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Collaboration and information sharing has been vital to the Intelligence Community – especially in our post 9/11 world. As many of our readers know, we have been covering innovations in the IC — including A-Space and Intellipedia — for sometime now. And, we like to tip off our readers to Op-Eds and stories that showcase how important these innovations are for protection our nation. As such, we found a refreshing Op-Ed in AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine from Christopher J. Dorobek, the co-anchor of The Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris on Federal News Radio 1500 AM, that discusses how these collaborative tools are light-years ahead of what most organizations are doing in both the private and public sector. It is refreshing to see an article that is not critical of the information sharing issues in the IC, but lauds these efforts. To read the full Op-Ed, click here.

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Happy Monday. We hope you all had a restful weekend and are ready to kick it into gear this week. Who knows this could be the most productive/successful week of your career. That big contract could finally come through; or that promotion could become a reality; or that contact you met at GEOINT 2008 last year could provide you with that career-changing opportunity. So, aren’t you feeling pumped up (no case of the Mondays, right) about getting the work week started. Well, the Monday Morning News Kick Off post is designed to jump start this most excellent week. As always, grab that coffee and scroll down.

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At got geoint?, we often like to highlight major cultural events and holidays throughout the year (did you all see our X-mas coverage?). As such, since today is Good Friday, and we are at the front-end of Passover — and we can’t forget the Easter bunny — we wanted dedicate a “Friday’s Food for Thought” post to these holidays. But as always, scroll down, there are many more interesting nuggets to enlighten, entertain and even baffle. Happy Friday!

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