Comments on: Your Organizationopedia – Make it Stop!! http://steveradick.com/2008/10/01/your-organizationopedia-make-it-stop/ Exploring the strategery of using social media within the government Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adam R. http://steveradick.com/2008/10/01/your-organizationopedia-make-it-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Adam R. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:02:56 +0000 http://steveradick.com/?p=99#comment-27 Thank you for calling attention to this issue, Steve. It irks me to see waste in our government, especially at critical economic seasons like the one we're in. An article paired with the one you reference - "<a href="http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153895-1.html" rel="nofollow">FBI CIO Azmi will retire in October</a>" - leads me to conclude that Azmi wants a big technology push before he leaves his post - and one focused on a hot area like social media seems to fit nicely. Since Intellipedia is available on JWICS, SIPRNet, and the Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU, or NIPRNet) networks, it seems to make more sense for the FBI to launch a much lower-cost initiative to push users into Intelink since it is free for them to use. However, organizations change MUCH more slowly than technology, so I'm sure we'll see more examples of new technology being used for old processes and stovepipes for a while longer. Thank you for calling attention to this issue, Steve. It irks me to see waste in our government, especially at critical economic seasons like the one we’re in. An article paired with the one you reference – “FBI CIO Azmi will retire in October” – leads me to conclude that Azmi wants a big technology push before he leaves his post – and one focused on a hot area like social media seems to fit nicely.

Since Intellipedia is available on JWICS, SIPRNet, and the Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU, or NIPRNet) networks, it seems to make more sense for the FBI to launch a much lower-cost initiative to push users into Intelink since it is free for them to use. However, organizations change MUCH more slowly than technology, so I’m sure we’ll see more examples of new technology being used for old processes and stovepipes for a while longer.

]]> By: eMarv http://steveradick.com/2008/10/01/your-organizationopedia-make-it-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-26 eMarv Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:23:49 +0000 http://steveradick.com/?p=99#comment-26 Thanks for checking out my post Steve. As I mentioned in my post, I wonder how much Mr. Azmi will be contributing before he retires as that seems like that (retirees contributing to Bureaupedia) is one of the benefits touted. Anybody have FBI's public affairs office email address? :) Thanks for checking out my post Steve. As I mentioned in my post, I wonder how much Mr. Azmi will be contributing before he retires as that seems like that (retirees contributing to Bureaupedia) is one of the benefits touted.

Anybody have FBI’s public affairs office email address? :)

]]> By: sradick http://steveradick.com/2008/10/01/your-organizationopedia-make-it-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-24 sradick Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:39:07 +0000 http://steveradick.com/?p=99#comment-24 @Ray - this is a good point, and this issue of common access to networks is a separate problem altogether! That seems like these stovepiped organizations are the result of technology, when I think it's much more of a "need to know" culture than simply an access issue. I understand that this can be a problem, but there's still got to be a proactive plan for using Intellipedia, not just allowing linking to and from. Are there people who have access to Intellipedia specifically tasked with migrating data over? I'm sure they have some sort of goals for Bureaupedia - I'd like to see if they have goals for Intellipedia too. @Ray – this is a good point, and this issue of common access to networks is a separate problem altogether! That seems like these stovepiped organizations are the result of technology, when I think it’s much more of a “need to know” culture than simply an access issue.

I understand that this can be a problem, but there’s still got to be a proactive plan for using Intellipedia, not just allowing linking to and from. Are there people who have access to Intellipedia specifically tasked with migrating data over? I’m sure they have some sort of goals for Bureaupedia – I’d like to see if they have goals for Intellipedia too.

]]> By: Ray S. http://steveradick.com/2008/10/01/your-organizationopedia-make-it-stop/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Ray S. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:16:40 +0000 http://steveradick.com/?p=99#comment-23 I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the biggest problem is one of access for the many members of the FBI. I bet if we dug into this, the majority of FBI users don't have access to the JWICS or SIPR networks and therefore don't have easy access to Intellipedia. However, I bet ya they all have access to FBInet. This is similar to the State Department where only a relatively small number of people, mostly in INR, have have access to JWICS. Many more have access to SIPRNET but from my time there, it was a royal pain to get on SIPRNET. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the biggest problem is one of access for the many members of the FBI. I bet if we dug into this, the majority of FBI users don’t have access to the JWICS or SIPR networks and therefore don’t have easy access to Intellipedia. However, I bet ya they all have access to FBInet.

This is similar to the State Department where only a relatively small number of people, mostly in INR, have have access to JWICS. Many more have access to SIPRNET but from my time there, it was a royal pain to get on SIPRNET.

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