Crisis Communication, Crisis Management & Digital Diplomacy
Crisis Communication as Crisis Management
Crisis communication may be regarded as a field of inquiry that has benefited from numerous disciplines including international relations, diplomacy...
Selfie Diplomacy- Analysis of MFA Profile Pictures on Twitter
Last week, as news of Brexit broke, foreign ministries throughout the world took to social media to comment on the UK’s decision to leave...
Digital Diplomacy in Three Graphs
Rogers’ diffusion of innovations curve and Gartner’s hype cycle help explain the crucial interplay between the possibilities that are offered by digital tools, and...
Country Promotion 2016
Wouldn’t it be great if your government owned the English name of your country on Twitter? You could proudly @mention your country or support...
#Roadto2030: Search for Game – Changers
Global changes are challenging the way we mobilize for change. It’s not time to exit, but it is maybe last moment to change the...
Social media has transformed how we operate in times of crisis
We have asked several foreign ministries to answer some questions about their #DigitalDiplomacy. Here’s a guest post from the Foreign Ministry of Iceland.
The year...
Gallup poll: Most Iraqis are on line every week, Facebook now a prime news...
Thursday, July 14th 2016
Iraqis have sharply increased their use of the Internet, so much so that a majority are now on line – and...
A look at the modern-day diplomat’s tools of the trade (like hashtags)
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Summer Institute offers training on how to assess a country’s diplomatic effectiveness
Hashtags, story maps, virtual reality, gifs —...
The vice president explained the key to foreign policy in the internet age
In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Vice President Joe Biden laid out what is perhaps the clearest distillation to date of his approach...
Digital diplomacy: old dogs learn new tricks
What can today’s organisations learn from a Renaissance cardinal about innovative communications? Quite a lot, it seems.