DoD launches blog for 2.0 ideas

When you want to figure out what kind of social media policy works these days, you launch a blog. And that's what the Pentagon has done to collect input for Defense Secretary Robert Gates as he develops a policy for using social media sites.

Jack Holt, senior strategist for new media in the Pentagon, said the Pentagon set up its Web 2.0 Guidance Forum last month to gather just this kind of feedback. Analysis of the effects of social media is driven largely by security concerns in areas where the military is deployed; potential risks are posed by the sites, if, for example, troops post information that could be exploited by the enemy.

Steve Lunceford, a consultant with Deloitte in Mclean, VA, who specializes on the use of collaborative technologies in government, told nextgov.com that the Web 2.0 forum is a "new way to shape policy" and a good way to shape the debate.

For more on the DoD blog:
- see this nextgov.com article

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