Web 2.0 and the Department of Labor

Web 2.0 technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to collaborate. At the same time, federal agencies must balance other concerns, principally security. Federal Computer Week magazine recently held a forum on the role Web 2.0 plays in government. 

Here's an article that provides you the summary of the discussion. Read more. 

Among the more important points: 

• The security v. collaboration tradeoff can be managed with a mix of technology, policy and common sense, but there are no easy answers. 
  
• Younger workers are not as sensitive to the trade-offs. At the same time, older managers can benefit from the new perspectives on the power of web 2.0 that younger workers provide. 
  
• The new technologies create the possibility for federal agencies to create new communities, as the State Department is doing with its new DipNote blog. 

Read more. 

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