Tag Archives: twitter
Twitter and Goliath
Hugo Chavez just can’t not pick a fight. Not content to push around Venezuela’s mobile phone companies and TV networks into toeing his Bolivarian line, he has decided to strike out at an enemy that even China has failed to … Read More
Picks and Shovels are NOT Strategic
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 … Read More
What Social Media Revolution?
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 … Read More
Crowdsourcing the Counter-Piracy Problem in Somalia
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 … Read More
Moldovan Protests Leverage Social Media
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 … Read More
Social Media and Perception Management Challenges
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 … Read More
Admiral Thad Allen – Leadership by Example on the Social Web
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 … Read More
Secure your twitter claim
For those of you who’ve secured your unit or agency name on Twitter, congratulations! Now, for the 99% of you who haven’t, please get over there today and get it done. It won’t take more than a couple minutes to … Read More
