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by admin on April 10, 2009
With the attack on the Maersk Alabama, a U.S.-operated cargo vessel, our attention once again turns to pirates operating in and around Somalia. With Somali pirates demonstrating an amazing ability to collaborate, we should be concerned about the lack of effective US and international cooperation. It’s not as if we haven’t put resources out there; [...]
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by admin on April 8, 2009
As protests broke out in Moldova protesting the country’s Communist leadership, news agencies such as the Telegraph (’Students use Twitter to storm presidency in Moldov‘) and New York Times (‘Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter’) emphasized the popular Twitter service as a key tool for organizing the movement. However, the Frontline Club, a [...]
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by admin on April 7, 2009
After writing a snarky piece about Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s social media efforts, I’ve turned my attention to a more important issue – the Iranian blogosphere. Unknown to many, Iran has become the third largest nation of bloggers. While some may see this as a threat, I look at it as a blossoming opportunity to [...]
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by admin on April 7, 2009
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has his own blog at Personal Memo’s where global citizens come to praise him. The most interesting section is the comments column; I’ve included a few of these “honest” gems for your amusement:
George Cheng Shu
shu…@gmail.com
I think many people on the world do not really know Iran, especially for Irans long history and [...]
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by admin on April 5, 2009
China employs an army of paid social media activitists – sometimes dubbed the “50-cent Army” – who are paid to post and engage across the Social Web, thus actively influencing internal and external opinions of China. Often referred to as Astroturfing – as in a false “grassroots” campaign – this practice has been practiced by [...]
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by admin on April 5, 2009
In Aug of 2006, the Department of Defense issued an Immediate Infosec/Website Alert Message to ban blogs and other activity sharing information across the internet. Flash forward to early 2008 and you find General Caldwell, formerly the top spokesperson in Iraq and now head of the Combined Arms Center at Ft Leavenworth, urging the military [...]
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by admin on April 5, 2009
I was browsing Jeff Bentley’s twitterstream the other day and his tweet below inspired some thoughts on perception management and military conflict. Jeff ended up writing a post about Perception Management and Internet Marketing, but for me his tweet inspired some thinking about the challenges of social media and perception management.
jeffbentley: reading: The Challenges of [...]
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by admin on April 3, 2009
The Defense Science Board recently released Understanding Human Dynamics, a report spawned by the need to understand the human dimension of war given the nature of the “war on terrorism” and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the entire report is a fascinating look at where the military is going in its approach to [...]
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by admin on April 2, 2009
Taking a shot out of the Apple advertising series, Adm Allen demonstrates the effect of the Social Web on US Coast Guard communications. In a well written and succinct article of Coast Guard Magazine (Issue 4, 2008 Community), PA2 Dan Bender outlines the reasoning behind the Coast Guard’s embrace of the Social Web. Every command [...]
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