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Been thinkin’: data visualizations as Enterprise 2.0 tool?
By WDavidStephenson | December 10, 2007
When I was researching my “transparent government” speech for the New, New Internet conference last month, I found that the D.C. government had found one of the unexpected benefits of its Citywide Data Warehouse was that it not only encouraged mashups by citizens, but also improved operations behind the municipal firewall.
Among the internal benefits, Google mashups and other forms of data visualization can:
- improve interagency cooperation
- empower young people who’ve used these tools before entering the workforce
- visualize overlapping/redundant services and/or problems (a la Neighborhood Knowledge L.A.)
That got me thinking: shouldn’t the same logic apply to corporations’ internal operations as part of their Enterprise 2.0 strategies, which seem fixated on tools such as wikis, blogs and RSS feeds?  CONTINUED…
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