20060725 Cutting edge online military knowledge management resource sharing

Cutting edge online military knowledge management resource sharing in the military

Army 2.0: the U.S. Army collaborates online

http://www.dufoundation.org/blog/?p=80

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Who’d a thunk it? Fascinating introduction to something completely new to me: collaborative information-sharing websites were started independently by soldiers, independently of the U.S. Army, and were since absorbed into and supported by the .mil hierarchy. Here’s a selection, but read the whole thing on FCW.com:

As another knowledge management resource, the Army is developing global communities of practice. Rather than top-down hierarchies, such communities are networks of peers who share information electronically and learn from one another’s experiences.

The explosive growth of social networking and online collaboration tools have produced a groundswell of activity among the Army’s younger officers, many of whom grew up with the Internet. Communities of practice are rapidly spreading knowledge across the Army in ways never before possible.

Two communities in particular — CompanyCommand.com and PlatoonLeader.org — blazed a trail for other virtual Army groups to follow. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess, both Army majors and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, created the Web sites to serve as professional forums…

Read more here.

And read more here.

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