New tools are always out there. How best to measure? How best to coordinate your different accounts. One day you've got search.twitter.com, the next Twitter buys them and you need a new and better search tool.
We need a team of us working together toward the common goal. And when we need to purchase something for measurement or sign onto something, we need to collaborate so that we aren't each re-creating the wheel. Why can't GSA do such purchases for all of us at once?
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Playing devil's advocate for a moment, would this create a bottleneck for adopting new technology?
It doesn't have to. Not if we work as a team. And it's a better use of resources to have a group working for all of us rather than each one individually replicating each other's work.
Right now we have ten thousand bottlenecks--more or less. Each agency, each division, each whatever is required to come up with their own solutions, policies, license agreements. This creates insane situations where someone can put something on Facebook, and their colleagues can't access it. Yes, we need someone to say, it is ok to use these tools--in this manner...
What @delarsen said. There are alot of ways that this can be accomplished. A committee is one way. Another way is to leverage what one agency has already done to be used by others. HowTo.gov (nee Webcontent.gov) is a resource for this type of sharing. How to make it less informal (but not mind-numbingly bureaucratic) and more agile in terms of implementation? I think part of it is getting decision-makers Privacy Gurus, IT Security Ninjas, Compliance Chiefs, and IT SuperHeroes to agree ahead of time that's this is what we shall do. It's will, not way.
The as-yet unrealized intent of the ET.gov site/process has been to:
a) enable anyone to identify any emerging technology of interest to them, and
b) facilitate the formation of communities of practice (CoPs) around such technologies.
Although the process was disabled during redesign of the site, hopefully, it will be restored.
In any event, the potential still exists for those who have common interests to work together to pursue them without being encumbered by needless bureaucracy.