Public Diplomacy good example and practice “Kosovo Wants to Play”
Kosovo's lack of recognition leaves many of its athletes unable to compete on a global stage. There are no Olympic Games for Kosovo, neither...
Will the Chinese Communist Party become social media’s ‘most followed’?
Officials of the Organisation Department at the launch ceremony. Photo: Xinhua
Is the Chinese Communist Party about to become China’s ‘most followed’ poster on the...
Video: Political Marketing on Social Media
At the start of April I gave a talk on Politics and Social Media at the Rose and Crown. The aim was to provide...
Diplomacy Web 2.0: Facebook et al are Changing World Politics
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Facebook turned 10 in early February 2014. In what way have social media changed how people live and how states operate? What has happened...
5 social media lessons from the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan
The Kazakh public sector is a firm believer in the power of digital, including using Whatsapp as an internal comms tool and leveraging Twitter’s...
Transitioning from traditional diplomacy to digital diplomacy
In this age of rapid-fire peer-to-peer connectivity, the Pakistan embassy is still boxed in in the world of achingly slow government-to-government negotiations. Antiquated forms...
Diplomacy in the Digital Age
(Originally published in The Literary Review of Canada January-February 2012: article
“Diplomacy in the Digital Age” is a pleasant sojourn through the fine minds of...
White House Picks Engineer From Google to Fix Sites #digitalnadiplomatija
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Faced with the politically devastating collapse of HealthCare.gov last year, President Obama’s White House staff lured Mikey Dickerson away from Google...
Canadian diplomats should use social media more, foreign minister says
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is encouraging Canadian diplomats to experiment with social media to promote democratic freedom and trade across the globe.
The plan...
Twitter Says Over 13 Million Accounts May Be Bots and Fakes
And that estimate may be conservative, according to its SEC filing By Roni Robbins
Updated: The initial version of this story reported that 23 million...