In my last entry I talked about pulling together a bunch of Web 2.0 tools for a specific military job. As I made lists of the tools and what they could do I had quite a jumble on my hands. So I began creating categories for them and organizing them so that they were much easier to explain to people who live in a Web 1.0 or Web 0.5 world. I arrived at the following graphic and think it does a good job of explaining the tools in a manner that will make sense to a broad audience. I plan to us ...     Read entire post

  I am working on a conference paper that explores the use of Web 2.0 technologies to support distributed training exercises that are driven by computer simulations (imagine the movie War games, but with people playing their roles). I have founda number of very useful things in teh Web 2.0 toolkit. But as I piece them together to cover all of the jobs that need to be done I am finding that many tools overlap and that there are a number of spaces that are not covered at all. Lets look at so ...     Read entire post

Every service has a library of hundreds of Field Manuals that describe the best or official method to carry out a mission or perform a prescribed activity. The Army had 542 FMs as of July 2007.  These manuals are created by experts in the field in which they are written, and experts in the over all operations of the service. They are vetted by commanders and by administrators to insure that they give the best, most reliable information possible. They are one part of creating the most e ...     Read entire post