chat surfer?

[John Scott III]

has anyone ever heard of chat surfer?
where it is, etc?
maybe out of DISA NCECES?

http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/09/06/social-media-emergency-management.aspx?Page=6

APAN is a community of communities Web site that uses wikis, blogs, forums, file sharing and calendaring applications with social networking to facilitate unclassified information sharing with multinational partners, nongovernmental organizations, and various federal and state agencies.

The challenge is how to “balance security and who is allowed to use these networks against the need of sharing information,” said Air Force Col. Brian Hermann, chief of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Net-Centric Enterprise Collaboration Services.

During the Haiti relief effort, there was a fully functioning hospital that didn’t have any patients. That information was posted on an APAN blog, and the next day, the hospital reached capacity. “In those situations, we want to share as much information as possible because there isn’t the same kind of need to classify information,” Hermann said.

Social media lets organizations communicate their needs during an emergency, allowing mission partners to see what those immediate needs are and respond to them fairly quickly. It provides a flatter, less hierarchical approach for information sharing, Hermann noted.

DOD is working to standardize on protocols such as the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, an Extensible Markup Language secure chat protocol that will allow DOD to securely communicate with other mission partners inside and outside government.

To address the problem of information overload and credibility, DOD is testing a program called Chat Surfer that is designed to let users set keywords and then search through all chat rooms devoted to a selection of services, Hermann said. For example, the system would alert a user if the word "Haiti," or other keywords or locations, came up.

“You can get overloaded with information and never be in the 20 different chat rooms, but this tool would let you aggregate that content and just notify you for things that are of an interest to you,” Hermann said.



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[John Scott]

thanks!