Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reports 89% use blogs and 65% use social networks to research stories.
Lee Odden at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog analyzes results of a couple of studies measuring reporters’ use of online resources. PAOs should be aware of these techniques; and our own journalists [...]
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.”
If Google Wave lives up to the hype, could today’s New Media be tomorrow’s CB Radio? See How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times.
If you want a provocative headline, try this one: “Social networking puts operational security, Soldiers lives at risk.”
Eve Meinhardt, writing in the Fort Bragg Paraglide, seems to go against everything we’re preaching in Army public affairs today, especially given the social media emphasis in the 2009 Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium in April and the Association [...]
Excerpted from “Consider before you Twitter,” by Sgt. Keith VanKlompenberg, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary):
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – The Internet has become an indispensible tool for Soldiers, allowing them to keep in contact with friends and family and share deployment stories from across the globe through social networking sites and blogs.
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The Army respects every Soldier’s [...]
Portability, readability and browsability: these attributes of print give hope to publishers in the face of the rapid conversion of our text and image media to electrons.
In portability – the ability to engage media anywhere – books, newspapers and magazines are giving way to electronic readers and smart phones. But in that, electronics has a way [...]
“The Hill,” the blog of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team PAO, ran a good piece on the anniversary of the unit’s social media effort earlier this month. Great overview of the issue, benefits and challenges:
Two weeks, Carlisle’s own 100 dollars, and the internet savvyness of 3rd HBCT’s Sgt. Jeremy Gadd, the team was up [...]
Installation newspapers are essentially town newspapers, and they are suffering from the same loss of readership and advertising as their civilian counterparts. The TechCrunch blog yesterday covered a presentation proposing one model for the survival of local journalism.
Don’t worry, though. Media consultant, blogger, and CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis has a few ideas for how to [...]
Interesting thoughts about the role (or lack thereof) of RSS in a Twittering world: Rest in Peace, RSS
If you’re a newbie at a certain subject, it helps to see what others consider best practices. Example: my relationship with Twitter. I already know its value as an alert medium for my job. I also know effective tweeting* requires an entirely new skill set, and outside apps to make the most of it. Here’s a resource [...]
