Tag Archives: YouTube
IO 2.0 in the Middle East
Many viewers around the world were transfixed last week when news broke that the Israeli Defense Forces had attacked a flotilla of 6 ships owned and manned by the Turkish NGO, The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian … Read More
Sorry Russia, All Your Base Are Belong to US – HA HA HA
In a blatant piece of Russian Propaganda, Russia Today announced in dramatic fashion that the U.S. Military is (insert scary music) dunh, dunh, dunnnn. . . “Taking Over the World!” – “The World Wide Web That Is. Twitter – Facebook … 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
General Caldwell Creates an Army of Social Media Warriors
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 … 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
YouTube – the next terrorist training ground?
The Internet has long been used by terrorist organizations, but recently, terrorists have increasingly exploited it for recruitment purposes. On December 9, five Muslim-American men from the Washington, D.C. area were arrested in Pakistan after allegedly wanting to train in … Read More →