When I was at the Defense Language Institute, my Army classmates told me not to be fooled by all those smart Army officers at Small Wars Journal; rest assured, they said, the Army still has plenty of cavemen and barbarians. I remembered that conversation when I saw Starbuck's
most recent post at Wings Over Iraq (which also gave a shout out to my blog recently). Since I've heaped so much praise on the Army's new intellectual leadership, I couldn't miss the chance to do some needling as well.
By the way, this is what I meant the other day about how Web 2.0 technology works. Your organization has a Twitter page? Yawn. You make a critical typo that gets noticed by a random helicopter pilot, posted on his blog, and repeated on blogs all over the Internet?
That is social networking technology at work.
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I don't think we said "cavemen and barbarians".
Right. For the record, that wasn't a direct quote. Some poetic license with some good-natured interservice needling thrown in.
But you know I love you guys...
What's really funny is that the error was corrected within a few hours of that being posted. I always knew someone from Leavenworth (USACAC) surfed this site, I just didn't know it must be their webmaster...
In all seriousness, this is a good example of why empowering the "crowd" is a good idea. You drew attention to a mistake and it was corrected almost instantly, because the right people were participating in the same network together.
Imagine how long it would have taken to correct the typo if you'd tried to draw attention to the mistake through traditional channels.
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