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November 8, 2010

Stripes and hierarchies

The Harvard Business Review blog has posted my piece about how an explicit recognition of status — for example, when you’re wearing stripes on your sleeve — can make for a more open collaborative environment.

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Categories: business Tagged with: hierarchy • military • west point Date: November 8th, 2010 dw

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August 4, 2009

Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell Facebook

The military is trying to devise policies to govern how our service people use social networking sites, according to a story by Julian Barnes in the LA Times. The article implies the Pentagon accepts that military folks are going to use these sites, and there may even be some good that will come from it, but the military is concerned about security. At the moment, the Marines have banned accessing Facebook, MySpace and Twitter from government computers, to make sure there’s bandwidth for more pressing military needs.

Not that anyone asked, but it seems to me that the military would do best by treating social networking site simply as another place service people will be gathering, just like in coffee shops, living rooms, and bars, and should therefore be training them in the use of social networking sites, with clear penalties for violating security guidelines. Which may be exactly what the military policy is heading toward.

[Tags: military social_networking_sites social_media sns ]

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Categories: misc Tagged with: digital culture • military • sns • social networks • social_media • social_networking_sites Date: August 4th, 2009 dw

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May 11, 2009

Smart and secure grids and militaries

The Wired.com piece I wrote about Robin Chase prompted Andrew Bochman to send me an email. Andy is an MIT and DC energy tech guy (and, it turns out, a neighbor) who writes two blogs: The Smart Grid Security Blog and the DoD Energy Blog. Neither of these topics would make it into my extended profile under “Interests,” but I found myself sucked into them (confirming my rule of thumb that everything is interesting if look at in sufficient detail). So many things in the world to care about!

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Categories: Uncategorized Tagged with: ecology • egov • expertise • experts • military • power • security Date: May 11th, 2009 dw

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May 7, 2009

Stars and Stripes: Blogs away! (OR: The great default switch)

According to Stars and Stripes, military service people are being enabled and encouraged to blog. That military blogging is going on is hardly news, but the degree to which it’s being embraced is remarkable.

It’s part of the Great Default Switch we’re living through in everything from privacy to “piracy.” Where the military default was security and secrecy, now the “Why not?” is becoming “Sure, go ahead — talk and be social.” Within limits, of course. But the news isn’t the blogging and isn’t the limits. It’s the change in defaults.

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Categories: blogs Tagged with: blogging • blogs • defaults • digital culture • milblogs • military Date: May 7th, 2009 dw

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