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Two additional models which have been very helpful are from Forrester and from a 2002 Stanford electronic journal user study.  When I encounter new innovations on the Web I try to associate the usefulness with one of the core needs / practices from one or both models.

As search tools like DOE/OSTI’s federated search continue to provide access to greater quantities of information, the importance of collaboration and trust increases. Organization and study tools need to facilitate group exchange. Groups must also be able to establish authenticity...

Here at OSTI the process has begun to migrate static content from our legacy file based Intranet into the Drupal content management system.  This is likely to be a long project due to the number of static files that have been accumulated over many years.  Fortunately, Drupal is...

The National Science Bowl is a major event sponsored by DOE.  For the  2010 NSB 'Bowl a journal site was created to journal the countdown which consists of regional bowls across the country.  A Facebook page was created to establish a social media presence.   The Journal site...

EDUconnections is a custom content management solution for targeted outreach to a well defined audience. This may be the most mature example of how Drupal has been deployed at OSTI to support managed outreach platforms for non-technical staff.

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As search tools like DOE/OSTI’s federated search continue to provide access to greater quantities of information, the importance of collaboration and trust increases. Organization and study tools need to facilitate group exchange. Groups must also be able to establish authenticity...

STIP is an acronym for the Scientific and Technical Information Program.  The program has membership across the DOE complex and requires lots of operational communications.   The STIP site itself has lots of definitions, terms, and detailed information to convey.

OSTI management sponsored an internal Web 2.0 forum to make sense of web trends for about 18 months.  One of the models that we adopted is the long-tail marketing concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail#Marketing...

Monitoring the Drupal developer community for new software modules can be both time consuming and rewarding.  You need to do this even though Drupal provides security alerts which are built into Drupal's user interface by default.  You also need to do this in addition to the...