Recently I was browsing Alice Marshall's blog and found a number of things that I liked and thought were interesting. So I thought I'd share a few of the things I found along with some of my own comments. Alice Marshall owns the public relations firm Presto Vivace Inc. One of her clients is the IJIS Institute.

Motorola recently announced the launch of MOTODEV, a web-based forum consolidating company-wide support for developers writing software for Motorola devices. Motorola calls it: "a unified developer experience featuring a web-based program and business ecosystem." It's on the public web.

I wonder how many governments are using websites, web-based forums, to collaborate, provide support and help each other develop software. Is it being done a lot internally? Being done some externally? Could it be done on the public web?

Alice said on her post, "This is just one example of how the use of social software to organize communities is spreading from politics to business."

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Here's a list Alice put together of current public safety blogs: public safety blogosphere.

There's also David Stephenson who blogs about homeland security.

In a blog post headlined, "Why bloggers must be treated with respect," Marshall appropriately quotes: "They are nerds with skills, and they will come after you," while linking to the documentation of such an instance.

Here's some records management blogs.

On April 24 Marshall wrote about a meeting for the XML Community of Practice. It starts off, "Owen Ambur opened with a few words about the history of the XML Community of Practice. It had been originally tasked by the federal CIO council and the Office of Management and Budget with developing a process to rationalize the XML part of the Federal IT architecture or, as one put it, 'We can't deal with vendors coming at us with intergalactic solutions.'"

Marshall recently wrote a post about a couple of the projects of the IJIS Institute. I've been learning more about IJIS lately. The IJIS Institute says it is a non-for-profit corporation with the mission to apply the expertise of industry to assist the justice and public safety community in the innovative and effective use of technologies to better share information in a way that benefits industry, the public sector, and society as a whole. That sounds pretty good.

In her post she clarifies IJIS Institute further, she said, "Information sharing has two parts: one is the policy part which decides when, and under what circumstances it is legal to share information; and the other is the technical part which establishes standards and procedures that makes it technically possible to share information. It is the technical part of this that the IJIS Institute was established to address."
KW