Some weeks back, Microsoft released a white paper - “The Way to Gov 2.0: An Enterprise Approach to Web 2.0 in Government” to help Government agencies understand the special considerations governments face when implementing Web 2.0 and help create solutions using technologies that exist today. The paper also gives link to relevant Government case studies.
Given below is a snapshot of Table – “Gov 2.0 Technology from Microsoft” from the paper ...
Technology
Simple Definition
2007 Office System Technology
Microsoft Product(s)
Blogs
Journal or diary with social collaboration (comments)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 OR
SharePoint Online
Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Microsoft Office Word blog post template and/or
Business Productivity Online Standard Suite
Office Word 2007 (blog creation)
Wikis
Collaborative authoring and editing
Office SharePoint Server 2007 OR
Office SharePoint Server 2007 and/or Business Productivity Online Standard Suite
Video and Multimedia Sharing
Videos, images, and audio libraries (YouTube, Soapbox)
Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Interactive Media Manager OR
FAST audio and video search
Interactive Media Manager for SharePoint Server OR
Podcast Kit for Office SharePoint Server 2007
FAST ESP Search for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Photo-Sharing
Photo libraries
Office SharePoint Server 2007
Photosynth™
Podcasting
Multimedia content syndicated for use on MP3 players and computers
Virtual Worlds
Simulation of environments (Second Life)
N/A
Microsoft Simulation solution
Social Networking Sites
Connecting people globally
Office SharePoint Server 2007 People
Syndicated Web Feeds (RSS)
Automated notifications of frequently updated content (RSS)
Office SharePoint Server 2007 (search and all lists)
Clients: Office Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Windows Vista
Mashups
Combine content from multiple sources for an integrated experience
None
Built-in SharePoint Server web parts for data visualization data from the Business Data Catalog
Popfly™, Silverlight, Web Sandbox,
Virtual Earth, Visual Studio
Widgets, Gadgets, and Pipes
Small applications and code in Web pages or for desktop use
SharePoint Server Web Parts, Windows Live Gadgets
Social Bookmark and News (Sharing, Tagging) sites
Ways of sharing content with others
SharePoint Server with community kit
Micro-Blogging, Presence Networks
Form of blogging which allows brief (instant message–sized) text updates
Office Communications Server
Office Communications Server R2, persistent chat, and chat gateways
Gov 2.0 Data Mining and Aggregation
Making sense of all the data to allow responsiveness, trend analysis, and the ability to deliver targeted information to users
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Enterprise
FAST ESP Search for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Social Streams, and Entity Extraction
The paper has been written by the Microsoft U.S. Public Sector team - Dean Halstead, Nina Somerville, Bob Straker and Cliff Ward. Great work!!
PingBack from http://microsoft.linkedz.info/2009/04/29/enterprise-approach-to-web-20-in-government/