Why Mahmoud Abbas should join Twitter
PA President should join Twitter to create the climate necessary for the continuation of peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
WHAT DIPLOMATS DO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DIPLOMATS
Brian Barder
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
232 + xii pages; price not indicated
Sir Brian Barder portrays the working life of British diplomats through the experiences of...
China’s Cyber Diplomacy: a Taste of Law to Come?
China is showing its readiness to make and not just take international rules.
In 2014, China stepped up its campaign to shape international norms governing...
Ethiopia: Conference and Training On Digital Diplomacy Opened in Addis Ababa
A four-day conference on the conceptualization and practice of digital diplomacy opened on Tuesday (January 13) in Addis Ababa bringing together all the officials...
Good journalism is always good public diplomacy
Voice of America report from Paris fails to point out absence of top U.S. leaders.
As noted on this site, a text and video report...
The promise and peril of digital diplomacy
At 5 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, five Canadian diplomats stationed in Tehran quietly left the country. After years of increasing tensions and...
‘Tweets for you’ is Twitter’s worst experiment yet
I was scrolling through Twitter this morning, catching up on the news of the day, when suddenly a bunch of tweets from people I...
In Turkey First lady launches women’s diplomacy bid
In a landmark meeting with Turkey’s female diplomats and wives of Turkish diplomats yesterday, First Lady Emine Erdoğan urged them to play a more...
Politics, Diplomacy and Social Media
Eva Kaili. Photo Courtesy of Eva Kaili
Simply put, President Barack Obama made it necessary, and cool, for politicians to use social media. The success...
10 Easy Ways to Get More Retweets on #Twitter
So, you’ve been using Twitter for a while. You’ve mastered the basics, got to grips with hashtags and figured out who to follow.
Now: how...