The U.S. Army's Facebook


	The U.S. Army's Facebook

Andrew Gillies

10-27-2008 8:58 AM

1381 views

Andrew Gillies says:

Government Executive's Gautham Nagesh takes a look at the success of the U.S. Army's online social networking. "I like to say we were Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was defined," says one Army official in the story.

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from October 27, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21d4c412-ee20-4a2b-bb1d-69e8105f22f2/E6A4EB43-FCFF-47CE-BB2A-FB98EA10376A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php" href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nextgov.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php"><SPAN id="headline">Army intranet tops 1 billion log-ins
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php"><A href="http://www.us.army.mil/">Army Knowledge Online</A> is a collection of applications and social networking tools on the service's secure network, such as e-mail, file storage, discussion forums and video messaging. Its more than 2 million users include active-duty soldiers, as well as National Guard and Reserve members, civilian employees, and the Army's contractor workforce.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php"><P>Those capabilities have expanded to include blogs, wikis and social networking profiles that are updated automatically with biographical information for everyone in the Army. Users can share profiles and information, much like popular sites such as Facebook and MySpace, to find people with common interests, jobs or locations.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081024_5245.php">The Army's push to get users to embrace AKO has resulted in about 800,000 log-ins on a typical day. Defense is expanding the Army program to become the network portal for the entire department, dubbed <A href="http://www.nowaitmedia.com/brac/index.asp">Defense Knowledge Online</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6A4EB43-FCFF-47CE-BB2A-FB98EA10376A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips