The Financial Times did a story yesterday on the intelligence community adapting social networking and 2.0 tools to help in their work, which Patrick Ruffini highlighted. Michael also picked it up from the security perspective.
This seems like a good idea. If we hope to win the war on terror, we need every possible innovation and tool. The intelligence field is woefully behind technology and needs to catch up. Is it a challenge? Absolutely. Huge parts of the communications field are wary of the control factor in web strategies. If people trained to publically disseminate information are struggling with this, I can’t imagine the level of resistance that the defense and intelligence fields will encounter.
