tacit knowledge from retirees*. The project is a collaborative effort between FBI’s chief knowledge officer and chief technology officer. Why wasn't it a collaborative effort with the CIOs in other agencies? *I'm sure more than one would have mentioned Intellipedia*.
“An agent that retires after 30 years leaves with all of that — what we call a tacit knowledge — everything leaves with him,” said Zalmai Azmi, FBI’s chief information officer, who will be retiring in October. *I wonder if Mr. Azmi will be contributing to the wiki.* That includes “best practices, things that he did differently, things that he wishes he had done differently.” *I think that the "things that he wishes he had done differently" part would be especially interesting.*
The FBI’s new wiki uses the same open-source software as Wikipedia, and after the test period is complete, the agency will launch it on the FBI’s secure intranet, FBINet. *Again, why duplicate the effort? Intellipedia is already on Intelink which is already accessible to many agencies.*
...
An FBI spokesman said Bureaupedia will also let users link to articles in Intellipedia, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s wiki for the intelligence community. *Need I add anything else? :)*

read the rest of the article here: FBI creates knowledge wiki

I understand that many may argue that FBI is domestic and the IC is foreign intel, but I am sure there are ways that to avoid overstepping boundaries, both procedural and technological.

I just really dislike seeing duplication of efforts especially when something is already out there and it works!

Please share thoughts. Should the FBI have their own wiki? Maybe I should ask the FBI CIO himself... Anybody have his email address? :)

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Tags: Bureaupedia, intellipedia, intelligencecommunity, IC, FBI, intelink, zalmai azmi, cio, dni, director of national intelligence, government IT