Sorry Russia, All Your Base Are Belong to US – HA HA HA

by admin on June 4, 2009

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 – Youtube. Service Members in Afghanistan are now posting images and reports from the battlefield to [...]

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Moldovan Protests Leverage Social Media

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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General Caldwell Creates an Army of Social Media Warriors

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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Social Media and Perception Management Challenges

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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Admiral Thad Allen – Leadership by Example on the Social Web

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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