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16 Jun

Gatorade. There, I said it, and Pepsico heard

How seriously do industry communicators take social media monitoring? Here’s an interesting glimpse, courtesy of Mashable:
The room features 6 big monitors with 5 seats for Gatorade’s marketing team to track a number of data visualizations and dashboards – also available on to employees on their desktops — that the company has custom build with partners [...]

04 Mar

Smart

The new DoD social media policy acknowledges the way humans communicate in the 21st Century. It also puts the burden of operational security on individuals and their trainers. See “New policy authorizes social media access, with caveats.”

18 Aug

Photo file: Not the Point

Two days of hell, nine men of valor, originally uploaded by Army.mil.
This looked like a weak photo to include in a photo set — then I realized the photo was not the point.
Technically, it’s almost perfect – pleasing outdoor sun, well-exposed shadows*, no one caught with a goofy expression, nice telephoto compression. I would have [...]

20 May

Not Dead Yet

There may yet be hope for publishing in the physical world: Reinventing the Magazine: Publications That Push the Boundaries of the Print Medium – WSJ.com

05 May

Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium: More Coverage

This site’s editor isn’t the only one blogging, tweeting or othewise covering the Worldwide (I’ll stick to the SFW name for the conference). Lindy Kyzer is liveblogging the conference on the Army’s official blog, Army Live. She’s also tweeting at http://twitter.com/USArmy. OCPA-New York is also twittering the conference at http://twitter.com/ArmyNYC. Someone from IMCOM-Korea is tweeting at http://twitter.com/imcomkorea. [...]

04 May

Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium – Day 1

Cell-phone notes from the Army’annual gathering. Not only is social media an issue – it is the issue, overwhelmingly. Most questions for the Chief of Public Affairs and Secretary of the Army deal with it. There’s much frustration in the perceived disconnect between security concerns and the Army’s information engagement needs.
Later…
Former CNN Pentagon reporter Jamie [...]

01 Apr

Thinking about Tomorrow

Clay Shirky, a New York University professor, says we’re going through a revolution similar to the one the West went through in the 1500s after the invention of the printining press. Journalism will survive, he believes. Newspapers will not — not even on the internet.
When someone demands to know how we are going to replace [...]

13 Mar

How to Handle Negative Comments

Almost anything published on the Web these days includes a place for reader feedback. At this point, it seems like the experience of the article isn’t complete without a look at how other visitors reacted. But, for the most part, military publications don’t allow comments, or if they are allowed, moderate them heavily. Part of this [...]

07 Feb

Why We Should Stay

25 May

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