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    Bella
    Even the US government is using social media and viral...
    Topic posted December 16, 2009 by BellaInnovation Ambassadors, last edited February 9, 2012 , tagged novel and unique
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    Title:
    Even the US government is using social media and viral collaboration
    Summary:
    DARPA is testing how people use social media
    Content:

    Yesterday I heard a story on NPR about how the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) did an experiment with balloons around the US to see how quickly teams to find them.  I thought this forum would be interested in reading about this.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121452513

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121343442

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    • Jim.Beaumont@IdeaConnection
      posted December 16, 2009 by Jim.Beaumont@IdeaConnectionInspriational Ideators

      I posted the story here on 12/1 - should have done a follow-up:

      http://clorox.hivelive.com/posts/48f8b47fa7

    • Bella
      posted December 16, 2009 by BellaInnovation Ambassadors

      Hi Jim,

       

      Sorry I missed your original post.  It would have been fun to participate but it would have been quite a bit of work to compete.

    • Jim.Beaumont@IdeaConnection
      posted December 16, 2009 by Jim.Beaumont@IdeaConnectionInspriational Ideators

      Bella - no surprise it was won by a group like MIT, but isn't it interesting to see an elite defense department unit use social media and crowdsourcing as an experiment for future tactics.  You could envision similar methods used for homeland security and anti-terrorism.  Sort of a national neighborhood watch program.  Pretty amazing.

     

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