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Articles and resources about the use of wiki websites by government to allow collaboration on government initiatives by multiple authors using a web browser interface.
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- Crowd-Sourced Wikis for Government
- Social collaboration tools can welcome interested people to contribute ideas that help your agency develop policy. Hear how Ontario, Canada, used a social innovation wiki to gather public input for a policy paper on Social Innovation that helped them implement Ontario’s social innovation strategy.
Added: 14 November 2011
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- Emergency 2.0 Wiki Project blog site
- "The aim of this site is to provide an information hub to keep you up to date as we journey to turning the vision into a reality. Vision - To empower the community with the knowledge to use web2.0 and social media in emergency communications. Purpose - The Emergency 2.0 Wiki will be a new collaborative model for sharing and advancing knowledge on utilising web2.0 and social media in emergency management.
Added: 25 August 2011;
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- Emergency 2.0 Wiki launched for global collaborative input
- by Eileen Culleton. Emergency 2.0 Wiki, August 23, 2011. "Tonight the Emergency 2.0 Wiki launched for global collaborative input via an online blitz! Launching from the Local Disaster Coordination Centre in Brisbane Australia, the Wiki Working Group are on our laptops, mobile phones and notebooks, tweeting, posting discussions and blogging! In early 2011 the world experienced unprecedented disasters – the Queensland floods, Cyclone Yasi, the Christchurch earthquake, the Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis and the US tornados. During this time we witnessed the power of social media used to send instant warnings to save lives, to share realtime information, and to enable the community to help one another..."
Added: 25 August 2011;
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- The dark side of SEO & issues for Government blogs, forums and wikis
- by Michael Harris. Government 2.0 in Western Australia, February 25, 2011. "Anyone who runs a blog or fourm, specially for Government, will know the perils of spam. Day in and day out, our blogs and forums are hit with one spam post after another. Some masquerading as genuine comments from people who liked what we wrote, others not even bothering to hide their purpose to generate link-back spam and game the ranking mechanisms of search engines..."
Added: 7 March 2011;
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- A Shift in Thinking on Enterprise Wikis
- by Nicholas Charney. Governing People, November 5, 2010. "Whenever I explain why someone should use a wiki I usually come back to this graphic created by NASA... Wikis, according to NASA, are designed (or at least deployed) to help mitigate the problems associated with document coordination via email. Whenever I show people this image, they immediately identify with the problems associated with document coordination and coauthoring via email..."
Added: 8 November 2010;
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- Contribute to the draft Unofficial Australian Government Social Media Handbook
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Looking for Australian public servants who have had experience operating a government social media channel, to share their ideas in a wiki called the Unofficial Australian Government Social Media Handbook.
Added: 22 July 2010;
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- Davis, Calif., Wiki to Be Model for Local, People-Powered Media
- By Karen Wilkinson, Staff Writer. Government Technology, June 21, 2010. ".. The creators of Davis Wiki -- a popular website where users contribute content that's focused solely on the college town of Davis, Calif. -- won a $350,000 Knight News Challenge grant last week to create software that will enable other cities to build and maintain their own wikis..."
Added: 24 June 2010;
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- Connecting the dots with Intellipedia
- U.S. intelligence agencies are using an internal wiki for knowledge sharing, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, June 3, 2010. "This April, Intellipedia celebrated its fourth anniversary. As the federal government considers building a new internal social network, 'Fedspace', the lessons learned from Intellipedia are worth considering. Last week, I spoke with Don Burke and Sean Dennehy, two long-time CIA officers who have been both the public faces of Intellipedia and internal evangelists since its inception..."
Added: 8 June 2010;
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- Gov 2.0: GSA Crowdsources Procurement With Wiki
- The GSA BetterBuy pilot site wiki represents a culture change for government procurement, but shows promise for streamlining the process said assistant commissioner Mary Davie, By Elizabeth Montalbano. Information Week, May 31, 2010. "The wiki that the General Services Administration is piloting to engage more people in the government procurement process is slowly gaining momentum, said the executive in charge of the project. Through a pilot website called BetterBuy launched a few months ago, the GSA is providing a wiki for vendors to provide feedback on acquisitions and suggest ways to improve the process. The wiki makes what was previously a rather closed process more open..."
Added: 1 June 2010;
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- NHIN Direct wiki
- "NHIN Direct is a project to expand the standards and service definitions that, with a policy framework, constitute the NHIN. Those standards and services will allow organizations to deliver simple, direct, secure and scalable transport of health information over the Internet between known participants in support of Stage 1 meaningful use... This site collects the User Stories and Specifications and Service Descriptions for the NHIN Direct project. Once collected and organized, these stories, specifications and service descriptions will then serve as the basis for exploratory implementation work and pilot projects. The objective is to have pilot projects demonstrating simple, direct exchange during 2010, leading to widespread adoption by 2011..."
Added: 31 March 2010;
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- HHS wiki airs concerns about planned health network service
- Wiki publicizes new HHS program for secure health data exchange on Internet, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, March 29, 2010. "The Health and Human Services Department's month-old wiki for its new 'Nationwide Health Information Network Direct' service is publicizing the service and airing concerns that it might impinge on state health information exchanges..."
Added: 31 March 2010;
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- Beth Noveck's Wiki Government (Book Review)
- By Tod Newcombe, Editor. Government Technology, June 8, 2009. "... The book's central theme is that we need to rethink democracy in the digital age. Using technology, Noveck says collaborative democracy can strengthen public decision-making by connecting the power of the many to the work of the few. "The private sector has learned that better decision making requires looking beyond institutionalized centers of expertise," said Noveck. Now it's time for government to do the same. "The future of public institutions demands that we create a collaborative ecosystem with numerous opportunities for those with expertise to engage."..."
Added: 9 June 2009;
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- Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage
- by Matthew C. Clarke. Boxes and Arrows, 4 May 2009. "There are a wide variety of uses for Wikis and a level of interest in using them that's matched by an extensive range of Wiki software. Wikis introduce to the Internet a collaborative model that not only allows, but explicitly encourages, broad and open participation. The idea that anyone can contribute reflects an assumption that both content quantity and quality will arise out of the 'wisdom of the crowd'. There are, however, negative effects of this extreme openness. One problem is the deliberate vandalism of Wiki pages. Another is that even those with no destructive intent may yet degrade the quality of a Wiki’s content through lack of knowledge or skill..."
Added: 13 May 2009;
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- Government 2.0 - Best Practices Wiki
- Profiles, Canadian, United States and international examples of best practice examples of government 2.0.
Added: 7 May 2009;
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- Worst Practices for Managing Wikis in Organizations
- Wikis in Organizations - From Invention to Innovation, July 22, 2008. "... Instead of doing what others do best, try avoiding what others do worst. It is much more harder to follow best practices than to stay away from worst practices. With respect to managing wikis in organizations, then, here are the top 3 worst practices..."
Added: 1 May 2009;
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- Sharing lessons learnt on government ICT projects and the use of Web 2.0
- by Matt Lane. In Development, November 6, 2008. The New Zealand government shares its lessons on its government e-initiatives wiki.
Added: 7 November 2008;
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