got geoint?

2009 is the year of “Government 2.0.” We have all heard this term many times. Conceptually it is a great thing — the government embraces social media/web 2.0 tools to be more effective in serving citizens. So, where does GEOINT fit into the Government 2.0 world? Yesterday at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI, addressed this head on and said that geospatial technologies are one of the killer apps for using Government 2.0 as a platform for enabling public discourse.

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We always track the news cycle surrounding the FOSE show, especially when it comes to Web 2.0 technologies and the Intelligence Community. And this year, Intellipedia has been garnering some substantial press coverage — considering the last time it was in the news cycle was when it was going through a “midlife crisis.” In addition, there was plenty of discussion around other Web 2.0 technologies that are fostering better information sharing within the Intelligence Community.

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We are always excited to tout uses of social media and Web 2.0 tools in our community. USGIF member, ERDAS, recently launched its ERDAS TV, which is a section on www.erdas.com that features informative videos that capture development news and other happenings at ERDAS. These movies (or webisodes) are three to eight minutes in length. ERDAS uses its own YouTube account and integrates the videos onto the ERDAS TV section of its corporate web site. Click here to check out ERDAS TV.

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It truly seems that we are in a Web 2.0 world these days — especially when it comes to government and Defense. For example, did you know that all of these government-related entities were on Twitter? Did you know that the US Government has its own official blog?

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