1. Social Media

It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: government social networks.

Up for Debate: Government social networks are Towers of Babel, doomed to topple.

Social networking sites are designed to break down the silos of work and social groups and enable people to cross-pollinate ideas. But as agencies increasingly turn to building their own internal social networking platforms (Spacebook, Statebook, etc.), they’re just building bigger, better silos.

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