Excellent Piece by Mark Drapeau in Washington Life Magazine

by Matt Tirman on July 25, 2009

Dr. Mark Drapeau, Strategic Social Advisor and Research Fellow at the National Defense University, has written a fantastic article in Washington Life called Hot, Flat and Shrouded. In it, Drapeau focuses on the rise of social media and its ability to globalize local events, turn everyday citizens into pop stars and change the way our government [...]

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Picks and Shovels are NOT Strategic

by Matt Tirman on July 17, 2009

In Matt Bigge’s previous article with FCW entitled “Social Media: Threat or Revolution?” he wrote that the Social Web offers our nation a foundation to build a new strategy, based upon trust, our citizens’ participation, and the world’s assistance as we solve the complex threats of today and tomorrow.
 We firmly stand by this assertion, however, I’d [...]

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What Social Media Revolution?

by Matt Tirman on July 10, 2009

Since last weekends crackdown of the Uighur minority in western China’s Xinjiang province, China has been exhibiting rather odd behavior toward the  foreign media.  Odd, as in it has actually allowed Western and other mainstream news outlets into Urumqi after the riots whereas last year  in Tibet, China prohibited any journalist, regardless of nationality, into Lhasa after the [...]

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Social Media: Threat or Revolution?

by Matt Tirman on July 2, 2009

Strategic Social CEO, Matt Bigge, writes about the intersection of social media and national security in Federal Computer Week and an excerpt from his first post “Social Media: Threat or Revolution” is below:
In this online era of social media and interactive social networks, the wartime phrase “loose lips sink ships” has become outdated. The new [...]

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