"No message is the single-most-important message.”
--Marc Davis, a chief scientist at Yahoo, regarding social networking
“I outsource my entire life.”
--Laura Fitton, a social-media consultant who has become a minor celebrity on Twitter, a Web site and messaging service
“ambient awareness.”
--Name given by social scientists to incessant online contact a la Facebook
Examining key differences between Obama and McCain - happyghana.com, Ghana: McCain pledges to revitalize U.S. public diplomacy and create independent agency with purpose of getting America's message to the world.
Photo A Day: Public Diplomacy - Christopher Albon, War & Health: PHOTO: Nicaraguan children look at a poster made by the PAO (public affairs office). The posters are popular with locals because they were made completely from photos taken at the Puerto Cabezas clinic. At least once a father asked to have a spare flyer to take home because he recognized his daughter on the poster.
Public Diplomacy: Sunrise of an Academic Field – International Communication Policy Forum: Cites The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 616, No. 1, 274-290 (2008): Public Diplomacy in a Changing World and USC Center on Public Diplomacy - Public Diplomacy Book Reviews: Geoffrey Cowan and Nicholas J. Cull (Eds.): Public Diplomacy in a Changing World.
Gesto inédito em Espanha na defesa de interesses estratégicos - Alexandre Guerra, P ia R - “Felipe Santos dá ainda o exemplo da associação norte-americana Business for Diplomatic Action, que tem precisamente como uma das funções projectar os interesses dos Estados Unidos no mundo. … Exemplos como o do Dircom espanhol [principais empresas espanholas] o da BDA servem apenas para relembrar a ausência de visão estratégica em Portugal quando se trata de defender interesses comuns no país ou no estrangeiro.”
Time For A Revision - Leader Article, Times of India: Cultural diplomacy is another important area that should rise up the agenda between India and Burma. Only 60 years ago, India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Burma's first premier, U Nu, were good friends and often consulted each other on international issues. However, several decades of xenophobic rejection by successive Burmese generals mean that New Delhi must now work hard to re-establish friendly relations.
Building competent staff to crucial to protect national interest - MoFA, waltainfo.com: The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently undertaking human resource capacity building activities, MoFA State Minister, Dr Tekeda Alemu said, adding that the training provided so far exhibit the level of the Ministry's achievement. The training focused on diplomacy, economic and business constituency, public diplomacy, diplomatic communication and diplomatic protocol.
Diplomat researching issues at East-West Center – Honolulu Advertiser: Jonathan Henick, a 15-year veteran of the State Department's Foreign Service, has joined the East-West Center for a one-year post as a visiting research fellow and diplomat-in-residence. Mr. Henick received the 2008 Award for Achievement in Public Diplomacy granted by the Public Diplomacy Alumni Association.
Book Review: "Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979" - Reviewed by Tom Nichols, Naval War College, H-Diplo Article Reviews, War and Game: Thomas M. Nichols is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College in Newport, RI, where he holds the Forrest Sherman Chair in Public Diplomacy.
The week that was - Paul Rockowe, Levantine: National Jew-ography: “Thursday I had a class that I picked up on Comparative Public Diplomacy, taught by an Israeli professor named Eytan Gilboa from Bar Ilan. This was the class that I had a hard time finding the previous week, until the prof found me. … Back to monday, where there was potluck party at Redondo beach for all the Pub D students. i practically threw out my back spinning Prof. Cull's 3-year old around and around. Then I went to a LA Dodgers game, with a family friend and a friend of my brother's who is a freshman at USC.”
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Training Palin on Foreign Policy – Melinda Brouwer, Foreign Policy Association: Public Diplomacy and the 2008 Presidential Elections
Al-Qa'eda's American-born propaganda chief may have died in predator attack: Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa'eda's prize American recruit and propaganda chief may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike - Nick Meo, telegraph.co.uk: Nothing has been heard for months from Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called "killer computer nerd" originally from California, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he -- the poster boy of would-be jihadis around the world who are radicalised on the internet -- may be dead.
The guests at Kabul's garden parties - Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan, Boston Globe: The Afghan population watches with increasing dismay and anger as those responsible for so much of the country's recent violence entrench themselves and share out the spoils of billions in foreign assistance and state assets. And as foreigners fete and fund them, Afghans understandably view them as complicit.
Real wars and the U.S. culture war - Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune: “[T]he NATO coalition in Afghanistan is fragile and ... sending more forces is no remedy in itself. … I spoke to a U.S. official who's just ended an 18-month assignment in Khost. … [He believes] ‘engineering minds is becoming far more important these days than engineering more roads.’"
Les mots justes – editorial comment, Financial Times: The French effort to maintain a cultural cordon sanitaire against the Anglo-Saxons has proved to be a cul-de-sac. Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president of France, has made a volte-face and no longer insists that French be de rigueur at diplomatic events.
Feeling Flush and Doing Good: Powerful states do, sometimes, act in altruistic ways [review of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention By Gary J. Bass] - Robert D. Kaplan, Washington Post: Bass has a singular purpose: to prove that there "really is such a thing as humanitarianism; it is not just veiled imperialism; governments can sometimes be made to send troops not because of self-interest but because of a genuine sense of humanity."
The Real Digital Revolution - Alan Wolk, Adweek: The real digital revolution has nothing to do with advertising or marketing. In fact, it's the mortal enemy of both. Because the real digital revolution is about consumer empowerment, the ability to research and learn about products and services and make decisions independently from, and in spite of, any sort of advertising messages.
Writing Tools - Roy Peter Clark, Poynter.org, FL: “In an anthology of essays on language, I stumbled upon a pamphlet titled 'How to Detect Propaganda,' published in 1937 by a short-lived organization called the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. … The pamphlet argues that 'We can more easily recognize propaganda when we see it if we are familiar with the seven common propaganda devices.' I list the seven here …”
See also: Of Critical Thinking, Propaganda, and Flag Pins: Part 1
‘Television Under the Swastika’ – New York Times: The “banality of showbiz evil”: a documentary (newly released in English) says the Nazis as early as the 1930s were using the embryonic medium of television for propaganda purposes; they saw themselves in competition with the United States and Britain for bragging rights. You can watch a clip or the complete hourlong film.
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